Note 135 — XI. THE TOWN OF X. (continued 2)

This is brought out very clearly in the narrative subsequently published by the same writer:

“A blind old man named CZ., whose son is a physician in the United States, was scarcely able to walk, even with the aid of a staff. The Mohammedan neighbours took pity upon him and promised to take care of him if the Government permitted. I appealed to the Kaimakam and the commandant of the gendarmes. The answer was: ‘Impossible; all have to go; no Armenian is to be left behind, whether blind, deaf or paralytic.’

“The Kaimakam regretted that he found himself in office at such a time; he was sorry he had ever entered the official life. His father, a professor in the Turkish University in Constantinople, had advised him to go into business, but, as he had had no capital, he entered the Government Service.”