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Wild boar. One sportman to another do you understand?" We did, and did not believe. "How far to Zeitoon?" I demanded. "I go in five days when I hurry. You not hurrying by horse seven eight nine days, depending on the roads." "Are they all Armenians in Zeitoon?" "Most. Not all. There are Arabs Syrians Persians a few Circassians even Kurds and a Turk or two.
Now show yourselves men, and obey him, or by the beard of God's prophet there shall be war within Zeitoon fiercer than that without! Take counsel of your women-folk! Then he turned on Kagig, and held out a lean brown hand. Kagig clasped it, and they met each other's eyes a moment. "Am I sportman?" Kagig asked ingenuously.
Though he was a 'sportman, a gambler, a Don Juan, a duel list, nothing was ever said against his honour. "I remember one instance of his generosity in this respect; for it was much talked of at the time. One of your countrymen, who had never handled a fencing-foil nor fired a pistol, took offence at something M. de Mauleon had said in disparagement of the Duke of Wellington, and called him out.
It was very dark, and there was a heavy and incessant rain. The sparks of the burning peat flew so much about, that I dreaded the vessel might take fire. Then, as Col was a sportman, and had powder on board, I figured that we might be blown up.
"What is it now?" "The name God gave me?" "Yes." "God knows!" "What do you want here?" He spread out his arms toward us four, and grinned. "Look see! Four Eenglis sportman! Could a man want more?" "Your face is hauntingly familiar," said the consul, searching old memories. "No doubt. Who carried your honor's letter to Adrianople in time of war, and received a bullet, but brought the answer back?"
Because you are sportman! And my people see, and understand. They understand, as they have never understood me! I will tell you why they have never understood me. This is why: "I have always kept a little in reserve. At one time money in a bank. At another time money buried. Sometimes a place to run and hide in. Now and then a plan for my own safety in case a defense should fail.
The other sportman has watched those Zingarri. What have you learned?" He stood with lean hands crossed now in front of him, looking at us down his nose, not ceasing to smile, but a hint less at his ease, a shade less genial. "I have heard you and them described as jingaan," I answered, and he stiffened instantly.
"I've seen cave-dwellings in the States," Will answered, unimpressed. "But just where do you come in?" "I do not understand." "What do you propose to get out of it?" "Nothing! I am proud of my country. I am sportman. I am pleased to show." We both jeered at him, for that explanation was too outrageously ridiculous.
"He explained he had tried to double my money by gambling, but had lost. Therefore he now sent me all he had left, a fair exchange being no robbery. Oh, he was certainly sportman! "So I sold his watch and chain and the horse but the diamond ring I kept behold it! see, on Maga's hand! it was a real diamond that a woman had given him; and with the proceeds I came back to Armenia.
"You effendim make your escape! The Turks will surely seek to be revenged on you. I will show you a way across the mountains into Persia." "And you?" I asked. "Into hiding!" he answered grimly. "Maga little Maga, she shall come with me, and teach me more about the earth and sky and wind and water! Perhaps at last some day she shall make me no, never a king, but a sportman."
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