Caught by the Turks

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Francis Charles Claypon Yeats-Brown. Caught by the Turks

Caught by the Turks

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CHAPTER I—CAPTURE

CHAPTER II—A SHADOW-LAND OF ARABESQUES

CHAPTER III—THE TERRIBLE TURK

CHAPTER IV—"OUT OF GREAT TRIBULATION...."

CHAPTER V—THE LONG DESCENT OF WASTED DAYS

CHAPTER VI—THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PRISON

CHAPTER VII—THE COMIC HOSPITAL IN CONSTANTINOPLE

CHAPTER VIII—OUR FIRST ESCAPE

CHAPTER IX—A CITY OF DISGUISES

CHAPTER X—RECAPTURED

CHAPTER XI—THE BLACK HOLE OF CONSTANTINOPLE

CHAPTER XII—OUR SECOND ESCAPE

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Francis Charles Claypon Yeats-Brown

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Mounted gendarmes surrounded me with rifles levelled, not at me, but at the machine. I cocked my revolver and put it behind my back, hesitating. Then an old gendarme spurred his horse up to me and held out his right hand in the friendliest possible fashion. I grasped it in surprise, for the grip he gave me was a grip I knew, proving that even here in the desert men are sometimes brothers. Then, emptying out the cartridges from my revolver in case of accidents, I handed it to him. Not very heroic certainly—but then surrendering is a sorry business: the best that can be said for it is that it is sometimes common sense.

At that moment the gentleman in blue, whose appearance we had previously discussed, suddenly appeared behind me and swinging up his scimitar with both hands, struck me a violent blow where neck joins shoulder. This blow deprived me of all feeling for a moment. On coming-to I discovered that my aggressor was not dressed in blue at all; he wore no stitch of raiment of any description, but whether he was painted with woad or only tanned by the sun I had no opportunity of enquiring. Whether, again, the kindly gendarme had turned the blow or whether the ghazi had purposely hit me with the flat of his weapon, I never discovered; but of this much I am certain, that except for that kindly gendarme—to whom may Allah bring blessings—this story would not have been written.

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