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 THE RED RUGS OF TARSUS

tions, and make a fuss. I was glad they did. The refugees in the compound celebrated by gathering on a roof below and singing. Some were sorry for us, because it was not a boy, but, after all, if Madama wanted a girl how queer of Americans to be glad to have daughters !

No one around the Mission had time to cele- brate with Herbert, and there was nothing any- way to drink the baby's health in. Herbert went out to send telegrams to the Doughty- Wylies and the Christies, and the cablegram to the Estes. He says he kept saying to him- self as he went down the street, "I 'm a father!" It 's like men to be proud and take all the credit, which just now I think belongs to me. Herbert went to the British wigwag station, but the sailors could n't leave their post. So he had to order a bottle of beer at Flutey's all alone. Just then a German lieutenant drifted in. Herbert told him the good news, although he had never seen him before, and he drank [176]

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