But when we passed through the echoing arch of the Adrianople Gate the spell was broken. Crazy houses toppled over the filth11 of the streets; a dense12 mass of unwashed humans eddied13 to and fro; squalor beggaring description leered from the steep lanes and alleys14 that branched off from the main streets. A hundred races swarmed16 about us, vying17 with one another in wretchedness and misery18. Dogs and flies fought in the gutters19 with children and old people. Beggars whined20 for baksheesh. Food venders yelled their cries and hawked21 their unsanitary wares22. Every kind of clothing appeared, from greasy23 European dress to the quaint24 peasant costumes of south-eastern Europe and Anatolia and all the countries eastwards25 to the Hindoo Koosh.
It was like one's fancies of the Arabian Nights, and yet unlike them. For here was no lavishness26 of Oriental display, no exotic magnificence, only suffering and want and hunger and disease and smells and a dreadful ugliness that was spiritual as well as physical. It was as if a gigantic, cancerous sore, festering and gangrened through the centuries, had eaten away the vitality27 of what had once been the richest city in the world. And back and forth28 in that swarm15 of humanity's dregs wandered men of the civilization which had prospered29 outside the pale of Islam, French and British officers, bluejackets, poilus, tommies and an occasional tourist, clinging to a smirking31 guide.
"Seven hundred years ago," he said, "this was incomparably the stateliest, most powerful city in Christendom. It was the center of an Empire that was still able to stand alone, although it had borne the burden of resisting the Moslem33 attacks on the Western world for more than five hundred years. It enshrined all that was best and most worthy34 of the ancient Greek and Roman culture. It had a million inhabitants. It had public services, schools, posts, police, drains, water supply. Life was safe, commercial independence and prosperity assured—which was more than could be said for any other community, East or West."
"And the Turks made it what it is!" I exclaimed, as Wasso Mikali, leading our little procession, turned off the main street we had been following into one of the stinking36, littered lanes that twisted down into shadowy regions of corruption37.
"Not the Turks! The Turks only finished what others had begun. No, the beginning of what you see around you was made by Hugh's ancestor and his brother knights38 of the Fourth Crusade, who, instead of fulfilling their vows39 to journey to the Holy Land, voyaged to Constantinople and overpowered the feeble Emperor of that day, and then sacked and wrecked41 the city. It was never the same afterward42. It never recovered its strength. And when the Crusades finally impelled43 the concentration of the Moslem power, it became only a question of time before the city must fall. Had it not been for those walls we just passed, it would have fallen a century before it did. In fact, it fell then mainly because there were not enough men to hold the defenses."
"What you say is interesting," I said. "For after all, we are coming to-day on Hugh's behalf for pretty much the same object as lured44 his ancestor. We are hunting the treasure of the city."
"But we shall do no harm to any one by taking the treasure," returned Nikka. "What use would it be to these people around us? Would they share it? Never! It would be employed for the pleasures of their masters. The only way to redeem45 Constantinople is to repopulate."
We plunged46 deeper and deeper into the dark byways, sometimes traversing streets so narrow that pedestrians47 were compelled to squeeze themselves flat against the house-walls to permit us to pass. In the twilight48 it was difficult to see far ahead, and at every corner Wasso Mikali raised his voice in a shout of warning. But at last we rode forth into a wider thoroughfare and stopped opposite the gate of a huge, fortress-like building, whose windowless stone walls towered above the surrounding housetops.
"The Khan of the Georgians," explained Nikka. "Here we shall be swallowed up in an army of travelers. No one would think of looking for us in such a place."
Wasso Mikali made the necessary payment to the porter at the gate, and we rode between the ponderous49, steel-bound doors into a courtyard such as you find in a barracks. Around it rose three tiers of galleries, arched in stone, and below them were a succession of stables fronted by sheds and penthouses. Piles of goods lay everywhere, in the courtyard and on the galleries. Horses, mules50, oxen and camels neighed, brayed51, bellowed52 and grunted53. Men talked in knots on the mucky cobbles of the court, squatted54 in every gallery or leaned over the railings shouting to each other. Women sat on bales and nursed their infants. Children ran about with the usual ability of children to escape sudden death in dangerous places. It sounded like a boiler55 factory and an insane asylum56 holding a jubilee57 convention.
But Wasso Mikali and his young men pushed through the confusion with the same bored air I would have worn in bucking58 the subway rush, at Grand Central. They appropriated a corner of a stable, and put up the horses, uncinched the packs and climbed a flight of stone stairs to the second floor, where the old Gypsy rented two cubicles59, each lighted by a grated window two feet square and containing nothing except some foul61 straw, from a custodian62 who looked like the conception of Noah entertained by the artists of the subscription63 editions of the Holy Bible.
Nikka had relapsed so thoroughly64 to Gypsyism that he professed65 not to be suspicious of the straw, but at my insistance he procured66 a worn broom from Father Noah and we swept out the room which had been set aside for Wasso Mikali and ourselves. The six retainers in Wasso's train were given the next cubicle60, and they promptly67 piled into it the straw which we had banished68 from our room, so I doubt whether our labors69 produced any benefit, as they spent as much time with us as in their own quarters.
Such food as we did not have with us we bought from a general store conducted in an angle of the courtyard, and the cooking was done over a brazier, which, with the necessary charcoal70, we rented from Father Noah. When night fell, and the cooking fires blazed out all over the courtyard and in the galleries it was a sight worth coming to Constantinople to see. There was an acrid71 reek35 of dung in the air, the sweaty smell of human bodies, the pungent72 aroma73 of the charcoal, and an endless babble74 of voices in a score of tongues and dialects.
Afterward some men on our gallery played on bagpipes75. From the courtyard came the twanging of simple stringed instruments, and nasal voices lifted in interminable melancholy76 songs. A woman who was no better than she should have been danced in the light of two flaring77 kerosene78 torches by the gate until she won the attention of a bandy-legged Turcoman rug-merchant. A thief attempted to pick the purse of a fat Persian. A Kurdish horse-dealer tried to knife a snarling79 Greek. And gradually the khan's inmates80 sought their sleep. Most of them lay in the courtyard or stables beside their animals and goods or else on the galleries. The snores of a score resounded81 into our cubicle. Yet I slept, awakening82 at intervals83 of the night when a child cried for the breast or a camel broke loose and threshed around the courtyard or a party of belated travelers stumbled over the sleepers84 outside our door.
We were astir early in the morning, and before eight o'clock Wasso Mikali, Nikka and I left the khan—Wasso having given strict injunction to his young men to stick to their quarters and discourage any endeavors to make them talk—to cross the Golden Horn to the European quarter of Pera. This walk was no less fascinating than our ride from the Adrianople Gate. It took us through the northeastern half of Stamboul, and after we had passed the lower bridge of boats, into the comparatively civilized85 conditions of the Galata and Pera areas.
But to tell the truth, once we had left Stamboul Nikka and I thought little of our surroundings. Nikka even relinquished86 some of the wolfish manner which his return to Gypsy life had inspired, and we discussed eagerly, and not for the first time, the possibility that harm had come to Hugh. But our fears were relieved when we came to the corner of the street opposite the hotel, for there by the entrance stood Hugh and Watkins chatting with Vernon King.
Nikka led the three of us up to the hotel, shambling ungracefully and goggling87 at the Western aspect of the building and the people who passed on the sidewalk.
"Anybody covering them?" he whispered.
I looked around. On the farther curbstone, smoking and pretending to be interested in the passers-by, lounged two individuals who might have been cut from the same pattern as ourselves; and I indicated them to Nikka as I offered him tobacco from the box I carried Balkan-fashion in my waist-sash.
"All right," he said, "we must be careful. We'll move up beside Hugh, and when there's nobody in earshot you say what you have to say, speaking to me."
We peered open-mouthed into the lobby, gaped88 at shop-windows and slowly worked to a position close by Hugh and Vernon King. I was amused to observe that Watkins confined his attention to the two spies across the street, whom he favored with a steady, malignant89 gaze. King, too, was immersed in the conversation. Hugh gave us one keen glance, obviously because we were Gypsies. But he did not recognize us, and indeed, in our gaudy90 clothes, dirty and unshaven, we looked nothing like his memory of us.
"If they don't come in the next few—" King was saying as we halted close by, staring at a Levantine lady in a Parisian frock who was entering a taxi.
"This is one time we fooled you," I remarked, speaking in a low tone of voice at Nikka—there was nobody else within twenty feet of our groups at the moment. "Jack30 speaking, Hugh. You and Watty follow us. Go around the block the other way from us. We'll pick you up."
Nikka had a bright thought as we started off. The Commissionaire at the hotel entrance had been watching us with suspicion, and Nikka made a pretense92 of thrusting by him into the lobby. The Commissionaire grabbed him by the arm, and hustled93 him on to the sidewalk, and at this we all pretended uneasiness and hurried up the street. Hugh and Watkins watched us disappear, then said good-by to King, and walked down the street. They were rounding the corner of the farther side of the block as we entered it, and when we made sure they had seen us, we turned into a cross-street that led between buildings toward Galata and the Golden Horn.
Hugh's shadows had a poor time of it after that, and I believe we lost them in the maze94 of crooked95 lanes in Stamboul. At any rate, they were nowhere in sight when we dodged96 into the gateway97 of the Khan of the Georgians. Hugh was bursting to talk, but Nikka motioned to him to be silent. The appearance of two Europeans like himself and Watkins was bound to attract some attention, and we rushed them through the courtyard as rapidly as possible. Of course, everybody who noticed them at all concluded that they were up to no good, considering the disreputable company they were in.
So they panted after us up the steep stairs to the second gallery, and Wasso Mikali opened the door of our cubicle and stood aside until Watkins had entered. Then he came in, himself, and locked it and squatted down with his back against it. He was as imperturbable98 as Watkins, which is saying a great deal. Watkins surveyed the room with cool disfavor, drew his finger through a smudge of smoke on the wall and shook his head.
"Dear, dear, gentlemen," he said. "They don't do very well for you 'ere, do they, now? A proper queer place, I call it. And you 'ave changed, too, if I may say so. Mister Jack, sir, you must let me draw you a 'ot tub, and I'll give Mister Nikka a shave."
We shouted with laughter.
"That is supposed to be a disguise, Watty," exploded Hugh. "My word, it's a good one! You lads had me fooled completely. I looked at you just as I've looked at scores of rascals99 like you, and King and I went on wondering what had become of you. I say, who's the old gent?"
Nikka introduced his uncle, and Wasso Mikali met Hugh with the unstudied courtesy that made it so difficult to remember that he knew nothing of what we call manners or the gentler aspects of life.
"I wish you'd tell him how much I appreciate his assistance," said Hugh. "And I shall be very glad to—"
"Hold on, Hugh," I interrupted. "Remember, he's Nikka's uncle. And besides, he's a king in a small way on his own."
Hugh turned squarely on Nikka.
"My mistake, old man," he said. "I apologize for what I didn't say. But will you please give him my thanks, all the same."
Wasso Mikali's bright eyes, eyes that sparkled with vitality, took on a humorous gleam.
"He says," Nikka translated, chuckling100, "that he appreciates your thanks, but he never does anything for thanks. He is here because I am interested and there is a chance of fighting, and he never loses an opportunity to draw his knife, if there is loot to be won or a friend to be aided."
"He's a sportsman," approved Hugh.
"And there are six more like him in the next room," I added.
"I say, Nikka, you brought a feudal101 levy—what?" Hugh exclaimed delightedly. "Well, we shall need them. This is going to be a tight job, if you ask me."
"Is Toutou here?"
"I think not. So far as we have observed, none of the headliners has appeared on the scene, but the underlings are very efficient. Vernon King and I have been over the ground rather thoroughly. He's been a priceless help, Jack. Don't know what Watty and I would have done without him. He saved us from having to rely on a guide to learn the city. And Betty—she's the most enthusiastic worker on our side."
"She would be," I agreed. "But you don't mean to say that you and she have really done any work?"
"Oh, come, now," he expostulated. "What do you take me for? We have worked a lot. Betty has a motor-launch her father chartered so they could run up and down the coast on his archæological trips, and we used that to mark down the house where we think the treasure is located."
Nikka and I both forgot our Gypsy stoicism, and hitched102 forward. We were sitting on the floor; Hugh and Watkins, in recognition of their clean clothes were perched on two packs.
"Have you really got a line on the site of the Bucoleon?" asked Nikka.
"Yes," said Hugh. "Matter of fact, that was comparatively easy, thanks to Vernon King. You see, he knows his Constantinople of old; and after consulting with some other learned Johnnies out at Robert College and several ancient Greeks of the Syllogos, the Historical Society, you know, he was able to point out quite accurately103 the general site of the Great Palace. When we had gone so far, it became a case of picking out the building within that area that held our prize.
"In that we were helped by knowing that it was occupied by a band of Gypsies, who had lived there a long time. The Phanariots, Greeks of the Syllogos, I mean, picked out the building like a shot. To verify it, we watched it from the street and also from the motor-launch. There isn't any doubt about it. It's in what they call Sokaki Masyeri, a mean little street in a mean quarter that skirts the old sea-walls beyond the railroad tracks.
"This house is built right on the walls. It has a kind of battered104 magnificence, elaborately carven cornices and window-moldings, and it rambles105 over a good bit of ground, including a fairish-sized courtyard, just as you would expect of the wreck40 of an old palace. To be sure, it's no more than a small portion of what was the Palace of the Bucoleon. As Vernon King pointed106 out, the man who started out to excavate107 the whole site of the Palace would have to embark108 in the real estate business on a large scale and work with steam-dredgers."
"And you're positive about all this?" I insisted.
"Oh, lord, yes! There can't be any mistake, Jack. Why, the bird who lives in this house is the king of the Stamboul Gypsies, the chief bad man of Constantinople. He has a whole tribe of cut-throats at his beck and call. Ask anybody here about Beran Tokalji—"
Wasso Mikali leaped to his feet at sound of that name and strode over to us, his hand on his knife.
"What's the row?" inquired Hugh as the old Gypsy and Nikka engaged in a brisk exchange of sibilant phrases.
"Our friend has this person Tokalji's number," I explained. "He told us about him. He had heard about the treasure and the house."
"Then we must be right," cried Hugh.
"You're right enough," agreed Nikka, while Wasso Mikali returned to his place by the door and rolled a cigarette. "It seems, also, that this Tokalji is a particular enemy of my uncle. He was suggesting a little exterminating109 expedition."
"That's the last move to try," answered Hugh quickly. "We've got to be very careful. The authorities were rather puzzled to account for my continued interest in the city, at first. As it is—"
He turned brick-red to his hair.
"As it is," I grinned, "your pursuit of Bet has material advantages."
"Curse you, Jack," he retorted disagreeably, "that's not the way to put it. And anyhow, I'm not responsible for what damnfool officials think."
"You are in luck," said Nikka with a smile.
Hugh stood up, hot and exasperated110.
"I didn't come here to be spoofed by a couple of idiotic111 rotters," he snapped. "When you find your senses, send for me."
"Oh, hang on to your temper, Hugh," I said, dropping my hand on his shoulder. "Get back to where we were. You said we must play safe. We've got six of Nikka's cousins in the next room, first-class knife-handlers, every one of them. With Wasso Mikali and us, that makes eleven."
"And Vernon King is twelve," added Hugh. "He wants to be in on the whole business. It appeals to his archæological bump, as well as to his sporting tastes. But we can't have a rough house yet. We don't know the ground well enough. We've got to determine where the treasure is in that house."
"Did you get the copy of the Instructions from Miss King?" asked Nikka.
"Yes, and had her immediately mail it to herself, Poste Restante, as we agreed. It's there now. I don't need it. I found I had memorized it perfectly112. No, the next step is to get inside that house, by stealth, if possible, by force, if every other means fails."
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