A day or two later and we might have found a German in his place.

He mistakes us for friends.

What else could we be ?" And he laughed again.
"But the telegraph wire ?" said I.
"Is down," he said, "both between here and Skutari, and between here and Inismid.

God sent this storm to favor us, and we will praise God by making use of it." "Where is Tugendheim ?" said I, but it was some minutes before he answered me, for, since the loaves were counted he went to see them distributed, and I followed him.
"Tugendheim," he said at last, "has driven the Turkish officer to seek refuge in seclusion! I used the word 'Wassmuss,' and that had effect; but Tugendheim's insolence was our real passport.

Nobody here doubts that we are in full favor at Stamboul.