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We found him with his beard trimmed neatly and his fevered eyes all bright again, sitting talking to the nurse on the veranda about a niece of hers Gloria Vanderman. "Chicken in this desert!" Will wondered irreverently, and Fred, who likes his English to have dictionary meanings, rose from his chair in wrath. The nurse made that the cue for getting rid of us. "Take Mr.
Where's Miss Vanderman?" Then suddenly Maga's whole appearance changed. The defiance vanished, leaving her as if by magic supple again, subtle, suppliant, conjuring back to memory the nights when she had danced and sung. The fire departed from her eyes and they became wet jewels of humility with soft love lights glowing in their depths.
Next I realized that Gloria Vanderman was wiping my face with a cloth of some kind, holding a hot pistol in her other hand, while Will was standing laughing over me, and Maga Jhaere with the other gipsy had disappeared altogether. "Did you shoot Maga?" I mumbled. "No," Will laughed. "I'd hate to shoot a woman who'd offered to make me king! She ought to be hung, though, for a horse-thief!
She flashed again, swift as a snake to illustrate resentment. "Yes." "Then I tell 'im things about you, an' 'e believe me!" "Let's bargain," laughed Will. "Show me Miss Vanderman, alive and well, and " "Steady the Buffs!" I warned him. "Gloria's not far away. There were pebbles dropped on my horse. There may be a cave above this cliff or something of the sort." Will nodded.
But 'e is as good as dead already, because Mahmoud the Turk is come to finish 'im so!" She spat conclusively. "So now I make you king instead of 'im! You let that Gloria Vanderman go to this fool, an' I show you 'ow to make all Armenians follow you an' overthrow the Turks, an' conquer, an' you be king!" Will laughed. "Better stick to Kagig! I'm going to take you to him!" "You take me to 'im?"
One did not get the idea that Armenians, men or women, were sheeplike pacifists. They watched Miss Vanderman with the evident purpose of attacking us the moment she appealed to them. "If you don't roll the stones away I think there'll be trouble," she said, and came and stood between Will and me. Fred got behind me, and began to whisper.
He got up and stood very politely in front of Gloria Vanderman, removing his cossack kalpak for the first time and holding it with a peculiar suggestion of humility. "You shall be put to no indignity at the hands of my people," he said. "They are not bad people, but they have suffered, and some have been made afraid. They would have kept you safe.
"I also!" exclaimed Kagig. "I also desire that!" "Now you've got that off your chest, Didums, suppose you talk sense," suggested Fred. "What are your plans?" Monty recognized the unalterable, and set his face. "You first, Miss Vanderman. There's one way in which we can always use a gentlewoman's services." "Mayn't I fight?" she begged, and we all laughed. "'Fraid not. No.
It was perfectly ridiculous to think of my not going." "Perfectly!" Fred agreed. "Any young woman in your place would have come away!" She laughed, and colored a trifle. "Women and men are equals in the States, Mr. Oakes." "And the Turk ought to know that! I get you, Miss Vanderman! I see the point exactly!" "At any rate, I started.
On the other hand it was quite clear that during my absence Miss Vanderman had not been idle. Excepting the two men who had admitted me, every one was seated she on the floor among the women, with her back to the wall, and the rest in a semicircle facing them. Two of the women had their arms about her, affectionately, but not without a hint of who controlled the situation.
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