CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I Half Way Through the First Year[3]
II Three Christmases and the Seven Sleepers[13]
III A Visit to Adana[32]
IV Great Expectations[48]
V Round about Tarsus[60]
VI Hamlet and the Gathering of the Storm Clouds[92]
VII The Storm Approaches[103]
VIII The Storm Breaks[111]
IX Life and Death[132]
X Why?[147]
XI Abdul Hamid's Last Day[156]
XII The Young Turks and the Toy Fleet[162]
XIII A New Life[172]
XIV Off to Egypt[183]

THE RED RUGS
OF TARSUS

THE RED RUGS
OF TARSUS

HALF WAY THROUGH THE
FIRST YEAR

Tarsus, Turkey-in-Asia,
December second,
Nineteen-Eight.