THE RED RUGS OF TARSUS
Miss Talbot came in. Then Jeanne and Mary. I could give them no word of what had hap- pened in Adana. They told me about Miner.
Herbert came back soon with Daddy Chris-
tie. They had been arranging about posting
the soldiers of Herbert's guard. But they said
that the massacre was over, and no attack
against us was to be anticipated. What they
had feared was the fire. If that had driven us
out in the mob But why talk of what
might have happened? What did happen was
terrible enough. Miner gone, and with him
Mr. Maurer, a Hadjin missionary, shot dead.
Herbert and Lawson Chambers, a Y. M. C. A.
traveling secretary, were down in the town
when the massacre started. They did not get
back to the Armenian quarter at all. They
telegraphed Major Doughty- Wylie. He and
Mrs. Doughty- Wylie took the last train that
went through to Adana. The Major was shot
in the street. His arm held up in front of him
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