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 THE RED RUGS OF TARSUS

accomplished by publicity. If you did n't have me here to think about when you opened your newspaper at the breakfast table, you would just read headlines, and say, "the Armenians are in trouble again." By "you" I mean the average person at home. Now what Herbert and I must do is to tell our story and give our testimony as convincingly as we can, and then put it where the most people can see it. We detest the advertisement from a personal stand- point, but cannot consider that now.

S. S. "Assouan"

Off the Cilician Coast, "Friday night, . May twenty-seventn. It was n't a Russian steamer after all, but an old tub of a Khedivial. It is a palace to us, however, and the British flag looks good to Americans.

The last thing that happened to us in Turkey was to have Scrappie christened. Dr. Christie [188]

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