Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-07

"AAO AACAO Ooe LIZ OcdLuLIlS WIFI
ness. The Englishman could do no less than
extend his, and they shock hands like friends
long parted. An Arab struck the prisoner
stunning blow with the fat Of his scimitar. The
Turks drove him away. Meanwhile Tom White,
who had been left alone was surrounded by a
crowd Of screaming Arabs. He was bleeding
from a blow on the head. The gendarmes
rescued him. They started with their dis
armed prisoners for the police post a mile
away, but did not get far from the plane lying
on the sand
The Arabs from the surrounding country
thronged around in an increasing procession
that became constantly louder and more violent.
They dashed In trying to attack the prisoners
The gendarmes had more and more difficulty in
keeping them off. The mob grew so large and
angry that the gendarmes held long confab-
ulation with several of the sheikS The palaver
ended with the Turks struggling their shoulders
in assent. They turned their prisoners over to
the murderous-looking throng
The tribesmen seized on their prey with
howls of glee. The Englishmen cursed their
folly in giving up their pistols, but put up the
best fight they could with their fists It was
CHASTITY to be slaughtered unarmed like that by
the swarm of bloodthirSty rufians, but at least
they could die like Britons unafraid The
tribesmen tore at them with fiendish delight.
They wore down their victims resistance. Sew
eral dragged the flying coat over the pilots
head Others riied Yeats Browns pockets
The Arabs were bent only on robbing their
prisonersl They stripped them of everything
they had, left them with nothing more than
their trousers and shirts and returned them to
the gendarmes. The journey to the police post
was begun again, and the Arabs were left be-
hind fighting over their loot.
A FTON-KARA-HISSAR means, in Turkish,
BLACK Opium Rock" It is named for the
fields Of poppy that lie in the country around
7Auch OF the dreamy drug is made IN those
parts, an isolated section of Asia Minor
prison camp was there, and in this prison camp
veats-Brown found himself confined The day
when the plane landed near Nimrod's Tomb
was many months since and many hardshins
interviewed. At Black Opium Rock Yeats
Brown was regarded as a dangerous prisoner
one likely to attempt to escape What excited
the Turks suspicious the most was his daily
caIlsthenfcs, his routine of exercises to keen
himself fft. To the Orientals that was passing
Strange, and could be accounted for only by the
tact that the prisoner was gifted with prodejoprs
and Overlooking physical energies; he was the
KIND OF fellow to escape.
Yeats-Brown, indeed was thinking of nlaces
OK escape, but came to the conclusion that first
lie must dfssipate the unfortunate opinion his
Jaiors had of him. He must appear to have
turned faint of spirit and limp of body a man
30 Tar gone In nerveless enfeeblement that he
Would m no wise try to get away but desired
only the limp idleness Of prison life
Thus it was that he invested sum Of monev
he had got money from home-in a DARK
Vlseous drug wrapped in cabbage leaf, and
with theatrical pretenses of secrecy proceeded
70 Doll IL In saucepan He took care to have
TINS brew cooking on day when the Turkish
StaH OF the prison came to visit him. The acrid
fumes OF the brew could not fail to catch thei.
noOce' and he made lame explanations to ae-
count for it. The Turkish officers smiled at
each other. They were well pleased with what
tney mad discovered A prisoner who had taken
smoking IilraIr,
with his prison surroundings
certain young Turkish officer of indoleut
lace and dreamy eyes was particularly inter-
ested in. the. cookery at which the eantive
IaooEed. He paid occasional visits to the room
where the fumes of opium hung reekinR After
some persuasion on the officers part Yeats
Brown showed him various other properties
tna& he had procured-two bamboo pipes. a
lamp, terra Gotta bowl and the prenared
OPIUM He bound his Ian to many vows of
secrecy, which he IA ulatetJ Iuonid 80 -
kept
Let Us smoke together some evening" the
officer suggested
The propose offered many possibilities And
anyway, tn prisoner could not well refuse,
one ming he was passed secretly out of the
r son TO an appointed house. In a thiekfv
carpeted room the young officer was reclining
IN semi-darkness. The fumes of opium filed
the am A greeting was spoken and then, as
"Y.-B." tells it:
He said that for that evening should smoke
only the opium of his own brewing"
IL Is JOY to have found fellow spirit I
sighed When one has opium one wants Moth
ing more
How many pipes do you smoke day?' he
asked. -
Fifty I said boldly, when I am in prac.
tice.'
mat Is nothing said the Cypriote I
smoke hundred. Come, let us begin Time
Is empty, except for opium
But who win prepare our pipes?' I asked