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They shrugged their shoulders when we asked for news of Miss Gloria Vanderman.
"I reckon you'll be Miss Vanderman? suggested Fred in outrageous Yankee accent. She stared hard at him. "I am Miss Vanderman. Who are you, please. I sat down on the great stone they had rolled over the trap, for even in that flickering, smoky light I could see that this young woman was incarnate loveliness as well as health and strength.
Kagig's finger-joints cracked harder than ever as his quick mind reviewed the possibilities. "Have you any idea what can have happened to Miss Vanderman?" I asked him. "Miss Vanderman? No? What? Tell me!" He seemed astonished, and I told him slowly, lest he miss one grain of the enormity of Maga's crime.
The man I shall choose shall tell Mahmoud that Gloria Vanderman the beautiful American young lady, who is outlawed because of her fighting on behalf of Armenians who who could not possibly be claimed by the American consul, on account of being outlawed is in the castle to-night and can be taken if he only will act quickly! Oh, how his eyes will glitter! That Mahmoud he buys women all the time!
I see why now finger of justice I'd have been too quick. Sit down, you idiots! You've no idea what he wrote about Miss Vanderman. Let him scream, I like it!" * Punjabi Word landholder. "Come along," said Monty. "If he were a bad-house keeper he has had enough!"
We're hoping to God they'll have sense enough to keep silent until the beacon is lighted. You're to light the beacon, since you're recovering so finely you and Miss Vanderman." "Yes, but when?" said I. "When the bugles blow. We've got six bugles " "Only two of them are cornets and one's a trombone," Fred put in.
"You fellows agreeable?" asked Monty. "There is no disputing Kagig's decision. We're at his mercy." "We've got to find Miss Vanderman!" said Will. "You are not at my mercy, effendi," grumbled Kagig. The man was obviously distressed. "You are rather at my discretion. I am responsible. For my nation's sake and for my honor I dare not lose you.
"Almost my first duty, Miss Vanderman," he said kindly, "will be to arrange that you can not possibly come to harm or be prejudiced by any course the rest of us may decide on." "Quite so!" Will agreed with a grin, and Fred began chuckling like a schoolboy at a show. "Nonsense!" she answered hotly. "I've come to harm already see, I'm wounded I've been fighting I'm already prejudiced as you call it!
Then I took this colonel prisoner. Only once in my life have I seen a greater pile than his of empty cartridge cases beside one man. That was the pile beside you, sahib! How many men did you kill, and he kill? And who buried them?" "Where is Miss Vanderman?" I asked, turning the subject. "God knows! What do I know of women?
"D'you mean to say you'd consider it decent to find that young woman in the mountains and drag her to Zeitoon at Kagig's tail, when Tarsus is not more than three days' ride away at most? You know the Turks wouldn't dare touch you on the road to the coast." "For that matter," said Fred, "the Turks 'ud hardly dare touch Miss Vanderman herself." "Then leave her in the hills!" grinned Monty.
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