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Updated: May 13, 2025
You thought these foreigners would turn against me. It never entered your thick skull that they might rather defy you than see me made prisoner. Fool! Did men name me Eye of Zeitoon for nothing? Have I watched for nothing! Did I know the very wording of the letters in your private box for nothing? Are you the only spy in Asia?
That morning, on Rustum Khan's advice, we made our Turkish muleteers ride in front of us. The Zeitoon men marched next, swinging along with the hillman stride that eats up distance as the ticked-off seconds eat the day. And we rode last, admiring the mountain range on our left, but watchful of other matters, and in position to cut off retreat.
"When I fire this pistol," I said, producing it, "a man will start at once for Zeitoon to warn Kagig. He has a note in his pocket written to Kagig. Judge for yourselves how long it will take Kagig and his men to reach this place!" The nearest man made a very well-judged spring at me and pinned my elbows from behind. Another man knocked the pistol from my hand. The women seized Gloria again.
Because their heart is in the thing, they under-stand. "By hanging Turkish police," said Fred, "you only give the Turks a good excuse for murdering your friends." "Come!" said the man of Zeitoon. "See." He led the way down a path between young trees to a clearing where a swift stream gamboled in the sun.
Some one had told. They burned Zimisces and his wife and sons alive in the straw!" "You fools! They knew where the stuff was a week ago! A month ago I warned you to send it to Zeitoon, but somebody told you I was treacherous, and you fools listened! How much ammunition have you left now?" "Just what we have with us. I have a dozen rounds." "I ten." "I nine." "I thirty-three."
All the houses on every side of us were ahum with life, and small wonder, for Zeitoon was harboring the refugees from all the district between there and Tarsus, to say nothing of fighting men who came in from the hills behind to lend a hand. But we were bent on seeing Monty at last, and had no patience for other matters.
"They call me the Eye of Zeitoon!" he announced with a sort of savage pride, as soon as the Persian was out of ear-shot. Will pricked his ears schoolboy-looking ears that stand out from his head. "I've heard of Zeitoon. It's a village on a mountain, where a man steps out of his front door on to a neighbor's roof, and the women wear no veils, and " The man showed his teeth in another yellow smile.
Did waiting for the massacre like chickens waiting for the ax delay the massacres a day? But now it is 'Come and lead us, Kagig! How many of you are there left to lead?" "Who knows? We are nineteen " "Hah! And I am to run with nineteen men to the rape of Tarsus and Adana?" "Our people will rally to you, Kagig!" "They shall." "Come, then!" "They shall rally at Zeitoon!"
Once Armenia was great, remember that! You must not only talk to us, you must act at last! We summon you to be our leader, Kagig, son of Kagig of Zeitoon!" He stared back at them with burning eyes -raised both bands to beat his temples and then suddenly turned the palms of his hands toward the roof in a gesture of utter misery. "Oh, my people!"
I sent her to talk with him!" "She has bargained with him to betray Zeitoon!" For answer to that Kagig turned his head and stared sharply at me then went off into peals of diabolic laughter. He had not a word to offer. He simply utterly, absolutely, unqualifiedly disbelieved me or else chose to have it appear so.
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