"If I had bound and gagged them it would have established sympathy between them, and they would have found some way of talking nevertheless.

Kept apart and let talk, the Turk will say one thing, Tugendheim another." "True," said I."For now the Turk advises plunder to right and left, and settlement afterward among Armenian villages.

He says there are women to be had for the taking.

'Be a new nation!' says he." "And what says Tugendheim ?" asked Ranjoor Singh.
"'Plunder!'" said I."'Plunder and push northward into Russia! The Russians will welcome you,' says he, 'and perhaps accept me into their secret service!--Plunder the Turks!' says Tugendheim.

'Plunder the Armenians!' says the Turk." "I, too, would be all for Russia," he answered, "but it isn't possible.