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If you push on, Alroy must be captured. Now or never! The Jewish dogs, to rifle a true believer! 'Oglu, said Hassan to one of his officers. 'To horse! You need not strike the tents. Can we reach the city by sunset, merchant? 'An hour before, if you be off at once. 'Sound the drums. To horse! to horse! The Seljuks halted before the walls of the deserted city.
At such an hour, poetic justice demanded that there should have been, scattered over the ways, groups of peasants returning from their toil, and citizens refreshing themselves with an evening walk. But here seemed to be no fields to cultivate. All looked as if it were common land; and one could but feel what a first-rate exercising ground Oglú Pascha had for his cavalry.
In fact, it was a Volga Tartar, Yusuf Bey Akchura Oglu, who was the real founder of the first Pan-Turanian society at Constantinople, and his well-known book, Three Political Systems, became the text on which most subsequent Pan-Turanian writings have been based. Down to the Young-Turk revolution of 1908, Pan-Turanism was somewhat under a cloud at Stambul.
'We are betrayed, exclaimed Hassan Subah, hurling a javelin at the merchant, but the merchant was gone. The Seljuks raised their famous war cry. 'Oglu, regain the desert, ordered the chieftain. But no sooner had the guard without the walls heard the war cry of their companions, than, alarmed, for their safety, they rushed to their assistance.
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