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So we three stood still in a row disconsolate, with three ragged men of Zeitoon holding our horses and theirs, and watched Monty ride away in the midst of Kagig's motley command, he not turning to wave back to us because he did not like the parting any better than we did, although he had pretended to be all in favor of it.
"Shall a man keep watch over a nation, and sleep?" he answered. "Aye here a little, there a little, I snatch sleep when I can. My heart burns in me. I shall sleep on my horse on the way back to Zeitoon, but the burning within will waken me by fits and starts."
Then it was my plan to arouse Zeitoon, and to make a stand here to such good purpose that all Armenia would rally to us. Bear me witness whether Zeitoon trusted me or not? How much backing have I had? Some, yes; but yours? "So it was plain that if the Turks sent a great army, Zeitoon could only hold out for a little while, because unanimity is lacking.
I we I and my men we steal a cartridge sooner than a piaster a rifle sooner than a thousand roubles! Outlaws must live, and weapons are the chief means! I am the brains and the Eye of Zeitoon, but I have never been chieftain, and am not now. Observe my house is it not empty?
Then she turned and dodged Gregor, and ran for her gray stallion mounted the savage brute with a leap from six feet away, and rode like the wind toward the gut of the pass that shut off Zeitoon from our view. A minute later a shell from a small-bore cannon screamed overhead, and burst a hundred yards beyond us on a sheet of rock.
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.
Tell these Eenglis sportman, then, that I am good man good guide! Tell them they come with me to Zeitoon!" The consul's face darkened swiftly, clouded by some notion that he seemed to try to dismiss, but that refused to leave him. "How much would you ask for your services?" he demanded. "Whatever the effendim please." "Have you a horse?" He nodded.
All, things considered, I might have done worse than decide to say no more about the plot, but to keep my own eyes wide open. Monty began making the best of my, in his eyes, damaged character by explaining the general dispositions he and Kagig had made for the defense of Zeitoon. "According to my view of it," he said, "this bridge we've just crossed is the weakest point or was.
"Eagle scream?" said Maga, almost screaming herself. "What you know about eagles? You ol' fool! That man Will is thinking you ar-re 'is frien'. You ar-re not 'is frien'! Let 'im come with me, an' I will show 'im what ar-re eagles what is freedom what is knowledge what is life! I know. You ol' fool, you not know! You ol' fool, you marry that woman then you can bring 'er to Zeitoon an' she is safe!
And my spies report to me that a greater army is on the way than ever yet came to the rape of Armenia. These handful of hamidieh that ye think are all there is to be faced are but the outflung skirmishers. It was plain to me that Zeitoon can not last. So I made a new plan, and kept it secret." "Ah-h-h! So that was the way you took us into confidence? Always secrets behind secrets, Kagig!
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