Excerpt from The Foreign Legion: Photoplay Title of the Red Mirage, Illustrated With Scenes From the Photoplay an Universal-Jewel Production

Night lay on the desert. Terrible in its solitude, the great waste stretched out beneath an emerald darkness, its frozen billows of sand rolling on to the blank invisible horizon where all commingled in brooding mystery and silence. To the south there was more than silence - a spirit of watchfulness, a somber enigma, heavy with formless menace, to the north a veil had been let down, soon to be lifted, hiding a vague but living promise of the future. No moon, overhead uncounted myriads whose signals flashed down through the frosty atmosphere in cold ironic splendor. But they were signals without key, and it was not their light which hung over the trackless desolation. Out of the desolation itself a gray unearthly luminousness rose up and spread on over the hills, stealing beneath their shadows and throwing shadows where no corporal form was visible. No life, no moving thing - save to the south. From thence a dark line wound itself out of the obscurity and came on without halt or hesitation, seeming to follow some unseen track between the silver ridges of the hills. It was scarcely possible to recognize them as human. They marched four deep, anyhow, yet mechanically and steadily, like drunken men kept to a straight path by a relentless, omnipotent will.

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