Chapter II: Foreword: 11

ARSHALUS--THE LIGHT OF THE MORNING 19

I WHEN THE PASHA CAME TO MY HOUSE 29

II THE DAYS OF TERROR BEGIN 47

III VAHBY BEY TAKES HIS CHOICE 64

IV THE CRUEL SMILE OF KEMAL EFFENDI 80

V THE WAYS OF THE ZAPTIEHS 99

VI RECRUITING FOR THE HAREMS OF CONSTANTINOPLE 116

VII MALATIA--THE CITY OF DEATH 132

VIII IN THE HAREM OF HADJI GHAFOUR 145

IX THE RAID ON THE MONASTERY 158

X THE GAME OF THE SWORDS, AND DIYARBEKIR 174

XI “ISHIM YOK; KEIFIM TCHOK!” 191

XII REUNION--AND THEN, THE SHEIKH ZILAN 208

XIII OLD VARTABED AND THE SHEPHERD’S CALL 223

XIV THE MESSAGE OF GENERAL ANDRANIK 239

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Long Line that Swiftly Grew Shorter _Frontispiece_

Map Showing Aurora’s Wanderings _Page_ 75

Waiting They Know Not What _Facing Page_ 158

Driven Forth on the Road of Terror ” ” 192

The Roadside of Awful Despair ” ” 234

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

For verification of these amazing things, which little Aurora told me that I might tell them, in our own language, to all the world, I am indebted to Lord Bryce, formerly British Ambassador to the United States, who was commissioned by the British Government to investigate the massacres; to Dr. Clarence Ussher, of whom Aurora speaks in her story, and who witnessed the massacres at Van; and to Dr. MacCallum, who rescued Aurora at Erzerum and made possible her coming to America. You may read Aurora’s story with entire confidence--every word is true. As the story of what happened to one Christian girl, it is a proven document.

H. L. GATES.