"Indeed it is nothing," she said again.
"I owe you all," said Mitsos, "but I have owed you much so long. Are you safe here, think you?"
"Surely, if you get back and drive those devils away. They were already breaking. Get you gone."
With a sudden impulse, Mitsos bent and kissed her hand.
"They are already breaking," he said; "in ten minutes I shall be back. It is better, is it not, I should be with the men?"
He went out and ran across the hundred yards which separated him from the others. As the Capsina had said, they were already breaking, and in three minutes more the Greeks had gained the top of the slope and were pursuing them in all directions. Mitsos had shoved his way to the fore as well as he could, and just as he gained the top he looked round. Through the open gap which had been made for the new wall to the battery by the sea another body of Turks was pouring, taking them in the rear between them and the custom-house where the Capsina was.
"HALF A DOZEN MEN BURST INTO THE CUSTOM-HOUSE"