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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Ten 'traitors, " said Monty, "have let themselves get caught at intervals since noon. One of Kagig's spies has got across to us with news that Mahmoud means to finish the hash of Zeitoon to-night. His men have been promised all the loot and all the women." "Except one!" Fred added with a glance at Gloria. "Two! Except two!" remarked Kagig with a glance at the door.
I don't believe any of us thought of him again until that night in Zeitoon.
Then, though, they struggled to their feet and started without argument. But an hour after the start we reached the secret of the safety of Zeitoon, without which not even the valor of its defenders could have withstood the overwhelming numbers of the Turks for all those scores of years; and there was new delay.
Plenty Armenians also two other men there but you let that one Will alone! Choose a 'usband marry,'im then you come to Zeitoon! If you come without a 'usband I will keel you do you understand?" "Now then, America!" grinned Fred in a stage aside that Maga could hear as clearly as if it had been intended for her. "Let's see the eagle scream for liberty!"
The women of Zeitoon are good!" said Kagig with a curt nod of approval, and Maga tossed him a smile fit for the instigation of another siege of Troy. The gipsy women picked the rifles up, and Maga went to hunt through the mule-packs for clothing. Then Kagig turned on us, motioning with his toe toward Hans von Quedlinburg, who continued to treat himself extravagantly from our jar of ointment.
"The effendi is blessed with intelligence! Few know of Zeitoon." Will and I exchanged glances. "Ours," said Will, "is the best room in the khan, over the entrance gate." "Two such chilabi should surely live like princes," he answered without a smile. If he had dared say that and smile we would have struck him, and Monty might have been alive to-day.
"Seems to me we're wasting time," and he strode out through the window on to the roof of the house below usually the shortest way from point to point in Zeitoon. Kagig followed him, and then Rustum Khan. The stars were no longer shining in the pale sky overhead, but it was dark where we were because of the mountains that shut out the dawn.
When she had had enough of riding long before we were tired of the spectacle she shouted with a voice like a mellow bell. One of the gipsies ran out and led away the sweating stallion, and she disappeared into the tent throwing us a laugh over her shoulder. "D'you suppose those gipsies are really of that Armenian's party?" Will wondered aloud. "Now, if she were going to Zeitoon !"
She must have entered ahead of Kagig or close behind him, unseen because of his bulk and the tricky light that he swung in his right hand. Kagig went on as if he had not heard me. "There is a castle I think I told you? perched on a crag in the forest beside Zeitoon. My men have cut a passage to it through the trees, for it had stood forgotten for God knows how long. Later you shall understand.
"Effendi," he said, leaning forward and pointing a forefinger at me by way of emphasis, "there are castles on the mountains near Zeitoon that have never been explored since the Turks may God destroy them! overran the land! Castles hidden among trees where only bears dwell! Castles built by the Seljuks Armenians Romans Saracens Crusaders! I know the way to every one of them!"
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