Capitolo 21
departure, when I was being standing in the street of access of ours to observe of house the
never fresh miracle of the Oriental sunset, a Turkish officer came riding
down the road with approximately thirty troopers. He called out me and
it ordered that I followed him/it to the small inn of village, where he got off
and it conducted me to one of the inside rooms, his/her jingling of the incitements noisily as us
past along the corridor of stone.
I never knew if I had been selected for this attention because of
my prominence as a leader of the young Jewish men or simply because me
you/he/she was being standing suitably in the street of access. The officer closed the
door and it came right to the point asking to me where our shop of
arm they were hidden. He was a great individual with the beautiful cruel characteristics,
usual enough in his/her class. There was no open threat in the his/her first
question. When I refused to tell him, he started to adulating and to offer
all order of favors if I betrayed my people. Then, to the sudden one,
he whipped out a revolver and stopped the stunned right in my face. I felt
blood's permission my heart, but I was able to check discard and I
his/her application. The officer was not easily discouraged; the hours that I have passed
in that small room, with his/her smoky lamp of kerosene a terrible were. ME
however, inclusive as tremendously important the question of the arm
it was, and strength me was given for holding out until the officer it abandoned in
disgust and it allowed me to go home.
[THE ILLUSTRATION: HOUSE DI THE AUTHOR'S FATHER, EPHRAIM FISHL AARONSOHN IN
ZICRON-JACOB]
My father, an old man didn't know anything of that that was happened, but the rest
of my family was tremendously excited. I did light of the whole one
bargain, but I felt me sure that this was only the beginning. Certainly,
next morning--the Saturday--the same officer returned and put three of
the principal elders of the village, together with me, under arrest.
After another unfruitful investigation in the hotel, we was handcuffed, and