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CHAPTER XI. The Companions of the Rosy Hours
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We battled to a corner, where a jut1 of building stood out into the street. It was our only chance to protect our backs, to stand up with the rib3 of stone between us. It was only the work of seconds. One instant we were groping our solitary4 way in the darkness, the next we were pinned against a wall with a throaty mob surging round us.
It took me a moment or two to realize that we were attacked. Every man has one special funk in the back of his head, and mine was to be the quarry5 of an angry crowd. I hated the thought of it—the mess, the blind struggle, the sense of unleashed6 passions different from those of any single blackguard. It was a dark world to me, and I don’t like darkness. But in my nightmares I had never imagined anything just like this. The narrow, fetid street, with the icy winds fanning the filth7, the unknown tongue, the hoarse8 savage9 murmur10, and my utter ignorance as to what it might all be about, made me cold in the pit of my stomach.
“We’ve got it in the neck this time, old man,” I said to Peter, who had out the pistol the commandant at Rustchuk had given him. These pistols were our only weapons. The crowd saw them and hung back, but if they chose to rush us it wasn’t much of a barrier two pistols would make.
Rasta’s voice had stopped. He had done his work, and had retired11 to the background. There were shouts from the crowd—“Alleman” and a word “Khafiyeh” constantly repeated. I didn’t know what it meant at the time, but now I know that they were after us because we were Boches and spies. There was no love lost between the Constantinople scum and their new masters. It seemed an
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