CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I. [CAPTURE]1
II. [A SHADOWLAND OF ARABESQUES]25
III. [THE TERRIBLE TURK]42
IV. ["OUT OF GREAT TRIBULATION"]56
V. [THE LONG DESCENT OF WASTED DAYS]75
VI. [THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PRISON]95
VII. [THE COMIC HOSPITAL IN CONSTANTINOPLE]102
VIII. [OUR FIRST ESCAPE]122
IX. [A CITY OF DISGUISES]140
X. [RECAPTURED]159
XI. [THE BLACK HOLE OF CONSTANTINOPLE]172
XII. [OUR SECOND ESCAPE]198

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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[THE ARMENIAN PATRIARCHATE AT PSAMATTIA, CONSTANTINOPLE]137
[THE AUTHOR AS A GERMAN GOVERNESS]facing p. 154
[THE AUTHOR AS A HUNGARIAN MECHANIC]facing p. 170
[THE SQUARE OF THE SERASKERAT, CONSTANTINOPLE]213

CAUGHT BY THE TURKS

CHAPTER I

CAPTURE

Half an hour before dawn on November the thirteenth, 1915. . . .

We were on an aerodrome by the River Tigris, below Baghdad, about to start out to cut the telegraph lines behind the Turkish position.