Rejtő, Jenő: The three musketeers in Africa; Q 19045

29 it arrives, they overpower the driver and his assistant, put on their uniforms, and shove those two, properly tied up, into the ambulance. With wailing siren, they drive through a police line in the city and pull up outside the army HQ. They tell the guards they have brought a seriously wounded senior officer, who is carrying a most secret message for the Marquis de Suranne

. At last, they are face to face with the marquis, and hand over the sealed envelope containing Gen. Duron's message and report

. '••laile the marquis retires to read the message, Nobody and Buster are frisked and rid of all their weapons and belongings in the courtyard of Fort Guéliz. One corporal finds Levin's cook-book and is overjoyed to see in it the photograph showing Levin with his disciples. The corporal was Levin's favourite student -- in a prison in Cape Town /hence the striped trousers and jackets those in the picture are wearing/. Levin started in his youth as a trousers tailor, but even then was attracted to cookery. At the age of 20, on Christmas Eve, Levin was caught red-handed trying to burgle a house. In jail, he begged and petitioned the governor that he be permitted to study cooking. "Let me cook, and I'll lead mankind to better ways", he pleaded. Iiis wish was fulfilled by