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 THE RED RUGS OF TARSUS

I have n't even made a complete inventory of what we brought from Tarsus. We are too en- grossed in the duties and problems that each day brings forth to think at all about the mor- row. Honestly, Mother, during the four days we have been in Mersina, maternity has n't had much of a place in my mind I mean, of course, my own maternity. Heaven knows we have the babies coming in abundance all the time around us, and there is everything to be done for them.

I wrote you of the landing of the Turkish regiments from Beirut on the day we learned of Abdul Hamid's deposition. They went to Adana the same day, and started that night a second massacre more terrible than the first. The Armenians had given up their arms. On the advice of the foreign naval officers trust- ing in the warships here at Mersina they ac- cepted the assurance of the Government that the "rioting" was over. So they were defense- less when the Young Turk regiments came. [163]

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