Chapter X: There is nothing about “telepathy” in the Turkish

Regulations.

Footnote 63:

The original sentence was “no walks.” Later the Commandant gave it out
he would allow us only the regulation number of walks—one a week.
Really, of course, we could have had as many as we pleased. We had
three altogether, including the two treasure-hunts.

Footnote 64:

A mistake. The correct date is March 20th.

Footnote 65:

“School House” was another name for Posh Castle.

Footnote 66:

A mistake. The correct date is April 2nd.

Footnote 67:

The interview is described in Chapter XI., pp. 111-114.

Footnote 68:

Compare Major Gilchrist’s pæan of praise, Chapter XI. at end, and
Major Peel’s laudatory comment.

Footnote 69:

We thought the Colonel should have reported our imprisonment and the
charge against us, in his monthly letter, whether he agreed with the
Commandant or not.

Footnote 70:

By the Spook’s instructions. See Chapter XIX., p. 201.

Footnote 71:

We left the house on April 22nd. The notice appears to have remained.

Footnote 72:

In Chapter XIX., p. 207, the notice is quoted.

Footnote 73:

“Martyrs.” The camp was a bit wide of the mark, as usual.

Footnote 74:

This was also by the Spook’s orders.

Footnote 75:

Literally, “A red sow and six very small red porklings.”

Footnote 76:

During our air-raids on Constantinople, which usually took place at
night, I used to spot the general direction of gun-flashes, etc. For
the purpose of accurately marking down these anti-aircraft gun and
mitrailleuse positions (in which I was fairly successful), and
especially in the hope of locating a concealed munitions factory which
several patients told me was hidden near “Katikeoy” (in which I
failed), I frequently broke out of hospital. I usually got back
without my absence being observed. Once I was nearly shot (by the
sentry guarding a mitrailleuse concealed in the English cemetery on
which I stumbled quite accidentally). Three times I was captured
outside, twice by sentries and once by the gendarmerie. Once I escaped
again from my captors, by diverting their attention with a tin of
jam—I told them it was a bomb to bomb the English—on the other two
occasions I was brought back to hospital, and each time used the same
trick—raved and stormed, and said I must kill Baylay. On both these
occasions the doctors drugged me, with trional and morphia, to quieten
my nerves and put me to sleep. They ascribed my wanderings to my
madness. So far as I know my real object was never suspected.

Footnote 77:

This knife for which I bellowed had a history which Nabi never tired
of relating to me. According to him, H.M. King George V. had been the
original owner. When our King was serving his country in the Navy, his
ship came to Rhodes. A shoot was organized. Nabi was one of the
beaters, and at the end of the day he asked that, instead of being
paid, he should be given a memento of the occasion which he could
keep. He got the knife—and I was perfectly safe in bellowing for it,
because Nabi is so delightfully proud of the gift that he will never
let it out of his possession.

Footnote 78:

Hill entered the bath at 3.30—five hours earlier.

Footnote 79:

It was a “Turkish” bath, but not well heated at this time because of
the scarcity and high price of wood. It had, however, a glass roof,
which helped to keep up the temperature.

Footnote 80:

A second of the three negatives was unfortunately lost by my friend,
Captain Arthur Hickman, who was kindly bringing it back to England for
me. This accounts for the fact that only one of the three photographs
appears in this book.

Footnote 81:

The Pimple means twenty-six.

Footnote 82:

For the “ease” with which it was accomplished, see “_450 Miles to
Freedom_.”

Footnote 83:

A mistake of the Pimple’s. At this time Colonel Maule was no longer
senior officer of the camp.

Footnote 84:

A typically Turkish way of getting “demobbed.”

Footnote 85:

A quotation from the Spook. See Chapter XXIII., p. 245.

Footnote 86:

The Pimple means a telepathic message.

Footnote 87:

Spook’s orders again!

Footnote 88:

_I.e._, Kiazim Bey.

Footnote 89:

_I.e._, the Spook. The Pimple writes thus obscurely because of the
censorship.

Footnote 90:

See Chapter XIII., #p. 136#.

Footnote 91:

_I.e._, the “Ruler of the World” story.

Footnote 92:

A suggestion of the Spook’s.

Footnote 93:

From his perusal, as censor, of my private letters to England, Moïse
believed I was in telepathic touch with mediums at home. It is an
amusing fact that one of my home correspondents, believing me to be
genuinely interested in spiritualism (of course the letters were
written for _Moïse’s_ benefit), went to a medium and actually got a
“message” about me. But the message referred to the very distant past,
before I became a prisoner, and to a fact known to the sitter and
several others. Had the medium been able to communicate my plan of
escape to the sitter—a plan which must have interested all intelligent
spooks—the money would have been well spent and I should certainly
have believed in “telepathy.”

Footnote 94:

_I.e._, the Spook.

Footnote 95:

Kiazim was court-martialled by the Turks themselves. I do not know the
result.

Footnote 96:

“The Sup.” was one of the Spook names for Kiazim Bey.

Footnote 97:

This was, of course, the photograph of the finding of the first clue,
taken by Hill.

Footnote 98:

The incantation. The figure described is the author.

Footnote 99:

The Pimple, as a Spiritualist, has every right to believe the
photograph was taken by OOO, but it would be interesting to know how
he explained his belief to the Court.

Footnote 100:

Captain S.W. Miller, M.C., was a fellow-prisoner of war at Yozgad.

Footnote 101:

A typically spiritualistic view of an inconvenient truth.

Footnote 102:

Captain Forbes was one of the Kastamouni Incorrigibles. His version of
the story appeared in the _Glasgow Sunday Post_. According to him the
Spooks who guided Kiazim were those of “Napoleon” and “Osman the
Conqueror.” As a matter of fact, “Napoleon” was on the side of OOO.

Footnote 103:

We promised in the train (on the way to hospital) that we would meet
the Pimple again in Egypt so that he might become the “Ruler of the
World.” (Chapter XXVI., p. 284.)

Footnote 104:

“_Those questions_,” _i.e._, spiritualism.

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