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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Oh, well!" laughed Kagig, leaning back against the rail and moving his hands palms upward as if he weighed one thought against another. "What is the difference? If a few Turks move or less come to an end over Zeitoon bridge " It was only for moments at a time that he seemed able to force himself to speak as our inferior.
Then you all die dam' quick Monty, Fred, Will, you, Gloria, everybody an' Zeitoon is all burn' up by bloody Turks!" She paused and looked at me sidewise under lowered eyelids. I stared straight in front of me, as if in the state of self-hypnotism that is the fortune-teller's happy hunting-ground. "You understan'?" "Yes," I said. "I think I see. But how shall I marry Miss Gloria?
"I guess you were mistaken," Will said at last, spreading out his shoulders with relief at the mere suggestion. But I was facing the direction of Zeitoon, as he was not, and again the expression of my face betrayed the facts. There were two large stones leaning together, with a small triangular gap between them, less than thirty feet from where we sat.
Rustum Khan was purposing to use him as prisoner-of-war, whereas in accordance with a private agreement made beforehand you were determined to make matters easy for him. He demands of us better treatment in fulfilment of promise. He says that the army is coming to take Zeitoon, and to make you governor in the Sultan's name. He offered us that argument thinking we are your dupes. He thought to "
'E say God is angry with Zeitoon, an' Kagig is as good as a dead man, an' I shall take advantage. 'E 'ope 'e marry me. I 'ope if Kagig die I marry Will Yerkees, but I agree with Measel, making pretend, an' 'e run away to talk 'is fool secrets with the Turks. Then I make my own arrangements! But Mahmoud is not succeeding, and I like Kagig better after all.
Caesar never declined a crown with greater dignity. "You, my brother, have accomplished in a few days what I have failed to do in years! That is because you are sportman! Just as Larry Atkins was sportman! He sent me all he had, and could not do more. I understood him. Why did he do it? Simply sportman that is all! Why do you do this? Why do you throw your life into the hot cauldron of Zeitoon?
And in that moment I recalled what Rustum Khan had once said about her being no true gipsy. "Go on," I urged her. "Peter Measel is an expert. He's a high priest. He knows it all." "Peter Measel is saying, God is ver' angry with Zeitoon and is sending to destroy such bloody people what plan fighting and rebellion." "I'll think it over," I said, moving to get up.
"You must come with me and find her, Kagig my wife and two daughters, who fed you often!" "The daughters were pretty," said Kagig. "So was the wife. A young woman yet. A brave, good woman. Always she agreed with me, I remember. Often I heard her urge you men to follow me to Zeitoon and help to fortify the place!" "Will you leave a good woman in the hands of Turks, Kagig? Come come to the rescue!"
"Did you ever hear tell of the Eye of Zeitoon?" asked Will, apropos apparently of nothing. "No," said the consul, staring at him. Will told him of the individual we had talked with in the khan the night before, describing him rather carefully, not forgetting the gipsies in the black tent, and particularly not the daughter of the dawn who schooled a gray stallion in the courtyard.
He has perhaps he has it in his pocket now a concession from the politicians in Stamboul, granting him the right to exploit Zeitoon a place he has never seen! He has encouraged this present butchery in order that Turkish soldiers may have excuse to penetrate to Zeitoon that he covets. He wants you Eenglis sportmen out of the way.
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