Talbot Mundy
The Eye of Zeitoon
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4057664606143
Table of Contents
Chapter One. Parthians, Medes and Elamites
Chapter Two. "How did sunshine get into the garden? By whose leave came the wind?"
Chapter Three. "Sahib, there is always—work for real soldiers!"
Chapter Four. "We are the robbers, effendi!"
Chapter Five. "Effendi, that is the heart of Armenia burning."
Chapter Six. "Passing the buck to Allah!"
Chapter Seven. "We hold you to your word!"
Chapter Eight. "I go with that man!"
Chapter Nine. "And you left your friend to help me?"
Chapter Ten. "When I fire this Pistol—"
Chapter Eleven. "That man's dose is death, and he dies unshriven!"
Chapter Twelve. "America's way with a woman is beyond belief!"
Chapter Fourteen. "Rajput, I shall hang you if you make more trouble!"
Chapter Fifteen. "Scenery to burst the heart!"
Chapter Sixteen. "What care I for my belly, sahib, if you break my heart?"
Chapter Seventeen. "I knew what to expect of the women!"
Chapter Eighteen. "Per terram et aquam."
Chapter Nineteen. "Such drilling as they have had—such little drilling!"
Chapter Twenty. "So few against so many! I see death, and I am not sorry!"
Chapter Twenty-one. "Those who survive this night shall have brave memories!"
Chapter Twenty-two. "God go with you to the States, effendim!"
Chapter Page
I Parthians, Medes and Elamites ………………………… 1
II "How did sunshine get into the garden? By whose leave came
the wind?" ………………………………………. 21
III "Sahib, there is always work for real soldiers!" ……… 40
IV "We are the robbers, effendi!" ………………………. 52
V "Effendi, that is the heart of Armenia burning!" ……….. 74
VI "Passing the buck to Allah!" ……………………….. 91
VII "We hold you to your word!" ………………………… 118
VIII "I go with that man!" …………………………….. 128
IX "And you left your friend to help me?" ………………. 142
X "When I fire this pistol—" ………………………….. 163
XI "That man's dose is death, and he dies unshriven!" ……. 176
XII "America's way with a woman is beyond belief!" ………. 195
XIII "'Take your squadron and go find him, Rustum Khan!'
And I, sahib, obeyed my lord bahadur's orders." ……… 211
XIV "Rajput, I shall hang you if you make more trouble!"…… 229
XV "Scenery to burst the heart!" ……………………….. 243
XVI "What care I for my belly, sahib, if you break my heart?" 257
XVII "I knew what to expect of the women!" ……………… 277
XVIII "Per terram et aquam" ……………………………. 290
XIX "Such drilling as they have had—such little drilling!" .. 303
XX "So few against so many! I see death, and I am not sorry!" 316
XXI "Those who survive this night shall have brave memories!". 333
XXII "God go with you to the States, effendim!" ………….. 349
Chapter One Parthians, Medes and Elamites
SALVETE!
Oh ye, who tread the trodden path
And keep the narrow law
In famished faith that Judgment Day
Shall blast your sluggard mists away
And show what Moses saw!
Oh thralls of subdivided time,
Hours Measureless I sing
That own swift ways to wider scenes,
New-plucked from heights where Vision preens
A white, unwearied wing!
No creed I preach to bend dull thought
To see what I shall show,
Nor can ye buy with treasured gold
The key to these Hours that unfold
New tales no teachers know.
Ye'll need no leave o' the laws o' man,
For Vision's wings are free;
The swift Unmeasured Hours are kind
And