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"She and her party took fright this afternoon, and have taken to the hills. They are farther ahead than this pig dreamed" once more he kicked Von Quedlinburg "more than a day's march ahead from here." "Then we'll hunt for her first," said Monty, and the rest of us nodded assent. Kagig grinned. "You shall find her. You shall see a castle. In the castle where you find her you shall choose again!
"Would you think of holding me to that?" demanded Kagig with a gesture of extreme irritation. It is only the West that can joke at itself in the face of crisis. "If not to that," said Monty blandly, "then what agreements do you keep?" Kagig saw the point. He drew a deep impatient breath and drove it out again hissing through his teeth. Then he took grim hold of himself.
Kagig took over the prisoner at once without comment and began to question him under a tree twenty yards away, paying no attention to the riflemen who matched one another, laughing, for the plundered money.
"Who gave thee leave to order him searched, Armenian?" "I left you his money," Kagig answered with biting scorn, pointing to the little heaps of gold coin on the ground. I had no means of knowing what peaks of friction had already been attained between the two, and it was not likely that I should instantly choose sides against the man who within the hour had saved my life at peril of his own.
Kagig stood up to meet them, with his back toward the fire legs astraddle, and hands clasped behind him. "Ephraim says," began the tallest of the nine, who had entered first and stood now nearest to Kagig and the firelight, "that you will yourself be king of Armenia!" "Ephraim lies!" said Kagig grimly. "He always does lie. That man can not tell truth!"
From somewhere out of the darkness Maga appeared, bringing water, her face all black with the filth of fighting among trees, and her eyes on fire. Monty seemed to be listening to the noise of battle Kagig to think of nothing but his loss. He pointed at Mahmoud, who was eying Monty curiously. "See the prisoner!" he said. "Ha! I would give a hundred of him a hundred times for Monty, my brother!"
"Surely you are not cowards?" she began, and they grew silent, because that idea called for consideration. "Kagig is a patriot. Kagig is fighting for all Armenia. Surely you are not the men to let brave Kagig be tempted away from his post of danger at Zeitoon? If I know you men and women you will hasten to meet Kagig, taking your food, and weapons, and children with you.
As we galloped behind Kagig the mesmerism of respect for custom blew away in the wind. We became at heart outlaws as we rode and one of us a privy councilor of England! The women, Maga included, were on in front.
"Salaam, Rustum Khan!" Monty answered, returning the salute, and the others got to their feet in a hurry, and stood at attention. Then the Rajput faced about and went striding through the doorless opening into the black night the last I was destined to see of him alive. "May we all prove as faithful and brave as that man!" said Monty, sitting down again, and Kagig cracked his knuckles.
A fist-blow in the Rajput's face would have meant a blood-feud that nothing less than a man's life could settle, and Monty looked worried. There came a new thundering on the door that brought everybody to his feet as if murder were the least of the charges against us. Only Kagig appeared at ease and unconcerned. "Open to them!" he shouted, and resumed his pacing to and fro.
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