THE VINTAGE
Remember, he is not to be killed yet. He has to speak first."
"If is a Mavromichales he will never speak," said Krinos.
"That is yet to be seen. I will stand behind the door, seize him as he enters, and if there are two of them, lock the door behind the first."
Now from Pigadia, where the boys had delivered the message to aman who said he knew nought of the matter, they had been quite right to go on their way as quickly as they could. The Turks had set spies ail over the country, since the rumors of an approaching outbreak had reached them, who were instructed to affect sympathy and cooperation with the revolutionists, and give information at headquarters of all they could learn. The day after Mitsos and Yanni had left Pigadia, still going northward towards Kalamata, this spy had had occasion to make a journey southward. At Tsimova he had inquired whether the boys had been seen, and hearing they had not, for they were then at Kalamata, gave information to the Turkish magistrate, and went on his way. At Nymphia he visited Krinos, who was also in Turkish pay, and told him to extract any information he could if they came his way. From there he had taken ship and gone on to Gythium, which was out of the boys' route.
The magistrate at Tsimova, with characteristic Turkish indolence, holding a clew in one hand, would scareely trouble to move the other in prrsuit. He just let the soldiers of the place know that there would be some small reward given to any of them who appreliended either of the boys; and one of them, the same who had seen Yanni on the wooded path, being anxious that no other should bite at his cherry, had obtained leave of absence and went a-hunting alone. He had seen Yanni
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