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Updated: May 11, 2025
If we found her we could hardly carry her off up-country if there were any safer course. "Time time is swift!" said Kagig, pulling out a watch like a big brass turnip and shaking it, presumably to encourage the mechanism. "The fact is," said Monty, drawing us farther aside, for Rustum Khan was growing restive and inquisitive, "I've not much faith in Kagig's prospects at Zeitoon.
"Lord Montdidier, colonel sahib bahadur, burra salaam!" He made no obeisance, but stood facing Monty eye to eye. The words, as be roiled them out, were like an order given to a thousand men. One almost heard the swish of sabers as the squadrons came to the general salute. "I knew you, Rustum Khan, the minute I set eyes on you. Why were you beating this man?"
"Has he been writing down all our sins in a new book?" "He will identify you. He will also identify Kagig's agents. He brings a personal charge against a man named Rustum Khan, who must return to Tarsus to answer it. The charge is robbery with violence." Rustum Khan snorted. "The violence was only too gentle, and too soon ended.
"We could never have held the place without Rustum Khan," said Monty. "As it is we've a chance. The last thing the Turks will expect from us is mounted tactics. Allowing for plenty of spare horses, we shall have two full squadrons one under Rustum Khan, and one I'll lead myself. From all accounts they're bringing an awful number of men against us, and we expect them to try to force the clay ramp.
"The German has it." "The German has no right to it." "I will bring it." Rustum Khan strode off into the night, and Monty bent over the sobbing form of the self-appointed missionary. We were all alone in the midst of the courtyard, not even watched from behind the wheels of arabas, for a fight or a thrashing in the khans of Asia Minor is strictly the affair of him who gets the worst of it.
Sohrab and Rustum is, of course, a flight of poetic fancy; but its "local colour" is founded on good evidence.
Mahmoud himself, surrounded by his staff, had ridden forward to see what the true nature of the difficulty might be, and had got caught in the trap when Fred closed it and Rustum Khan cut off the flow of men! Fred did his best by rapid fire to put an end to Mahmoud, staff and all.
What delighted me most, however, was the sight of the young Mameluke, Rustum. He had stayed in the ante-chamber, where I went several times to admire his costume, which he showed me willingly. He already spoke reasonable French, and I never wearied of asking him questions. General Lannes recalled having let me fire his pistols, when, in 1793, he was serving under my father in the camp at Miral.
He contrived to convey by his manner that he would do anything for Monty, even to the extent of saving the life of a man he disliked. At the moment when he turned there came the sound of a troop of horses galloping toward us. "I will first see who comes," he said. "The blood of Yerkes sahib on your head, Rustum Khan!" Monty answered. At that he went below.
A young beautiful athletic American girl Mahmoud will sacrifice three thousand men to capture her!" Monty ground his teeth. Fred turned his back, and filled his pipe. Rustum Khan brushed his black beard upward with both hands. "Suppose you go now and try to find Miss Vanderman," said Monty rather grimly to me. "If you find her, hide her out of harm's way and communicate with Will!"
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