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"A fight between Will and Kagig for that woman ought to be amusing, if only Will weren't a friend of mine. Watch America challenge him!" But Will did nothing of the kind. He smiled at Maga, offered her a cigarette, which she refused, and returned to his place beyond Fred, leaving her standing there, as lovely in the glowing firelight as the spirit of bygone romance.
By that time Magi had vanished out of view unaware that any one had seen her, creeping like a pantheress from rock to rock. "What's the matter?" Fred demanded, sitting down again, ill-tempered with himself for being startled. "Maga Jhaere!" "How exciting!" said Gloria. "I'm crazy to meet her." But Will looked less excited and more anxious than I had ever seen him, and we all three laughed.
Maga, leaving most of her clothing in the Turk's hands, struggled free and in another second the Turks were on the defensive. Rustum Khan knocked the revolver out of an officer's hand, and the rest of them were struggling to use their rifles, when the German shrieked. All fights are full of pauses, when either side could snatch sudden victory if alert enough.
We had not made a move since the first scuffle when we rescued Maga, but the Turkish lieutenant had taken our measure. Perhaps he had whispered to his men. Perhaps they reached their own conclusions. The effect was the same in either case. "Order them to throw their weapons down!" commanded Kagig, kicking the German in the ribs.
And you hear this, you old " She called Fred by a name that would make the butchers wince in the abattoirs at Liverpool. "If anything happens to that man, she pointed to Will, and her eyes blazed with lawless pleasure in his evident discomfort "I myself me this woman I alone will keel keel keel torture first and afterwards keel your friend 'at you call Monty! I am Maga!
We had given up thinking of Kagig, not that we despaired of him, but the gipsies, and especially Maga, had replaced his romantic interest for the moment with their own.
"You've no call to make yourself out any better than he is!" he interrupted. And at that Maga Jhaere threw a kiss from across the room, but one could not tell whether her own dislike of Rustum Khan, or her approval of Will's support of Kagig was the motive.
Though Michigan has the benefit of this hero's councils, he is at the pains to inform us that Vermont, a New England state, claims his birth, parentage, and education a fact which we gladly record on the enduring page of Maga for the benefit of the future compiler of the Chipman annals.
The thought that finally decided me was that I would have opportunity to gallop past the hospital, two hundred yards over the bridge on the Zeitoon side, and make sure that Gloria was safe. "Have you seen Maga Jhaere anywhere?" I asked. "No," said the Rajput, swearing under his breath at the mere mention of her name. "Then help me down from here. I'll go."
The German shrugged his shoulders, implying that to argue with such a savage was waste of breath. "What do you know of Miss Vanderman's where-abouts?" demanded Will, and Maga Jhaere, at the sound of another woman's name, sat bolt upright between two other women whose bright eyes peeped out from under blankets. "I had word of her an hour before you came, effendi," Kagig answered.
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