Sahara Page #5

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- How is it coming?

- Shes almost full.

- How many you got left?

- A little over five canteens.

And this is for you on the road.

Take it, Waco.

Okay, Tambul.

Got it filled?

Pretty sure of yourself.

I like to travel.

It broadens the mind.

I wish you wasnt so cocky about it.

You think I cant make it?

I aint saying.

Lll take a bet on it.

- Even money?

- Why not?

I got an even chance of getting there.

Lm eating British mess tomorrow.

Heres five says you wont.

Heres ten says I will.

Thats a sucker bet.

If I lose, I wont need the ten.

All right, Waco.

Joe will hold the money.

Okay, Waco, get going!

You got to make it.

Tell them we need help

if they can send it.

Dont worry, I can make it.

I can make this thing

stand up and howl.

So long, fellas.

I got to mail a letter.

Now right.

Turn it more to the right.

Now straight ahead.

Its a good thing the Jerries

had mines in this scout car.

Theyre coming over the hills.

Thats right.

Here are your belts.

Cover yourself, Frenchie,

and watch that German.

Around that corner,

back of the wall.

- Everything all set here?

- All set, Joe.

Hold your fire till they get

to the top of that ridge!

- Hey, Doc!

- Right!

Jimmy!

- Bates!

- Lm here!

All right, Frenchie?

- Tambul!

- Fine, sergeant.

Stegman!

I think I saw something

white out there.

Sarge, theyre showing a white flag!

We said wed make a deal with them.

It looks like our trick is working.

Lll see what they want. They can

do the translating themselves.

Watch yourself.

You cant tell with these blighters.

Dont trust them, Joe.

Its a trick.

Lll be all right. You just

stay there and keep me covered.

Major Hans Von Falken.

Gunn, United States Army.

You have come a long way to pull

British chestnuts out of the fire.

We dont mind. We like chestnuts.

Dont want them to burn.

Very good.

You didnt come to crack jokes.

What do you want?

Can you negotiate?

Wheres your captain?

Lts around 5:
00. You know how

those Britishers are about their tea.

I understand you propose to

give us water in exchange for food.

We thought you only had about 30 men.

You knew there was a battalion.

The soldier who gave

the information confessed.

Hes been executed.

Isnt it still possible

to come to an agreement?

Whats the deal?

Surrender, and

youll be free to go...

...with as much water and food

as you can carry.

We like it here.

Were pretty well fixed.

Plenty of water and a lot more food

than we thought we had.

Lll make you an offer.

Water for guns.

For every rifle, lll give you a pint.

For the mortar, a quart.

For all your rifles, lll give you

water enough for all your men.

Lve heard you Americans

have a great sense of...

...humor.

Lll give you a last chance.

You can save your life,

and the lives of your men.

You heard my offer.

Water for guns.

Howd you make out?

- He spoke English pretty good.

- Whatd he say?

They think we got so much water

were swimming in it.

Theyre worse off

than we thought they were.

Theyll let us go

if we give them water.

Do you think Wacos reached

a British outpost yet?

- Its possible.

- Maybe theyre on the way.

I can see them crowding around,

clapping him on the back...

...giving him glasses

of ice cold water.

Theyre getting anxious.

Just got two of them.

Good, but take it easy, will you?

If we keep on, well be

on our last belt by tomorrow.

Isnt it enough to get two?

Got to get 10 with every shot

before lm satisfied.

Heres your water.

Time to strike the rock.

Whats that about a rock?

The other day,

I was making fun of you.

I said youll perform a miracle.

Strike a rock and water

will run out or maybe champagne.

The only miracle I know is the

one you get by working for it.

I wish a miracle would cure my corn.

Why? Gives you something

to think about.

Lve got plenty to think about.

Lve just been working on a problem.

What kind of a problem?

You might call it a project.

A project?

Lm planning on how

to irrigate this desert.

What, all of it?

Why not? Turn it into

a blooming garden.

Aint a bad idea.

Theres plenty of water,

only its not in the right places.

It just stands about,

waiting for people to drown in it.

You feeling all right?

As I remember,

you can irrigate one acre...

...with about 15,000

cubic feet of water.

Youre nuts.

- Whered you learn all that?

- Lm a typesetter by profession.

You learn by reading

while youre setting type?

Nothing like it for an education.

Lve set type for about 5000 books.

Prose and poetry.

You wouldnt believe it,

but lm very partial to poetry.

A book of verses underneath a bough,

a jug of wine and...

It was 100-to-1 shot, Williams.

Now is the time!

We must reach the German camp

to tell them there is no water here.

No, I cannot do this.

We have only to overpower one man.

Maybe we can take the machine gun

and kill them all!

I do not want to.

I got no hate for these men.

It is not for you to decide.

Lm not going.

This place will soon be taken.

If you refuse to help me now,

I will denounce you as a traitor.

Denounce me then.

Italians are not like Germans.

Only the body wears the uniform,

not the soul.

Mussolini is not so clever,

like Hitler.

He dresses Italians up only to look

like thieves, cheats, murderers.

He cannot, like Hitler,

make them feel like that.

He cannot, like Hitler,

scrape from their conscience...

...the knowledge of right and wrong...

...or plant in their heads

his own Ten Commandments.

Steal from thy neighbor.

Cheat and kill thy neighbor.

You dare to insult the Fhrer?

That would take an artist.

I am but a mechanic.

But are my eyes blind...

...that I must fall to my knees

to worship a maniac...

...who has made of my country

a concentration camp?

Who has made of my people, slaves?

Must I kiss the hand that beats me,

lick the boot that kicks me? No!

Ld rather spend my whole life

living in this dirty hole...

...than escape to fight again

for things I do not believe...

...against people I do not hate.

And for your Hitler...

...its because of a man

like him that God...

...my God, created hell.

German escaped.

Tell them, no water.

I lost him.

Lll get him, sergeant.

There he comes.

He hasnt got a chance.

Dirty!

He got the Heinie.

Bates, this is for you.

How are you, Leroux?

How are you feeling?

Fit as a fiddle.

The sergeant say this is

to last through next week.

Sergeant likes his little joke.

In all the world, theres nothing...

Free French Corporal Leroux,

parlementaire.

Major Von Falken.

I was the only one he could send.

The others are bathing.

Be careful, its all weve got.

Ld give plenty to see the expression

on that Heinies puss.

Very impressive.

And the rest?

All dead?

Well make no further attempt

to take the well, if we get water.

This is my last offer.

Report it to your commander.

You are very generous.

But my sergeant did not say

wed like to hear your terms.

He said maybe you would like

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