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 THE RED RUGS OF TARSUS

more than two hundred, all laden with petro- leum tins.

��We drove again this evening. Even walk- ing is proscribed for me now. I can go out of the college grounds only in a carriage, and then not far. In a Moslem quarter, on a road between vegetable gardens, boys threw stones the first time it has happened to us. As Charlemagne was nervous and reared from being hit several times, Herbert did not dare to get out and leave me alone. There was nothing to do but drive on, and accept the ston- ing. I was hit on the left shoulder a big stone it was. The bruise is painful.

April thirteenth.

Could not finish for Thursday's post. We have had Easter to think about examinations, and the boys going off for their ten days.

Miss Talbot has come to stand by me. Is n't she a dear? Imagine a soft- voiced English- [99]

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