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 THE RED RUGS OF TARSUS

never let him get the idea into his head that I am barred from phases of his life just because I am a woman ! Not a bit of it ! Herbert had to take his wife along.

A disreputable looking lot they were, wretch- edly clad and shod, and topped off with mussy, faded f ezzes. We were told that they had come from Beirut to restore order in Cilicia. They had taken part in the Macedonian movement last summer, and were regiments whose officers adhered to the "Young Turk" movement, and could be relied upon to check any attempt to re- new the massacres. There was much efferves- cence in the town. Groups were talking excitedly. Herbert and I were crazy for news. The last we heard was that Mahmud Shevket Pasha's army was moving on Constan- tinople. The regiments lined the main street on the way to the railway station. Something was going on we could not tell what. Sud- denly they cheered all together. The cheer- ing was taken up by the crowd. The band be- [160]

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