"Bring him here," said the officer to the Cossack orderly.

When Hassán had been examined, he did not shoulder his bag and go to his place as he should have done, but began to bow and gesticulate, and to make supplications in

the Tatár language, becoming more and more excited as he talked.

"What does he say?" inquired the officer. "Find some soldier who knows Tatár." An interpreter was soon found and Hassán repeated his story.