title: The Deeds of Louis the Fat
author: Suger
description: This book presents the first English language translation of the deeds of a major figure in French history, King Louis the Fat (1108-1137), a text frequently cited in textbooks and monographs.
zlib_text: Louis L'amour - Callaghen  
    
  CHAPTER 1  
    
  Behind the rocks the Mohaves lay waiting and in the sky, the buzzards. Each
  was sure of their prey.  
    
  The four men lay in a flat place, and the sun was high. Two days had passed
  without water, four days without food, and their ammunition was down to its
  last few cartridges.  
    
  Before them was a peak they believed to be Eagle Mountain; if so, there was a
  water hole up the draw to the right. Of this they could not be sure, but they
  believed in it as a dying man believes in God.  
    
  For three days they had thought of that water, longed for it, dreamed wild
  dreams of it. The most gorgeous woman under heaven would have been spurned by
  any one of them for one swallow of water, be it brackish, sulphurous, or
  whatever.  
    
  The patrol began as they always begin; in this case there were six enlisted
  men and one officer. The officer was a proud, honorable, and decent young man
  with his first command, his first patrol into enemy country, where t