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 THE RED RUGS OF TARSUS

Miss Talbot came in. Then Jeanne and Mary. I could give them no word of what had hap- pened in Adana. They told me about Miner.

Herbert came back soon with Daddy Chris- tie. They had been arranging about posting the soldiers of Herbert's guard. But they said that the massacre was over, and no attack against us was to be anticipated. What they had feared was the fire. If that had driven us out in the mob But why talk of what might have happened? What did happen was terrible enough. Miner gone, and with him Mr. Maurer, a Hadjin missionary, shot dead. Herbert and Lawson Chambers, a Y. M. C. A. traveling secretary, were down in the town when the massacre started. They did not get back to the Armenian quarter at all. They telegraphed Major Doughty- Wylie. He and Mrs. Doughty- Wylie took the last train that went through to Adana. The Major was shot in the street. His arm held up in front of him [140]

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