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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Not bad for a ranging shot!" said Fred, suddenly as self-possessed as if the world never held such a thing as an untamed woman. "Observe, you sportmen all!" Kagig exclaimed, getting to his feet. "The Turkish nobility are proceeding to rescue poor Armenians. Behold, their charity comes even from the cannon's mouth! It is time to go now, lest it overtake us! No cannon can come in sight of Zeitoon.
The men of Zeitoon behind us checked to watch Fred rolled out of his saddle, and roared with the delight of fighting men the wide world over to see the older campaigner suddenly recover his balance and turn the tables on the younger by a trick.
The thought that finally decided me was that I would have opportunity to gallop past the hospital, two hundred yards over the bridge on the Zeitoon side, and make sure that Gloria was safe. "Have you seen Maga Jhaere anywhere?" I asked. "No," said the Rajput, swearing under his breath at the mere mention of her name. "Then help me down from here. I'll go."
Even when the mountaineers laughed at the chink of stolen money in all his pockets he did not exhibit a trace of shame. He pounced on them. "Hah!" he laughed. "There! Did I tell you? These are his orders signed by a governor's secretary countersigned by the governor himself to 'set forth with his troops and rescue Armenians in the Zeitoon district. Rescue them! Have you seen?
"You see, if the enemy can once establish a footing on this hill, they'll then command the whole of Zeitoon opposite with rifle fire, even if they don't succeed in bringing artillery round the mountain." Between us and Zeitoon there now lay a deep, sheer-sided gash, down at the bottom of which the Jihun brawled and boiled.
The denial carried no conviction. "Is there nothing but hunting at Zeitoon?" Will demanded. "Is that not much? In addition the place itself is wonderful a mountain in a mist, with houses clinging to the flanks of it, and scenery to burst the heart!" "What else?" I asked. "No ancient buildings?" He changed his tactics instantly.
Never to be forgotten is that journey to Zeitoon. We threaded toward the heart of opal mountains along tracks that nothing on wheels not even a wheel-barrow could have followed. Perpetually on our right there kept appearing brilliant green patches of young rice, more full of livid light than flawless emeralds.
"Hear me now. Those Turks truly come to set a governor over Zeitoon. I forgot that the prisoner might understand English. I talked with this friend of mine he made a gesture toward Monty. "Perhaps that Turk overheard, he is cleverer than he looks. I had a plan, and I told it to my friend. The Turk was near, I remember, eating the half of my dinner I gave him."
They did not stay to gossip, for we had no news but the stale old story of murder and plunder; and their news was short and to the point. "Come along to Zeitoon!" was the burden of it, carried with a singsong laugh. "Zeitoon is ready for anything!"
It transpired there were seventeen men who had been accustomed to horseback riding since their youth. That would leave nine men for another purpose. I separated sheep from goats, and made over the nine to Ephraim. "You and these nine stay here," I ordered, "and hold this flank until Kagig makes a move." I did not doubt Kagig would fall back on Zeitoon as soon as he could do that with advantage.
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