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But that will come. She will repent. I shall see to that. It was I who prevented her, and she all but murdered me! She would have murdered me, but Kagig held her wrist; and to punish her he gave an order that I should preach to her morning, afternoon, and evening three times a day. So I had my opportunity. There was a guard of gipsy women set to see that she obeyed." "Continue," said Fred.
As Monty used to get two-pence or three-pence a day extra when he was in the British army, for knowing something of that tongue, we stood at once on common ground. "Kagig told us to wait here and bring you to him," said Gregor Jhaere. "Where is Kagig?" Monty asked, and the man smiled blankly much more effectively than if he had shrugged his shoulders.
"In case the people of this place should seek to make us prisoner, then I want you to gallop, if you can get your horse, and run otherwise, to the nearest " He checked me with a gesture and one word. "Kagig!" "What about him?" I demanded. "If I were to bring Turks here, Kagig would never rest until my fingers were pulled off one by one!"
The remainder of that night was nightmare pure and simple mules and horses squealing in instinctive fear of action they felt impending gipsies and Armenians dragging packs out on the floor, to repack everything a dozen times for some utterly godless reason Rustum Khan seizing each fugitive Armenian in turn to question him, alternating fierce threats with persuasion Kagig striding up and down with hands behind him and his scraggly black beard pressed down on his chest and the great fire blazing with reports like cannon shots as one of the Turk's sons piled on fuel and the resinous wet wood caught.
"And is it possible you did not see the conflagration? An Armenian insurrection has been nipped in the bud. Several villages are burning. The other inhabitants are very much incensed, and all foreigners are in danger yourselves especially, since you have seen fit to travel in company with such a person as Kagig." "What has Peter Measel got to do with it?" demanded Fred.
Not one of them but knew a thousand times more of Zeitoon, and their people, and the various needs of defense than, for instance, I did. Yet they clustered about me for lack of confidence in one another, and shouted after the women who marched away advice to watch lest Kagig betray them all. Not for nothing had the unspeakable Turk inculcated theories of misrule all down the centuries!
'E say God is angry with Zeitoon, an' Kagig is as good as a dead man, an' I shall take advantage. 'E 'ope 'e marry me. I 'ope if Kagig die I marry Will Yerkees, but I agree with Measel, making pretend, an' 'e run away to talk 'is fool secrets with the Turks. Then I make my own arrangements! But Mahmoud is not succeeding, and I like Kagig better after all.
"She's American," said Will between purposely set lips. But I did not see that that qualified the unpleasantness by much. One of the Armenians, whom Rustum Khan had finished questioning, went and stood in Kagig's way, intercepting his everlasting sentry-go. "What is it, Eflaton?" "My wife, Kagig!" "Ah! I remember your wife. She fed me often."
Only, Fred made a movement with his hand behind him that Maga noticed and spurned with a toss of her chin. "You coming to Zeitoon?" Gloria nodded. Glancing over toward Kagig I saw that he was aware of Maga and was watching her out of the corner of his eye while he talked with Gregor and the Turk.
Am I Kagig, and do I not know who advised dismissing all Armenians from the railway work? Am I Kagig, and do I not know why? Kopek! You seek to take me because I know your ways! Two months ago you knew to within a day or two when these new massacres would begin. One month, three weeks, and four days ago you ordered men to dig my grave, and swore to bury me alive in it!
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