by a Kurd in a Turkish uniform!"

"Well, that only proves you are one with us after all! That only
proves--"

"One with you! Why did you not act, then, when I risked life and
limb a thousand times to urge you?"

"We could not, Kagig. That would have precipitated--"

He interrupted the man with an oath like the aggregate of bitterness.

"Precipitated? 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!"

"Oh, Kagig--how shall they reich Zeitoon? The cursed Turks have ordered