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They knew what the ordinary man was thinking, for they were the best intelligence department in the Ottoman Empire far better than Enver's Khafiyeh. And they were popular, too, for they had never bowed the knee to the Nemseh the Germans who are squeezing out the life-blood of the Osmanli for their own ends.
But I made my voice heard for a second in a pause of the din, and shouted that we were German sailors who had brought down big guns for Turkey, and were going home next day. I asked them what the devil they thought we had done? I don't know if any fellow there understood German; anyhow, it only brought a pandemonium of cries in which that ominous word Khafiyeh was predominant.
I give you my word of honour as an American citizen. Two of Sandy's miscreants came in and bore him off, and presently Sandy himself returned. When I asked him where he was being taken, Sandy said he didn't know. 'They've got their orders, and they'll carry them out to the letter. There's a big unknown area in Constantinople to hide a man, into which the Khafiyeh never enter.
The crowd saw them and hung back, but if they chose to rush us it wasn't much of a barrier two pistols would make. Rasta's voice had stopped. He had done his work, and had retired to the background. There were shouts from the crowd 'Alleman' and a word 'Khafiyeh' constantly repeated. I didn't know what it meant at the time, but now I know that they were after us because we were Boches and spies.
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