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They may hold you up all the same. I can't help you once you are past the frontier, but I'll send a wire to Oesterzee and he'll make trouble if anything goes wrong. I still think you would have been wiser to humour Rasta Bey. As I was leaving he gave me a telegram. 'Here's a wire for your Captain Schenk. I slipped the envelope in my pocket and went Out.
'Do you know that we are being followed, Cornelis? he said suddenly, 'ever since we came into this evil-smelling dorp. Peter was infallible in a thing like that. The news scared me badly, for I feared that the telegram had come to Chataldja. Then I thought it couldn't be that, for if von Oesterzee had wanted me he wouldn't have taken the trouble to stalk me. It was more likely my friend Rasta.
We got safely to Chataldja, and were received by von Oesterzee like long-lost brothers. He was the regular gunner-officer, not thinking about anything except his guns and shells. I had to wait about three hours while he was checking the stuff with the invoices, and then he gave me a receipt which I still possess. I told him about Rasta, and he agreed that I had done right.
'I am sorry, Rasta Bey, he said; 'but this man is in the right. 'I have authority from the Committee to receive the stores, he said sullenly. 'Those are not my instructions, was the answer. 'They are consigned to the Artillery commandant at Chataldja, General von Oesterzee. The man shrugged his shoulders. 'Very well.
'I take over from you here. Hand me the papers. 'Is this Chataldja? I asked innocently. 'It is the end of your affair, he said haughtily. 'Quick, or it will be the worse for you. 'Now, look here, my son, I said; 'you're a kid and know nothing. I hand over to General von Oesterzee and to no one else. 'You are in Turkey, he cried, 'and will obey the Turkish Government.
I will have a word to say to General von Oesterzee, and many to this fellow who flouts the Committee. And he strode away like an impudent boy. The harassed commandant grinned. 'You've offended his Lordship, and he is a bad enemy. All those damned Comitadjis are. You would be well advised not to go on to Constantinople. 'And have that blighter in the red hat loot the trucks on the road?
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