Then said Yanni: "It will be a long talk we shall have before sunset; but, Mitsos, if the day of judgment was breaking not one word could I say for myself till I have slept. Ah, but it is good to be with you again!"
And he turned over and was asleep at once.
Mitsos was not long in following his example, but he woke first, and, seeing by the sun that it was not much after mid-day, got up quietly, so as not to disturb Yanni, and went in search of water. This he found some quarter of a mile below and returned to Yanni, who had just awoke. They took their food down to the spring and ate there, and then, at Mitsos' suggestion, went back again to their first camping place, "for where there is a spring," he said, "there may be folk, and we want folk but little."
"And now," said Yanni, as they settled themselves again, "begin at the beginning, Mitsos, and tell me all."
"I went straight to Nauplia the first night," he said, "and arrived there very late—after midnight; then, next day, I went off."
"Next day?" asked Yanni. "Is that all you care about Suleima? Oh, tell me, how is Suleima?"
Mitsos frowned.
"Oh, never mind Suleima," he said. "She is my affair. Well, next day—"
But Yanni interrupted him.
"Did you not see Suleima?" he asked.