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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They packed
frantically. Lucky called his school friends and said his father was being
reassigned to Beirut – which was the hasty cover that had been concocted. Donna
knew better and they had a brief, but passionate farewell at her house, vowing
to stay in touch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">“We’ll see each
other in D.C.,” she said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">“Sure we will,”
Lucky said. And, miracle of all miracles, they did. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Lucky telephoned
Athena, but Yorgo had forbidden any contact whatsoever, so no one would call her
to the phone. Andreas and his other Cypriot friends were unreachable – they had
no phones. He felt bad about leaving without a word, but there was nothing he
could do about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He called Jim,
however, and told him the concocted tale. An hour later Jim showed up. He saw
the hurried packing and what he must have thought of it, Lucky couldn’t guess.
Jim took Helen aside and spoke softly to her. She nodded, agreeing with what
whatever he was proposing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Jim returned to
Lucky. “Let’s go for a farewell drive,” he said. “Your mother’s given her
permission.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Lucky gladly
accepted the invitation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They headed out
of town in the old black Plymouth. Lucky said little, too stunned by the swift
moving events following right on the heels of the Metaxa Square attack. Jim
filled in the silence, chatting about books, art and philosophy as if these
subjects were the most important things in the world, rather than Lucky’s
impending flight from Cyprus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They drove into
the mountains, past a castle set on the edge of a great, sheer cliff that
dropped away into the Mediterranean. The front of the castle faced a steep
slope covered with shale. A small cart track ran up from the main road to the
gates.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">“In the old
days,” Jim said, pointing out the castle, “when the enemy approached the king’s
men would catapult boulders onto the shale. And this would create a landslide
that would kill, or maim, the invaders.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Lucky pictured
the scene – the marching men, confident of victory. The boulders crashing down
and the avalanche of rocks crushing them. He wished he could live in that
castle and be its king. Then when the CIA cops came and told them he had to
leave Cyprus, he would bury them in tumbling rocks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As if reading
his thoughts, Jim said, “In the coming days make a place like this in your
mind, Lucky, and you will be safe.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Lucky didn’t
answer, but he soaked it up like a sponge plucked from the reefs at Limmasol.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Jim turned off
onto a bumpy path and drove up and up until he came to grove of tall pine. He
stopped there and they got out. Lucky followed Jim through the grove of pine
and along a narrow path until they came to a cliff with a breath-taking view of
the blue, blue Mediterranean. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Lucky saw
fishing boats, colorful sails ablaze with the afternoon sun, as the boats plied
the waters. He could make out the eyes painted on their bows so they could peer
magically through fog and storm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">“There was once
a temple to Aphrodite here,” Jim said, indicating shards of marble littering
the ground and stone stumps where columns might have been. Jim smiled, teeth
flashing in the sun. “Of course, this should be no surprise to you, because
I’ve shown you that temples to the goddess were everywhere.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Thinking of the
fat old mother goddess in the Troodos Mountqains, Lucky laughed, which made Jim’s grin
broaden.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">“But, you know,
this was no ordinary temple,” he said, “and it was no ordinary statue of
Aphrodite. Because this place, my dear, dear Lucky, is known as Stokahlo Hill,
or the Goodbye Hill.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">“There’s a
song,” Lucky said, remembering the man he’d met on the plane to Cyprus. The
man’s name was Paul, Lucky remembered, his eyes suddenly tearing “A song called
Stokahlo.” The meeting on the plane seemed long ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Jim beamed.
“Yes, yes, and this is the place where that song was born,” he said. “That
inspired it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He turned to
Lucky. “You know, whenever a dear friend or family member must leave our
island, if we want to make certain that they will return to us someday, we
bring them to this place. This place blessed by Aphrodite long ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">“And here, we
can say our Stokahlos, knowing that the goddess’ holy winds will carry them
back to Cyprus once again.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Now the tears
were spilling down Lucky’s cheeks. He wanted to stop crying, but he couldn’t. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Jim placed his
hands on Lucky’s shoulders and looked deep into his eyes. “So, Stokahlo, my
friend,” he said. “And come back to Cyprus as soon as you can.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">“Stokahlo,”
Lucky said, as manfully as he could. He hugged Jim and despite all his efforts,
he couldn’t stem the flood of tears. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And neither
could Jim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He never saw Jim
again for the Goddess Aphrodite was not so kind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Six months after
Lucky returned to the States, his father came home one night and told Lucky he
needed to speak to him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He sat the boy
down at the kitchen table and Lucky was startled to see tears welling up in his
father’s eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">“I have bad
news,” he said, getting right to the point. “It’s about Jim.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Lucky couldn’t
speak. He could only nod - go on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">“Jim was killed
by terrorists,” his father said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Lucky’s heart
stopped. “How… How…” He couldn’t get it out. And he really didn’t want to know
the details.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">“Jim was having
lunch with the mayor and some other businessmen,” Lucky’s father said. “They
threw a bomb under the table. It was quick and everybody said he didn’t
suffer.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Lucky couldn’t
move. He just stared at his father and suddenly he was swept back to that hill
again, the hill that overlooked the glittering sea and pale blue skies and the
fishing boats – sails stretched wide – speeding across the waters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Jim was standing
over him, hands on his shoulders. And Lucky was turning his head to see Jim’s
face and that fabulous, crooked smile and the tears were streaming down his
teacher’s cheeks and Jim was saying, “Stokahlo, Lucky. Stokahlo.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">“I’ll be back,
Jim,” Lucky had said. “I promise.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> His name was Jim. Jim
Demetrakis. And he was father, brother and teacher to me. I think he would have
been a great man, a rare voice of moderation and gentle wisdom in a region
where hate and violence are endemic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But
a frightened man with a bomb robbed his country, his people, of Jim’s
influence. Just as Jim was robbed of the long and rich life he deserved. An
orphan, he dreamed of the day when he would have a family of his own with a
loving wife and children he could spoil. And books - he dreamed of having so
many books in so many languages that it would take him a lifetime to read them
all. As for his public life, Jim might not have coaxed the lion to lay down
with the lamb, but he might have taught a few Greeks and Turks to at least
tolerate one another.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As
for me – as for Lucky – more than a half
a century later I can still hear all those voices – those clamoring voices –
vying for my attention. Church and school, flag and country and the CIA. All
turning truth inside out and standing reality on its head to suit their
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">It was Thursday,
the day before New Year’s Eve and Lucky’s mother was standing on a chair, while
Leda pinned up the hem of the cocktail dress she was going to wear at the
British embassy party. She and Lucky’s father would be the guests of the
Digby’s. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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meanwhile, planned to spend the evening at Keith’s house with a few friends
from school. He figured he and Keith would spend half the night telling about
their adventures in Metaxa Square, a conversation he’d rather not have just
now. Every time he thought about it, his stomach churned like a washing
machine. However, Mr. Jacobs – the new CIA medic and semi-official youth
counselor – said that the more he told the tale, the less effect it would have.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Think of it as
creating an emotional callus,” he said. “The more you talk about it, the less
it will bother you.” He gave Lucky a playful thump on the shoulder with a
half-balled up fist. “Not that it’s bothering you that much, right?” he added.
“You’re a real soldier. I could tell the moment we met.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky had the
sudden urge to flatten the man’s nose with one of his grandfather’s patented
punches. He immediately felt ashamed of himself. The guy was just saying Lucky
needed to be tough – what was wrong with that? Nothing, right? Tough was good.
Scared was bad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky’s father
entered. Normally he’d be getting “tuned up,” as he put it, for the New Year’s
celebration. But he was on standby and could drink nothing stronger than
coffee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Just got the
call,” he told Helen, who was being helped off the chair by Leda. “Joe dumped
that new bike of his.” Helen started to get alarmed, but his father raised a
hand. “He’s fine. In the hospital, but fine. Nothing but bruises and badly
wounded pride.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Joe had bought
himself a motorcycle. Not a motor bike, like Yorgo’s, but a powerful British
Triumph – the Tiger 110 - that Joe had shipped from England. He told everyone
who’d listen that it was the fastest Triumph to date and that it was similar to
the bike that Marlon Brando straddled in the “The Wild Ones.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Thank God for
that,” Lucky’s mother said. “Not to sound callous, but does that mean he’s
going to work, or do you have to take his shift.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky’s father
shook his head. “No such luck,” he said. “They want to keep him under
observation for the weekend.” He checked his watch. “There’s a cab on the way
to pick me up.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Helen sighed
resignedly – but with good nature. “That’s life at the Pickle Factory,” she
said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The cab came
about 6 p.m. Lucky’s father kissed Helen goodbye and waved to Lucky as he
hopped in and the car sped away. The usual procedure was that his dad would
take the cab to the U.S. embassy, which was his cover job. There, a special
pool car would ferry him to the base. It wasn’t a fool-proof system, but it had
the value of being simple and not drawing attention to itself. Embassy people
were routinely whisked here and there on assignments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Recently,
however, some people had been getting paranoid about the transportation setup.
That had been Joe’s stated reason for getting the Triumph – so he could drive
himself to work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">After his father
departed the evening progressed normally. Lucky and his mother and Charlie had
dinner. After Charlie went to sleep, they listened to the radio for awhile –
“Suspense Theater” had been imported from the States. Then they went to bed.
Lucky was reading “Andersonville,” MacKinlay Kantor’s fabulous Civil War novel
about the infamous Confederate POW camp. The U.S. embassy maintained a
revolving library of new works for its personnel and their dependents. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">It was a
gripping tale, but the hour grew late and Lucky fell asleep with book the
across his chest. Hours later a door slammed violently shut and he came
suddenly awake, alert and his nerves thrilling. He looked around – the bedside
light was still on. Were they under attack again? He listened closely – no
rattling on the roof, or running feet on the veranda.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Then he heard
voices – his mother’s, urgent and frightened. His father’s voice – a rumble,
but very weak. His first thought was that his father was drunk and abusing his
mother again. He jumped out of bed, ready to race out and defend her. Then he
remembered that his father was supposed to be at the base. What had happened?
He heard the phone ring and then his mother answering it. She mumbled
something, then very clearly he heard her say, “Hurry!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky shrugged
on his robe and went to see what was happening. He found his parents in the
living room and it was a bizarre sight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">His father was
sitting in a straight-backed chair, his sports coat flung open, his white dress
shirt peeled back to reveal a bloody T-shirt. Lucky stared at the darkest spot,
which was a long gash across his stomach that was bubbling blood. His mother
had a pan of hot water, a bottle of alcohol and several towels. Everything was
a smear of red.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky’s father looked
up. His face was gray and pinched with pain, but he forced a smile that was
more of a grimace than anything. “Had an argument about the cab fare,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky’s mother
turned. “The bastard stabbed him,” she said. “I’ve called the medic.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Who stabbed
you?” Lucky demanded.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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medic at any moment. And sure enough, fifteen minutes later, the medic and two
large men in sports coats and open-necked shirts arrived. The medic treated his
father on the spot – getting Helen to spread sheets across the couch. He
cleaned the wound, shot the area full of Novocain and looped in several
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back and forth. Lucky slipped outside and went to the cab. The engine was still
running. He switched it off, then found the wiper button and switched that off
as well. He noticed that the back window was smashed in and there was glass and
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mother was telling her to go sleep in Charlie’s room in case the noise
disturbed him. But Leda was sleepy and frightened and it was hard for her to
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him now, so there is no need to worry. But we don’t want to upset the baby, you
understand? He would worry about his father.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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see to Charlie,” she said, going to the refrigerator and getting out some milk
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the embassy,” she went on. Her face was pale, but she was very much in control
of herself. “The cab driver tried to kidnap him. They got out into the country
and your father knew he had to do something fast, before other men came. There
was a fight and your father was stabbed. But he got the knife away from the cab
driver and chased him out of the cab. Then drove home.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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gray and a little woozy from pain pills – was driven to the base to meet with
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answered the door and found Jim standing
there he almost started crying. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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him, eyes full of worry and said, “I heard what happened and came right over.
Are you okay, Lucky?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I’m fine,” he replied,
keeping his voice under control. Then he couldn’t help but blurt, “It was
awful, Jim!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim came in, saw
the large Christmas tree in the corner, and gave a sad smile. “A poor way to
greet Christmas,” he said. Then he glanced around and asked, “Are your parents
home?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“My mother’s
lying down with my little brother,” Lucky said. “She was pretty upset about
what happened and didn’t sleep all night.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“And your
father?” Jim asked, taking a seat on the couch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“He came home,
but he had to go back to the embassy,” Lucky said. Actually, his father was at
the CIA base, dealing with an endless series of Yuletide crises. Lucky sat in
an armchair across from Jim. “I don’t think they were after me or my friends,”
he said. “That’s what my father thinks, anyway. He said the café was a ‘target
of opportunity,’ or something like that. It’s a popular place for Europeans and
businessmen with European customers.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim looked
closely at him. “And what do you think, Lucky?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The boy was
still in shock. The blood, the screams, the gunfire. But it was the smell of
the spilled kerosene that got him most – everyone trying to scramble across
glass-strewn floor to escape the spreading fire. His own home reeked of
kerosene from all space heaters going full blast to warm the house, which made
it harder to keep the images at the café at a bearable distance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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calm and adult, but his voice shook as he said, “They hurt a lot of people
Jim.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had been severe, according to Lucky’s dad who had checked with Keith Digby’s
father. Scores were injured - mostly local business people and some vacationers
from India. One British citizen – a pensioner entertaining his Cypriot mistress
– had been injured, but that was being covered up for form’s sake. Incredibly, only one person was killed –
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I knew the
busboy pretty well,” Lucky said. “He was clumsy, always dropping things and I’m
sure the only reason he had the job is because he’s the manager’s nephew. But
he was a really nice guy, always sneaking us extras.” He trailed off and his
eyes became moist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I’m sorry for
your friend,” Jim said. “But I’m happy that my own friend escaped unharmed.”
Lucky nodded, afraid to speak. Jim smiled and said, “I’m sure people have told
you that however sad and frightening this event might be, that in the end it
will make you stronger.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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despite himself. “My mom always says when things get tough that it’s God way of
making us stronger,” he said. “But it doesn’t seem fair to the people who get
in the way.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“God didn’t do
this,” Jim said. “Men did.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“General Grivas, to name one,” he said. “We were talking about Grivas just
before the attack. He sounds like the worst thing that could happen to Cyprus.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim sighed.
“People are frustrated,” he said, “so it’s hard to blame them for being
attracted to a man like Grivas.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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aghast. “You mean you agree with the terrorists?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I didn’t say
that,” Jim replied. “You know I detest violence. It’s against my principles. I
admire Mr. Ghandi. Unfortunately, at the moment there is no Cypriot Ghandi. The
British won’t listen to reason – they won’t even throw us a bone – some gesture
we could take back to people and say, ‘Here, see. The British are serious about
independence. We have to be patient because of the usual reasons… the Turks…
The Greeks… and so on. With such a statement of intent, I might even be able to
convince Grivas himself to stay his hand.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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prickled. “Do you know him?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim started to
speak, then shook his head. “I said too much, Lucky. Please don’t repeat it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I won’t,” Lucky
said. He hesitated, then asked, “What’s going to happen, Jim? Is it going to
get worse?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim forced a
smile. “Don’t worry, Lucky,” he said. “They aren’t going to come to your
house.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“They did in
Pallouriotissa,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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season was the usual whirlwind of parties, but even so, the memory of the
events at Metaxa Square were always at the edge of Lucky’s mind. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">At the embassy
party, Donna burst into tears and threw herself into his arms when she saw him,
much to the consternation of her mother. They spent the whole time huddled in a
corner, ignoring the others, talking about the incident.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“It’s a good
thing you went home early,” Lucky said, “or you would have been there when it
happened.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I’ve thought
about that a lot,” Donna said. “And I don’t know if I’m happy to have missed
it, or upset because I wasn’t with you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky shook his
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“My father says
things are going to get worse from here on out,” Donna said. She paused, then
added, “He wants us to go back to the States, but Mom says she won’t unless he
comes with us.” She sighed. “But you know my father,” she said. “In the end he
always gets his way.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky’s heart
skipped. This was terrible news. Just when he’d gotten Donna back she was being
sent away. But that was selfish thinking. No, it was better if Donna and her
sister were out of harm’s way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“At least you’ll
be safe,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Tears welled in
Donna’ eyes. “We might not ever see each other again,” she said. “When my
father’s duty is up we could be sent… well, anywhere.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I know,” was
all Lucky could say. Brief friendships and even briefer romances were facts of
life for an Agency brat. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Maybe you’ll be
sent back too,” Donna said. “Then at least we could see each other in
Washington.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Sure,” Lucky
said. “That’d be great, wouldn’t it?” However, in his heart of hearts he
thought it would be awful. Sure, he’d get to see Donna. But that would mean
leaving Cyprus forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">L</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">ucky had strange dreams that night. They started off nicely enough with mildly erotic scenes
involving Donna and Athena. Then they quarreled with him – becoming one girl
whose face was Athena on one side and Donna the other. Eventually they stalked off,
leaving him miserable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Soldiers burst
in to arrest him and he was hauled before Sen. Joe McCarthy and a host of
accusers who shouted that he was a Communist. And Lucky said, no, no, he was
only a little bit red – not Communist at all. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Then McCarthy became
Yorgo who accused him with being a dupe of the British, an enemy of Enosis. And
then there came Jim – sad-faced, wearing robes like the monks at Terra Santa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim said, “If
only you would listen, Lucky. If only you would listen.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky protested
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim only shook
his head. “Just listen, then you’ll know,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky jolted
awake, the sheets soaked with sweat. His jaws ached from grinding his teeth and
for a moment he didn’t know what to do, thinking he had to somehow deal with
angry girls, Yorgo, Sen. McCarthy and a critical Jim Demetrakis. When he
realized it was only a dream, he felt like falling to his knees and thanking
God, like a castaway sailor who had found had his perilous way to shore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It was 4 a.m. but he was too charged up by his disturbing
dreams to sleep, so he searched his shelves for something to read. Just then,
there was a sharp bang on the roof. Startled, his head jerked up and he heard a
whole shower of hard objects rattling about. Was it hail, he wondered? Hail was
not unknown in Cyprus this time of year, even though it wasn’t really cold
outside yet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He jumped when something heavy thumped against the outside
wall. Then there were more thumps - a multitude of heavy blows. All very fast –
boom, boom, boom! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If it wasn’t hail, maybe it was a storm. He listened, but
there was no wind, just the patter of running feet. More slams against the
wall. The house was made of stone, so it did not shake. However, there was a
definite vibration in the walls and the vibrations came from just outside his
room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">An earthquake? There was another shower of thumps on the
roof, followed by the sound of running feet. This was no earthquake. He could
clearly hear at least two people scrambling across the tiles, slipping in their
rush, falling, knees cracking the tile.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lucky sat upright, rolling the comic book into a tight tube
to make a weapon. Something scraped against the outside wall. It definitely
wasn’t one person who was doing the scraping, but several. Lucky could imagine
the shadowy figures dragging sticks and iron bars and knives across the rough
stone exterior.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">His heart was thumping, but he wasn’t frightened. Something
that sounded like the wind blew along the veranda. Lucky knew it was not the
wind, but people running. Then all along the house there was a knocking and a
banging against the walls and the heavy, barred shutters that guarded the
entrances to the house. People were racing along the outside veranda that
encircled the house, scraping things against the wall, banging the shutters
with fists and clubs and knives. Strangely, not one word was spoken during the
assault.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lucky got up and went to the shutters. Hesitantly, he put
ear against the wood. He quickly drew back – there was someone on the other side.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He shouted in Greek – “Piohs? Piohs?” Meaning who is there?”
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There was a startled woof! Of surprise then fleeing
footsteps. Lucky almost threw open the shutter, but then thought better of it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Behind him, the bedroom door burst and Lucky whirled, readying
his comic book tube, which was still his only weapon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">His mother stood there, a blue robe belted about her waist,
her hair a wild Irish tumble to her shoulders, her good eye fierce and staring
at Lucky, the blind eye fixed with its sister so strongly that it seemed more
powerful – as if it could see right through him. She brandished her personal
weapon, a small .25 caliber automatic, called a garter gun. More angry than
frightened, she waved the gun about – she was a good shot, a calm shot, so anyone
in front of that barrel was in deep trouble.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Another barrage of banging came at the shutters. Helen
spread her feet, her robe and lacy nightgown swirling around her legs. She
wagged the gun at the veranda door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Open it,” she said. “So I can shoot the S.O.B.’s.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lucky hesitated. He was scared that Sandros would be out
there and he didn’t want him to get shot. Sure, if this was Sandros’ doing, he
was mad at him. But Lucky didn’t want to see him killed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Let’s wait,” he advised. “Maybe they’ll go away.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Helen moved forward. “Crack it open,” she insisted. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lucky obeyed. His mother shoved the gun through the opening,
twisting the barrel so it pointed at the sky. Then she fired, one, two, three…
the .25 cracking out shot after shot until it was empty. Lucky’s mother dropped
the clip and shoved in another. She fired off two more shots into the night
air. They heard male voices shouting in alarm and pounding footsteps fleeing
the scene. After awhile, Helen fired two more shots. There was no reaction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lucky’s mother turned to him, smiling from ear-to-ear. She
gave her son a hug, then drew back and said, “I think they know we’re serious.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lucky laughed and then watched in amazement as she fetched
Brosina to help her pick up the spent shells and mop the floors to get rid of
the smell of gunpowder. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The next day Lucky’s father – who had been so hungover that he slept through the
whole thing – didn’t seem too perturbed about the incident. Even so, he called
a cab and said he’d speak to the security people at the embassy before he went
to the base. Lucky was glad his father hadn’t reported the matter to the police
chief – the villagers would only become resentful and support Sandros.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lucky skipped school so he could keep an eye on things. He
was on the roof of the garage checking out the village when his father left. As
the cab turned onto the highway, Lucky saw Sandros on the corner with a thin,
dark-faced man. The boy pointed out the cab to the man, who nodded, climbed on
his bicycle and pedaled after it. Alarmed, Lucky watched a minute, then saw the
cab pick up speed and leave the man far behind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Later, Lucky heard the familiar roar of Yorgo’s motorbike
coming up the hill. It stopped outside and Lucky went to answer the door. He
hadn’t seen Yorgo close up for months and it seemed to him that the man
appeared thinner, his skin sallow and his eyes darted about – not looking at
Lucky directly as he asked to see his mother.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Except for occasional erotic thoughts about Athena, Lucky
had nothing to feel guilty about. He escorted him into the living room and
fetched his mother, who was in the garden gathering flowers for the dining room
table. Lucky hung around, hoping to hear what Yorgo wanted, but a look from the
landlord made it plain that his presence wasn’t welcome. Lucky felt bad about
that – despite the problems over Athena - he quite liked Yorgo and wished they
could become friends again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The conversation went on for a half-an-hour or more and when
Yorgo and Helen came out of the living room Lucky saw that Yorgo’s eyes were
red, as if he had shed some tears. Lucky’s mother looked stern and she was very
cold as she saw Yorgo out. Lucky started to ask her what was going on, but she
held a finger up to shush him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then, when Yorgo’s bike roared down the hill, she said, “We
have to find another place to live.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lucky was stunned. “Why?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Yorgo said some men came to see him and ordered him to get
rid of us, or there’d be trouble.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Everybody in the village likes us,” Lucky protested. “We
let them have all the water they want from our wells. We helped them after the
earthquake. Besides, we spend a lot of money here. Money they really need.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Helen said, “Yorgo said very much the same thing. He doesn’t
want us to go. People in the village will be angry with him when they find out.
But he says he has no choice. These men are dangerous.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now, Lucky understood the assault on the house the previous
night. They were trying to scare the family, soften them up for Yorgo’s ordered
visit. He also understood Sandros’ sudden hostility. The boy was a zealot – a
condition that does not recognize friendships for long.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“It’s just like with Jim,” Lucky said, disgusted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">His mother sighed: “Your father says things are getting
worse all over Cyprus. Gun smuggling, guerrillas in the mountains. It doesn’t
look good.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Lucky wasn’t
surprised. Although he’d mostly been cut off from street gossip since he
started at Terra Santa, he’d noticed that he was drawing more hostile looks
from people in Nicosia. To combat this, he made sure he spoke Greek often and
with his voiced raised so everyone could hear. He also tried to introduce the
fact that he was American and not British wherever he went. Only a few fanatics
were anti-American. Most people beamed with pleasure to meet an American boy
who spoke their language so fluently. Americans, they proudly believed, had
patterned their government after the ancient democratic principles of Athens.
And this was the reason for that great nation’s success.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Yorgo wants us out fast, right?” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He didn’t see any sense in dragging their heels. What
sympathy they had in the village would quickly melt if they attracted trouble
and that trouble drew the police.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I suppose we could go back to the hotel until we find
something,” his mother said. “I’ll have to talk to your father and see if the
Company will help.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So that’s what they did. Although, as usual, the promised
government assistance was slow to come. And once approved, nearly a year passed
before they collected the money spent at the hotel. Fortunately, it only took a
few weeks to find a new home – an apartment in a new building just outside
Nicosia and only two miles from Terra Santa. The apartment was like nothing
Lucky had ever seen in the states: four bedrooms, three bathrooms and a rooftop
garden the size of a basketball court. There was a separate suite of rooms,
including a bath and small kitchen for the maids.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unfortunately, Brosina and Thea could not follow them to the
new home. The same men who had visited Yorgo, visited their families and said
there would be hell to pay if they remained with the Coles. There were many
tears over this decision – especially with Brosina, who said she felt like she
was being forcefully separated from her own children, with Lucky and little
Charlie gone. Lucky sorely missed his protector and confidant in the weeks that
followed and Charlie was inconsolable – he cried for Brosina every day and when
Helen finally hired replacements maids for the new apartment, he treated them
coldly and scolded them at every opportunity in his baby Greek.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The head maid, Leda, was a stunning young woman of twenty
five. Her credentials were as impeccable as she was beautiful. She’d served
many prominent British households and had a fat sheaf of references. In reality,
she was lazy and quite imperious, making the poor, pimply adolescent second
maid do all her work while she visited with a continuous stream of male
“cousins” who showed up at the house whenever Lucky’s mother and father weren’t
home. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Beautiful as she was, Lucky never cared for her, much less
trusted her. He had a definite Cypriot street-wise sense that this woman was
after the main chance, no matter who got in her way. The distrust was mutual,
because Leda made it known from the outset that she thought Lucky was a callow
youth, whose presence she found objectionable. This lasted until Lucky’s
fourteenth birthday. He invited a few friends to a small, rooftop party.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alas, Lucky was strapped for female companionship. Athena
was forbidden to him and Donna was in Istanbul and not expected before
Christmas. He asked a pretty blonde – Carolyn – the daughter of one of his
mother’s friends. He also asked the Digby brothers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The moment Tom Digby showed up, Leda became a different
woman. Lucky was behind her when she opened the door. Coldly she passed young
Keith through, then the tall figure of Tom appeared. Her eyes widened when she
saw him – he was pale with shockingly black hair, features as sharply defined
as a Greek statue. Lucky didn’t see it that way at the time, but his date,
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Don’t be thick,” Carolyn said. “Did you see how your maid
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just after Thanksgiving, Tom and his father had a bitter
fight. Keith told Lucky they nearly came to blows and his mother was frantic
that something terrible was going to happen. The quarrel was over Tom’s future.
Evidently, his relationship with the shop girl had cooled and now he wanted to
return to school. His father, however, saw the whole incident as proof of that
he was still a child. He wanted Tom to get some “seasoning” in the army, so he
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Finally, Mrs. Digby called Lucky’s mother and begged her to let Tom stay with
them until things cooled off. Apparently she had money of her own and was going
to take the daring step of paying for Tom’s school and she needed time to break
it to her husband. And so Tom Digby came to live with them, to the huge delight
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Where she had been lazy before, pushing the work on the
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her into Tom’s presence. The clothes, which Helen had complained were getting
drab from poor washing, were suddenly sparkling now that Tom’s possessions were
mixed in. And she sang wherever she went, the radio turned to romantic Greek
ballads. Even more significant – her male “cousins” stopped coming around.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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where there was a large hole in Lucky’s life that his village friends and Jim
had filled. At eighteen, Tom also had a driver’s license and whenever he could
borrow the family car Lucky would play guide, showing him many of the places
he’d visited with Jim. A week or so before Tom won his skirmish with Mr. Digby
and returned to college, Lucky asked him why he was so opposed to the army.
Lucky knew that eventually Tom would have to perform his National Service, just
like Lucky would one day face the draft. This was an eventuality that most boys
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Oh, I don’t mind as much as I much as I say,” Tom answered
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You heard about those lads up in Paphos that got shot up,
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“That was your-“ He broke off. This was not something that
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Tom blew in like
the wild wind, as handsome, smart and full of fun as advertised. Ya-yah’s maids
practically swooned when they were presented to him. He had a bright smile, a
dashing forelock curl gone astray and a boyish way of flirting that won their hearts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Digby’s
grandmother pinched Tom’s cheeks wagged her finger at him, warning him that
these were good girls whose hearts were not to be trifled with, but everyone
knew she was butter in Tom’s hands and would forgive him anything. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He was just so damned
nice, Lucky decided. Central Casting’s ideal to star in one of the old “boy’s
own” stories, like R.M. Ballantyne’s
“The Coral Island.” He proved this when he responded to an invitation to
his old alma mater, Terra Santa, where he was a legendary athlete and scholar.
During his visit the monks, teachers and boys swarmed around him, begging his
attention. He gave a short, but well thought out speech before a general
assembly, topped off by a spirited soccer match with Tom leading the younger
lads against the upper forms in what turned out to be an astounding 3-2 rout of
the seniors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">At home,
however, it was clear that Tom’s father was envious of his oldest son, but
proud of him at the same time. He sang his praises to visitors, but made biting
remarks to his son in private. The tension quickly built in a way with which
Lucky was thoroughly familiar. The pressure was building in his own home - for
some reason his father had started picking fights even when sober. One of his
father’s favorite topics of late was that Lucky didn’t know what hardship was,
that he didn’t appreciate what men like him had suffered and sacrificed in
WWII. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky coaxed his
mother into inviting the Digby family to dinner, thinking such a gathering
might ease the tension on both households. Everyone attended, save Ya-yah who
was at an age where she didn’t like to leave her kitchen kingdom. Lucky’s
parents and the Digby’s hit it off famously. Helen and Mrs. Digby were soon
chatting up a storm, while the two men quickly got down to telling amusing
stories of the war. Tom, Keith and Lucky, meanwhile, made themselves scarce the
minute dinner was over and strolled down the hill to the taverna, where they
enjoyed a little retsina and the local trio that was playing dance music.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Tom was an
immediate hit with the women. He was not only handsome, but part Greek, so he
was swept up into the fun, dancing with one girl after another. Keith was
immediately taken tipsy and started a deep conversation with an old man who was
smoking a pipe and drinking all the retsina Keith would feed him, in turn
nodding wisely and trying to stay awake. Lucky danced a bit, but as he headed
back to the table to see if Keith was okay, a shadowy figure at the edge of the
dance floor gestured to him. It was Sandros.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Happy to see his
friend after such a long time, Lucky veered in his direction, a big smile
painted on his face. Sandros put a finger to his lips and Lucky nodded in
understanding. Sandros didn’t want to be seen. He’d probably messed with the
police chief’s car again. Sandros drew Lucky behind a tree that was thick
enough to shield them from general view.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Sandros, my
friend,” Lucky exclaimed in Greek. “How goes the revolution?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">This was how
they usually greeted one another and both would laugh and make jokes about the
Turks and the English and other enemies of Enosis. But Lucky had barely gotten
the words out of his mouth when he saw that Sandros had a look of cold fury.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“You brought the
English here!” he accused.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky was
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sandros snorted.
“Are you saying my eyes are lying to me.” He pointed first at Keith at the
table, mumbling to the old man, then to Tom who was engaged in a kind of Greek
conga line. “Who are they?” he demanded. “They’re certainly not Greek.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky was
furious. “First of all, it is of no business of yours who I bring to this
taverna,” he said. “Secondly, as it happens, they are Greek.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sandros’ eyes
narrowed at the first part of Lucky’s speech – the part about it being none of
his business. But he was taken aback by the claim that Tom and Keith were
Greek. Then doubt vanished and he struck back. “Don’t lie,” he said, his eyes
glittering. “I can smell an Englishman for a mile.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky was so mad
that he nearly grabbed Sandros by the collar to shake him, then remembered that
Sandros would very likely react by sticking him with a switchblade. Even so, he
wasn’t about to put up with this. He wanted to tell Sandros that he was
smelling his own shitty behind, but that would only inflame the situation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Their mother is
Greek,” he said, voice shaking with emotion. He ached to punch Sandros – one of
his very best friends – right in the nose. Instead he kept control, saying,
“Not only is she Greek, but she is a Greek princess.” Then his best intentions
went out the window and he lost it. “So, go to bloody hell, Sandros,” he
gritted. “And don’t you ever call me a liar again or I’ll rip your Communist
head off and feed it to some Capitalist pigs.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He had no idea
where that analogy came from. But, for a moment Sandros looked bewildered, as
if wondering if Lucky really could do such a thing. He lifted a hand, nearly
touching his throat. Then snatched it back, all anger again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“What of their
father?” Sandros demanded.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky felt
weaker. He almost admitted that their father was English. Then he took a
different tack. “He’s Welsh,” he lied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sandros sneered.
“Welsh, English – what’s the difference?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky managed
his own sneer. “No they’re not,” he said. “It’s a well-known fact that the
Welsh hate the English. If you had paid attention in school, you would have
learned that the Welsh were never defeated by the English. They retreated
across the swamps and the English soldiers drowned in the muck.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sandros’
eyebrows rose. “The swamp thing is a good trick,” he grudgingly admitted. He
turned to go, then said, “You threatened me. I didn’t like it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I didn’t like
being called a liar,” Lucky said. Then added, “So we’re even, right?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sandros stared
at Lucky a moment. “We’ll see,” he said and vanished into the night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky was
rattled by the incident. He’d lost a friend in the blink of an angry eye and,
he supposed, it was just as much his fault as Sandros’. After all, the English
had not only been discouraging the independence movement of late, but they’d
been actively stirring up the Turks – going so far as to support them against
Mother Greece in the U.N. The whole thing seemed so stupid to Lucky – but what
did he know? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He was only a
boy in his teens. But if anyone would take a minute to listen, he’d tell them
that the Cypriots were the best friends Britain could ever have. A little
appeasement, in this instance, would go a long, long way. Like the American
Colonies. If the English had listened to Ben Franklin – a Royalist, until
forced by events and natural courage to stride to the other side – they would
have treated the colonists more like citizens, which they were, than barbarian
subjects, which they were most definitely not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He said nothing
about the encounter to his friends, but after a suitable interval – if Sandros
was watching he didn’t want him to think that Lucky was afraid – he said they
ought to be getting home. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky was
cautious as they went up the hill, feet crunching on the gravel road. He looked
left to right and even leaned down to tie a shoe so he could get a glance
behind them. He saw no one. But he had the definite feeling they were being
watched. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">And then he
heard a jazzy, tenor voice, accompanied by a hot ukulele, burst out of the
night:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<pre style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“…Where did Robinson Crusoe go<o:p></o:p></span></i></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">With Friday on Saturday night?<o:p></o:p></span></i></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Every Saturday night<o:p></o:p></span></i></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">They would start in to roam…”<o:p></o:p></span></i></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></i></pre>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Keith laughed.
“That’s father. Takes his uke with him everywhere. Sounds like he’s in a good
mood, too.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Keith’s father
continued singing:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<pre style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“…And on Sunday morning<o:p></o:p></span></i></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">They'd come staggering home...”<o:p></o:p></span></i></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></i></pre>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Tom said, “Let’s
hope it stays that way.” He squared his shoulders and pushed ahead of Lucky to
enter the house first. In the main living room, a cheery fire was burning in
the hearth against the early November chill. Lucky’s mother and father and Mrs.
Digby were gathered around Mr. Digby as he strummed his ukulele. And they all
joined in the chorus as his voice lifted in an Eddie Cantor wail to sing:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<pre style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“…Where did Robinson Crusoe go?<o:p></o:p></span></i></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I won’t tell…<o:p></o:p></span></i></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Where did Robin go-ho!”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Everyone
laughed, applauding with great enthusiasm. Mr. Digby’s face was flushed with
pleasure and drink. As was Lucky’s dad. Obviously, the two men had really hit
it off. Lucky’s mom and Mrs. Digby were sitting side-by-side as thick as
thieves. It made Lucky glad to his see mother in such high spirits. At the same
time, he studied his father carefully, to see just how far he had gone into the
cycle. He glanced at Tom and Keith and realized with a start that they were
studying their father in the same way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky and his
chums settled down as Mr. Digby sang on: “Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula,” “Somebody
Stole My Gal,” and finally, his personal favorite – “I Wish That I Had Been
Born in Borneo.” Which went something like this:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<pre style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I wish that I'd been born in Borneo…<o:p></o:p></span></i></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">…Say, can you picture me<o:p></o:p></span></i></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Beneath a pepper tree?<o:p></o:p></span></i></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I'd be so peppery<o:p></o:p></span></i></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Among those wild women!<o:p></o:p></span></i></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">There's very little clothing worn-e-o<o:p></o:p></span></i></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">And no tight shoes to hurt your corn-e-o...”<o:p></o:p></span></i></pre>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">While Mr. Digby
performed, Lucky found himself staring at his ukulele. It had an odd, slightly
ungainly look and was round, rather than being shaped like the usual figure
eight. At one point Keith leaned over and whispered to Lucky, “He carved it in
prison camp.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">With a start
Lucky realized that it was just so – a hand-carved instrument with knife marks
clearly shown. Also there were dark squiggles all over the wood – especially
noticeable when Mr. Digby rapped his knuckles or thumped his fingers on the
surface. Once he flipped the uke over on his lap and played the back like a
bongo drum and Lucky could see that the whole backside was filled with similar
squiggles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">After the
impromptu session was over and everyone had fussed over Mr. Digby and
replenished his drink, he turned to Lucky. “I noticed you were looking at my
ukulele,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Surprised at being
addressed by a man who had thus far coldly ignored his presence, Lucky was at
first taken aback. He blushed, feeling foolish. “I… uh… Digs… I mean Keith…
said you made it,” he finally got out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Mr. Digby
nodded. “In the camp,” he said. He stretched a long arm out, offering the
ukulele to Lucky. “Take a look what’s on it,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Reluctantly,
Lucky accepted the instrument, handling it gingerly as if it were the most
delicate china. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“It won’t break,
lad,” Mr. Digby said. “Bang away all you like.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">With a start
Lucky realized the ukulele was incredibly sturdy – almost like a solid block of
wood. Yet, when it bumped against his knee the strings rang and the box hummed
with their sound for a very long time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Carved it from
one piece of wood,” Mr. Digby said proudly. “Had to do it that way. Couldn’t
get any decent glue in that damned camp.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky ran his
hands along the frets. Then he noticed they went completely around the neck.
“What are the frets made of?” he asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Rat hide,” Mr.
Digby said with a grin. “Tie it on when its green and let it dry and it sets up
like iron.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky stomach
roiled at the thought, but when he examined the frets he could see that the
greenish-black material was as solid as anyone could wish for. Now he started
studying the squiggles. To his surprise he saw that they were all short-handed
names and ranks: Flt Lt Tm Jns… Cpt R Prce… Sgt H G Applby… The names
completely covered the back, the neck, the sides and then the front.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky looked up
at Mr. Digby. “Your men?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Mr. Digby nodded.
“I was second in command,” he said. “It was my duty to keep a roster of the
dead.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky was
stunned. He looked at all the names again. Turned the ukulele around and
around. “All dead?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Mr. Digby only
nodded, then held out a hand. Lucky returned the instrument. Mr. Digby gave the
uke a mighty strum. He put his ear next to the instrument, closing his eyes,
listening to the reverberations. Then he lifted the uke over his head and shook
it. Lucky heard something bang against the sides. Mr. Digby looked straight at
Lucky, smiling an odd smile. And, holding the ukulele over his head and upside
down, he squeezed fingers beneath the strings. A moment later he withdrew a
tube of paper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky leaned
forward, feeling almost mesmerized. He heard Keith sigh and Tom snort in
derision. Obviously, they’d seen and heard all of this many times before. Mr.
Digby shucked a paper band from the tube, then slowly unrolled a long scroll
covered with images that Lucky couldn’t quite make out at first. He leaned in
and saw sketched figures of men, some mutilated, all in rags, walking along a
trail. The sketches at the beginning of the scroll were in pencil, with foliage
shaded in the background that was clearly tropical.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“That was the
first march,” Mr. Digby said. “When I still had a pencil.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky moved in
closer, as did his mother and father. Lucky half-noticed, however, that the
rest of the family moved away – however slightly. Mrs. Digby squeezed into a
corner of the couch. Keith and Tom, who were on the rug, scooted closer to the
fire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Here, let me
show you in order,” Mr. Digby said, rolling the paper up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Then he started
unrolling it again, slowly revealing four years of horror captured by whatever
drawing materials that had been available to him at the time. As he’d said at
the beginning, the first pictures were in pencil. These were instantly and
graphically horrifying. Lines of crippled and wounded men marching – bodies
quick sketched in, but many of the faces carefully drawn. “I filled in the
faces later, so our people would know who they were,” Mr. Digby said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The march was
followed by sketches of men stretched out on the road, being bayoneted by
Japanese soldiers. “Those poor sods were the ones who became ill,” Mr. Digby
said in an odd almost disinterested tone. “Anyone who fell was killed. Usually
the soldiers had to stick them several times before they died. They didn’t
shoot them, because they didn’t want to waste bullets.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Following were
drawings that were smeared and not so finely drawn as the first. These showed a
man being beheaded – head flying off, frozen in space, black liquid spurting
from the neck, the body caught just as it was falling over. “I sold my pencil
to a Japanese private who wanted to write home to his girlfriend,” Mr. Digby
said. “So those were done with my finger and the black grease from the bottom
of a cooking pot.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The tale went
on, one horror piled on the next. The scroll was constructed of many things:
regular army writing paper; super thin airmail paper Mr. Digby had traded
cigarettes for; toilet paper; rice paper; and even glued together strips of
pounded bark. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">It was a strange
kind of a book without words that Mr. Digby had created that showed four years
of the most inhumane treatment and tormented human conditions imaginable. There
were pictures of skeletal creatures with bony arms and legs and huge skulls
waiting in a painful line before a hut, marked with a crude “infirmary” sign.
There were pictures of executions: A man being garroted by a Japanese guard,
both their faces twisted in agony – one fighting death, the other causing it; a
Japanese officer standing behind a kneeling man and shooting him in the back of
the head – brains and blood shattering out; sick and starving men squatting
over privy holes in the throes of dysentery; skeletal men fighting, striking
out with feeble arms, as Japanese guards cheered them on with their bayonets,
while others gambled on the outcome.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Mr. Digby came
to the end. Here, the material was thicker and more textured than the rest. “At
this point I was making my own paper, by weaving strips of bamboo together and
pounding the bloody hell out of it,” he
said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky’s father
laughed, but in sympathy. Mr. Digby gave him a look of appreciation that said,
“I knew you’d understand.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The rest were
quiet. The Digby family had all heard this before, but Lucky could see on the
faces of the man’s sons that they were still
very much affected. And Mrs. Digby’s dark eyes were so liquid, that
small tears spilled over. There was no doubt that Mr. Digby had suffered more
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of storm, but for a change instead of demanding the family’s presence while he
railed on about the indignities of the world, he sat alone by the fire,
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logic, Lucky felt betrayed by Jim's announcement that the fiery politics of Enosis had made it too dangerous for him to continue as his teacher. The boy felt he had abandoned by the only adult he had trusted since
his father had destroyed all trust when he returned from the war.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">In a way, this
was a good thing. Instead of sinking into sulky rebellion, Lucky took an “I’ll
show them,” attitude and attacked his new school with a will to succeed. It was
a Catholic school – Terra Santa – and offered grades one through the equivalent
of 12<sup>th</sup> grade in America. Founded in 670 AD, Terra Santa was the oldest school in Cyprus. Like the British academy, each class was
taught by a different teacher and the teachers changed classrooms, rather than
the students. Unlike the British school – but very much like American Catholic
schools – it offered an excellent, and even advanced education, aimed at the
finest universities in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky spent the
remainder of 1953 and a good portion of 1954 getting settled into Terra Santa.
His marks from Jim were confirmed by the American Scholastic Society, as were
his grade promotions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Back in the
U.S., it was a very strange year. There were continued reports of sighting of
UFO’s – flying saucers. Lucky was briefly enamored with them, because as the
son of an agent it was obvious to him that the government routinely covered up
anything it had a vague notion ought not to be let out. He was also convinced
there was life on other planets – why should Earth be the only inhabited one in
the Universe, etc. etc?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">The CIA chess
club agreed that alien life most probably existed. But none of them thought
they’d want to visit Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“We’re at the
butt end of the galaxy,” Joe Davis said. “Why’d they want to visit us? Shoot,
we’re probably the most backward folks in all Creation.” As for the sightings,
Joe said, “Sheriff back at home’s always seein’ things. Chases will-o-the-wisps
all over the prairie. Near as we can tell he’s been drunk so long he’s in a
permanent state of the DT’s. I expect that’s what’s happenin’ in those other
places. Bored cops drinkin’ on the job.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sen. McCarthy was
also still big at home. He staged hearings, accusing more citizens of being
Communists, but as the year progressed people started getting the nerve up to
accuse him of grandstanding – and worse. Even so, nobody would discuss the man
in the chess club. Like Joe Davis said, “Some new guy’s gonna get mad at me for
pulling a fool’s mate on him and he’ll turn me into Senator Joe.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Some Puerto
Rican nationalists shot five congressmen on the floor of Congress, sending
everybody into a tizzy about terrorists at home. The Supreme Court ordered
schools to be desegregated, which some predicted would bring a similar violent attack
on the Court by the KKK. Lucky’s father was ecstatic over the launching of the
world’s first nuclear submarine, christened the Nautilus after Captain Nemo’s
sub in the Jules Verne story, “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">One of Lucky’s
favorite happenings – second only to the Supreme Court ruling – was that
Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize. He felt almost as if he’d won it
himself. He got all of Hemingway’s books out of the library and read them end
to end. Yes, this was writing. This was English as pure as it could be. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Terra Santa,
understandably, was not as excited as Lucky about all those events. He was,
after all, the only American on campus, which proved no trouble at all for the
student body of Terra Santa was incredibly diverse. There were British
Catholics, a few Canadians, Armenians, Coptic Christians, Lebanese Christian,
Polish and German Catholic and even a few kids from the Ukrainian and Russian
Orthodox churches. Apparently there was an agreement worked out with the
Vatican that children from Catholic-related churches could attend schools like
Terra Santa if there were none available in their own faith. In return,
Catholic children could attend similar schools in other lands if the same
conditions applied. At the bottom of the agreement was that while the students
would get a Christian education and be welcome at mass and for communion, Roman
Catholic doctrine would not be forced upon them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">The school was
run by a very severe, very old order of teaching priests. They looked a lot
like Greek Orthodox prelates – with long beards, black robes and high hats.
During Mass, however, they wore the same colorful vestments as every other
Roman Catholic priest, and the Mass, and various other sacraments, were
identically administered. Most of the teachers were laymen and women and all
were well qualified for their positions. Some were retired professors, adding
to their pensions while living inexpensively in the warm climes of Cyprus.
Others were the wives of diplomats with advanced degrees from their native
countries. About a third of the students were boarders, who saw their wealthy
parents only on holidays – if at all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">School was 7:30
a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, except for Wednesday, which was a half
day, as was Saturday. Lucky’s curriculum was as follows: Languages: English,
French and Latin; Math: Algebra; Social Studies: World history and political
Geography; Philosophy: comparative religions and logic. PE was also required,
and although the school had no gymnasium or much in the way athletic equipment,
they had a young Italian athlete to oversee their physical health. An injured
soccer star, and favorite of some of the sports-minded monks – he was being
subsidized in his efforts to recover from his injuries and rejoin the Italian
team.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">The school was a
partially converted monastery of significant age, with a few newer structures
added – including a Quonset hut donated by the British Army Chaplain Fund that
provided a cafeteria; and some stables that had been turned into additional
classrooms. In Lucky’s mind one of the most amazing things about the school was
that the playing field was on top of the walls of Nicosia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Terra Santa was
nestled against one of the widest sections of the city’s ancient defenses.
There was literally enough room for a full soccer field. Immense cannons, built
during the age when the Venetians ruled Cyprus, marked the opposite goal lines.
The only trouble was, a bad kick could send the ball flying over the wall.
Which meant somebody had to run down a long flight of stone stairs, while
people above kept their eyes on the ball’s flight. Then they’d direct the
retriever with shouts, until he finally found the ball. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">But soccer,
oddly enough, wasn’t the favorite game. Oddly enough. A game called “Red Rover” was wildly popular. The idea was that one guy – the Hero - would stand
in the middle of a marked out field, with a safety line at his back. Facing
him, would be the entire class - which could be up to fifty boys. The hero
would shout “Red Rover, Red Rover, won’t you come over,” and all the boys would
race for the safety area. The hero’s job was to tackle as many boys from the opposing side as
he could – making them his allies against the others. Red Rover tactics called for capturing smaller boys first, then ganging up to overcome the larger lads.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">At Terra Santa the last boy to be challenged in any game of Red Rover was a huge Armenian
youth, named Boghos. He was about seventeen, with a small mustache atop a 280
pound body. Boghos was fat, to be sure, but also enormously strong and
surprisingly fast on his feet. So, if the lots declared that he was to be the lone
hero facing the multitude, he’d go after the biggest kids first and quickly win
the game. But if he were one of the running multitude, he’d go back and forth,
resisting all efforts to lift him. Until every last boy had been captured, then
it would take all their combined strength to corral him, then pick him up off
the ground.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">For a time,
Lucky thought Boghos was mentally slow. Well, to be cruel – nothing but a big
fat, stupid ox. For most of his studies, such as languages, history,
philosophy, he’d been held back to the lower levels where he was this enormous
hulk amongst kids who had cookies and milk for a break and still took naps.
But, then Lucky learned the Armenian boy was taking advanced classes in science
and mathematics, including physics and chemistry. Apparently, he was a near
genius in those subjects and much prized by his professors. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">One day his poor
opinion of the Armenian boy was turned upside down. Lucky usually ate lunch off
campus at one of the cafes, or tavernas. His favorite place was the same café
he’d taken Donna to – the one overlooking Metaxa Square. Here he could have an
American style bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich, a cold glass of pasteurized
milk, and a small Greek salad of tomatoes and cucumbers and olives. Before he returned
to school, he always downed the thickest, strongest cup of Greek coffee the
café had to offer – and then he’d charge through his afternoon classes
non-stop. On this particular day, however, Lucky needed school supplies, so he headed
for a newsstand that sold such things, along with the usual fare - newspapers,
magazines, tobacco, condoms and French postcards. After the newsstand, Lucky
figured he’d make lunch off a shish-ka-bob cart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">He encountered
the huge figure of Boghos at the stand, arguing heatedly with the old Turk who
operated it. Boghos was grumbling - in that low tractor-pulling growl he had
when he was angry – that the “Turk bastard” was cheating him. All this was in
English. The Turk, meanwhile, was calling Boghos a lot filthy names in both
Turkish and Greek. Boghos, it soon became obvious, spoke neither language and
was trying to make himself understood in his accented English, with Armenian
and French words thrown in. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky knew for a
fact that the Turk understood English well enough and was hiding behind a false
language barrier. In other words, he was guilty of Boghos’ charges – no doubt
about it. Lucky strolled easily up to the stand. Pretending to ignore the
donnybrook, he picked out more than he intended to purchase and added some
magazines and other things to the stack, to make the sale potentially sizeable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">It was then that
he allowed himself to notice Boghos – and the argument. “Hey, Boghos,” he said
in English. “What’s happening here? Anything I can help with?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">As Boghos turned
and slowly recorded his presence, Lucky switched to Greek and told the newsstand
operator, “Mr. Abaz, let me help you. This boy’s father is a very important
diplomat and could make trouble.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Boghos replied,
“Turkish bastard takes Boghos’s money. Won’t give change.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Mr. Abaz said,
“This fat bastard lies through his Armenian teeth. He claims I gave him the
wrong change. Bah! In thirty years, I have never given wrong change.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Now Lucky knew
what the problem was.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“What he says?”
demanded Boghos, looming over Lucky. He had a way of trying to intimidate
people, although Lucky had realized some time ago that Boghos was no bully. He
was just a big, slow man, in a world of fast little people and sometimes he
became frustrated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“It’s not a big
thing,” Lucky said. “Mr. Abaz, here, says he gave you the correct change and,
obviously, you disagree.” He looked pointedly up and down the street,
indicating that many curious eyes were on them. “How can we settle this without
the police?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">While Boghos was
frowning at this, Lucky turned his attention on the newsstand operator. “You
heard what I said about the police?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Abaz grinned. In
a police encounter a Turkish cop would always back him against an Armenian kid.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky said, “You
are probably not in trouble – unless you sold him some of those French
postcards you keep under the counter. Then he can accuse you of selling such
things to a mere boy. He’s underage, you know.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Abaz’s grin
turned to a look of horror. While he was thinking about it, Lucky turned back
to Boghos, who had come to some sort of a decision.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I know he
cheat,” the huge lad said. “He think Boghos stupid. Maybe so. But not with
numbers. Boghos never stupid with numbers. Make him give me my money, Lucky.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky nodded and
switched to Abaz. “He’s willing to forget the whole thing,” he said, “if you’ll
only give him what he believes is his correct change.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Abaz wanted to
protest, but Lucky displayed his purchases. “For the sake of peace,” he said,
“you can cheat me a little bit with these.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Abaz hesitated,
then jerked out his cash drawer, withdrew some coins and counted them
one-by-one into Boghos’ hand. The two glared at one another while this was
going on. When they were done, Lucky quickly tossed a bill on the counter that
more than paid for his purchases – and grabbed Boghos’ elbow and hauled him
away before he could let loose the anger he obviously still felt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">He gruffly
thanked Lucky, then marched on – in no seeming direction. Boghos was too
furious to set a course. Instead, he lumbered along, muttering what Lucky
thought must be Armenian curses under his breath. Lucky tactfully drew him into
a little sidewalk café, where he could eat lunch and calm down before they had
to return to school. Boghos insisted on paying as a thank you and ordered up a
huge platter of goat shish-ka-bob and vegetables and rice. He inhaled half the
plate, before Lucky had barely started, then settled down, to drink a cola and
scoop of swaths of humus on slabs of bread.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Fucking Turks,”
he said, getting the lunchtime conversation started. “Always fuck the Armenian.
Every chance, fuck the Armenian.” He thumped his chest. “Well, I say, fuck Turk
back.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky tried a
little diplomacy. “Sure, some Turks are bad,” he said, “but this guy is just
trying to feed his family. He doesn’t mean anything. Everybody in the whole
Middle East short changes people. Why pick on him?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Boghos banged
the table with a massive fist. “He is Turkish shit, is why,” he said. “We know
each other. He hate me. I hate him. Boghos hate all Turks. I study math, I
study science - soon I learn how to
build big bombs and big rockets to deliver them. And I, Boghos, will kill them
all.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky was
aghast. “That’s awful, Boghos,” he said. “How can you think that way?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Boghos shrugged.
“I have duty,” he said. “The Turks killed my family, the families of my
friends, and the families of my friends’ friends. It was a massacre – like
Hitler with the Jews. The Turks tried wipe all the Armenians from the face of
the Earth. So, I will learn to make missiles. And I will learn to make bombs.
And when I am a man, I shall kill all the Turks I can manage.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">He said all this
while wolfing down all the humus and bread and swallowing three bottles of
soda. Then, over a platter of honeyed fruits and pastries, Boghos gave Lucky a
short history of what he said was the Turkish massacre of the Armenians.
Between the 1890’s into the 1920’s, he claimed, the Turks had conspired to kill
tens of thousands of Armenians. The land of Armenia itself was emptied out:
everyone who stayed was killed and the survivors fled in terror to the ends of
the earth. Their leaders, Boghos said, were stalked for decades by Turkish
assassins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Later, Lucky
checked Boghos’ story and learned that it was all pretty much the truth, with a
slight exaggeration here and there – but nothing that would in any way lessen
the horror. Lucky wondered if that would be the eventual fate of the Greek
Cypriots if they lost their battle for Enosis. A small part of him grew to
understand the fanaticism of the people who opposed Jim. It wasn’t that
different from his own people – the Irish who were victimized by the English. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">But that was a
lesson from real life. Meanwhile there were the musty, dusty lessons of the
academic world to be mastered. To Lucky’s delight, after his concentrated
one-on-one education with Jim, the school work was not so hard as it first
appeared. He took to the new school with ease. After a time, he found himself
enjoying the company of his classmates – something he missed when he was with
Jim. There was a social world to be mastered, as well as an academic one, he
realized.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">He even became a
close friend of a classmate – something that hadn’t happened to Lucky since he
left the States and became a school gypsy. The boy’s name was Keith Digby. His
father was a British diplomat, his mother minor Greek royalty and a great
beauty in her day. Keith was an exceptionally smart young man, a little shy,
but in Lucky’s view a holder of secrets. He guessed – correctly as it turned
out – that Digby’s father was British Intelligence. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Digby was
anxious to introduce Lucky to his mother and she was, indeed, as beautiful as
advertised. Her features were classic Greek – porcelain skin, dark hair and
flashing eyes and a figure a sculptor would sacrifice his soul to capture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">When they met,
she sat in a boudoir decorated with Greek antiquities and she looked like
drawings Lucky had seen of graceful young matrons in classical times. She
greeted Lucky warmly and made him feel that she was supremely happy that he was
her youngest son’s best friend. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Then Digby’s father
entered and the atmosphere changed. A tall, cold, blonde man with a military
brush mustache and a faint scar that ran from crown to chin, he barely took
note of Lucky. Gave him a brusque handshake when introduced, then immediately
broke away to give his wife orders about an upcoming social gathering at their
house.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">The way the
woman gulped and nodded as he spoke – along with occasional signs of quickly
suppressed rebellion – Lucky knew that she was struggling under the same harsh
burdens as his own mother.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">He said, “I
haven’t met your grandmother, Digs.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Digby gladly led
him out of the room, through the house and down into a basement kitchen very
much like the one at Lucky’s house. Except, here, the basement kitchen was the
main kitchen. All the stoves were fired up, pots were boiling, giving off
delicious odors, and two maids were operating spits of meat in a huge,
old-fashioned kitchen fireplace. Commanding the kitchen was a formidable old
Greek woman in widow’s black. Her eyes were stern as she watched the maids and
her strong, wrinkled hands were busy shelling peas into a large bowl of fired
clay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">When she saw
Digby, however, all the sternness vanished and she gave a glad cry, pushed the
bowl away, and held out her arms. She clasped the boy to her immense bosom and
rocked him back and forth like a child. Obviously, this was Digby’s ya-yah –
his grandmother. Then she saw Lucky and pushed her grandson away, scolding him
– but teasingly – for not introducing his friend first.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“This is
American friend, yes?” she asked in English, looking Lucky up and down with
critical eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Digby replied in
Greek, that yes, Ya-yah, this is my friend Lucky and he’s an American.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I’m pleased to
meet you, Ya-yah,” Lucky said in Greek – to the woman’s huge delight. “Keith
speaks of you all the time.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">The old woman
practically adopted Lucky on the spot. Such a nice boy, who could speak Greek,
no less, even if it was with a Cypriot accent. Immediately, she made the boys
sit at the table and imperiously ordered the young maids to bring them
refreshments. The girls giggled at Lucky when they served him little cakes and
cups of sweet, thick coffee and the old woman barked at them for being hussies,
although she did it with a smile twitching her lips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">She wagged a
finger at Lucky. “If you should come to visit me and I’m not here, be careful
of these girls, or they’ll get you into the pantry and who knows what could
happen.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky was rather
intrigued at this prospect, but he promised Ya-yah that he would take a care.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">After Digby
filled his grandmother in on school gossip, she said, “Your brother, Tom, is
coming from England.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Her words were
spoken gravely and Lucky was surprised to see sudden moisture in her eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Digby squirmed
in his seat. Looking down at the table, he said, “Mother didn’t tell me. When’s
he expected?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“The Saturday
after next,” the old woman replied. She reached over and covered Digby’s hand
with her own. “Try not to upset your father,” she said. “We need to keep him
calm, yes?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Digby nodded,
then abruptly got up. “Let me show you our chestnut tree, Lucky,” he said. “I
promised I would.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">He’d promised
nothing of the kind – Lucky didn’t know – or care – about chestnut trees. But
he took the hint and got up. “That’s great, Digs,” he said in English, trying
to sound enthusiastic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">They made their
goodbyes to Ya-yah and hurried from the kitchen. Once outside Digby led Lucky
to the back of the sprawling house, which was half-again as large as Lucky’s. A
tree, that Lucky guessed was a chestnut, sat on the edge of the property. There
were woods beyond. To Lucky’s surprise, Digby pushed past the tree, then shoved
aside some bushes, revealing an irrigation ditch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Come on,” he
said and he jumped into the ditch and scrambled up the other side.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky followed,
hopping over the stream of water running down the middle. Digby sat on the
bank, tossing stones into the water. Lucky sat beside him, gathered a few
pebbles of his own and started throwing. He didn’t say anything. His friend was
clearly troubled and he was sure he’d tell him soon enough.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“My brother Tom’s
a smashing bloke,” Keith finally said. “A great fellow. Everyone likes him.
He’s good at school. Fabulous a sports. He’s tall like my father, dark like my
mother and the girls can’t get enough of him.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I see,” Lucky
said – not seeing at all. Was this a case of brotherly jealousy?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“He’s eighteen,
you know,” Digby went on. “Been away to school in England.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I guessed
that,” Lucky said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Another long
pause, accompanied by another stoning of the ditch water. Then: “He and my
father can’t stand one another. There’s always a row when Tom’s around. And
this time I’m afraid there might be fisticuffs.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Why is Tom
coming home, then?” Lucky asked. “Wouldn’t it be better if he stayed at
school.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Digby hesitated,
then asked, “You won’t tell?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I never tell,”
Lucky replied – and this was certainly more true than his friend would ever
know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Tom fallen for
a girl and he wants to marry her,” Digby said. “Dad says he’s too young. Which
is true, I suppose. But that’s not the worst part.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Suddenly Lucky
understood – it was the British class system. “She’s a bar maid or a shop girl,
right?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Digby nodded.
“Shop girl. The thing is, my father wants Tom to marry royalty like he did. My
mom’s one of King Constantine’s nieces. A countess or a princess… I can never
figure which. She’s also a cousin of Prince Philip.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“You mean, like
the Prince Philip who is Queen Elizabeth’s husband?” Lucky asked, all agog. He
couldn’t help it. This was getting interesting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“The very one,”
Digby said. “Anyway, Father’s ordered Tom home. Either Tom obeys, or he’s going
to cut off the college trust fund my grandfather set up for him.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky raised an
eyebrow – now there were trust funds involved. Digby explained the trust was
administered by his father until Tom was twenty five, so he could cut him off
without a cent at any time. Meanwhile, Tom had been ordered to Cyprus to have
it out with his father.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky shrugged.
“That’s too bad, but from what little you’ve told me about your brother he’ll
just tell your father to go to hell and do things his own way.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“It’s not so
simple,” Digby said. He hesitated a long, long time, then finally said – nearly
in tears – “My father… He’ll take it out on our mother.” Another long pause and
a big gulp. Averting his eyes, he said, “My father’s kind of crazy sometimes.
He… well, he… bloody hell. You know what I mean by crazy, don’t you?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky said, “The
war, right?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Digby nodded.
“He was in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Malaysia for four years,” he
said. “It was really awful. He weighed all of ninety pounds when he got out –
and he’s over six foot. You should see the scars on his body. And he still has
all kinds of jungle diseases – malaria is the least of them. So, you know, he’s
got a reason for being crazy. Anybody would, right?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Sure,” Lucky
agreed. “Anybody would.” He skipped stones, then asked, “What are you going to
do?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Tom can take
care of himself,” Digby said. “He’s as strong as my father now.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky nodded.
“Okay.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“But then my dad
gets mad because he can’t beat Tom, so he goes after my mother.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky sighed. “I
know,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I won’t let
him, this time,” Digby declared. “I swear I won’t.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I know,” Lucky
said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I can get a gun
– cheap, too,” Digby said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I know,” Lucky
replied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I’ll kill him.
If he hurts her again, I’ll kill him. I swear it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I know,” Lucky
said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">Digby wiped away
tears. Then he said, “Maybe I should wait for Tom to get home and ask him what
to do.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Good idea,”
Lucky said. He waited a minute, then added, “About the gun?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Yeah?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Ask Tom before
you buy it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11.0pt;">After a minute,
Digby nodded. “Okay,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">n early
September, Jim took Lucky on an extended weekend trip to see "the place
where the world ends."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Intrigued, Lucky
pressed Jim to explain, but no matter how many times he asked, Jim wouldn't
give him the smallest hint. The refusal fired Lucky's imagination even more and
he began to wonder what the ancients might have called "world's end."
He thought of beautiful Sirens trying to entice the cunning Odysseus to the
rocky shoals, or maybe it was the mountain that Sisyphus was eternally
climbing, pushing the great boulder that was the world before him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Of course, he
didn't really think Jim would introduce him to any Sirens, much less Sisyphus,
but in Cyprus you were very likely to get a damned good representation of them
- a beautiful woman who said she was descended from the Sirens; or a strong man
who claimed to be a descendant of one of Sisyphus' human sons. One would no
doubt do nothing more than sing and play the lyre, while the other would bend
iron nails between thumb and forefinger, rather than push a big rock. Even so,
the prospects were intriguing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">They traveled
with Jim's friend Kyriakos, who drove his faithful black Plymouth. They took a
bundle of old British Army blankets with them, because, Jim said, at one point
there would be nowhere to sleep but on sandy dunes by the sea. A jug of Cypriot
insect repellent was also stowed away with their gear – apparently the
mosquitoes and sand fleas were notorious in this section.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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destination was Cape Andreas, the eastern tip of the island. With many miles of
some roughest roads in Cyprus ahead of them, they took off Friday evening. They
spent the night just outside Larnaca with a stone cutter’s family – a relation
of Jim’s. They were poor people, with little to spare, but they immediately ran
to their cupboards to empty them for their guests. Jim had wisely stopped on
the way to fill a basket from the market in Larnaca, so he replaced much more
than they gave. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Poor as the
people were, the dinner was delicious – grape leaves stuffed with rice and
vegetables; a delicious tomato and green onion salad with fetah sprinkled
liberally on top; a huge bowl of lentils and wild greens picked from the field
adjacent to the stone quarry, with tomatoes chopped up in it; chicken and
dumpling stew with thick gravy; and finally, a big platter of pastries filled
with cheese and olives and spiced yogurt made from goat’s milk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky was
treated with elaborate courtesy – no one in the family had ever seen an
American before. The children were especially shy, hiding in the only other
room of the adobe cottage and peering at him from around corners with huge
black eyes. But he’d encountered this sort of thing before and had a few tricks
up his sleeve to relieve the tension. He whispered to Jim, who beamed and
clapped his hands and announced in Greek that “Mr. Lucky” was going to perform
a bit of magic. Everyone was intrigued. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky rolled up
his sleeves and bared his hands and arms for all to see. The children crept out
while he kept up a little patter he’d concocted. He’d worked the whole thing
out in Greek, had Jim correct his grammar, and then committed his little act to
memory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“A long time
ago,” he intoned, “my famous cousin, Hopalong Cassidy, rescued an Indian witch
doctor.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Everyone
murmured at this. Even in Cyprus, Hopalong Cassidy was known to one and all.
The children’s eyes grew huge when he invoked the legendary name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“In gratitude,
this old Indian wizard taught Hoppy the secret of controlling water. Like
Moses, he could command water to do his bidding. To rise, or to fall.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">During all this
Jim – ever the willing magician’s assistant – laid out Lucky’s props. A plate.
A candle. Some matches. And a glass of water. Lucky lit the candle, tipped it
down so wax spilled on the center of the plate, then fixed the candle into the
quickly cooling wax so that it would stand upright.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“It was my good
fortune,” Lucky said, “that Hopalong Cassidy is not only my cousin, but my
Godfather. And so, when I came of age, he showed me the witch doctor’s secret.
A secret I will demonstrate to you now.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the water glass into the plate, so that there was a miniature sea around the
blazing candle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Watch!” Lucky
barked, making the children jump – and even a few of the adults. He held the
glass out with both hands and intoned: “Hocus-pocus-dominocus!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">And he placed
the glass over the burning candle. Jim had trimmed the bottom for him so that
there was plenty of room between the burning wick and the top of the glass.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky waved his
hands over the makeshift lamp, intoning once again – “Hocus-pocus-dominocus!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He could see the
little kids mouthing the words as he said them. Their eyes fixed firmly on the
glass. Then everyone gasped as the water in the plate suddenly started
disappearing. Very quickly, the water vanished from the plate – and was
transferred into the glass as if by some mysterious force. The water level in the
glass climbed higher and higher and Lucky kept waving his hands like a great
sorcerer, muttering hocus-pocus all the while. Finally all the water from the
plate was gone and was now inside the glass. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Just before the
oxygen-starved flame went out – Lucky had this trick timed to the split second
– Lucky shouted: “Be done!” The kids nearly jumped out of their skin at his
shout, and then the candle fluttered, as if obeying his command, and blinked
off.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">For a long
moment the kids and the adults stared at him as if he were some sort of
fabulous wizard. Then he grinned and the moment broke and the adults laughed
and the kids all started shouting, “How did you do it, how did you do it?” And
now came Lucky’s favorite part – his ultimate ice breaker. He told the kids
that it was not magic at all but a trick of science. A trick they could do
themselves and amaze all their friends. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He told them
that actually the Greeks had discovered the secret in ancient times – way
before the Indian witch doctor. (He didn’t say the Indian had been made up by
him, because it would have spoiled the little drama.) He explained that it was
based on something they had already learned in school. That fire requires
oxygen. And that air has weight. So, if the candle is burning in an enclosed
glass, it will use up all the air – the oxygen – creating a vacuum. And that
the glass will suck up the water surrounding it until the pressure – the weight
– inside the glass equals the pressure outside.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Some of the
adults frowned, but every kid in the house got it. They might have been poor,
but they had good teachers. They all jumped up and down and yelled for him to
do it again. So he did – twice more. Which was just enough for them to memorize
not just how the trick was done, but the all important Hopalong Cassidy, Indian
witch doctor preface. Lucky got a kick out of that as he remembered what Jim
had told him after the first he’d performed the trick.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“The way they’ll
tell the story,” he said, “is that they learned this magical transfiguration from
a mysterious American lad, named Mr. Lucky, who was the cousin of the great
cowboy hero, Hopalong Cassidy. Who saved the life of the medicine man, etc… The
point being, it will be their personal connection to you that will be most
important. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“And so, my
young scholar, in the end you will become a Cypriot myth. A small one, perhaps,
but a myth just the same. And you know how myths are in Cyprus – they last
forever.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky shrugged.
He’d seen too many worn out statues to trust myths. “I’d rather write my own
book about Cyprus,” he said. “It might not live forever, but it will around as
long as the there is a Library Of Congress.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim smiled a
rather sad smile and put a hand on Lucky’s shoulder. “I know you won’t forget
us,” he said. “But a book takes dedication. Forbearance. And complete belief in
yourself and your subject. These are qualities I wanted to impart to you,
Lucky. I hope I have partly succeeded and pray that another teacher will take
up my task in the future. If not, you must learn to believe in yourself, Lucky.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“If you want to
write – to truly write – then you must make that the only goal in your life.
Everything else must be pushed aside.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He looked at
Lucky, his eyes boring in. “Do you understand what I’m trying to say?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky shook his
head. “No, I don’t,” he said. “But I think I’ll figure it out as I go along.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">In the morning
they had roasted eggs and olives and strong, hot coffee, heavily sweetened with
Cypriot honey, with bits of cinnamon bark floating in it. Sufficiently fueled for
the day’s journey, they were off very early, climbing down from the stone
quarry to be greeted by the sun rising over the sea. They were heading east,
after all, the direction where everything begins. So, of course, Lucky had to
ask Jim if they were going to see the place where the world ended, why were
they traveling east, instead of west, where the sun goes to die?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim grinned,
saying, “You can decide that question for yourself when you see it.” He laughed
and would say no more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">They drove most
of the day on winding roads that were so pot-holed and rough in some places
that it would have been faster to get out and walk. Despite the wear and tear
on his car Kyriakos pressed on, saying he had just installed new springs and
wanted to break them in, so the bad roads were actually doing him a favor.
Several times they hit bumps so hard that the Plymouth bottomed out and Lucky
winced, remember how his father had scraped the oil pan off their old Dodge
many years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">After a time,
the whole coastline became desolate and dreary, seared orange and black by the
hot sun. Kyriakos rolled down the front windows and he and Jim tied strips of
wet cloth in the gaps so the rushing wind would cool them as they drove. Just
when Lucky thought he had left civilization forever, they came upon a small
fishing village, shaded by ancient cypress and fig trees. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The adobe homes
and shops were startling white under the blazing sun, with the backdrop of the
Mediterranean. Except here, the sea wasn’t only blue. There were many colors –
gray and green and even red, before the waters blended into the familiar
crystalline blue. Jim said it was because of the different minerals in the
silted-up harbor – apparently the village had once been a great Roman port, but
had been deserted as the river that flowed into the harbor deposited more silt
than the Romans had money or patience to dredge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">But even as a
small, almost afterthought-of-a- village, Lucky found the place charming and
welcome. At the taverna he drank gallons of iced lemonade while nibbling on a
tray of honeyed fruits – sliced pears, apples, peaches and oranges and lemons.
The whole area, it turned out, was noted for its orchards and the plump fruit
they produced. A river arched down from the mountains through a miniature desert
to reach this point and the fruit trees grew in great profusion. The villagers
also grew peanuts in the sandy soil and these they toasted and salted with
countless varieties of hot spices. While Jim was organizing food for the
night’s campout dinner, Lucky bought several big paper sacks of different
peanuts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky noticed
that the villagers had a different look than other Cypriots. Their skin and
hair was generally lighter and some even had blue eyes. Jim said there was a
legend that a group of soldiers from the last Crusade were driven ashore during
a storm and settled here, instead of joining their brothers in the bloody
battles in Jerusalem. And these people were their descendents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim said if they
continued along the beach – following what amounted to a goat track, they would
come upon a ruined city – with nothing but broken monuments and shattered
pieces of pottery to mark its presence. He said the Romans had maintained a
ship-building area there, with long stone docks that ran out into the sea. They
weren’t visible now, but at low tide a man could make his way across them and
look like he was walking on water.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Do you think
that might have been Jesus’ secret, Lucky?” he teased. “When our Savior walked
on the waters of the Sea Of Galilee, was he actually walking on the rocks of a
sunken Roman dock?” Lucky brushed it aside. He wanted to know more about the
mysterious city. “Why don’t we drive along the road a little more and see what we find,” Jim advised.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">And so they
drove on, but it wasn’t the short expedition that Jim had hinted at. Instead,
the road meandered inland for awhile and they crossed fertile valleys full of
tobacco and wheat. The fields were empty – it was mid-day, when only mad dogs
and Englishmen would be about. Later the road once again took them to the sea,
but by now it was late and everyone was getting tired.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">They pulled off
the road near a grassy knoll where an ancient oak stood guard over an empty
shore. At least it looked empty at first, then Lucky saw a man and his wife –
both Turks, from their dress – wading through the surf with a mother camel and
its foal. They had large push brooms and were scrubbing mother and child down,
to the delight of the camels, who turned this way and that, offering different
parts of their hides to be itched.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky was
feeling so hot and dirty that he stripped off his clothes and ran straight into
the water, where he dipped and dived and rolled and snorkeled like a young
seal. Jim and Kyriakos took off their shoes and rolled up their cuffs and padded
down to the shore, cooling their feet in the water and chatting with the Turks
while Lucky played in the water.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">When Lucky
finally came out, thirsty and ravenous, Jim called, “Come and have some camel’s
milk, Lucky. It’s good and cool now.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Not knowing what
to expect, Lucky waded over to the group. The woman was tossing buckets of cool
sea water on the mother camel’s teats. When she stopped, her husband slipped a
large gourd beneath the animal and squirted milk into it. The baby camel tried
to push in and get some, but the woman laughed and shoved it away, teasing the
animal, but at the same time making soothing noises. Lucky had noticed that
although Greek Cypriots had a poor opinion of Turks, that they were among the kindest people he’d
ever met when it came to dealing with animals. When an oxen grew old, they put
it out on a field to graze and die on its own, instead of killing it and
selling its gristly meat to a butcher. The same with dogs and cats. They were
cared for until they died a natural death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky drank the
milk, which was very strong and made him cough at the first taste. But after he
got used to the flavor he found that he quite liked it. The milk was
refreshing, with a hint of sea salt in it, and he emptied the gourd and
politely asked for more. When he was done, he stepped aside and the young camel
rushed in to clap its lips on its mother’s teats. While it sucked away – giving
Lucky the milk thief dirty looks – they
chatted with the couple and learned that they were from a family that had been
forced to convert to the Muslim faith long ago, during the Turkish reign. Now,
although the man was content to praise Allah, his wife had started visiting a
local Greek Orthodox Catholic church to learn what she called “the old ways.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Her husband said
he didn’t mind – he’d never been that religious at any rate. And he was quite
willing to be convinced by his wife, if she decided to convert back again. “I
don’t pray the required five times daily as it is,” he confessed. “So, if I
stay with Allah I’ll be condemned as a sinner. But if I convert, I’ll only have
to attend church once a week to find a place in heaven. This is a much better
bargain in my view.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Afterward, the
couple led their charges away and Lucky and his companions settled down on the
dunes to watch the seas darken as – behind them - the sun slipped over the
western mountains. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky saw a
stone jetty hundreds of yards out to sea and asked Jim about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“This was once a
grand city with a wonderful harbor,” Jim said. “It was noted the world over.”
His hand swept the area. “I suppose thirty or forty thousand people made their
homes and their living here.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">At that moment
Kyriakos called them and they rose to see what he wanted. They climbed the
grassy dune to an old oak tree, where Kyriakos was waiting, squatting over a
shallow hole he’d dug. He was grinning up at Lucky – obviously this was
something he and Jim had planned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I was going to
make a fire, here, Lucky,” he said, “but look what I found instead.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He held up
several shards of pottery, one of which was as big as his broad palm and it had
the faint figure of a naked woman on it – posing a goddess.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Aphrodite?”
Lucky guessed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Kyriakos shook
his head. “No, no, not the goddess of love, but a good imitation just the
same.” He laughed, enjoying some joke of his own. “Tell him, Demetrakis, or the
boy will drive us crazy with his questions.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">And so Jim told
him the tale of Pygmalion, the Cypriot king who had founded the city of
Karpasia whose ruins they were resting upon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“He was not just
a king, but a king with a talent for creating beauty,” Jim said, “and so the
city of Karpasia was known all over the world for its gracious buildings,
landscaped parks and wide boulevards. It’s said that the harbor rivaled
anything the Persian engineers of Xerxes ever created. And he was also a
sculptor of great renown, so the city and parks were decorated with his
creations, which were said to be wondrous. According to legend, King Pygmalion
was obsessed with finding the perfect woman. He searched the world over, but it
was no good, Lucky. Nothing could be as physically perfect as what he saw in
his mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“And so he
determined if he couldn’t find a living woman that equaled his standards, he
would make one of his own. He decided to sculpt the most perfectly formed woman
the world had ever seen from a piece of the purest ivory. When he was done, he
was so astounded by the perfection he had accomplished that he fell deeply and
tragically in love with the statue. Of course, the statue was not alive and
could not return his love. So he prayed to Aphrodite, whom he worshipped as the
perfect goddess, and in the end she took pity on him and the next time
Pygmalion kissed the cold ivory she became a warm and living woman – Queen
Galatea. They married and in nine months time they had a son, Prince Paphos.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He saw Lucky’s
look of recognition and nodded, saying, “Now you know where the village we
visited got its name. Anyway, when Pygmalion and Galatea ruled it was the
golden age of Cyprus and there were many fabulous creations, both in art and
the sciences and in engineering – which included the port of Karpasia, where
the treasure of the world came pouring into the harbor.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“What happened?”
Lucky asked, looking out over the barren sands, where there was not even a cow
shed to mark the desolate landscape.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Allah
happened,” Jim said. “The Muslim revolution. You saw the camel man and his wife
– whose families were forced to convert. Well, that was only the last group of
Muslims – from the days of the Turks and the Ottoman Empire a mere four hundred
years ago. The city resisted its besiegers, so they burned it to the ground and
ploughed the remains under the sands, like the Romans did to Carthage.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He picked up the
large pot shard, with the figure of the woman on it. “Queen Galatea,” he said.
“A woman whose beauty rivaled Helen Of Troy’s. And yet here is all that is left
of King Pygmalion’s dream. A broken piece of pottery buried and forgotten in
the sand.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">They all sat in
silence for a time. Finally, Kyriakos snorted, saying, “We’ll all be dust soon
enough. At least Galatea has a bit of dried clay to rest on.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He lifted a
burlap sack and said, “Here, let’s drink to Galatea and Pygmalion. I declare
this night their feast day. And long may they stay dead!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Kyriakos tossed
the sack to Jim. It contained cognac, which Jim swigged with great delight and
passed back to his friend. The trucker took a drink and handed the bottle to
Lucky – “Just a little,” he advised, “to help keep the insects away.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Then they all
trooped down to the sea, where Kyriakos had stashed a sack of beer and sodas to
cool. He’d also laid out half-a-dozen fish traps. They were simple things – a
bowl with a piece of cloth tied over the top, with a hole piercing the cloth.
Little sardines had sought a hiding place through the holes, then couldn’t find
their way out again. Kyriakos had captured several score or more. Which was a
good thing, because they were very small.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He had Lucky
track down and empty the fish traps while he sat on a rock in the dying
sunlight, waving a decaying chicken head tied to a string over a shallow pool.
Crabs leaped up for the smelly head and Kyriakos scooped them into his net,
which he emptied into an old petrol can.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Then the
mosquitoes and sand fleas made themselves known and the little beach party
wisely retreated to the knoll, which was high enough to discourage the bugs and
besides, the fire was rather smoky. To be sure, they lathered themselves with
the locally produced insect propellant, which they all made jokes about because
it smelled so bad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim stripped
some twigs from a nearby willow and wove them into a grill. The cleaned
sardines – doused with olive oil and some spices from a pouch - were placed on
the grill and Jim set the sardines to sizzle over the fire. Kyriakos,
meanwhile, had got the petrol can of crabs to boil. At first, the sounds of the
poor things scrabbling to get away from the heat upset Lucky, but before long
the sound ceased and the smells that wafted out of that old jerry can made his
stomach groan with anticipation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The cookout was
something that Lucky would remember forever. The crispy little sardines on
black bread and cheese, the white meat of crabs spilled out onto spinach leaves
that had been marinated in lemon and garlic. And the beer, of course – good,
yeasty Cypriot beer that had been cooled in the Mediterranean Sea. And later,
some cognac and Greek coffee from a recipe Kyriakos claimed had been passed
down from his ancestors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He told Lucky,
“It’s said in my family, that long, long ago some of us came from old Arabia –
in an area where coffee was first discovered.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Discovered?’
Lucky said. “Like gold or diamonds are discovered?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Exactly so,”
Kyriakos replied. “And in those days coffee was even more valuable than gold
and diamonds. I’ll tell you what my grandmother told me, because she said that
a cousin of one of our Arab ancestors was the very man who first found coffee.
And it happened like this… He was a goat herder, just a lad, you know. And one
day when he went to collect his goats he couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw
them dancing and prancing and playing in the meadow. He investigated and
noticed that they had been eating berries from a strange bush. So he ate some
as well – a few at first, in case they were poison, but then more. Soon he was
dancing and prancing among his goats. He felt so alive, so wonderful, his brain
so big he was thinking thoughts that he had never thought before. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“He went home to
his village, his pockets full of berries. But he told no one about his
discovery. He ate one berry every morning, another a midday and another still
at night. And he found himself overcome with energy and intelligence and the
desire to learn all he could. He read books every night, all night, until the
early hours. And in the tavernas, everybody noticed how smart this goat herder
had suddenly become. They were so impressed they made him the village teacher,
so now he didn’t have to take care of goats anymore, but young students – which
can be just as troublesom, as Jim will tell you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim laughed
sardonically at this and poured them all some more coffee laced with cognac.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Kyriakos
continued his story: “These students I’m speaking of were so lazy that they slept
while our former goat herder was teaching, learning nothing. The goat herder,
however, had a solution for that and he started feeding his students coffee
berries every morning. And soon they were full of the desire to learn and
gobbled up all he could teach them. In not too long the intelligence and
diligence of his students became known all over the Arabic world and the Sultan
sent his best physician, Dr. Rhazes, to investigate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“For a long time
the goat herder would not reveal his secret, but finally the famous Dr. Razes
saved the life of the teacher’s mother with his medicine and the teacher revealed
all – taking him to the bushes where the berries grew. And so Dr. Razes
returned to his sultan with not only the secret, but the seeds to grow more
coffee and in not many years his praises were sung all over the world.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Astounded by
this story, Lucky turned to Jim, wanting to ask if any of it was true. But he
hesitated, not wanting to insult Kyriakos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim caught what
he was after however, and said, “There’s no written record of the dancing
goats. But it is a story that has been handed down over the ages. As far Dr.
Razes is concerned, he was a real man and produced the world’s first account of
coffee and its effects.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky didn’t
know what to say, so he just nodded and settled back on his blanket, nestling
into the sandy dune that made up his bed. After a time Kyriakos got a homemade
Bouzoukis – a sort of a mandolin – from his pack and started plucking away on
the strings, singing old folk songs in a soft, raspy voice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky stared up
at the starry night, listening to the songs and the sound of the softly
breaking seas. And soon he fell asleep, dreaming of Pygmalion and statues that
turned into Athena and Donna, who were dancing with goats around a strange kind
of maypole made of green branches loaded down with purple coffee berries.<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The next day,
they washed in the sea then breakfasted on boiled eggs, olives, bread and
cheese. With more of Kyriakos’ famous coffee, of course… sans cognac.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">They continued
their journey, bumping over rough, winding roads. For a long time the road was
as empty as the countryside. Not even a goat made itself evident, much less a
man. As far as the eye could see there was nothing but sun-blackened rocks –
with an occasional lizard stretching out a tongue to capture an insect meal.
Lucky could tell they were nearing the sea again, because he could smell the
clean salt air.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Then suddenly,
they rounded a bend and came upon a traffic-jammed crossroads. Scores of wagons,
cars, bicycles, and people on foot, were milling around a battered sign that
pointed toward a patch of blue, gleaming between towering palm trees. Lucky had
no idea where all the people came from, but it was a mixed group – all dressed
in their best, whether a rich businessman and his wife, or a brawny carpenter
with his family. Among the group were a great number of people who were
handicapped in some way – lame children riding on donkeys or carried by their
fathers, or brothers. Blind people. Deformed people, some from birth defects,
others from accidents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“They are
pilgrims to the monastery of St. Andreas,” Jim explained. “It’s said that the
waters there have healing powers.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky looked
doubtful. “But is it true? Or just a made up story?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Kyriakos caught
Lucky’s look of skepticism. “Of course the waters are holy,” he exclaimed in
Greek. “Did not my grandfather’s cousin come here to be cured of her blindness?
And didn’t the saint grant her that wish, so that now she is an old woman who
delights in her grandchildren with eyes as good as yours or mine.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky looked at
Jim who only shrugged. He sat back to study his surroundings as Kyriakos pushed
the Plymouth through the traffic. After a time, the road broke out into the
clear and Lucky saw they were now at the very end of the peninsula. Nothing but
blue skies and blue seas stretched out before them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">On a broad rocky
spit of land there was an old harbor, with piers of broken stone and a jumble
of buildings, some new and some quite ancient. A few fishing boats plied the
waters and a little distance out, Lucky could see what appeared to be a few
small islands. Rising above the harbor was St. Andreas Monastery, constructed
on two levels of hills, with several steps of worn stairs leading from one
level to the next. The buildings on the lower level appeared to be older and
Lucky learned these were the partially reconstructed ruins of the original
church. There were several wells inside that purportedly contained holy water
and lines of people carrying babies were being escorted to the wells. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim said this
was the most popular place for baptisms on the island – perhaps even the world.
The waters were said to be especially holy because of St. Andreas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">As they drew
closer Lucky saw many ponds scattered around the monastery. Ducks occupied
some, but in others priests were dipping up water in shells and pouring it over
the heads of the infirm. Lucky could hear the constant murmur of prayers as
people begged the saint to cure their loved ones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim said, “The story
goes that St. Andreas – who, I’m sure you know, was the first apostle called to
the faith by Jesus – came ashore at this point. Wherever the holy man walked,
pools of water sprang up in his footsteps.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Guessing what
Jim was saying, Kyriakos nodded firmly, muttering, “Ahyos... Ahyos…” Holy man,
holy man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">They toured the
main church, which was by far the richest one Lucky had seen in Cyprus. The
statues glittered, the vestments of the priests were of the finest material and
some of the candles were as large as a full grown man. Jim explained that
people donated the gigantic candles to plead for special blessings for their
families, or themselves. There were brass bowls of sweet oil set up here and
there and the faithful smeared the holy oil on the faces and limbs of crippled
people, hoping to make the prayed-for cure more certain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim introduced
Lucky to a young priest – a cousin, naturally - who at first looked forbidding
in his long black beard and black Greek Orthodox priestly uniform. But when he learned Lucky was an American he
positively beamed and spoke to him in flawless American slang.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Hey there,
you’re a Yankee doodle dandy like me,” he said. “I love Americans. Nat King
Cole. Frankie Lane. John Wayne, bang, bang!” The last was accompanied by
pistoled fingers that he blew on as if dispersing gunsmoke.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">It turned out
the priest had spent his childhood in San Diego – where his father owned a bar
that catered to sailors. He’d returned home to Cyprus after a few years of
college to take up the priesthood like his grandfather, the abbot of St.
Andreas. Even so, he’d remained devoted to all things American – music, movies,
books, and especially American girls. He said when he was promoted to his own
parish he was going to try to find an American tourist girl to marry and settle
down to make babies and put together a large record collection of American
music.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky listened
patiently, then asked the question that had been burning in him from the
beginning. “Did you ever actually see anyone being cured, father?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The young priest
turned serious, then nodded. “I know what you’re thinking,” he said. “Americans
want to hear it from the horse’s mouth. And yeah, I can tell you straight that
I saw a kid cured just a couple of months ago. I nearly fell over, I tell you.”
He blessed himself. “But God love me, it happened. It actually did. Here, I’ll
tell you the details and you can make up your own mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“A family
brought this little boy to us. He couldn’t move his legs. Now, this was a good
kid. A happy kid. He got good grades in school and used to play soccer every day
after school. But then we had the earthquake – the seesmos. The boy’s
grandmother was killed when the house fell in on her and the kid tried to go in
after her, to dig her out. Then the second seesmos came and he got hit – and
wham! The boy was crippled. Okay, so what happened is my grandfather listened
to the whole story – I was there with him. And then he prayed for the boy –
calling on old Andy to help out. And then he called for some blankets and put
the boy in a room next to Andy’s statue.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He gestured at
the grand statue near the altar. “Then my grandfather got all the priests
together, and the holy water, which we poured all over the boy, and we prayed
and we prayed all night long. Just before sunlight, my grandfather calls us out
of the room and shuts the door. We prayed some more. Well, actually, I’m
ashamed to say that I fell asleep. And then I hear this great shout and I look
up and see the kid come busting out of the room. Shouting and yelling that he
could walk again. And who could deny it, because he was running on two
perfectly good legs.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He paused, then
looked down at Lucky, his eyes glowing with conviction. “So my answer is, I
really have seen a miracle. I tell you, when it happened I couldn’t speak, or
move, or do anything, I was so surprised. Some of the older priests told me
that they had witnessed similar things over the years.” He shrugged. “I
shouldn’t have been so surprised. Jesus Christ our savior walked on water,
didn’t he? And he raised Lazarus from the dead. In Cyprus we know this for a
fact, because didn’t Lazarus come here to settle and live a second, much longer
life, before he died again? This time for good?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky didn’t
reply directly –he was taking all this in and churning it around. Instead he
asked the priest if the monastery had always been known for its miracles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The young priest
said, “Of course you have your St. Andrea story, with the pools of holy water
forming where he walked. But that was pretty much wrecked when the Turks came
along. It was a fighting monastery, then, with canons and monks charging out
dressed up in armor over their robes. But the Turks did us in and destroyed the
place. Then about sixty years ago a rich Greek woman whose baby son was stolen
by Turkish pirates came here to pray. It was winter and cold and there were
only a dozen or so monks – and all of them were starving on lentils and bread.
Anyway, this rich woman – we even know her name… it was Maria Georgiou, from
Cilica. But that doesn’t matter, whether she was rich or poor, or even a Turk –
we get a lot of Turks here who beg the healing blessing of St. Andrea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“The thing was,
this woman was tormented by the loss of her child, which had been ripped from
her breast by the Turkish captain. She couldn’t rest and mourned for years until
she had a sign to seek out the aid of St. Andreas. So she came here, she stayed
for three days, she prayed and made offerings. Until finally, she promised St.
Andreas and God that if she should ever be rejoined to her son, she would
bestow half her wealth on the monastery. Well, at first nothing happened. She
became discouraged and hired a boat to take her to Limassol, where her family
waited. But when she was on the boat, people were curious why such a wealthy
woman would be embarking from such desolate place as St. Andreas. Well, the
woman wept and she cried. And she poured out her troubles about the pirates and
the stolen baby.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“As it happened,
one of the sailors – a Turkish kid – overheard her and asked if she had some
way of identifying her boy. She said sure, he had birthmarks on his chest and
his shoulder. The young sailor almost collapsed, he was so surprised by her
answer. Then he took off his shirt and threw it on the deck. And showed the
woman the very same birthmarks she was talking about. It was, indeed, her son.
Stolen long ago and sold into bondage in Istanbul, where he was forced to
worship Islam. But now mother and son were reunited. She ordered the ship back
to St. Andreas, where her son was converted, and she made good her promise of
blessing our order and monastery with riches enough to carry on our holy
mission.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He gestured at
the crowds moving through the chapel, filling its collection boxes with coins.
“Now we give away more money to the poor than even the big churches in Athens,”
he said with undisguised pride.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Instead of
questioning him more closely about the miracles, Lucky asked, “Are you ever
sorry you left America?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The young priest
was taken aback at first, then gave Lucky a thoughtful look, as if he were
considering how his little patter had gone down. This his grin lit up like the
proverbial Cheshire cat’s – bursting with light through his black beard. “I
miss my father’s bacon and lettuce and tomato sandwiches,” he confessed. “And
also his French fries. They were the best in the world. Also I miss his juke
box. He had everybody on it… All the greats.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He thought a
minute, then continued. “But when I was in San Diego, I missed Cyprus so much
that sometimes I used to cry at night.” he said. “The only thing that made it
bearable is that San Diego is a little bit like Cyprus. The sand and the sea
and the mountains – quite familiar. And the plant life is exactly the same.
Mediterranean chaparral, it’s called. It exists only in California, the coast
of Spain and in the Middle East.” He shrugged. “Even so, my heart and soul
belong to Cyprus, second only to Jesus Christ our Savior and Lord.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">After making
their polite goodbyes and putting money in a nearby collection box, Lucky and
Jim continued on, exploring the remainder of the peninsula on foot. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">They left
Kyriakos behind to take care of some family errands. When everybody learned his
destination, he been given firm instructions from his wife, his mother, and a
horde of other relatives to make special prayers and offerings at the
monastery. He groused about it, but with much good humor, pouring coins into
buckets and snatching up perfumed tapers to light his way from one icon and the
next.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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walked to the end of the peninsula,
passing cottages - which were probably for the priests and their
families – then clumps of piled up boulders, surrounded by bushes of flowering
purple sage that filled the air with their scent. They went by a broken down
chapel, whose roof apparently covered a well of healing waters, because there
was a line of people posted before it, and a brawny young monk was hauling up
buckets of holy water to hurl upon the crowd. The monk had his job perfected -
hitting ten or more people at once, then dousing them again to make sure no one
was left out. There was a second bucket next to the well filled with coins
tossed by the crowd in payment for the blessing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Wait a minute,”
Lucky said to Jim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He jumped into a
short line, threw a half-crown’s worth of coins into the bucket and stood
there, eyes closed, waiting for some miracle, until the priest doused him with
a full bucket.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky opened his
eyes, wiped the water from his face, then stuck a finger in his mouth to taste
it. “I don’t feel any different,” he told Jim. “But maybe it takes awhile, like
the lady on the ship who was looking for her son.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Then they came
to the end of the Peninsula, where two broken marble columns were driven into
the earth. Pieces of marble were lying all around. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim said, “The
legend is that the most beautiful, the most holy, temple of Aphrodite stood
here.” He indicated the broken columns, which were about fifteen feet apart.
“The image of the goddess, it is said, stood between these columns.” Jim
gestured overhead. “Apparently there was a curving slab of marble for a roof -
like a sail. But triangular, in the style of ancient vessels.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky nodded,
he’d seen the drawings of the graceful ships of Grecian yore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim’s hand swept
around, taking in the dunes of sand heaped around the point of the peninsula.
“And here Aphrodite’s acolytes would have made their sacrifices, begging the
lady to protect this island.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Now he pointed
out to sea, to the islands Lucky had noticed before. “Those are called the
great reefs of Aphrodite,” he said. “They wrecked nearly every sailor who tried
to come this way. Including the ship that carried St. Andrea. Fortunately for
him and for us, he made it to shore and was taken in by the people who lived
here.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Motioning for
Lucky to follow, Jim scrambled up a mound of boulders that marked the end of
the promontory. The sea was bleak, now, iron gray in color. The sun was a
golden chariot riding off to the northwest behind them; the moon, huge and
full, but pale in the fading light. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim had an odd
look on his face as he gazed at the islands – and beyond. He’d been in an odd
mood the whole trip – cheery on the outside, but Lucky had sensed that he was
troubled by something. He’d wondered all along if Jim would tell him what the
trouble was, and now he had a sudden sickening feeling that the moment was
near. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim pointed out
to sea – indicating things far beyond. “Look, Lucky,” he said, “It’s such a
clear day. We can see Turkey and Syria and Lebanon.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky said
dully, “So this is where the world ends?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim turned to
him, forcing a smile. “Well, haven’t I taught you that an island is a world of
its own?” he asked. Lucky nodded. “So for a Cypriot, this is very much the end
of the world.” He waved at the distant lands shimmering on the edge of the
horizon. “But of course, in every ending there is a beginning. You can see so
for yourself.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He sighed and
sat down on the boulder. Lucky sat next to him, waiting for what was going to
come next.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim sat in
silence for a long time, then he turned to Lucky, his eyes moist. “I can’t be
your teacher any longer,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky felt like
he’d been struck. He struggled to speak, but could get nothing out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim said, “I’ve
already told your mother and father and I’ve helped them find another school
for you, so you don’t have to worry about that.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“But why?” Lucky
finally managed. “What did I do?” He became desperate. “I’ll study harder, I
promise,” he pleaded. “And I won’t argue with you all the time. I’ll do better,
just give me a chance, Jim. Please.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Oh, Lucky,” Jim
said, “you didn’t do anything wrong. You’re the best student a teacher could
dream of. It isn’t your fault. If anything, it is my doing.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“What do you
mean?” the boy asked, fighting hard to hold back tears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“My work with
the Mayor’s Council has earned me some pretty bad enemies,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky nodded.
“Sure, the communists,” Lucky said. “But what’s that got to do with me?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“They say that I
am against Enosis,” Jim said. “And that my teaching you – an American – only
proves that I have sold out to the other side.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“But I’m all for
Enosis!” Lucky protested. “Everybody knows that. Heck, I have more Cypriot
friends than American or British. Sometimes I go days, and the only time I
speak English is in class with you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“That’s not how
they see it,” Jim said. “They claim that you learned our language to mock us.
That you prefer Cypriot company because you feel superior to us.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky was
astounded. “It’s not true, Jim,” he said. “You know it’s not.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Of course, I
do, Lucky,” Jim said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Well, tell them
to go to hell,” Lucky said. “Say you’ll teach me anyway. I’ll prove they’re
wrong.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim put an arm
on Lucky’s shoulder. “You don’t understand, Lucky,” he said. “They told me in
no uncertain terms that if I can continue to be your teacher, they will hurt
you. Maybe even kill you. It was you they were threatening, not me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“They don’t
scare me,” Lucky said. “Besides, they wouldn’t touch me. I’m an American kid.
They’d never get away with it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He was thinking
that if anything happened to him, the CIA had people who would surely revenge
him. But he couldn’t tell Jim that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“These aren’t
the kind of people who fear retaliation,” Jim said. “These aren’t taverna
Communists. Arguing politics over coffee and cognac. These are terrorists.
Crazy idealists. With no fear of dying.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I don’t care,”
Lucky said stubbornly. “I don’t.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim pulled him
close for a minute, giving him a brotherly embrace. Then he released the boy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I care, Lucky,”
he said. “And so do your mother and father. I’m afraid the decision has been
made. We had no choice, really, Lucky. No choice at all.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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WHOSE FATHER WAS A BRITISH SPY </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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followed the earthquake would be acid-etched into Lucky’s memory. Images that
had once been the stuff of newspapers and newsreels – tragedies played out from
afar – were now literally in his front and backyards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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frantically through the ruins of what had once been their homes. Mostly they
uncovered corpses, but there were occasional nuggets of miraculous life and
cheers would go up and the church bells would ring as if the Lord himself was rising
on an Easter morn. There was no outside help. The destruction was island-wide –
and far, far beyond. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Although it
became known as the Lefkada Quake, after the island in the Ionian Sea that suffered
the most, large portions of Greece, Turkey and all the Greek islands were
pummeled. Actually, it was later realized that it was a rare double quake – the
kind that had destroyed the ancient civilization of Crete and, in legend, sunk
the mythical island kingdom of Atlantis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The first quake
had measured 6.4 on the Richter Scale. The second, an incredible 7.2. By way of
comparison, the American news broadcast Lucky monitored on his homemade
shortwave said the great earthquake that had destroyed San Francisco in 1906
measured 5.2 on the scale. The reporter stressed that the scale was geometric,
so that each increase was nearly double in shock value. So, the first quake –
the one that cause the bathroom sink to burst out of the wall, was more than
twice as strong as the San Francisco quake. And the one that had him hanging from
the refrigerator door was nearly twice as powerful as the first. As for the
chandelier plunging from the living room ceiling incident – that had been a
mere aftershock and barely measurable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Remarkably, the
death toll across the entire region amounted to only a few thousand. The injury
toll, perhaps fifty thousand. But the devastation was awful – whole villages
and towns and public buildings razed in Greece, Turkey, and the islands.
Windows were broken, with some injury incurred, in far off Southern Italy. By
contrast, the BBC reports said, nearly 900,000 had died in the Chinese
earthquake of 1556; 140,000 in Tokyo in 1923, and a hundred thousand in
Messina, Italy, in 1908.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lucky gathered, that he and the other residents of Pallouriotissa ought to feel
fortunate because they had only 65 dead and several hundred people injured. But
in such a small village with a population of a few hundred people, nearly
everybody had suffered an injury that had to be treated and reported at the police
station emergency clinic and every single soul knew, or were more than likely
related to, one or more people who had died. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Actually, there
was some reason to praise the gods – although why any deity thought a quake,
much less a double quake, was necessary was beyond Lucky. The timing of the
disastrous shakes had been perfect for minimal deaths. At that early morning
hour most people all across the Mediterranean world have been on their way to
work, or other duties. In the villages like Pallouriotissa, the younger women
and men were already toiling in the fields, or wending their way to the city to
their jobs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">And thus it was
that in Pallouriotissa, the only casualties were babies, the grannies caring
for them, old men too feeble to toddle to the taverna, or craftspeople, like
the Widow Anthi, who ran her business from her home. This did not make any of
the deaths and injuries less tragic. It only meant they were minimized in
numbers, but not in soul-wrenching loss. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Cypriots revered
the elderly. As for children, they were more precious than gold, especially
considering that even without an earthquake, few lived to adulthood. Babies
were not just any future, they were a Greek Future full of the promise of
another Aristotle, or Socrates, or Euclid. For to be Greek was to know that a
few men and women cannot only change the world, but make it whole again, so
every child is a potential Messiah. Every old one, the source of infinite
knowledge gained the hard way – by living.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">At Lucky’s
house, his father made a quick trip home via a borrowed embassy car, then just
as quickly returned to the CIA base, where everyone was working double and
triple time. Apparently in the aftermath of a disaster of these proportions,
opportunities abounded for intelligence agencies on both sides - so it was spy
versus spy at an accelerated rate. Many years later Lucky learned that the
blood spilled during that period had been hip deep.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The scene
outside the house was desolation under clear summer skies. The village itself
had been reduced to a ruin of exploded adobe. There was nothing to be seen
above waist level. An awful odor from corpses, privies and rotting garbage
fouled the air. Wailing people crept through the destruction, calling
desperately for loved ones who might be buried under the rubble. Boys and young
men swarmed everywhere with shovels and rakes, digging for relatives and
neighbors and the few household valuables that might remain. The Turkish cops
joined in on the hunt – there was no fear of looting in the village. They were
all family – people who had depended on one another for thousands of years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">What few
emergency services existed were overwhelmed. There were no ambulances and even
if there had been, the hospitals were already overwhelmed. The British army was
mainly occupied with preventing looting in the cities, where people were not so
loyal to one another. After a few days, however, they started delivering truck
loads of badly-needed supplies. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Meanwhile,
Lucky’s mother threw open their house and grounds to the villagers. Brosina and
Thea and the gardener portioned off spaces in the basement, the garage and then
finally the garden for people to sleep and wash, cook, or use the sanitary
facilities. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Yorgo showed up,
pale and frantic, fingers tugging at a newly grown beard. But Helen soon got
him under control and coaxed some of his crew into cleaning out the quake
debris. Then she enlisted them into an effort to make the place suitable for
all the homeless people. She even talked Yorgo into opening the house next
door, vacant since the departure of Gundaree and Gundara and their young
kerosene addict. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The wells at
both houses were kept busy day and night by villagers hauling up desperately
needed water. The old Turk who ran the water truck had the nerve to knock on
the back door to complain because he was losing business. A villain of the
worst sort, he’d put his prices up three-fold to take advantage of the
emergency. Helen gave him a few pounds to shut him up and when she’d turned her
back to go inside, Brosina attacked him with her broom and drove him away to
the great amusement of the people camping out in the garden.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">When Yorgo made
his appearance, he seemed very strange to Lucky. He hardly recognized the boy,
kept addressing him as Mr. American and the whole time he toured the place,
checking the damage, he muttered darkly in both Greek and English, praising the
“sainted Stalin,” and condemning that “evil queen,” – presumably Elizabeth II –
as if he were blaming the British for somehow being the cause of earthquake. Lucky
was afraid to ask Yorgo directly about Athena – in case he got the wrong idea -
so the boy got Thea to quiz him instead and was gratified to learn that Athena
and the rest of the family were all well. Although Thea told him they were
worried about Yorgo’s mental state. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Trehlos,” she
said, tapping her head and rolling her eyes. “Trehlos.” He didn’t need a Greek
dictionary to know they feared Yorgo was going mad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sandros
appeared, asking for water for his grandmother. They were living in a tent
provided by the British army which had shown up with several lorries full of
supplies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He sidled over
to Lucky and spat on the ground. He ranted, half in English, half in Greek.
“The God damn British! Only they would think of such a catastrophic thing.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky was
astounded. “What thing, Sandros? You mean the earthquake? The seesmos?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Of course, the
seesmos,” Sandros exclaimed. “It’s known fact all over Cyprus. The seesmos is a
conspiracy to stop Enosis once and for all. But we are strong. We will not be
frightened by that dirty dheeahvolvas.” Meaning the dirty female devil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky remembered
the fiery portrait of the queen during the coronation’s fireworks display, plus
the old war time speeches that had been broadcast in BBC reminiscences and the
movie-tone news items at the theater of the young, pretty queen with her
children, the prince and princess, and there was no way that he saw a
dheeahvolvas there. Certainly not one so wicked as to cause this misery. But it
was best not to argue with Sandros. His mind was made up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Is there
something we can do for your grandmother, besides the water?” he asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sandros had no
family other than an elderly woman who was hard put to keep up with her
grandson’s transgressions. On the other hand, she was an old socialist who was
immensely proud of him and supplied him with all the Communist tracts he
needed. It was said, however, that she was an unreformed believer in Trotsky,
the Communist philosopher ordered assassinated by Stalin, so she was not
popular in local party politics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The boy
hesitated, then said, “She has only one dress and a sweater,” he said. “She was
working in the garden when the seesmos came, so although she wasn’t hurt, she
lost all her clothing.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky took the
problem to his mother, who immediately took pity on Sandros’ grandmother and
rummaged through her closet, filling several shopping bags with clothes the old
woman might need. This gave her an idea and she got on the phone and called all
her friends to enlist their help. The next day the cab driver, Nikos, went to
half-a-dozen American homes in and around Nicosia and picked up mounds of
clothing, canned goods, pots, pans, dishes and flatware and delivered it to
Lucky’s house where Helen had Brosina and Thea dole the things out to the
people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">As for the
village, it began rather quickly to rebuild – although with virtually no
outside help. Other than the tents and some cots and blankets and a modicum of
food, Cyprus’ British masters refused any loans for farmers, small businesses
or homeowners. This was resented greatly – especially because other colonies
had received such assistance in past disasters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">There was a lot
of talk of Enosis, but who knew how serious it was. At a CIA chess party, Joe
Davis and the others ruminated over the recent entry of Greece and Turkey into
NATO. Nobody seemed to think that the Greeks would push Britain to grant
independence for Cyprus that hard, since – like the Turks – they were on
probation. And now that the Turks were Britain’s NATO mates, they weren’t
likely to push Turkey to back off from its claims on the island. At least not
immediately.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">When things
calmed down a bit, Lucky looked up Andreas, whose home was one of the few adobe
structures still standing. That Andreas himself had survived was nothing short
of a miracle. Laughing, he showed Lucky the collapsed outhouse in the back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I was going to
make the morning skada,” he said. “You know, to shit. But as I opened the door
to enter the seesmos came and knocked me to the ground. I stayed like this the
whole time,” he continued, shielding his head with an arm to demonstrate, “and
the bricks were falling all around me, but not a single one struck me.” He
grimaced, “If one had, well, that might have been the end of Andreas, because
once I start to bleed, it doesn’t stop. And this time there was no one who
could have helped me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Andreas laughed
again and playfully punched Lucky’s shoulder. “The only thing - it was another
full day before I was able to skada. I was too frightened to try.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I’ve heard of
people being scared shitless,” Lucky joked, “but you’re the first one I’ve ever
met.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Andreas liked
that. “Scared shitless,” he repeated. “Excellent. I must remember that.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky told
Andreas about Yorgo’s strange behavior, plus his crazy statements blaming the
English for the quake. “Sandros said the same thing,” Lucky said. “You don’t
think that, do you?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Andreas sighed.
“Oh, surely not, Lucky,” he said. “How could a small woman – even if she is the
queen of England, make the earth shake not once, but twice? It’s not
scientific. But, you know, some people are very superstitious and will believe
anything.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“How many
people?” Lucky asked. “A lot?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I fear so,”
Andreas said. “The prohvleema – the problem – we have is that the earthquake came
at the very worst time. Now there will be bad trouble. But the reason isn’t
because of superstition, Lucky. It’s because people think the English have been
getting worse. And whenever our leaders ask to talk about independence – Enosis
– the English refuse to consider it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I think most
Cypriots would be happy if the English just promised to talk about it someday
and then we would patiently wait for that day to come. You know, we want to
like the English. After all, they got rid of the Turks. And if we are honest
with ourselves we must admit that life is better now than in the past. ”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“What kind of
trouble do you think there will be?” Lucky asked.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Andreas sighed.
“I think we will have a revolution,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Things would
never be the same after the double earthquake of the summer of 1953. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Yes, it’s true
that the whole Mediterranean region had been plagued by quakes and volcanoes
for thousands of years. Theoretically, the people had long experience in
mournful aftermaths - from Noah’s ark and the doomed Atlantis, to the destroyed
civilizations of Crete and Pompey. Surely the prayers for the dead over time
had by now worn smooth paths to heaven, Allah’s paradise or the Elysian Fields.
And surely the suffering of the injured and the families and friends of the
dead and injured fell upon shoulders made strong and able to bear such
suffering.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The destroyed
village of Pallouriotissa was quickly rebuilt with practiced ease, as were
countless other villages across the little island. The very vulnerability of
the adobe homes had a positive flip side of Caesar’s proverbial coin. Thousands
of bricks were quickly and simply cast in the field outside of the village that
Lucky had seen when he’d first arrived. The wooden forms were swiftly set up,
the clay mixture prepared and the hot summer sun did its job in record time.
People pitched in to help each other reconstruct homes, the big bee hive ovens
and outdoor latrines and showers. The raw earthen bricks were soon turned a
dazzling white, thanks to the ancient limepits on the other side of the
village, where the children labored under the supervision of the old people who
had survived the seesmos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">This was how you
dealt with earthquakes in Cyprus. You built flimsy homes, to be sure, but they
were also swiftly and cheaply reconstructed. In later years, Lucky would live
on another island – Okinawa – where the traditional Oriental homes were built
of sticks and paper and were regularly destroyed by typhoons – destructive
winds - instead of the grindings of the Earth. These were also quickly rebuilt
and life returned to normal rhythms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">In
Pallouriotissa, meanwhile, commerce was barely interrupted - the fields and their crops had not been
harmed, nor had very many of the animals. Market days soon recommenced and in
not many days the highway was packed with the morning and evening caravans of
goods and livestock on their way to Nicosia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky tried to
cozen his friend, the Turkish camel driver, into giving him a ride, but the
hunger for goods in the city was so pent up that he couldn’t compete with the
now-inflated price for hire. Not only that, the Turk had branched out, bringing
along his ten-year-old son to watch over a flock of geese he’d bought from a
woman widowed by the quake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I didn’t take
advantage of the poor woman,” the Turk swore, touching his head, lips and
heart. “It’s true, she is Greek, and no one in my family would blame me if I
did, but it is not my way to be cruel. She has been hurt – her leg was bruised…
maybe even broken. Also, she lost her husband, an old man who was too drunk for
work that day, so he stayed in his bed and was killed while she was outside
tending her geese.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He indicated the
unruly flock the little boy was driving down the highway with much difficulty.
The Turk gave a weary shake of his head and said, “My only fear is my son will
lose too many birds before we reach the market and then I will have less money
to share with the widow.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky took his
point. He was being conned, of course, but as Turks went, the camel driver was
an honest man, so Lucky stepped off the road, cut a switch from the reeds growing
in the ditch, and joined the boy in driving the geese to market.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">As they
approached the Famagusta gate, Lucky saw a few fallen stones on the ground, but
other than that the city walls had ridden through the most recent quake as
easily as they had nature’s pummeling over the many centuries. A band of hungry
gypsies, however, was waiting outside the gates, harassing the market crowd –
drawing their attention while gypsy kids swooped in to pick off sacks of grain,
or even chickens pulled from their cages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">They went after
the geese and Lucky and the Turk’s son jumped forward, trying to ward of the
gypsies with their switches. But there were too many of them, dodging this way
and that, shouting obscenities at Lucky, trying to make him strike out at them
so their little brothers and sisters could have a chance at the fat geese.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Suddenly there
was an explosion – like a gunshot, but louder. Half dazed and ears ringing
Lucky turned to see the Turk lowering an antique black powder pistol. The gypsy
kids were as stunned as Lucky. Then they shouted in alarm as the Turk lifted an
identical weapon in his other hand. He waved it at the gypsies, who scattered,
as he once again fired into the air. As before, there was the deafening blast
that hit Lucky’s ears like knife points. Smoke so thick and black and acrid
filled the air that Lucky could barely see. Then a summer breeze swept in,
carrying the smoke away and Lucky stood there gaping at the Turk’s face, which
was now as black as a coal miner’s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The Turk grinned
at Lucky, teeth startling white in his gunsmoke mask. “My grandfather gave me
these,” he said, displaying the ancient pistols “I only fill them with a
handful of small stones. But my grandfather, of course, used real bullets. He
was a pirate, after all, and a pirate ship is not a child’s paydhikee hara.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky frowned a
moment, then realized he meant playground – a pirate’s ship was not a child’s
playground. Then his eyes widened as understood what the Turk was really
saying, which that his grandfather was a pirate, by God! While the small
caravan trooped through the gates Lucky quizzed his friend unrelentingly. As it
turned out, not only was the man’s grandfather a pirate, but piracy went well
back into his family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Your president,
Mr. Thomas Jefferson, killed my most distant grandfather,” he said. Lucky’s
look of confused alarm caused him to chuckle. “Don’t concern yourself, Mr.
Lucky,” he said. “No one could blame you, because it was so long ago. Also, it
was just. We killed some Americans and captured some others and Mr. Jefferson
sent some big ships with cannons and also a lot of gold, so my distant
grandfather’s admiral swore never to take up arms against America. And that is
why to this very day that I am a camel man, instead of a pirate like my
grandfather.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky wanted to
ask him why the family business of piracy had continued for another two hundred
years before one of them took up a semi-honest trade, but thought it was a
subject best left for a later time. The camel was becoming unruly under its
huge load and the geese were getting harder to handle in city traffic, so he
made his excuses and broke away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The city didn’t
seem to have suffered a great deal from the earthquake. Lucky saw a few broken
shop windows and cracks in stone facades on the main thoroughfare, but that’s
about all. Nicosia had weathered countless earthquakes over the centuries and
this one had been apparently no different.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim’s street
also seemed to have come through unscathed – shopkeepers shouted cheery
“Yasou’s” as Lucky went by and the donkey who belonged to the greengrocer
flicked its ears and nodded its head in greeting. But as Lucky turned the
corner to go up the hill he saw Jim standing outside his shop with Mr. Thantos,
the blacksmith and Mr. Zeno, the carpenter. The metal shutter was pulled
partway down and Lucky saw signs of fire damage. Also the shop sign was
dangling from one hook.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The boy was
alarmed. Yesterday, when he’d spoken to Jim on the phone, he’d said everything
was fine at the store. He said he was eager to resume their studies. Lucky
hurried to investigate. When he came up on them the men turned – and all of
them had mournful looks. Even Jim, who offered Lucky his usual warm welcome,
seemed despondent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Good to see
you, Lucky,” he said. He waved a hand at the damage. “Unfortunately, I can’t
offer you a glad return to your studies.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky took a
good look at what had happened. The metal shutter was not only blackened from
smoke, but it had been buckled from intense heat. The searing marks fanned out
from a marred splotch on the pavement, where presumably kerosene or gasoline
had been poured. And it rose in a reverse triangle, taking in the lower half of
the door. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Above that was
were four Greek letters, spelling out – in English – EOKA. The letters were
splashed in thick dull red paint – the kind Lucky had seen used in damaged cars
undergoing repair.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“What does that
mean?” Lucky asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim said, “In
Greek EOKA stands for Ethniki Organosis Kypriou Agoniston. In English - the
National Organization of Cypriot Fighters.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Communists,”
Lucky said. A statement not a question. Jim had long been the target of
Communist gangs, now, apparently, it was literally heating up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I fear so,” Jim
replied. “I was a nobody before, but now that I’m with the mayor’s business
group, I suppose they see me as more of a threat.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“But you agree
with Enosis,” Lucky said, frustrated at the brutal ignorance scrawled on the
metal door. “You are working as hard as you can for independence from Britain.
Doesn’t that count for anything? Why do you have to agree with Communism too? I
mean, the whole thing is stupid, anyway. They tried it in America when the
first settlers came. Everybody could work as hard or as little as they wanted
and they still got a share of the food. Naturally, there were more lazy people
than hard-working people so they starved to death. Maybe ten or eleven people
were left when the ships returned from England.” Lucky shook his head,
disgusted. “It was really, really dumb.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim laughed,
then turned to Mr. Thantos and Mr. Zenos and gave a swift translation of
Lucky’s remarks. The two men chuckled appreciatively and nodded in agreement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Okay, as the
Americans say,” Jim replied. “Okay you are right, Lucky. Mr. Zenos says so and
Mr. Thantos says so. But unfortunately the Communists gangs – especially this
new EOKA group – won’t agree no matter how logical you are.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“You should quit
the mayor’s council,” Lucky said. “Then they wouldn’t come after you.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Looking at the
damage and the rudely painted EOKA, he was scared something was going to happen
to Jim. This man had become father, brother and teacher to him in a few short
months. Over the years, people had swept in an out of his life like sparrows
chasing the scattered seed. Most of them he didn’t miss. A few – a very few -
he kept close to his heart, warm in the knowledge that unlike the others, he’d
see them again. His aunts, for example – Aunt Cassie and Rita and Sissy. His
uncles, - Uncle Tommy, Charlie and Andy. Grandmom and Grandpop Guinan. Still
alive and well in Philadelphia. But, that was it – the people who cared for him
and would care for him forever. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">There were his
girlfriends, of course – Donna and Athena. But deep inside he knew at this
stage of his life girls would be as ephemeral, as ghost-like, as all the
friends he’d made before during his travels. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Maybe Jim was
ephemeral as well. Someone who would streak through his life like the others.
Lucky revolted against this idea. Jim was important, damn it! Important!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim thought a
minute, then said, “I can’t quit the council, of course. But I see you require
an explanation and I don’t mind giving you one, although it is more complicated
than you might realize. So let us adjourn to the classroom, while Mr. Zenos and
Mr. Thantos take care of my little problem.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He made some
polite requests in Greek to the men, both who were more than happy to
accommodate him. They hurried off to their respective shops to fetch materials
and apprentices. Jim pushed the metal shutters up and they screeched in protest
from being warped by the fire. He flicked the light switch and smiled in
surprise when the lights went on and the overhead fly fan began to turn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I haven’t had
breakfast,” he said. “Although my apartment was untouched, all the fruit fell
out of the trees and my landladies are busy gathering and pickling everything
they can find.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He picked up the
phone, dialed, and made polite talk in Greek to the person on the other side.
Then he said, “Omelata, parakalo.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim looked up at
Lucky questioningly, raising two fingers – did the boy want an omelet as well?
Lucky had already eaten breakfast, but after driving a flock of geese four
miles, putting up with a cranky camel and eluding a band of gypsy kids, he was
ravenous. He nodded vigorously.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim grinned.
“Theo Omelata, parakalo,” he said, then he made more polite remarks and hung up
the phone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He sat there,
head bowed over the cradled phone for a few minutes, then he looked at Lucky,
his eyes sad, his grin crooked. “Our island has been under the fists of other
countries for so many years, that surely God has forgotten who he put here and
for what reason,” he said, his voice so soft that Lucky had to sit very still
to catch what he was saying. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“It’s greed that
brought them here,” he went on. “They want our mines, they want our grapes and
our olives. They want our cheap labor, they want, they want, they want. Now, I
believe it is our time for wanting and to fulfill those wants. It is only fair.
Only just.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He tapped his
chest, his voice rising. “In short, I want Cyprus for the Cypriots. My EOKA
cousins want to achieve that goal at any cost. They want the British to be gone
overnight and the Turks who live among us thrown out, or put into labor camps.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky nodded in
understanding, thinking about the treatment of Japanese Americans during the
War. His father and mother were both ashamed of it and had made a point of
telling Lucky what an injustice had been done. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim said, “It
long past time for Cypriots to reclaim their heritage. And, yes, I mean that
for the Turks among us as well. Most of them, after all, have lived here for
three hundred years or more, so it is their land too.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The waiter from
the restaurant came in carrying the familiar three-tiered tray. He served them
breakfast, then left. They were quiet for a time while they ate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Finally, Jim
said, “Since you became my student, Lucky, I have thought long and hard about
the United States of America. It is a fabled land the world over. In my own
village, many a young chap has set his sights on the Statue Of Liberty, and in
time wrote home about that glorious vision when they arrived in New York
harbor.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim sipped
thick, Greek coffee as he considered. Then he said, “You cannot know how
fortunate you are to be a citizen of such a great country. America could be
Greece in its golden age. To be sure, America is shamed by its treatment of the
Africans who were forced to its shores. But Athens and Sparta were shamed as
well for similar reasons. In my view, their beliefs about slavery and the
inequality of their fellow men was their ultimate undoing. And, I suppose, if
your country doesn’t come to terms with the sins of its past, it will be its
undoing as well.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky nodded. He
couldn’t agree more. “That’s what I want to do with my writing,” he said. “I
want to help people see.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Why do you feel
responsible?” Jim asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky shrugged.
“I saw what they did,” he said. He didn’t bother saying who “they” were. Jim
knew.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim pressed him
for details. Lucky took a deep breath, then the story came tumbling out. The
first incident was in Florida, on the Tampa bus. A black man had climbed aboard
at one stop and immediately sat down on the first seat he could find – two
seats behind the driver and across from Lucky and his mother. Lucky was five at
the time and took special notice of the “colored” man because he’d seen so few
people of that pigment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Colored was the word Lucky had been taught was the polite
way to refer to people with dark skin. He imagined it as God covering someone’s
skin with black grease paint, like Mr. Al Jolson did making up for the minstrel
show in “The Jazz Singer,” one of Lucky’s favorite movies. Probably because
Lucky’s real name was Allan, he particularly related to the movie and its star.
After seeing the film, whenever he had the chance he’d announce to a captive
audience of relatives - “Okay, folks, this is Allan Jolson speaking. You ain’t
seen nothin’ yet!” And he’d drop to his knees and do a dramatic rendition of
“Mammy,” or another of Jolson’s minstrel show hits. He wanted to make up in
black face, like Jolson, but his mother said it was too messy. The thing is,
having never met a real black person, he thought the pigment was just a dark
cream. However, one day he discovered – to his mother’s total mortification –
that the color didn’t come off if you wiped your finger across a black person’s
skin. A train porter had been his experiment when he was about four. His mother
had been humiliated, but the porter had only chuckled and told his mother not
to mind, the boy meant no harm. Later, the man brought Lucky an ice cream, and
so he thought – well, these colored people were just as nice as Mr. Allan
Jolson.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But no one thought the colored fellow sitting behind the bus
driver was nice and Lucky heard people muttering things about the man. Then the
driver yelled at the guy – ordering him into the back of the bus. The colored
man shook his head – he wasn’t going to go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lucky’s mother whispered, “He must be drunk, the poor man.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While Lucky was trying to figure out what she meant, the
driver suddenly pulled the bus over to the curb. He got out his seat – and
Lucky was startled to see him jerk the change machine off his belt and clutch
it in his fist – and stalk down the aisle toward the colored man. At the same
time, several other passengers – all big, strong, white men – got up to help. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The colored man started to rise, but the bus driver hit him
full force in the face. Quarters and nickels and dimes went flying down the
aisle. The colored man fell back in his seat and Lucky’s stomach did flip flops
when he saw that his face was a ruin of blood. Using curse words Lucky had
never heard before, the passengers lifted the stunned man from his seat,
dragging him to the front. The driver pulled the lever, opening the door and
the men threw the man into the street.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lucky heard his mother sob, but he didn’t turn to her,
instead he pressed his face against the window to see what was happening. He
saw the colored man struggle, but heavy blows from his captors soon stopped
that. The white men dragged him to the bus stop sign post. One of the men
pulled off the victim’s belt. They made a noose out of it and looped it over
the man’s head. Just then Lucky heard the driver grind the gears and the bus
gave a lurch. And as the bus pulled away, Lucky saw the white men hoist their
victim up on the sign, where he kicked and jerked… and then he was out of
sight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It was an image that would remain with Lucky the rest of his
life. The man hanging by the neck from his own belt, kicking and fighting and
trying to clutch the belt to relieve the pressure. And his assassins – two men
grabbing each hand and pulling them behind his back, another hitting him in the
stomach, to stop his struggling. Meanwhile a crowd of curious white people
gathered, watching with great interest. And not one person trying to intervene.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He’d witnessed
other atrocities – so common in America’s south in those days. He’d seen a
black man dangled by his heels over an open elevator shaft, because he’d said
something that the assistant manager of Penney’s Department Store believed
offensive. He’d seen a black man knocked down and run over, while he was
shoveling trash from a curb. The offending car had come to a rest on the man’s
thigh and Lucky stood there horrified as he screamed and screamed and screamed
and the white men cursed him for being a “stupid nigger” getting in the way of
their car. When they finally drove the car off his leg, the driver made certain
to back over the man again before he drove off. The man remained in the gutter,
moaning, blood streaming out and when Lucky asked him what he could do, the man
said, “Get away, white boy. I got enough trouble.” Lucky ignored this and
fetched the man’s family, but nobody looked at him or spoke to him, so he
finally got the idea and drifted away, feeling not just useless, but guilty, as
if he had run over the man himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim listened
intently, then sat in silence for a long time as he thought the whole thing
over. Finally, he said, “Those were terrible things to witness, Lucky,
especially for one so young. And I understand entirely the responsibility you
feel. After all, for better or worse, it is your country. So you believe very
deeply that you must use whatever talents you have to help end this evil, is
this not so?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky nodded. It
was so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Well, Lucky,”
Jim continued, “perhaps you can see why I feel responsible for what is
happening in my own country. Much wrong is being done – and not just by the
British. There are extremists on each side willing to cause harm to get their
way. It is my most cherished dream that I might use my talents as a negotiator
to help bring an end to this blight upon my country. So I suppose we are
brothers in purpose, you and I.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim reached up
on the shelf of books and drew out a slim volume. “Listen to what Pericles had
to say three thousand years ago about a man’s duties to his fellow man…” He
paged forward, found what he wanted, then read: “…Heroes have the whole earth
for their tomb<b>;</b> and in lands far from their own, where the column with
its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten
with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart. These take as your
model, and judging happiness to be the fruit of freedom and freedom of valor,
never decline the dangers of war<b>.</b> For it is not the miserable that would
most justly be unsparing of their lives; these have nothing to hope for: it is
rather they to whom continued life may bring reverses as yet unknown, and to
whom a fall, if it came, would be most tremendous in its consequences. And
surely, to a man of spirit, the degradation of cowardice must be immeasurably
more grievous than the unfelt death which strikes him in the midst of his
strength and patriotism!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The summer moved
swiftly, the fields turning brown under the hot sun until all one could see was
an endless dry plain that ran all the way to the mountains. The cicadas buzzed
in the thirsty trees, the cactus and citrus orchards made the air heavy with the
sweet scent of their fruit. The grape vines sucked up all the moisture they
could get, the grapes swelling and swelling – the bees and wasps going mad
trying to pierce the flesh. Then, just as quickly they turned into raisins
practically overnight. People and animals disappeared in the afternoons, hiding
in every patch of shade available. They came out in the mornings or when the
day cooled from breezes blowing from the mountains and quickly did their work
before night fell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was recalled to Washington for briefings and the whole family went with him,
anxious to visit friends and relatives after all those many months abroad.
Athena remained unapproachable and so Lucky, lonely for female company, flirted
with some of the shop girls in the city and took them to the cinema and to nice
tavernas for refreshments and for romantic walks in Metaxa Square, where they
could slip into the shadowy glens for passionate embraces like young couples
had been doing there for centuries. They were all nice girls, intelligent and
interesting girls – and very accommodating girls. But he missed Donna and
Athena. And if he had to make a choice, it was Athena he missed the most.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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get her out of his mind. Once he saw her drive by in a taxi – she was in the
back seat with her mother and grandmother, off to some family outing, no doubt
– and she spotted him. She pressed her face against the window and gave him
such a mournful look that he wanted to cry. He thought about approaching Yorgo
to plead his case. But what was his case? That he’d never touched his daughter.
Well, okay, he’d touched her and pretty intimately, and she had him, but they
hadn’t like… well, <i>done</i> anything!
Lucky thought that somehow that wouldn’t go over with Yorgo. Heck, it wouldn’t
go over with any father the world over, much less the proud Greek who was
Yorgo. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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about Yorgo was that from all reports he’d become increasingly unstable – close
to violence. Yorgo was a big bear of a man, known all his life for his peaceful,
forgiving nature. Now, it was said, he flew off the handle at the slightest
perceived insult. At home, his rages had sent the women of his household
fleeing into the night, while his sons remained behind pleading with their
father to calm himself. No one had been struck. Not yet. But everybody in
Yorgo’s house was fearfully waiting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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their fears very well, indeed. There would be an awful ritual in their household,
a terrible dread. Yorgo would become increasingly moody, then snarl at slightest
affront. He’d start drinking steadily, sometimes acting the cheery fool,
sometimes the morose villain. You could never tell which would happen, except
if it went on long enough both stages would be reached. The clown – the good
time Charlie - would become as mean a man as Dickens’ Bill Sykes. He would
threaten with fist and club and who could tell what he would resort to next?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim accelerated
Lucky’s schooling after the coronation celebration. There were only a few weeks
left in the term, but because Lucky had missed so much while he was in the
hospital, Jim needed to make up for the time – there was a daily log he had to
fill out – and sign - to make sure Lucky’s class work was accredited. The
course work was not easy and the homework Jim dished out was staggering. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">When Lucky
complained, Jim said, “You lost almost a whole semester – and that was at a
British school with a poor reputation. I either have to put you back a grade,
or push you onward. You don’t want to be left behind when you return to
American do, you?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">His answer was a
definite “No.” But the last thing on Lucky’s mind was returning to America. The
whole idea of leaving Cyprus forever was too depressing to contemplate. As
finals loomed, it did not make it easier for him concentrate on his studies.
Oddly enough, he didn’t mind that Jim had proposed a summer session to assure
Lucky of catching up. Despite the mountain of school work, Lucky treasured
every moment he spent with his teacher.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Inspired by Jim,
he was filling whole composition books with essays, observations and snatches
of poetry. Jim was hard on his writing, making him do things over and over
again – editing and polishing to a tiresome extreme.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">When Lucky
balked after a rewrite on his latest essay, Jim reminded him that he – Lucky
Cole – had complained that he’d once ached to be a violinist, but his parents
had rejected his request. “If you had taken up the violin,” Jim said, “you
would have been required to play things hundreds of times if you wanted to
achieve some success.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky said
nothing, only sighed and shook his head. He had to admit that Jim’s methods had
certainly improved his writing. He only had to look at his test scores to see
that. Jim said his English levels were in the highest percentile possible in
the educational program.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“But they would
most certainly assume you were cheating to achieve such scores,” Jim said, “if
they saw this essay.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim pushed the
composition over to Lucky. It was open to the essay he’d just turned in.
Lucky’s heart sank when he saw all the red scrawls. He turned the page – this
was just as bad. So heavily marked up with errors that it looked someone had
bled on the pages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky got his
back up. “Okay, so it has some errors,” he said. “Spelling errors. Some
grammatical errors. But that’s just technical stuff. The point is, what did you think of the essay?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim shrugged.
“That a boy with very slovenly habits rudely assaulted my eyes with it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky was
exasperated. “Fitzgerald couldn’t spell. And he was one of the greatest writers
of the century.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“If Mr. F. Scott
Fitzgerald had been my student,” Jim said, “he would have been able to spell.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“It’s a good
essay,” Lucky insisted. “You just won’t admit it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim looked at
him through narrowed eyes. “Very well, if you insist on turning it in as it is
– with revisions and corrections – then I will grade it accordingly. I will
subtract ten points for each error.” He picked the essay up and quickly glanced
over it. “I suspect your grade, therefore, will be easily three or four hundred
points below zero.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky was
aghast. “That’s not fair,” he protested.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Nevertheless,”
Jim said, “that is my decision. So what will it be, Lucky? Revise, or accept
the consequences.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky was so
angry that he very nearly shoved the essay across the desk – and be damned to
the less than zero marks. But he thought better of it. “Okay,” he said, putting
the composition book back in the school bag. “I’ll fix it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim smiled.
“Just learn to use the dictionary,” he said. “Don’t trust your instincts
because for the moment your spelling and grammatical senses are all but
non-existent. Do it properly and in time such things will become second
nature.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">When Lucky rose
the next morning, he was eager for the school day to begin. He’d worked until
late in the night correcting his essay. Then, instead of being satisfied with
this result, he’d re-written the entire thing. He gone over the final product
with a fine-tooth comb and now he was anxious to show Jim just how really good
he could be if he put his mind to it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The essay
concerned an old man – Petros - he’d met the weekend after the coronation.
Petros – who admitted to being more than eighty - was a Greek Cypriot farmer
who in his youth had fought for Athens against the Turks. Now, nearly crippled
by arthritis, he still managed a day’s work that would test the endurance of a
much younger man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky met Petros
while rambling across the recently mowed fields near his home. There he came
upon a strange sight – a large golden circle of grain had been laid out on the
ground. The ground itself appeared so hard and smooth, that it looked like
stone. And the grain was laid out in a perfect circle, about three feet wide,
like a golden wedding band. In the center of that band was a finger, of sorts –
a thick post, weathered by the ages. Gray, like the stone and the ground. Rough
on the upper parts, where years of wind had cut at it, making shapes that could
be taken as faces if looked at a certain way. But then the post became
smoother, and more perfect as it centered itself into a great griddle of hewn
granite. It was a stone wheel, laid on its side, with a large hole drilled
through the center. Lucky supposed it was a discarded mill wheel – Jim had shown
him such things – because there were cracks running through the rock that would
definitely weaken it if put to a grinding purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">But the purpose
of this wheel, Lucky saw, was not to move, but to steady the post that would
whirl about if pressure were applied to the sturdy pole jutting out from it at
a right angle. The pole was fitted with leather straps that hung down from the
end. Sitting in the middle of the broad patch of grain was what looked like a
large sled, curved up both front and back like an ungainly boat. A rickety
chair was placed in the middle of the sled and next to the chair was a rusted
old jerry can with the top cut off. The boy studied the device for a long time,
trying to figure out what it was meant for. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Then an old man
hobbled into view leading an ox and it soon became clear. The farmer maneuvered
the ox beneath the leather straps and hitched it. Then he climbed up on the
sled, sat in the chair and coolly lit his pipe. Lucky knew the old man had seen
him, but was purposely ignoring him – having a little fun with the foreigner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Finally, the old
man picked up the reins and gave them a snap. The ox started moving, dragging
the heavy sled behind it – the post revolving along with the beast and the long
pole it was tethered to kept it on an exact path. It was then that it dawned on
Lucky what was happening. The old man was threshing the wheat by riding the
heavy sled across it. But what about the jerry-can? What was that for? A minute
later the ox answered the question by lifting its tail. Immediately the old man
leaned smoothly down, picked up the jerry-can and put it under the ox’s tail
just in time to catch a steaming load which would have fallen on the wheat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky laughed –
this was marvelous. He watched a while longer, then he got up to nerve to
approach the old man and ask for a ride. The old was delighted that the boy was
not only an American – he had a grandson in Detroit, perhaps Lucky knew him –
but spoke Greek as well. He introduced himself as Petros and invited him aboard
his wheat ship. Petros himself spoke decent English and the conversation moved
easily between both languages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The boy settled
in for an hour or more, taking over the jerry-can duties while the Petros
explained to him that the sled had been built by his great-grandfather “in the
time of the Turks.” He said it was made of a rare hardwood from the Troodos
mountains where the goddess lives, which meant it was an ideal sled for the
harvest. The flint bottom was made of stone that came from the Cypriot copper mines,
so it imparted that nourishing metal into the wheat. He said his family’s wheat
was known throughout the island as the most healthy from which to bake bread or
make humus. A little later, several women came out with blankets followed by a
group of small boys with rakes. Some of the boys scooped fresh wheat in front
of the sled, while others shoveled threshed wheat into the blankets, which
women tossed into the air, letting the breeze blow away the chaff, then
catching the grain again in the blankets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">After a time,
Petros called a halt, while the women fetched refreshments – bread and cheese
and olives, with a little sharp wine to wash it down, and some hay set out on a
blanket for the ox, as well as a pail of water. Lucky ate with Petros, munching
on the meal while the old man told him about the adventures of his youth. He
said he’d been a soldier in the Greek army when they fought the Turks. He
showed Lucky a great gaping scar on his leg caused by shrapnel from “a big
damned Turkish cannon.” He’d killed many Turks in return, he said, but had
returned home a different sort of man. He had many medals, but did not cherish
them. In fact, he thought so little of medals he let his grandchildren play
with them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“They give a man
a button, or a badge or a piece of ribbon for murder,” he said. “What kind of
thing is that? A man’s life for a shiny bit of nothing?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and sipped his wine as he reflected. “I suppose God will punish me for the
Turks I killed,” he finally said. “But I don’t worry so much about such things
any longer. How can the next life be more sorrowful than this one? Especially
for a man afflicted with my poor luck. Why, if the whole world fell into the
sun, like the philosophers say it must some day, this farm will remain a little
longer because I haven’t finished paying the filthy miser who loaned us money
for last season’s seed.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky asked him
what he thought about the new queen – Elizabeth II, who had just been crowned.
He explained to him, first, that he had attended the coronation ceremonies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The old man
studied for a moment, deciding whether to trust the lad. Then he said, “My
opinion is this: The new queen is no doubt a royal woman of honor. I do not
dispute this. But she comes to us in an unlucky time and I fear it will be
unlucky for the world, as well as her family, which surely cannot prosper now
that her man, her – how do you say – her hero defiled the holy voono – the
mountain of the gods.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky was agog.
“You mean Hillary?” he said. “The man who conquered Everest?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Petros nodded.
“Oh, yes… he conquered… or so the fellow on the radio in my daughter’s house
reports. But in my opinion he insulted the mountain. It did not wish to be
climbed, yet he did so anyway although there was no purpose to it, except to
shame the mountain. And so I say that the mountain has no choice but to bring
ill fortune to the queen whose man did this thing.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“What do you
think is going to happen?” Lucky asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The old man
shrugged. “Who can say what a mountain will do or not do? Or how many will
suffer because they are in its path. Now is boso keendinos – so much danger –
for all of us. So take a care how you go, Mr. Lucky. Take a care how you go.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">And so that was
what Lucky had written about – the old man’s pacifist views, forged in war, and
his feelings that nature was being dangerously despoiled by modern man. Lucky
had recently read Joseph Conrad’s “Green Mansions,” and he wondered if any of
themes in that wonderful book were reflected in his own essay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Thinking about
this, he went to the sink and turned on the water. As he bent down to scoop up
water, he suddenly felt very strange. Dizzy and sick to his stomach. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">There was a
roaring in his ears and he staggered, unsteady on his feet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He grabbed the
sides of the sink, fighting to keep his balance. His vision became blurred –
the face he saw in the bathroom mirror was rocking side to side in a motion
that made him feel sicker still.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Then he felt a
lurch. The whole house seemed like it was tilting up and up and up and there
were terrible sounds like immense beasts grinding their teeth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">There was a hard
bump against his belly and he stared down in horror as the sink broke free of
its moorings and came rushing out at him on thick twisting tentacles of steel
pipe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky watched in
frozen shock as the naked pipes burst through the plaster like they were being
driven by an enormous hammer-wielding giant. The pipes carried the sink before
him – bulling into him so hard that he nearly fell over. He held on to the
sink, his head going back and back until he was just hanging there, helplessly
staring up at the ceiling, legs sprawled out beneath the sink, which was now
rocking back and forth and making wild metallic shrieks as if it were alive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">There was a
rumble and a violent lurch and then he saw a great crack start across the
ceiling – jagged as a lightning bolt – and plaster showered down on him. He saw
the bare wood slats beneath the plaster and electrical wires fell down, torn loose
from their fastenings. Another lurch, and suddenly he was being dragged forward
as the sink was drawn back into its original position. There was so much force
to the motion that he felt like he’d been grabbed by the scruff of the neck and
slammed forward. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He lost his hold
on the sink and staggered backward, windmilling his arms and bouncing against
the opposite wall. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Somewhere, he
heard Brosina wail and his mother shout, “Lucky! Lucky!” The way she called
when everything had gone to hell and she needed him. But the house gave another
lurch, bouncing him back against the sink. He hit his head on the mirror and it
shattered. He reached up, expecting blood, but thank God he wasn’t cut.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">With all his
strength he tried to stand up straight and go to his mother, but his legs
wouldn’t move – he felt as if an enormous weight was pushing down on him and he
thought madly that maybe he’d been transported to one of those heavy gravity
worlds in the science fiction books and scared as he was, he almost laughed hysterically
at the thought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Then, suddenly,
it was over and he was standing ankle deep in broken plaster, the air
shimmering in sunlight streaming through a broken window, white particles of
plaster floating as if suspended in water. Everything was unreal, as if he were
permanently mired in a dream state. He turned his head, scanning the bathroom,
and it seemed as if his eyes were slow motion cameras, making him feel so dizzy
and disoriented that he had to brace himself against the hot water tank. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He smelled
kerosene and looked down and saw fuel leaking out of the tank into a growing
pool of water that was gushing across the floor. Dizzy, he found the kerosene
petcock and shut it off.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Then he heard
his little brother cry and full awareness returned. He turned and encountered
the bathroom door, which was partially open, but had torn from its top mooring.
When he pulled, the door dug into the bathroom tile. He put real strength
behind the next tug, so much so that the bottom corner of the door ripped away
– sending a wave of kerosene-tainted water sloshing over his shoes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He raced from
the room and down a long hallway whose floor was awash with water-soaked
debris. It was a utility area that contained the fuse box which controlled the
electricity to the house. As he moved through the narrow room he saw a light
bulb sparking at its connection and he stopped at the fuse box, threw it open,
and slammed down the lever that cut off the power. In case of attack, both his
father and his CIA counselor had drilled into him, cut the power. It can be
your worst enemy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">As he continued
on his way he went by an open window and automatically ducked down. Don’t give
them a target, his counselor had warned. Don’t cross a window, don’t pass by an
open door. At this point Lucky had no idea what had happed. Had the Russians
bombed them? Or Enosis guerillas? Who could say? In any case, he had no time to
consider, as he rushed toward the sound of his bawling little brother.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky found
Charlie in the kitchen, safely clutched in his mother’s arms – unharmed, but
scared as hell. Brosina stood next to Helen, a broom gripped in her hands as if
it were a weapon. When Brosina saw Lucky she burst into tears of relief.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Sees-mos!”
Brosina croaked. “Sees-mos!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">And now it
dawned on Lucky what had happened. It wasn’t the Russians at all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Right,” he
said. “Sees-mos. An earthquake,” Lucky said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Brosina kept
bawling as did Charlie. His mother stood there pale, but straight as a soldier.
Lucky knew he had to reassure everyone, even though he wasn’t that certain of
anything at all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“It’s over, now,
Brosina,” he said. “It’s Telos.” He mouthed the word to Brosina, so she could
read his lips: “Tel-os. Tel-os.” He made a cutting motion at his throat. “It’s
ended.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He went to his
mother and pulled her and his crying brother into an embrace. “It’s okay,” he
said. “It’s okay.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Let’s give
Charlie some warm milk,” his mother said. “That always calms him down.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky stepped
back, nodding. As always his mother was steady as a rock in an emergency. He
went to the refrigerator to get out some milk. But as he opened the door there
was a grinding lurch and he found himself suddenly hanging from the door as it
swung violently back and forth, his feet skittering on the tile as he fought
futility to stay on his feet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">His said mother
shouted, “Lucky!” And Brosina wailed in fear. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Then the
refrigerator started to topple over on him and he tried to hold it up. All the
contents came tumbling out, spattering Lucky with food, glass smashing onto the
floor. There was a shriek of metal and then a loud bang! as the kitchen water
pipes burst and the room was suddenly flooded. Lucky pushed the refrigerator
away and staggered to the kitchen door – fighting to keep his balance on the
food-slick floor. Finally, he got a good grip on the jamb and held on as the
rocking continued.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Then it was
still again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky looked
around and saw his mother crouched under the kitchen table with his brother,
while Brosina held onto the sink, water gushing across her feet. All was silent,
except for the creaking of the house and the sound of the flowing water.
Brosina motioned for Lucky to help her – gesturing under the sink and turning
her wrist. She was trying to tell him that they had to shut the water off.
Lucky got on his hands and knees and crawled under the sink, water fountaining
into his face. Blindly, he reached around until he found the turnoff valve and
got it closed. The water stopped and he stayed on his knees a moment, water
dripping from him, panting to get his breath. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Brosina tugged
at him to come out and he heard his mother say, “The stove. She wants us to
shut off the kerosene.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Numb, Lucky
nodded and climbed to his feet. “Stay under the table in case it comes again,”
he told his mother.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Then he pulled
the stove away from the wall and he shut the valve that fed kerosene into the range.
Meanwhile, Brosina was racing about the house, dealing with other kerosene
sources.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Helen came out
from under the table, Charlie whimpering in her arms. “We’d better get into the
living room,” she said. “It’ll be safer there.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">And so they fled
to the living room, which was undamaged, except for a few knick knacks that had
fallen off the radio console. Lucky got his mother to sit on the big couch and
then went to fetch Brosina. It was the other maid’s day off, so he didn’t have
to worry about her. He put Brosina with his mother then raced into the kitchen
to get milk for his brother. Fortunately the bottle was intact, as was a large
jug of boiled water. He brought those back with him, along with some bread and
goat’s cheese.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">While Brosina
made a little picnic for them he collapsed on the large, overstuffed chair next
to the radio. He turned on the news, but all he heard was static.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Maybe the tower
is down,” his mother said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky nodded.
Maybe. He thought he’d get the short wave radio out of his room and see what
was happening. As he started to rise another shock rocked the house. It was
like a huge hand was pushing down on him and he fell back into the chair. He
heard something crack! and he looked up at the big chandelier dangling over
him. It had come part way loose from the ceiling and had dropped down about a
foot. Another crack! and it plunged down, only to be brought up short by an
electrical wire a scant two or three feet above Lucky’s head.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He heard
Brosina’s strangled cry and then her strong hands gripped his arms and he was
pulled bodily off the chair. They both fell onto the floor just as the
chandelier came the rest of the way, crashing onto the chair, then smashing onto
the floor – glass showering everywhere. Brosina and Lucky stayed there for what
seemed hours, but was surely only scant minutes, as the house and shook and
windows burst and hunks of plaster crashed down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Then, once
again, peace returned. Gingerly Lucky sat up. He looked at Brosina – she was
ghostly white from all the plaster, but seemed unhurt. He looked over at his
mother, who was rocking Charlie in her arms cooing, “It’s alright. It’s
alright.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky hugged
Brosina, thanking her and she burst into tears, clinging to him as if it were
he who had saved her, instead of the other way around. Finally, trembling
nerves under control, they pulled the heavy couch away from the wall, making a
space behind it. Then they all crawled into it, pulling the couch back again so
they could use it as a shield. They huddled there in the cool dark, as several
more aftershocks hit. They remained there for nearly two hours to make certain
that the earthquakes had stopped.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Finally, Lucky
pushed the couch away and crawled out, the others following. Glancing around,
he saw that everything in the room was covered by plaster, but other than the
chandelier, nothing seemed to be broken. He went into the reception area and
here everything seemed fine, except for the broken windows.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">With some
trepidation, Lucky went to the front door and pulled it open. He blinked in the
bright sunlight, feeling disoriented, but not sure why. Gourds from the
overhead vine were smashed against the pathway, but other than that nothing
appeared amiss. He looked across the street, but saw nothing out of the
ordinary. He thought he heard shouting, but wasn’t sure. Still, things didn’t
seem right, but he couldn’t put his finger on what it was.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He went to the
front gate and opened it and then stood there, stunned. The reason for his
confusion was now frighteningly clear. There was a great absence of the village
skyline. Other than the sturdy old church and its bell tower, there was not a
roof in sight. In fact, looking straight across the street the first thing that
met his eye were scores of people running through the fields toward the scene
of the disaster.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The village
itself consisted of nothing more than mounds of broken adobe bricks. All the
homes had collapsed. All the beehive ovens turned to dust. Even the outhouses
were no more than holes, surrounded by debris. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">As he scanned
the rubble, he saw not one single human being. Then he heard dogs bark, then a
few babies crying – their wails as lonely as train whistles in the night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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itself from a collapsed tunnel. Then a little girl emerged, her clothing torn,
her face bloody. She came out on her knees, brushed dirt from her face, then
turned around and started pawing at the broken bricks, crying, “Mah-nah!
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hysterical. Determinedly pulling clay blocks aside and calling for her mother,
“Mah-nah! Mah-nah!” He wanted to help her, but was pushed aside by several
villagers who dropped to their knees and began digging and lifting aside broken
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mother was the woman known as the Widow Anthi, a weaver who supported two
children with her skills on the loom. Many a time while Lucky daydreamed, he
had listened to the weep-weep of her loom as the shuttle cock flew back and
forth in a steady, rhythm. They all dug and dug and the girl wept, holding up
bleeding fingers that could dig no more. She tugged at a man’s shirt and he took
it off. The girl wrapped her hands in the shirt and continued digging – more
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daring to nip their arms and legs. Lucky recognized the animal as being the
family dog. One and the other village lads had played with on many idle
afternoons. But now the animal thought of them as the ones who had somehow
destroyed the house and was probably trying to find his mistress and hurt her.
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idea and jammed its nose into the rubble. It ran here and there, sniffing,
pawing at this place and that – whining all the while. Then it came to a spot
and gave out a yelp and started digging frantically. Guessing the dog had found
his mistress, Lucky rushed over to help, but it became apparent he would just
be getting in the way, so he stood back, while the dog and the villagers dug, hurling
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saw the Turkish police chief. His face was deathly white, his eyes wild. Behind
the chief, Lucky saw two young Turkish cops from the station. He knew the Turk
spoke English, but Lucky was so numb he could only think in truncated. He tried
to think of the man’s name, but the only thing that came to him was chief. Then
he remembered – Bulent. Chief Bulent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Chief Bulent,”
he cried. “Ella Anthi! Ella Anthi!” Which made no sense at all, since it meant
come here, Anthi. And this had nothing to do with the situation, but Bulent
immediately got his meaning. He shouted
orders to his men and they shoved the girl and the villagers aside and started
digging. His men positioned themselves on the other side of the mound and dug
for all they were worth, driven on by both Bulent and Lucky shouting the nonsensical,
“Ella Anthi! Ella Anthi!” The little dog charged around the men, barking and
pushing to the front when he thought they’d gone astray. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bluent suddenly stopped. He sat back on his heels and lifted his head to the
heavens giving such an awful and blasphemous curse that Lucky knew he’d found
the body. His shouted orders to his men, who rushed to his side to help him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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like an eternity Bulent lifted a dusty form out of the earth. She came out like
a corpse retrieved from a recent grave. Anthi was perfectly dressed and even
made up, although her hair and face was clotted with earth which fell from her
as the big Turk clasped her bloody form. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Anthi!” he
cried, in a voice so mournful that Lucky would remember it for the rest of his
life. “Anthi, ahgahpee!” Anthi my love, is what he was saying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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corpse, his face twisted in awful pain. A mad, unkind thought came unbidden
into Lucky’s mind – so it was true that the Turkish police chief was a lover of
the beautiful Widow, Anthi. Many young Greek men had been jealous about that,
but nothing could be proven. And now it was shown to be all too-true and nobody
could compete again for the lovely widow’s company.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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climbed to his feet, his dead lover cradled in his arms. He staggered back to
the station, weeping and calling to Allah. The little girl followed, tugging at
his muddy trousers, crying, “Mah-nah! Mah-nah!” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Lucky In Cyprus brought back many memories... A wonderful book. So many shadows blown away!" - Freddy & Maureen Smart, Episkopi,Cyprus. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; text-indent: 0in;">L</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 0in;">ucky’s Uncle
Charles used to say that the sun never set on the British Empire because “God
wants to make sure what the bastards are up to.” But in the Year Of Our Lord
Nineteen Hundred And Fifty Three A.D. the sun also lit up a world-wide
celebration. Everyone, but everyone had gone “Liz crazy.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Elizabeth – the
popular young queen of England – had assumed the throne after her father’s
death the year Lucky arrived in Cyprus. A war-time princess, she and her sister
had remained in England during the German bombings, making public appearances
and speaking on the radio to help steel the public against the depredations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The
international press doted on her ever after, telling breathless tales of her
betrothal, then marriage, to a Greek prince. Filing voluminous reports on her
children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne. The Media wept with her upon her
father’s death and wondered in world-wide broadcasts if the young Queen was
strong enough to shoulder such a heavy burden.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">They quickly
answered their own questions with a resounding “Yes” that played out daily on
millions of radios and tens of thousands of television sets. During special
broadcasts whole neighborhoods packed the homes of the fortunate few proud
owners of those flickering black and white sets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky’s
grandmother in Philadelphia – who possessed such a device – wrote to say that
she didn’t mind all the neighbors coming over, but it was getting to be a
bother cleaning up after them. And then, as if interest wasn’t keen enough, New
Zealand adventurer Edmund Hillary, became the first man to conquer Mt. Everest
and he dedicated his feat to his new sovereign.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Some said this
would herald in a new era for Britain, there was even talk of a second
Elizabethan “Golden age.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">In Cyprus, where
the subject of Enosis and Cypriot independence from Britain was growing more
heated by the day, people were just as excited as everywhere else. Never mind
the shouts of “down with British rule!” Elizabeth was <i>their</i> queen, too,
by God, and they all admired her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky learned
that the Cypriots didn’t blame the Queen – who, after all, was married to Greek
royalty - for the transgressions of their imperious British masters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">In the local
taverna, Lucky heard people say, “If She only knew She would end this
injustice.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The ever-cynical
CIA guy Joe Davis said that throughout history it had always been so. “People
don’t blame the crown,” he said at a weekly chess meeting. “Never did - from
old King Nebakanezer on. They figure it’s the fault of the nobles and
bureaucrats who’re so crooked they screw their socks on in the morning when
they get up. The peasants think if only they could spill the beans to the king
he’d set things straight. That’s why the Russians peasants shot all the
Romanoffs. They finally found out it was a lie all the way to the top.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Whatever the
reason, as the coronation of Queen Elizabeth approached, all of Cyprus was
agog. Every merchant filled his shelves with coronation memorabilia. There were
tea pots with pictures of the Queen and her family; framed Madonna-like
portraits of Elizabeth and scarves and blouses decorated with royal scenes and
symbols and even butter molds that displayed the royal seal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">That was just
the imported memorabilia – some of which came all the way from India, a country
which had only recently won its independence but had gone as “Liz crazy” as
every other colony or former colony in the realm. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Cypriot
craftsmen went all out, carving wooden statues and icons, casting tableware of
pewter and silver. Lucky’s blacksmith friend was making a handsome profit using
his new electric torch to braze the Queen’s face on metal plates. Mr. Zenos,
the carpenter, was commissioned to construct an enormous dining room set for a
rich Turk. The table chairs featured lions’ claws and when the table was drawn
out to its full length, Elizabeth’s engraved image appeared.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Not just the
BBC, but local radio broadcasts were obsessed with the coming coronation and it
seemed that every program, be it music, news casts, even Greek soap operas,
dwelt on the subject. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Oddly enough,
the Russians took a break from their jamming activities and Lucky’s father
laughed at reports that Moscow appeared to be as royalty mad as the rest of the
world. “Nikita Khrushchev gave a speech the other day,” he said,
“congratulating the Queen and reminding everybody that the Romanoffs were first
cousins to the British royal family.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Countless
parties were staged all over the island with the grandest soirees being planned
for June 2 – the day of the official crowning. From the poorest taverna to the
most glittering mansion, people readied mountains of food and rivers of drink
to celebrate the young queen’s ascension to the throne. Since the great day
fell on a Tuesday, a four-day island-wide holiday was declared, with most
people getting a good head start the week before, if the number of inebriates
at the local Pallouriotissa taverna was any indication. The police station down
the street from Lucky’s house was decorated with Union Jacks and patriotic
banners and the police chief and his men played music on their radio all day,
while swigging from clay jugs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The grandest
soiree of all was the Governor General’s Tattoo, which was being staged at the
same amphitheater Lucky and Donna had visited when they saw the “Medea.” Hosted
by the British Governor General, the festival would include marching bands,
displays of martial excellence, singers and dancers famed throughout the empire
and a fireworks exhibit that was being prepared by the former fireworks master
of the richest rajah in India.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Invitations to
the tattoo were restricted and as sought after as any inaugural in the island’s
long history of royal events. Security was extremely tight because of the
growing unrest over Enosis. It was well known that Khrushchev and Malenkov,
Stalin’s successor, – the new leaders of the Soviet Union – were casting eyes
on Cyprus and had gone so far as to cite old treaties with the Ottoman Turks
that allegedly promised certain rights to Cypriot ports.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim, as a
prominent member of the young men’s business association, had won an invite to
sit in the mayor’s box with other Nicosia city officials. He told a humorous
story about the British agents who came to visit him – sweltering in long leather
coats in the late May heat – to quiz him about his contacts with “certain
undesirables.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“They meant
Yorgo,” Jim laughed. “The greatest capitalist communist in all of Cyprus.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky didn’t
think it was funny, but he forced a smile. “What did you say?” he asked, trying
to hide his anxiety.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He’d been
worried about Yorgo since the trouble over Athena. They’d been able to see each
other – but only for a few minutes at a time – during “chance” encounters. She
said her father had been acting oddly since Stalin’s death. Drinking heavily
and subject to sudden emotional outbursts that ranged from angry shouting to
drunken tears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim shrugged.
“There was nothing to say. Yorgo’s politics may be strange, but he does own the
largest lumber company in Nicosia and is an important builder.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky doubted
this explanation would satisfy the British investigators. “Did you tell them
you’re my teacher?” He asked cautiously.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Why, yes, I
did,” Jim said. “I didn’t tell them immediately – what would be the point of
that? But when they left I had definite feeling that they weren’t going to
approve my invitation. But they rang back later and asked about my business
with you and your father and mother.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky nodded.
“So, now it’s okay, right?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Right,” Jim
said. He gave Lucky an odd look. “But what does my job teaching you have to do
with it?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Oh, probably
because my folks and I are attending,” Lucky said. “All the American embassy
families have invitations. So they probably put it together, right? When
checking out my family to make sure we’re okay?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jim hesitated,
then nodded. “I suppose so,” he said. But he didn’t seem entirely convinced.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky asked a
question about his math assignment and soon steered him off the subject.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The weekend
before the coronation, Lucky and his mother were interrupted at lunch by a
honking horn, pounding on the front door and cheery male voices calling his
name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">It was his
hospital chums, Harry, Brian and Kenneth and at first he thought they’d come to
spirit him away on another adventure. He peeked outside and with some
disappointment saw there were only two girls in the car – both nurses from the
hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Sorry to bother
you, Mrs. Cole,” they said to his mother. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">She urged them
to come in for refreshments, “Invite your friends,” she said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Yeah, come on
in,” Lucky said, pulling the door wider.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Harry rubbed
Lucky’s head affectionately. “Thanks all the same but we promised to get the
girls back for their four o’clock shift,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Brian came
forward, which was unusual, because as a major, Harry usually spoke for the
group. “It’s like this, Mrs. Cole,” he said. “The coronation is coming up and…
well… my presence has been commandeered by the powers that be and I wanted all
my mates around so I don’t make too big of an ass of myself – begging your
pardon.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“You mean the
Governor’s tattoo?” Lucky’s mother asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“The very one,”
Brian said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“But Lucky is
already going to attend, Brian,” Helen said. “In fact, the whole family has an
invitation.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Brian squirmed
with discomfort. “Sure, I… uh… reckoned you would be… but, uh… Well, I just
thought I’d ask.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Harry smoothly
broke in. “Brian’s been invited to open the festivities, Mrs. Cole,” he said.
“He’ll be in the Governor’s box. Along with me and Kenneth.” Kenneth grinned
and gave her a casual salute. “It’s the four musketeers from the hospital, you
see. Except without Lucky – who is our D’Artagnon – we’re short one musketeer.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky’s mother
smiled in understanding and said she’d be happy to have him ready when they
came to pick him up. The guys left with much horn honking, gravel skidding, and
music blaring on the radio.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">As Lucky and his
mother turned back inside, she asked, “I wonder what’s so special about Brian
that he caught the eye of the governor?” Lucky shrugged - he had no idea. His mother asked, “What was
Brian in the hospital for?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“He’s a
demolition expert,” Lucky said. “He was defusing a bomb and something went
wrong. Kenneth said the whole bomb didn’t go, just the detonator, which Brian
had already pulled.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky’s mother
paled as she imagined the incident. Like most people of her generation,
however, she was a veteran of war traumas and quickly recovered. “Didn’t you
say that he’s only a lieutenant?” she asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Yeah, a
lieutenant,” Lucky said. “But everybody looks up to him and goes along with
him. Even Harry – and he’s a major. If Brian says something, people listen. And
they sort of do what he says.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky laughed at
the memory of an incident at the hospital. “I saw a general salute him once,”
he said. “Can you imagine that?” He shook his head. “Boy, that Brian. He’s got
everybody fooled.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">His mother said
quietly, “Well, obviously there’s more to Brian than meets the eye.” She gave
Lucky a look. “Is he the son of a lord, or something? Or a rich man’s son?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky had to
laugh at that. “Brian always says that he’s as common as a mustard jar,” he
said. “But he does have money. I think his father’s a big shot union leader, or
something. He’s always loaning Harry and Kenneth money when they get in a jam.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Well, I guess
we’ll learn more at the Governor’s tattoo,” Lucky’s mother said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">A few days
later, Donna called and told Lucky she hoped his feelings wouldn’t be hurt, but
she had to withdraw her invitation for him to sit with her at the tattoo. The
boxes reserved for American embassy bigwigs, like her father, had been
over-promised and there was no longer enough room for Lucky. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky frowned.
Donna’s voice had sounded a little tense. So he asked. “Is there enough room
for David Sisco?” Her silence was reply enough. “So he’s still telling stories
about me,” Lucky said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“He never
stopped,” Donna said. “I warned you about him, didn’t I?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky was both
angry and relieved. He’d been trying to figure out how to tell Donna that he
wasn’t going with her after all. That he’d be with his British mates, instead.
“Will we be able to see each other later?” he asked. “I mean, has that changed
too?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Another long
silence. Then, “It’s not going to be easy.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“No, I guess it
won’t be,” Lucky said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">*****<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky had his
revenge at approximately 5 p.m. that Tuesday when he mounted the long stairs in
the company of Harry, Kenneth and Brian - who were all wearing tailored dress
uniforms, with medals of heroism tumbling down their chests. Obsequious ushers
led them to the Royal Box, where the island’s two greatest men held forth – The
British Governor General and the famed Cypriot leader of both church and state,
the Archbishop Makarios. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">As Lucky climbed
the stairs, he saw the proud looks of his parents, then the astonished
reactions of foes and friends alike. At first, they weren’t sure what was
happening. Larry and Tom Johnson waved and shouted for him to join them. Further
on, a banner hung over one row of seats, proclaiming it the territory of the
British school he’d once attended. He saw his enemies – Dr. Blackpool, the
headmaster, Quinton-Thomas the surly teacher with the heavy hand, and there was
Derek the betrayer, miserable as ever. And, of course, Simms, the pimple-faced
tormentor of lower form lads. Simms purpled when he saw Lucky. He half rose,
but then spotted the three uniformed soldiers accompanying Lucky and quickly
sat down again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Higher still,
Lucky saw Donna, along with her mother and father and the Siscos - including
David who was sitting next to her. He sneered at Lucky and shouted, “You’re in
the lower seats, Cole.” He laughed at what he assumed was Lucky’s error, but
then his father leaned forward and whispered something. Sisco turned beet red.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">On the next
landing, just below the Governor General’s box, sat Jim and the mayor of
Nicosia, along with other city officials.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Lucky!” Jim
cried. “Look how you’re coming up in the world.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He waved the boy
over and Lucky drew Brian and the others aside so they could meet Jim and be
enthused over by the mayor and his cronies. Then the ushers were hurrying them
along to the royal box. And as they approached the resplendent group within –
the Governor General in full dress uniform and his glittering aides, and
bejeweled wife, along with Archbishop Makarios with his long, forbidding beard
and kind eyes – the band struck up a stirring tune.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The announcer
boomed, “Ladies and gentleman. We proudly present our special guest – Victoria
Cross Honoree…. Lieutenant Brian Fogerty!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Everyone rose to
applaud Brian and to stare at the medal on his chest. It was a large,
distinctive cross, dark brown – almost gold - in color and emblazoned with the
British Lion. It hung from a wide ribbon of dark red.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky saw
military men in the audience salute Brian and many wiped away tears. In the few
minutes he’d had with his friends before reaching the stadium, Lucky had
learned that the Victoria Cross was the equivalent of the American
Congressional Medal of Honor. Since it was first awarded in 1854, little more
than a thousand men and women had been awarded the medal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“You mean,
you’re like Audie Murphy, or Sgt. York?” Lucky said, eyes as wide as dinner
platters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Brian was
embarrassed. “I didn’t do anything like those blokes,” he said. “I just managed
to live, is all.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">When he was
pressed for details, Brian dug in his heels and only said that it had to do
with “a little light machine gun work, is all.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Later on, Harry
told Lucky that the action involved a great deal more than that. Not only had
Brian fought off an overwhelming force of Germans, but he’d carried two wounded
men to safety, including his company commander. Under fire the whole time, he
carried first one man, then gone back to retrieve the other. Brian overheard
part of it and told Harry not to “fill the boy’s head with crazy stories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">But for the
present, Brian stood straight as an arrow as he shook hands all around – first
the Governor General, then Makarios, then the others. He introduced Harry and
Kenneth and there was more hand shaking. Then he nudged Lucky forward.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“We’d like you
to meet a very special friend of ours, Governor,” he said. “He’s a famous lad
over at the base hospital, where he’s done more for our spirits than a World
Cup trophy.” He hesitated, losing his place and blushing, then added, “His
name’s Lucky Cole, Governor. Lucky Cole.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The Governor
General, a tall, fit man with steel gray hair and piercing blue eyes, bent to
shake Lucky’s hand. “Heard of you, of course,” he said. “The American boy. A
mighty sick lad, if memory serves. The American consul came to see me about
getting you proper medical care.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Although Lucky’s
hand was engulfed by the man’s massive paw, he tried to return a firm grip,
like his father had taught him. “Thank you, sir,” he said. He wanted to say
more. He wanted to say that the Governor General’s intervention had saved his
life and he even opened his mouth to speak those words. But he was too overcome
by the moment. Instead, he just pumped the man’s hand and repeated, “Thank you,
sir.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He was saved
from total embarrassment by the band, which struck up “God Save The Queen.”
Everyone rose to sing, hands over hearts for civilians, salutes for military
men and women. Lucky, who had mocked the song at the British Academy, not so
long ago, stood tall with all the rest, right palm on his breast, singing along
with the others. He owed it to them, by God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The coronation
ceremonies in Cyprus went off famously – as they did worldwide. Lucky saw
marvelous displays of marching men, including a whole company of kilt-wearing Scotsmen.
Mock battles were staged, along with much gunfire, acrobatic assaults on
blazing barricades and a dazzling ballet on ropes of men dangling from a
helicopter – an exotic flying machine in 1953.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Refreshments
were served continuously – there were long buffet tables set up in the
amphitheater’s gallery, with every kind of food available – from Greek dishes,
to Indian curries, to fish and chips and peas. There were also bars stocked
with liquor that flowed freely throughout the night. There was no need for
anyone in the Governor’s box to attend the buffet – waiters whisked trays of
food and drink in and out in a steady stream.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">When the time
was right, Lucky fetched Jim and the mayor of Nicosia – Mr. Dervis – to meet
his friends. Jim immediately hit it off with the “Musketeers,” and was soon
boasting about his prize student. Mayor Dervis and the Governor General were
drawn into deep conversation, looking up once in awhile to applaud something on
the field that they really hadn’t seen, but because of their position, had to
acknowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lucky couldn’t
help but notice that the conversation was tense, but not entirely unfriendly –
the two men seemed to appreciate one another. But it was definitely stressful
and mostly negative, with frequent shakes of the heads, followed by smiles and
nods to make up for it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Night fell and
the pyrotechnics began. The rajah’s man put on a fabulous show, with rockets
and sparklers turning the sky into a wonderland of images of people and funny
animals. The final display was an enormous pyrotechnic portrait on Queen
Elizabeth II. It was so detailed that it looked like a portrait created by an
artist using fire for paint. Drums rolled and everyone cheered. Many people
were so overcome by emotion they were weeping. Then the band played “It’s a
long way to Tipperary” and the whole audience joined in singing:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">It’s
a long way to Tipperary,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">It’s
a long way to go,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">It’s
a long way to Tipperary,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">To
the sweetest girl I know!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Goodbye
Piccadilly! Farewell Leicester Square!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">It’s
a long, long way to Tipperary,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">But
my heart’s right there!”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">A whiff of
familiar perfume thrilled his senses and
as he turned his head, Donna leaned in and whispered in his ear, “Let’s take a
walk.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">And so they did,
threading their way through the crowd – and no one noticing them – until they
came to the buffet area. It was almost empty, with all the waiters and
waitresses and cooks off to see the entertainment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Donna drew Lucky
into a hallway and stood on her toes to kiss him. He was overcome with desire,
pressing her against the wall, kissing her long and deep. It started getting
pretty passionate and then the band struck up “God Save The Queen” once more
and they both knew the tattoo was over and they broke apart. Lucky was a little
embarrassed and didn’t know what to say. Donna suddenly came forward again to
kiss him once more. And she said in a soft, sweet voice- “Now I’m Lucky’s girl…
Lucky’s girl.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Oh, yeah,”
Lucky said, trembling.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">But as he kissed
Donna again, he wondered where Athena was and what she was doing at this
minute.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><br /></b>
<b>He was a giant
of a man,</b> dressed in a heavy cloak over knee-high leather boots. His face
was a mask of exaggerated cruelty. He stalked the marble platform, threatening
a poor woman, dressed in simple robes and sandals. She wore a frozen look of deep,
deep sorrow.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
The man was Creon and he was bellowing: "Hark
thee, Medea, I bid thee take those sullen looks and angry thoughts against thy
husband forth from this land in exile, and with thee take both thy children and
that without delay, for I am judge in this sentence, and I will not return unto
my house till I banish thee beyond the borders of the land." </div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
The woman turned her sad mask up at Lucky and Donna,
wailing, "Ah, me! now is utter destruction come upon me, unhappy that I
am! For my enemies are bearing down on me full sail, nor have I any
landing-place to come at in my trouble. Yet for all my wretched plight I will
ask thee, Creon, wherefore dost thou drive me from the land?"</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
The audience hissed at Creon for being such a cruel
bastard and Donna gripped Lucky’s hand harder, hissing along with them. He
couldn’t help smiling, more in relief than humor.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Despite Donna’s casual assurances that Lucky could
ask her out, he’d run into a roadblock with Donna’s mother who thought she was
too young to start dating. Lucky got around this by ditching the circus idea
and saying that he was planning a cultural outing – an educational experience
suggested by his teacher for an essay he’d been assigned.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
This was untrue, but Lucky was thinking as fast he
could under difficult circumstances. While he waited for the dreaded question
to fall about the subject of the essay, he pummeled his brains for an answer
that would fit the motherhood bill. Then he remembered the outdoor theater Jim had
taken him to some weeks before. They staged ancient Greek plays there during
the day and showed films on a portable screen at night – sort of like a
drive-in, except without cars. Everyone sat on stone benches that circled the
arena, which dated back a thousand years or more. Jim had shown Lucky a
playbill just the other day. But for the life of him he couldn’t remember
exactly-</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"What is the essay about, young man?"
Donna’s mother asked, letting the other boot thud. "And exactly what is
this cultural event you have in mind?"</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"Euripides, Mrs. Kelly," Lucky blurted.
"I’m supposed to write an essay about Euripides. You know, the old Greek
playwright."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"I certainly do know who Euripides is,"
Mrs. Kelly sniffed.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Lucky blushed. "Sure, of course you do. But anyway,
they’re putting on one of his plays – ‘Medea’ – at the old amphitheater just
out of town. They wear all the old costumes and masks and everything. It’s very
authentic."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Mrs. Kelly frowned, mollified a little, but still
suspicious. "That’s certainly a worthy event," she said,
"However, I don’t like our Donna out late at night and I’m afraid-"</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"Oh, but it’s not at night, Mrs. Kelly,"
Lucky interjected. The plays are usually staged in the daytime, just like the
old days." He grinned. "Of course, in ancient times Donna wouldn’t
have been able to attend at any hour, because women weren’t allowed in the
audience."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"So I’ve heard," Mrs. Kelly said with a
friendly smile. She was warming to Lucky now. She turned to Donna, "Very
well, then. But I want you to use the embassy driver so I can sure you’re being
looked after."</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"Oh, mother!" Donna complained, but not too
vehemently. </div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Although it was only a partial victory, it was a
victory just the same and could be used to construct a solid, but
every-expanding foundation for future dating rights. However, Lucky wasn’t so
certain that idea of seeing actors tottering about in masks speaking what to
Donna would be unintelligible Greek would be that thrilling for young lady he
was trying to impress. He figured she’d get a headache halfway through the
performance. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
But once again Jim came to his rescue. The teacher
pointed out that on select Sunday afternoons special performances were held for
students who were studying English. Meaning, the entire play would be in
English, while the students followed the words and action in books written in
their own language. In a way it was a bit like Lucky’s experience with reading
the "The Tempest" while listening to it.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Lucky raced to the theater after school and bought
tickets. Only then did it occur to him that the day he’d chosen might be
inconvenient for Donna. He sweated all the way home – disdaining buses or taxis
and taking all the short cuts he knew to Pallouriotissa. The moment he entered
the house he ran to phone, pausing only to signal a brief hello to Brosina
while he dialed and his heart raced as one of the Kelly household maids
answered – in English, of course. The Kelly’s were important embassy people.
Even so, he asked the woman in Greek if he could speak to "Miss Donna."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
He drummed his fingers on the table, glanced up and
saw that Brosina was watching him. She had an odd smile on her face. Then he
heard Donna’s voice and he automatically smiled his best smile – as if she
could see him. And he told her about getting the tickets.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"I feel really stupid," he said. "I
should have asked you first if that day was okay, but… well… you know…"
His voice trailed off. And now he really felt stupid. <i>"You know?"</i>
For crying out loud. What was she supposed to know? How could she know? She wasn’t
a bloody mind reader like Mr. Dunninger, the famous TV mentalist.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"Wait a minute, Lucky," Donna said.
"Let me ask."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
She put the phone down. Lucky could hear distant
voices – Donna’s and he thought, her mother’s. But he couldn’t make out what
the reply was. He waited, biting his nails, sighing every once in awhile. </div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Finally, Donna returned. "It’s okay," Donna
said. "She said it’s okay."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
They talked for a minute more, not really saying
anything. Just whispers and giggles. Then Donna had to go and they rang off.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
As he put down the phone, his eyes came up to meet
Brosina’s. Deaf as she was, she had no doubt about what was going on. She
smiled that goofy smile of hers – a grin that curved up in that big horsy face
until the whole of her was alight with smiles. She crossed her work-worn hands
over her white-uniformed breast.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"Ahg-ah-pee!" she croaked.
"Ah-gah-pee!"</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Meaning love – true love in Brosina speak. Then she
made Lucky sit down and she fetched him an orange squash and some olives and
roasted pepper slices and strong cheese, and made him tell her all about Donna.
It was an elaborate conversation and quite deep. They used gestures,
accompanied by Greek words that were drawn out in Brosina speak so she could
read his lips. Sometimes she put three fingers to his throat and made rolling
motions with her free hand, urging him to speak faster, sensing what he was
saying through sheer touch.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
When he was done she hugged him, then sat back in her
chair. She looked long and hard at him. Then she took his chin in both hands
and made him peer into her eyes.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"Po-na-ee," she said. Which meant hurt.
"Po-na-ee, Oh-hee. Po-na-ee, oh-hee." Which meant don’t hurt. </div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Lucky raised his brows and shrugged. Who would he
hurt?</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"Athee-na," Brosina said. "Po-na-ee,
Athee-na."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Lucky was stunned. She was saying that he had hurt
Athena and was warning him about doing the same to Donna.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"No, no," he said. "I didn’t."
Then, realizing he’d slipped into English, he started again. That it was
Yorgo’s fault they weren’t together. But Brosina put a finger to his lips
shushing him. She had that fiercely stubborn look that said she was not to be
contradicted.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"Po-na-ee, oh-hee," she said.
"Po-na-ee, oh-hee."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Lucky promised, not sure what he was promising – but
in the back of his mind there was a definite protest. He’d done nothing wrong.
The fault was Yorgo’s, not Lucky’s. Wasn’t it?</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Now, as he sat with Donna in the amphitheater, he
thought of Athena and was guilt stricken. As if he were somehow cheating on
Athena by being here with Donna – even though Yorgo had forbidden Athena to see
him any more. He struggled with this for awhile, but was gradually won over by
the play and Donna’s sheer delight at the proceedings. </div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
She whispered, "If they switched masks, nobody
would know when they were lying. Then it’d be just like all the people at the
embassy."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Lucky laughed. He knew what she meant. The embassy
was notorious for its back-fighters and bald-faced liars. Of course, as an old
OSS hand, her father probably had little trouble dealing with them. </div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Lucky turned his attention back to the play. As he
watched deeper understanding dawned. Jim always said that there were moments of
sudden clarity when a light bulb bloomed into life like the naked bulb hanging
from the ceiling wire in Jim’s apartment.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
And that was the light that was snapped on as the
"Medea’s" tragic tale of betrayal and murder unfolded. It seemed to
him that his whole young life had been plagued by a series of betrayals. He
thought of the reoccurring nightmare that he’d suffered for years of someone
trying to drown him. And now he knew – that someone was his father. </div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
His heart started beating faster as strange memories
swam up: looking up through water closing over his face; he couldn’t breath…
knowing if he did he’d suck in water; his father being jerked away; his
grandmother snatching him out of the water… pounding his back, shrieking
something… and suddenly he was vomiting up water… and then - after what seemed
a literal, agonizing, eternity - he could breathe again.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Lucky gasped at the memory. Grabbing the breath that
his grandmother had driven into him when she beat upon his back.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Donna misunderstood, squeezing his hand in romantic
empathy. Thinking he was reacting to the scene they were viewing.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Overcome, Lucky squeezed back, leaning over to nuzzle
her neck, trying to wipe out his unpleasant reverie. She giggled and leaned
closer and her sweet scent soothed him and he settled back, tingling all over,
forgetting everything. Rejoining the play.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
From the response of the audience, the play was a
resounding success. As the actors emoted many of the audience members consulted
books – ten-penny knockoffs on sale at the entrance. Lucky learned later that
only one or two of the actors were fluent English speakers. But they had
learned their lines phonetically, so they could shout, or weep, or lecture
profoundly in an alien language. Of course, they were all ardent students of
the plays they staged and the characters they portrayed, so the language
barrier was pierced by common understanding and artistic passion.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
The play was made even more alive because of the
enthusiastic way the audience responded. Donna included</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
She and the audience cheered, hissed and booed and
wept as if the "Medea" was a modern radio soap opera. And perhaps it
was in a way. Hadn’t Jim told him that all stories, be they tragedies, comedies
or dramas – were based on the plays of men like Euripides? Men who lived twenty
five hundred years ago. As famous and skilled a playwright as Eugene O’Neil had
patterned the landmark "Desire Under The Elms" after the tragedy of
‘Medea.’</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
‘Medea,’ Jim had explained, was basically a sequel to
the story of Jason and the Argonauts. Medea was the princess who helped him
retrieve the golden fleece, risking her life and honor and even killing her own
brother in the process. The first story had a somewhat happy ending – Jason got
the fleece, completing his task. He married Medea, then assumed the throne upon
his return home. </div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
But the play showed that in truth there was never a
"happily ever after" ending to such a tale. Hated by the Greeks
because she is a foreigner, Medea, languishes away and is eventually betrayed
by Jason, who is under intense pressure from his subjects to rid himself of the
foreign witch woman. In the end, Medea even kills her own children, believing
in her madness that she is saving them from a far more bitter end.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
When the play was over everyone applauded with great
gusto and they all filed out chattering about what they had seen – moving past
stone benches worn from countless audiences who had been enthralled by plays
like this for hundreds upon hundreds of years.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
It was late afternoon and there still time for a
snack before Donna had to be home. Lucky directed the limo driver to Metaxa
Square – a vast park in the center of Nicosia. He took Donna to an outdoor café
he favored that overlooked the park. There, you could sit high above the street
and enjoy a plate of delicious appetizers in the shade of colorful umbrellas.
Before they climbed the steps to the café, Lucky leaned in for a quiet word
with the driver. He passed him a few shillings and was rewarded with a wide
grin and a wink. Then, as Lucky and Donna made their way to a corner table, the
driver started up the car and drove away.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Donna looked puzzled. "Where did he go?"</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Lucky smiled, saying, "There’s a little taverna
around the corner that’s a favorite of a lot of the cabbies. I said it was okay
with us if he wanted to visit his friends for an hour or so."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Donna laughed. "If mother finds out she’ll be
furious," she said. "He was supposed to be my protection."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Lucky snorted. "From what?" he said
scornfully. "Nobody would dream of bothering an American girl in Cyprus.
One shout and every guy on the street would come running to string the son of
gun up."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Donna gave him a sly look. "Maybe she meant him
to protect me from you. I mean, I’m pretty sure I saw you give him some
money."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Lucky blushed scarlet and started to stutter a
defense. But Donna took pity and put a hand on his, silencing him. "I’m
only teasing," she said.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Food and drink soon arrived and they began eating,
watching the strolling families in the park. Small groups of musicians moved
along the pathways, playing for tips. Young couples held hands as they walked
through the bright gardens, occasionally ducking out of sight into one of the
wooded glens that dotted the park. </div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Donna and Lucky talked about plays and films and
books and the whole time Lucky drank in the presence that was Donna Kelly. She was
bright and witty and he loved the way she tossed her shiny dark hair away from
her blue, blue eyes. And her complexion was so creamy that he thought she must
have been concocted from a fabulously shaped mold of vanilla pudding.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
He was so distracted by her Irish beauty that it
became increasingly difficult to pay attention to what was actually being
discussed.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Perhaps Donna sensed this, because she suddenly said
something that gave him jolt: "There are some people who warned me to
watch out for you," she said, an amused glint in her eye. </div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Lucky gave her a look – was she teasing again?
"Who? Who?" Then, thinking he sounded like an owl, he said, "Who
said that?"</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"You know," Donna said. "David Sisco
and his friends."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Lucky wasn’t surprised. "What do they say about
me?"</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"That you’ve gone wild," Donna said.
"That you run all over the island without any supervision. And that all
your friends are Cypriots."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
She lowered her eyes. "They said you have a
Cypriot girl," she almost whispered.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"Well, sure, I did," Lucky said. "But
not anymore."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"What happened?" Donna pressed.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Lucky shrugged, shortcutting the explanation to
something he hoped was acceptable: "Her family thought she was too young
to be dating."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"I know that tune," Donna said ruefully.
Then, "Was it serious? I mean between the two of you."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Lucky didn’t know how to answer that question without
digging himself a pit from which he could never emerge. So he said,
"Whenever we went out – to the cinema or someplace like that – her
grandmother went with us as a chaperone. Boy, was she strict. We were never
alone except for maybe a few minutes. And that wasn’t so wonderful." </div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Thinking he might have taken this too far, Lucky
hastily added, "But her grandmother was really nice. After I got used to
the idea, I didn’t mind her being there."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
He attempted a joke. "It was sort of like dating
two girls at once, except one of them had loose dentures that clattered when
she talked too fast."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
It worked. Weak as the joke was, Donna broke into
peals of laughter. Lucky brightened. This day was improving by mountain goat
leaps.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Then Donna said, "Okay, so you don’t the deny
the girlfriend – or former girlfriend, am I right?" Lucky nodded, thinking
that there was nothing to truly deny because at that very moment Athena had
become very former. "But what about the running wild part. It’s a serious
charge, isn’t it?"</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Lucky said, "I have a lot of freedom, that’s
true. But I get good grades and I don’t get into any trouble. I’m not saying
I’m an angel, but I don’t bring trouble home. I settle it on the spot. Also, my
parents trust me and they want me to learn as much as I can from the experience
of living abroad."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
His parents had never said anything like that, but as
the words came to his lips, Lucky instinctively knew it was true. "That’s
why they found Jim Demetrakis for me," he said. "They wanted me to
have a first class education – the kind they could never afford to give me in
the States."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"What about all of those Cypriot friends, David
was talking about?" Donna asked.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Getting defensive, Lucky bristled. "Sure I have
a lot of Cypriot pals. What’s wrong with that?" </div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Then he realized that Donna was only asking, not
condemning. </div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
More quietly, he said, "They’re good people, the
Cypriots. Loyal as they can be. And really generous, even though most of them
are pretty poor. I’m proud that they call me friend, which in Greek is feelos,
by the way."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Donna nodded, repeating, "Feelos."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"That’s for a boy," Lucky went on. "A
friend who is a girl, is a feelee." </div>
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"Jim was a poor kid – an orphan. But he was so smart the whole village
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getting a little late – in a half-an-hour the daylight date would be overcome
by dark – so Lucky left Donna at the table, while he strode around the corner
to find the limo driver. In the taverna, Lucky explained that he was concerned
about a mechanical problem in the embassy limo. A sputtering in the engine, he
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A pound note – about four dollars American –
convinced the driver that Lucky’s diagnosis was quite correct. This was,
indeed, a problem. A minor one that would be easily solved. And yes, for an
additional pack of Camel cigarettes he would be pleased to call the house, and
explain the problem to the butler. The man rubbed finger across thumb and Lucky
slipped him another pound note. The driver said the butler would be pleased
with Lucky’s generosity and consider him a gentleman. He – the butler - would
surely inform Mrs. Kelly that her daughter would be ever so slightly delayed
through no fault of Lucky’s. A minor inconvenience, and yes, the girl would be
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And so Lucky and Donna joined the other young couples
strolling through the park. It was dusk and lamplighters were climbing their
ladders to fire up the gas-light poles that illuminated the park. Donna thought
it was archaic – gas lights in the second half of the Twentieth Century. But,
Lucky pointed out that in Philadelphia there were still neighborhoods that had
so recently converted from gas to electricity that they still kept the old
lamplighters on the job. The men carried their ladders down the street every
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centuries," Lucky said. "My dad says that America and the rest of the
West is still stuck between the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries. The ideas
we call modern, he says, are all from the past. Now, here we are in Cyprus,
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Donna nodded. "Like the camels and ox carts in
the streets and the play we just saw. All old stuff. And the cars and the
radios and the news about hydrogen bombs exploding, all new stuff." She
turned to Lucky. "But how new is it? In a way, the first person who forged
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Lucky finally got it and drew her into the convenient
grove where they kissed to their hearts’ content. On the way home, the driver
rolled up the window separating the driver’s compartment from the back of the
car and contentedly puffed on his Camel cigarettes. Lucky was now one his
closest friends and – within reason – he’d make things easy for the couple. He
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But Donna wasn’t concerned about his roaming hands. Straightening
her clothing, she made that very plain when she spoke. "You have to do
something about David Sisco," she said. "He’s spreading vicious lies
and if he keeps it up my parents will hear it and we won’t be able to see each
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Donna nodded agreement. She gestured, as if making
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">“I</span><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook","serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">tell you Helen,
I’ve had it up to here with that girl. There isn’t a thing she can do right.
Heaven knows I’m not a fussy woman. Certainly not like my mother, who was so
picky she drove my father and us crazy. But I do like a clean house. I insist
on it. And if I didn’t, Jack certainly would. Why, Just the other day he
ordered Tina out of her room – she was taking a nap in the middle of the day,
can you imagine? And he put on his white gloves from his Navy days and went
over the house checking for dirt. And oh, dear, did he find a lot of it. But
Tina didn’t seem to get the point. She shrugged and said that word they always
use… ‘thempe’ something or other.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Themperaze,”
Lucky broke in. “It’s one of those words that has a lot of meanings. Mainly it
means ‘never mind,’ but in this case she was probably trying to say, ‘never
mind, don’t worry, I’ll fix it.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">His interruption
earned him an amused look from his mother. Amused though she might be, she
brushed her lips, as if chasing a fly, warning him to be careful about what he
said..<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The person Lucky
was interrupting was their new neighbor, Ruth Walters, who spent every moment
of her free time – which she had a great deal of, thanks to two maids and a
gardener – stalking Lucky’s mother so she could air her latest complaint about
“the help.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This was a
favorite topic among the American embassy and CIA personnel. There was constant
complaining about the laziness and incompetence of their servants. Added to
this topic were sub-topics, which included the difficulty of hiring “help,” the
bother it all was to clean up after them – and do the job right, and how the
servants failed to understand the simplest of instructions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The complaints –
and the attitudes connected - seemed to rise up in the American contingent
through some sort of odd cultural osmosis. With rare exception, the Americans
were all middle class people who had never had servants in their lives. At the
most, back in the States a few might have hired someone to come in and help
with the weekly ironing, or with the washing. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But when they
traveled abroad on fat foreign service per diems, they entered a world where
servants were the norm. Suddenly, they found themselves living in homes that
were veritable mansions. Food, drink, spirits and every luxury could be
purchased at cut rate prices through an elaborate system of commissary
privileges. This not only included foreign luxuries, like caviar and fine wines
and cognac, but free shipping of goodies from home, including tax free
cigarettes and liquor. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">They also
entered a life of constant parties - parties they were expected to attend and
to host in return. Servants were not only cheap, but the U.S. government,
recognizing the social obligations, subsidized the pay of maids and gardeners -
And for the higher ranking personnel, even chauffeurs and butlers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The initial
reaction of most Americans first entering the foreign service was that their
servants were being grossly underpaid. In Lucky’s household, for example, the
head maid – Brosina – got $25 a month, plus room and board. Her assistant (who
lived out) got $15 a month and the gardener the same. But since the U.S.
government reimbursed Lucky’s parents for half their wages, his parents simply
added that to their salaries. So Brosina was making $37.50 a month, and the
assistant maid and gardener were getting $22.50.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Other Americans
made similar arrangements – to the chagrin of their British friends who said
they were “spoiling the help.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">That initial
generosity, however, soon faded into the expectations and pretensions of the
newly rich. Or, as Lucky’s mother termed it, “plantation rich.” An apt
description. Because suddenly, ordinary Americans from good middle class
families, started acting like plantation owners of old. Imperiously ordering
their servants about, firing them at the drop of a hat and treating them like
they were not quite human.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ruth and Jack
Walters were an excellent case in point. They were such stingy people – with
constant complaints on their lips – that they’d earned the enmity of the entire
village.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Why, just the
other day,” Ruth was saying – continuing on her favorite path, which was the
dissection of the Cypriot working class, “I was driving to the officer’s club
to pick up Jack when this whole crowd of sheep just simply poured out on the
street in front of me. I beeped my horn, but it was to no avail. The sheep only
started milling around more and some of the… you know the bigger ones with
horns… and those ugly… well… boy things… hanging down… it was disgusting!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“You mean the
rams?” Lucky’s mothered offered, nearly bursting into laughter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Yes, I suppose
so,” Ruth Walters said. “They must have been. And I don’t understand how the
law allows them to run around like that in polite circles. It was shocking.
Simply shocking.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lucky frowned,
confused. Did Mrs. Walters want the sheep herders to put pants on the rams? He
started to ask, but got a warning looking from his mom. She made the “don’t
speak or I will kill you,” gesture. So Lucky kept his lips zipped.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">He smiled to
himself, however, thinking what a laugh he’d get from his mother when he told
her the nicknames that had been bestowed on the Walters. The villagers called
them “Gundaree,” and “Gundara,” after the vicious little elves that legend said
haunted the forests of Cyprus. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Not only that,
but whenever the locals heard the “beep, beep” of that ratty little Peugeot the
Walters drove, they’d deliberately wander into their path to delay them more. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The village
children are lovely, of course,” Ruth said. “Wherever we go they run after us
shouting greetings.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lucky nearly
strangled.. It wasn’t happy greetings the village kids were shouting, but
“there goes Gundaree and Gundara! They eat shit for bread” Which was sort of
true, since the Walters – ever the bargain seekers – met the women coming home
from market to buy their left over bread on the cheap. They especially liked
the “speckled bread.” The speckles weren’t nice toasted spices as they
supposed, but fly shit from a day under the hot sun and thousands of insects.
These were leftovers the villagers normally fed to their livestock and could be
had for nothing, except for the fact that the Walters were such mean little
skinflints.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ruth turned to
Lucky, giving him a sweet smile. “I almost forgot, Lucky,” she said. “I need
your translating skills, if it’s no bother. Our maid hasn’t been starching
Jack’s collars properly and I just can’t seem to get through to her.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The last thing
Lucky wanted to do was play go-between for this witch. He started to make an
excuse, but his mother broke in.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“He’d be happy
to,” she said. Then turned a firm gaze on her son. “Wouldn’t you, Lucky?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Sure,” Lucky
mumbled. What choice did he have? He rose and started out of the kitchen. “Just
let me know when and I’ll be right over.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But it was no
use. “How about right now?” Ruth said. “No sense putting it off.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lucky started to
dig in his heels, then shot his mother a look and saw the narrowed eyes. “Now,
would be just fine, Mrs. Walters,” he said, and followed her out.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">There was a gate
through the connecting wall from Lucky’s house to the Walters’ and when they
went through, the first thing he saw was chubby little Eric crawling in the
dirt outside of his playpen. The child had perfected the art of escape and no
matter where his parents put him, he always managed to figure a way out.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Oh, Eric,” his
mother moaned, “you’re getting all dirty.” Then to Lucky, “Be a dear, Lucky,
and put him back in the playpen.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lucky nodded and
went to the boy, holding out his arms. “Hey, buddy,” he said, bending low to
scoop the child up. “It’s back to jail, time. Do not pass go. Do not collect-”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">He broke off,
staring down at the child whose eyes were unnaturally large and glazed over.
Eric was gazing up at Lucky with a bemused expression, his eyes all swimmy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“What’s wrong,
Eric?” Lucky asked.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then Eric
belched. It was a huge belch, straight from the toes. And Lucky was almost
overwhelmed by the smell – which was like a gas station.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">He stepped back,
looking over his shoulder for Ruth. “Uh… Mrs. Walters?” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eric clapped his
hands and gurgled in glee. The gurgle became another gas station belch. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ruth came
running. “Eric!” she cried. “What’s wrong, honey?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lucky looked
around then saw a red kerosene can laying on its side next to the playpen. His
heart raced as he made the connection between the can and the belch.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I think he
drank some kerosene, Mrs. Walters,” Lucky said. He went to the can, lifted it
up. The cap was off. He shook it. It was nearly empty.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ruth was
shouting, now. Screaming. “Oh, my God! Eric! Eric! He’s been poisoned!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The child wasn’t
upset at all. After the loud belches, he’d returned to a state of absolute
bliss. “k’seene, Mommy,” he said. “k’seene.’”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lucky got it.
“He wants more kerosene,” he told Ruth, feeling like he was suddenly stuck in
an alternate state, like the Indian swamis talked about. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But Ruth wasn’t
listening. She clutched Eric to her, wailing “My baby, my baby!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lucky came
unstuck and bolted for his house, vaulting the wall. He met his mother coming
out the back door. “It’s Eric,” he shouted. “He drank kerosene.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Helen went
white, then instantly recovered. “Go call a cab,” she told Lucky. “Tell them
it’s an emergency. We have to get Eric to the hospital. Promise them anything.
They just have to get here right away!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">She raced off to
help Ruth, while Lucky rushed inside and called his taxi buddy, Nikos,
explaining what the problem was. Nikos was there as fast as any ambulance – an
emergency service that did not exist in Cypriot villages in those days. In minutes Ruth
and Eric, accompanied by Lucky’s mother, tore down the street and headed for
the hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">There, Lucky
learned later, Eric had his stomach pumped and in a few hours appeared to be no
worse for wear. The doctors warned Ruth, however, that kerosene was a notoriously
addictive poison and that children and animals were particularly vulnerable to
it. Apparently the taste was sweet and kerosene was as intoxicating as the
strongest liquor, or narcotic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ruth thought
this was a lot of nonsense and told them so. She left the hospital in a huff,
with Helen accompanying her home. Two days later, Ruth and Eric were back in
the hospital and Eric was once again getting his stomach pumped. Within a span
of a month, it happened twice more. Oddly, Eric seemed untouched by his
kerosene adventures. He remained the same happy child and although he’d grown
pale and had lost some of his chubbiness, he appeared to be in good health.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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an expatriate home in Cyprus depended on kerosene for most domestic functions.
Water for a bath was heated in a kerosene-fired boiler. The same was true for
water for dish washing. Cooking was done on kerosene fueled stoves and kitchen
ranges. There was no such thing as a central heating system and so everyone
bought expensive space heaters. They were about three feet high, black and held
enough kerosene to last most of the night. Besides being dangerous because of
fumes, these heaters were also perilous to children and many a foreign service
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just in time with his hands – which immediately turned into huge blisters. He
spent weeks with his hands wrapped in Vaseline and rags.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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in practical sense was that every expatriate’s garage had a large kerosene drum
which men came around weekly to replenish. One liter and five liter gas cans
were kept in the garage for people to fill so they could distribute the
kerosene about the house, using funnels to pour into it the water heater, the
space heater, or the kitchen range. In other words, kerosene was scattered
across the household, either in cans stored under the sink, or in a bathroom
closet, or in the reservoirs of the appliances themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and eagerly, sniffed out every hiding
place. His parents put locks on the kitchen cupboard and the bathroom closet,
so Eric figured out how to drain the tanks of the appliances. They’d find him
sitting next to a space heater, a huge grin on his face, his eyes glazed over,
and ready to deliver big belches of kerosene fumes. Frantic, they eliminated
space heaters from their home – preferring to shiver in the winter’s cold,
while hovering around the living room fireplace. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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appliance mechanics to install locked plugs in the water heater and kitchen
range. These had to be basically invented – since no one had ever requested
such a device before. Plus, they were scratch built in machine shops. This was
all at enormous expense.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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only momentarily thwarted. First he found a crawl hole into the garage, so he
could drink from the main tank. This nearly killed him because he was so eager
and been denied so long, that he drank kerosene until his belly bulged. They
blocked up the garage, nailing boards over the windows, installing locks on the
main door and bricking over the crawl hole.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> One day Eric spotted a rat getting into the
garage and over several days, dug out the animal’s hole so it was wide enough
for him to fit through. Once again, Nikos was called and Eric and Ruth were
rushed off to the hospital for the boy’s stomach to be pumped.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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everyone was shocked and worried about poor little Eric. But after awhile, it
started to become humorous, in a sick sort of way. It was especially amusing
because this bright happy child, in the view of most people, was merely doing
his best to escape the mean-spirited malaise that seemed to always hang over
his mother and father. Everybody agreed that it couldn’t be easy to be the son
of Gundaree and Gundara.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the little boy earned the nickname of “Kerosene Eric.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">People would
say, “How’s Kerosene Eric?” Or, “Has Kerosene Eric been up to his old tricks,
again?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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they didn’t sympathize with Eric, or worry about him. It was just that, well –
it was funny, damn it!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then the day
came when Gundaree – that is Mr. Jack Walters – accompanied his wife, Gundara,
and Kerosene Eric to the hospital for what had by now become an almost weekly
stomach pumping. The doctors were amazed the child had any lining left in his
belly, but so far Eric had remained a miracle of medical science – not only his
stomach, but everything in between remained perfectly healthy. CIA medics joked
about maybe taking tissue cultures to see if there was some sort of enzyme Eric
secreted that could be duplicated to protect agents from being poisoned by the
Russians.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This was the
first time Jack had ever been at home for an Eric emergency. While he was at
work it was impossible to respond because like every other agent there, he was
under CIA base lockdown. Nobody left until the shift ended – and the shift was
determined by what was happening in the world. The minimum shift was 72 hours.
But, with the Cold War raging and the Korean War just winding down, the men
usually spent two weeks more at the base. Then they’d get two days off – 48
hours – and be back again.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So for a change,
here was Jack at the hospital to worry like hell about his son in person. He’d
been taken ill when he saw the stomach-pumping process, so he adjourned to the
hallway, leaving Ruth to watch over Eric. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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down, chain-smoking cigarettes, the stress building by the minute. Witnesses
later said that everyone who approached Jack to offer help were treated to a
fat helping of his nasty little guy’s attitude. Within a short time there were
few people who had any sympathy for Mr. Jack “Gundaree” Walters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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moved by stress, Jack’s bowels deserted him. He raced to the men’s room. Found
a stall and squatted. He continued smoking, ignoring the no-smoking signs posted
all over the men’s room walls. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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in English, as well as Greek, French and Turkish. Skull heads were posted along
with the signs. Danger! Danger! Danger! It was very plain to all but Gundaree.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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finished his business and before rising, tossed his cigarette between his legs
into the toilet bowl. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the no smoking sign in a time when smoking was not considered a threat to one’s
health, became immediately apparent. It seems that just prior to Jack’s visit
to the toilet, a surgical orderly had dumped a pan of ether into the bowl and
had forgotten to flush.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">When the burning
cigarette hit the ether there was a fiery explosion. Jack screamed and shot to
his feet as if the toilet bowl were a cannon. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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quick-shuffled down the hallway, past scores of nurses just changing shift, his
bare ass bright red as a new brick, screaming, “I’m on fire! I’m on fire!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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heard, Jack Walters had left the service and he and his wife were back teaching
in the Alexandria, Virginia, school system.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In the village of Kykko,</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> high in the Troodos where the cool breezes blow and
in some places there were patches of snow even though it was coming on to June,
the old Plymouth sputtered to a halt at the edge of a fresh-mown field of
emerald green. Kykko was just beyond.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"This is the
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Plymouth coughed,
then moved onward and Lucky could see
that the village was set around an old church that looked in ruins at first,
but as they neared, it became apparent that serious reconstruction was going
on. Scaffolding climbed along the two sides within view, with ladders shooting
up to the belfry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"Kykko was once
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to pen up goats. But as you can see, things are better now."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Lucky saw that long
wooden tables and benches had been set up outside the church and colorful
banners and paper decorations festooned the lower reaches of the scaffolding.
Scores of people swarmed around the tables, all wearing their best clothes.
Women carried covered pots and baskets of food while the men congregated in the
shade, gossiping, smoking cigarettes and sneaking occasional nips from bottles
hidden in their coats. Children were dashing around, squealing and generally
getting underfoot, while a dozen or so adolescent boys and girls flirted within
the stern view of yah-yahs in black dresses and shawls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">When Jim pulled up,
everyone hurried to meet him, laughing happily and shouting greetings. Lucky
stood shyly by while Jim’s hand was shaken by the men and his cheeks kissed by
the women. Then he introduced Lucky and they made him feel like quite the
important visitor, praising his looks and urging him to come refresh himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Soon he and Jim were
seated at a table shaded by a striped awning, with cool drinks in their hands
and plates of sweets before them. People hovered over Jim while he told them
the news in Nicosia and they all chattered about mutual friends. Lucky remained
silent, drinking it all in. Although he was very happy and curious about his
surroundings, he was a little overwhelmed by everything he’d already
experienced and wasn’t quite up to deciphering the joyous Greek babble going on
all around him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">What impressed him
most were the enormous preparations that had been made for the Christening.
Lucky was well aware that peasant families in Cyprus suffered from many infant
deaths. Athena told him that among the poorest villagers few of the babies born
reached the first year of life. And so it was traditional in Cyprus to delay
the Christening, and the official naming of a child, until it was a year old.
This made the baptismal ceremony an especially important occasion and it was
treated like a grand feast day, or a wedding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Lucky wasn’t totally
inexperienced with events of this kind. He’d attended several Irish Catholic
baptisms in Philadelphia which were quite elaborate and featured doting
parents, anxious godparents and teary relations by the score. First communions
and confirmations were also celebrated with much ceremony. But they paled by
comparison to what was happening now. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Musicians were
striding up and down the village green, tuning their stringed instruments and
some of the village youths had dressed up for a dance. The dancers-to-be were
all decked out in traditional Cypriot costumes: <i>Doupletti</i> for the women
– a pleated white skirt, with a blue cape that crisscrossed over either
shoulder like a cape and a high collar embroidered in white and set off with
colorful beads.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Thea, the junior maid
of the Cole household, told him later that the outfit was usually constructed
out of old bridal costumes. The men’s costumes were similarly constructed from
groom’s wear – a <i>vra’ka</i> worn with a striped silk shirt and a kerchief
tied about his neck of the same material. The shirt sleeves were voluminous and
were set off with a black, embroidered vest, a fancy black cummerbund and baggy
black trousers that tucked into high black boots. With glittering stones set
here and there, Lucky thought the men were almost as flashy as the women.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">When Lucky murmured to
Jim, "You do all this for a baptism?" Jim whispered back, "Sure,
Lucky, but there’s a double reason for this festival. Today is also in
remembrance of the end of the flood." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"Flood?"
Lucky asked, voice rising. "What flood?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"Noah’s flood,
Lucky," Jim said. He grinned, "You’ve heard of Noah, haven’t
you?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Feeling a bit silly,
Lucky shrugged, "Sure," he said. But he was no wiser. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">A young priest in
vestments of white and gold stepped out of the church, with robed altar boys on
either side. Someone rang the church bells and the whole crowd came to
attention. The musicians played a stirring song while the crowd lined up in
twin rows to make an aisle into the church. This was all done with a minimum of
confusion - as if much rehearsed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Lucky saw the proud
mother and father – a young couple dressed in their Sunday best, the mother
carrying a bundle wrapped in a fabulous blanket of white silk woven with gold
threads. Lucky thought the mother looked as radiant as a bride, her cheeks
flushed, her lips slightly parted, bowing over the little bundle like a
portrait of the Madonna and Child. The father stood proud, his neck stiff, his
eyes staring straight ahead – only a swift look down at his child and a
trembling of his hands gave away his nervousness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">A regal woman of
middle age stepped up to the couple, ostentatiously kissing the father, then
the mother and then bending low – a beatific smile on her lips – kissing the
child. The godmother, Lucky surmised. There were fervent whispers… his ears
perked up… his Greek was working now… the godmother, it seemed, had a certain
familiarity with the father of the child. There were giggles. It was an older
woman teaching a young man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Then, to his complete
surprise, Jim broke away and hurried to join the small procession. The church
bells pealed and the musicians came together to strike up a lovely melody, Jim
kissed the mother, the father and then paused as he came to the godmother. More
giggles. More whispers… was Jim a former favorite of this grand-looking woman?
Jim embraced her, delivered a quick kiss, then leaned over the child –
murmuring endearments and giving the baby such a sweet kiss, accompanied with a
smile so loving that everyone applauded and people cried out that this was the
luckiest baptism in village history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The church was ablaze
with flickering candlelight which had the odd effect of making the statues of
the holy figures seem as if they were alive. At the altar, the priest and two
young assistants waited where a baptismal stand had been set up – a baby size
urn full of water, anointing oil in glass containers. One of the boys had a
censer filled with burning incense and when the priest signaled him, the boy
swung it gently on its chain, letting perfumed smoke drift over the procession.
The baby sneezed and people murmured that this was a lucky sign.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Finally, the ceremony
commenced – the baby dipped into water, anointed with oil, prayed over and
named – Sofia. Jim and the older woman solemnly swore that as godparents they
would see to the child’s welfare and religious education. When it was over,
everyone babbled their congratulations at once and crowded in to kiss the
parents and coo at the baby. Then the musicians started playing and they all
trooped out of the church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Lucky thought the
feast was about to start – he was starving. But instead, from up the road, he
heard drums banging, horns blowing and the distinctive music of violins and <i>laouto</i>
- lutes with four double strings that were played with the point of a quill.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">More villagers were marching toward them, all decked out in
traditional costumes and dancing along in time of the music. Several brawny
lads carried a large, replica of Noah’s ark, complete with a painted zoo of
animals and the faces of Noah and his family. Everyone joined the parade,
including Jim and Lucky – who’d momentarily forgotten his hunger – and they
trooped through the village, picking up more people as they went.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Soon they came to a
swift creek that rushed down the mountainside past the village and they
followed the creek until they came to its source: a large cave, whose mouth was
barred with thick iron grates. Lucky bent back as far as he could, looking up
the steep mountainside that housed the cave. The village was so high in the
Troodos that the mountains above them were mostly gray stone, with a few
stunted trees and spindly bushes. Lucky could see the peaks, not that far
overhead, still lightly crusted with snow. He looked back at the cave, then
knelt by the creek and scooped up some water. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He drank – the water
was freezing cold and had just a bit of salty taste. Even so, it was delicious.
Meanwhile, the parade had broken up and people were singing and dancing and
splashing each other with water. Children ran around with buckets, hurling
water at each other. Jim, standing along downstream, was watching with much
amusement. He waved for Lucky to join him and when he did, Jim pointed out some
rocks in the creek, then used them to jump to the other side. Lucky did the
same.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jim started down a
narrow goat track that paralleled the creek, Lucky followed. Soon they came to
an outcropping of rock. Jim jumped up on it, pushed through some spindly bushes
and disappeared along another trail. Lucky hurried to follow. It was quiet
among the trees, the ground littered with pine needles and cones. The trail was
steep and winding and Lucky lost sight of Jim for a moment. He hurried to catch
up, his legs straining, his breath short in the thin air.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">When he finally found
Jim, he nearly ran into him. He stumbled and Jim caught his arm.
"Steady," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Suddenly Lucky
realized he and Jim were standing at the edge of a cliff. The boy peered down,
saw nothing but sheer rock for hundreds upon hundreds of feet, with distant
waves breaking over boulders far below. He gave a start and stepped back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"It’s okay,"
Jim said, "I won’t let you fall."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Mustering his nerve,
Lucky moved forward again, looking out over the blue, blue Mediterranean. The
festival music was now very faint, stirring the air no more than the natural
music of the breeze and the swift-rushing creek.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jim pointed. "Do
you see that shadow over there?" he asked. "Just on the
horizon."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Lucky immediately saw
the purple haze humping up on the horizon’s edge. At first he thought it was nothing
more than low-hanging clouds, but the closer he looked, the more they seemed to
take on substance and shape.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"Those are the
mountains of Turkey," Jim said. "About sixty sea miles away."
Lucky nodded. He knew Turkey was close, but not <i>this </i>close. "That
creek we just came from," Jim said, "the one whose waters you tasted…
originated in those mountains."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The boy goggled. How
could that be? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jim said, "The
scientists tell us that the water melting from those mountains so far away
travel in an underground river beneath the sea, then – because of the pressure
– the water comes up through a fault in the Troodos mountains and gushes out
through that cave you saw. I suppose that thousands of years ago it was just a
trickle coming through a crack in the rocks. As time passed, the water made a
bigger opening – a cave."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Lucky nodded. He could
see how that could be so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"But that’s not
the important thing to people in this village, Lucky," Jim said.
"They don’t care about the science. It isn’t the science they are
celebrating today – but the myth. The magic."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"You mean about
the flood?" Lucky said. "Noah’s flood?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"Exactly,
Lucky," Jim said. "The story is that when the flood ended – and
waters receded – that Noah and ark came to rest on those mountains that you
see. Those Turkish mountains. And the first thing Mr. Noah did, after thanking
God and releasing the animals, and so forth, was to plant a grape vine. Well,
as the myth goes, that vine was so blessed by God that it broke through the
very rock and made a course all the way into the bed of the sea. And the roots
then bored through the ocean’s bottom until they rose again until they came to
Cyprus. There, the holy grapes flourished, just as they did in far off
Turkey."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"I didn’t see any
grapes in the village," Lucky said. "It’s probably too high up,
right?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jim laughed.
"Ever the skeptic," he said. "But you are quite correct. There
are no grapes growing in the this village. But if you followed the stream to
Paphos you would see some of the finest vines in the world. Before the British
took us, Cyprus was renowned for its wines. Of course, the Turks kept it all
for themselves, so the news didn’t travel far."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Lucky looked out at
the distant headlands of Turkey. "Do you really think there was a great
flood, like it says in the bible, or do you think it’s just a story?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jim shrugged and said,
"I’m not a scientist, of course, but my professors in Athens taught us
that the story of the great flood is common all over the world. Native people
as far away as Asia and Australia all have stories about a flood that destroyed
everyone. And most also have tales about a man in a boat, or a big canoe, or
something like that, taking his family and livestock and seeds from his farm to
a new place."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Lucky was astounded.
"Really?" he asked. "All over the world?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jim ginned, saying,
"That’s what my professors told us and they had no reason to lie. One or
two were even atheists – communists with no belief in God. It was a biblical
puzzle that troubled their non-believing views."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"What do you
think?" Lucky asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jim thought a minute,
then crouched down and dug into the grit between two boulders. He must have
found what he was looking for because he suddenly smiled and scooped something
out of the grit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"I think life is
more difficult to understand now, Lucky," he said. "In the old days
no one would question that the gods did this or that or the other thing. If a
god wanted to flood the world, so be it. If another wanted to punish Prometheus
for blessing mankind with fire, science, and music, why it must be so. But
these days we insist on evidence of some kind. Evidence you can see with your
own eyes."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">And with that he
opened his hand, showing Lucky three perfect sea shells.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"How else do you
account for seashells in the mountains of Troodos, Lucky?" Jim asked with
a dazzling smile. "Maybe God did it. Maybe the ice caps melted and the
seas rose. But here we are with seashells, so we know that at one time
everything here was under water. And so, maybe someplace, some intelligent
people built a damned big boat and carried off their family and livestock. Or
perhaps, like it says in the Old Testament, God warned Noah and he built an ark
and carried away his family and all the beasts of the forest and the field.
However you look at it, the stories are the same. God willed the flood. Or Nature
did. I suppose clever men can quarrel about the difference forever – for all
that it matters."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jim handed Lucky two
of the shells, but kept back one – smooth and glossy and shaped like a football.
He said, "My little cousin Sofia was Christened today – they made her
already innocent soul even more innocent."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Lucky said,
"Yeah, washing away original sin."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"Yes, original
sin," Jim said. "The curse of mankind. The curse of Prometheus, if
you trace the idea back. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"But let us
remain with the question of the lovely soul of my sweet little cousin. In time,
Sofia will grow to be the darling of the village, stealing the hearts of many
boys. She will marry, become a mother, then a grandmother. She will have
happiness and suffering – to be human is to suffer. And she will grow old and
she will die like all of us. But what about her soul? Your church, my church –
everybody’s church – claims that the soul is immortal."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He held up the
polished shell between two fingers. "Possibly the soul is like this shell,
which held a living thing thousands and thousands of years ago."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Lucky jumped –
startled - as Jim suddenly squeezed his fingers together and turned the shell
into dust. Jim dramatically held out his hand and blew the particles away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"Is this what
happens to the soul?" Jim asked. "Dust into dust, even for holy
spirits? Or, is there even such a thing as a soul? When life ends, does the
creature who contained it – man or ant – end forever? On the other hand, is the
soul the sturdy, immortal spirit of life-giving energy that religions claim it
is?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He waited for Lucky’s
answer. After a time, the boy shook his head. "I don’t know," he
said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jim laughed.
"Neither do I, my Lucky old sun. And if you should ever find the answer, I
pray you tell your old teacher what you think. Now, come, the music is fading.
We’d better hurry before they eat all the food."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Lucky’s hunger
returned and he rushed after Jim back to the square by the church. The priest
was just putting some final blessings on the scene, swinging his clattering
censer and sending out thick clouds of smoke across the empty banquet tables.
Then there were shouts, a wild wail of music and everybody ran to find a seat.
One of Jim’s cousins, a giggling country girl, showed him where to sit – at the
head of one table with Lucky at his side.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Then the heavy scent
of incense was suddenly overcome by food smells, and Lucky’s belly groaned in
anticipation. Women and girls came pouring out from every direction, carrying
platters and trays of food. The entire village had contributed to the feast,
with each household competing with the next for the deliciousness of its sacred
family recipes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">First were the
appetizers, delectables like the creamy cucumber <i>Tsatsiki</i>; or <i>Tahini</i>,
where you dipped your bread into a paste of smoky sesame seeds, olive oil and
garlic. Then there was <i>Spanachopita</i>, wild spinach from the fields
wrapped in thin pastry; and of course, <i>Manitaria</i>, which was mushrooms
cooked in garlic, onions, peppers and the fat red
tomatoes bursting on the vine that grew up one of the legs of the church
scaffolding. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">As always,
there were several varieties of humus, each family proudly presenting its
version of the savory paste made from chick peas, olive oil, garlic and lemon.
Then out of the big clay ovens came the main courses – roasts of mutton and
lamb, pork and beef and fish and fowl of every variety. All accompanied with
the blankets of the fresh vegetables that had smothered the various cuts of
meat during their long cooking – potatoes and yams and carrots and onions and
squashes and greens of every kind. Accompanied by pots of steaming savory rice
cooked Cypriot style in a lemony chicken broth spiced with spring onions and
pine nuts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Wine and
cognac flowed along with this stream of food, although under Jim’s watchful eye
Lucky only had a little retsina, but mostly drank lemon squash made with
bottled water. Pastries and sweets were next, with some of the pastries made of
dough baked into cloud light delicacies that were so lemony that they were more
delicious then the fillings could ever be. Coffee was served, thick and sweet
and hot in copper <i>imbrikas</i> straight from the hot sand beds they were
brewed in. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">People
from other villages joined the feast, carrying jugs of wine and spirits and
baskets of food. "Kopiaste! Kopiaste!" everyone shouted. Welcome!
Welcome! And when they drank the fabulous Cypriot coffee, sometimes laced with
cognac, they cried "Stin’evan’sas!" - to your good health.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The party
started in earnest and everybody began to dance. The <i>Syrtaki</i> was Lucky’s
favorite – he’d practiced it often with Athena. A village girl on either side
of him, and urged on by the crowd, he began – stepping forward with the left
foot, tapping the heel of his right then kicking it forward. And then reverse –
right foot back, left heel tapping, left foot kicking back. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The music
went faster and faster until everything was a happy blur.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Much later, as they
drove home – winding down out of the Troodos with the cool evening breeze
blowing through the open windows – Lucky sat quietly next to Jim, sifting
through the day’s events. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It had started with
Saint Paul, then Aphrodite, the ancient Mother Goddess, the christening, the
festival of Noah’s flood, the river that came all the way under the sea from
Turkey, and then the feasting and dancing. He sighed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">What a marvelous day
it had been. Then the moon rose over the broad central plain. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">And far, far away he
could see the ancient walls of Nicosia climbing above the horizon. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jim said, "You
should sleep, Lucky." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Lucky closed his eyes,
listening to someone singing a sweet Greek ballad on the car radio. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The translation came
to him effortlessly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It was as if his mind
had been unlocked and the words came tumbling out:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"…Old songs that sang themselves to me,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Sweet through a boy's day dream,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b>The old man
examined</b> Lucky through rheumy, ouzo-shot eyes. "Saint Paul sat at this
very table," he said in Greek, rattling the dishes as he shifted in his
seat.</div>
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With an unsteady finger he pointed down the street at
a ramshackle building that was at the triangular point of two intersecting
streets. "And that place is where he and Saint Barnabas lived when they
were in Paphos."</div>
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The old man indicated the road in front of the
taverna – a narrow lane paved with pebbles laid over an old Roman road.
"Saint Paul used to walk down that very street every day to get his
breakfast here at the taverna," the old man said. "Sometimes Barnabas
was with him. Sometimes not. They weren’t getting along so well at that time,
you know, and didn’t always speak to one another."</div>
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"What nonsense are you telling the American boy,
Stephanos?" protested one of the other old men at the table. "It was
during Saint Paul’s second trip to Cyprus that they quarreled. At first they
were the best of friends – like brothers!"</div>
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Lucky glanced at Jim, who only shrugged, but his eyes
were twinkling. On the way to Jim’s home village high in the Troodos Mountains,
they had stopped in Paphos for refreshment. The usual group of old men playing
tavali under a shade tree had taken an interest in Lucky and when they learned
that Jim was the boy’s teacher, they decided to get into the act themselves –
instructing Lucky about Saint Paul and Barnabas, the patron saint of Cyprus.</div>
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Stephanos took offense at being corrected by his
table mate. He thumped his chest and demanded, "Who are you to teach me
about Barnabas? Was he not a cousin of my family in Salamis?" He leaned
close to Lucky, his ouzo breath practically singeing the boy’s eyebrows.
"We used to be Jews like Barnabas," he said, "but then the
Romans started killing all the Jews so we became pagans. After that the Empress
of Constantinople said we had to be Christians, so we agreed that we must be
Christians after all."</div>
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"But what about St. Paul?" Lucky asked,
trying to steer the conversation back to its starting point. "Did he
really live in that house? And did he really take his meals here? At this
table?"</div>
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"Of course he did," Stephanos said.
"Since before the Romans Paphos has always been Paphos. And there has
always been a place for travelers to stay at that very spot. And this taverna –
there has always been a taverna here. See how the road goes." </div>
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He nodded at the Roman road that ran through the
town. Just beyond were farms that without a doubt went back to antiquity. Then
he indicated how the road went past the boarding house to the harbor, where the
stench of the smoky charcoal pits competed with the smell of the resin
factories. "Always we make the charcoal here. Always the resin from the
Troodos pine forests. Always this road goes this way, and always people are
thirsty and hungry and sleepy, so you have the taverna and the hotel." </div>
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He displayed open palms to Lucky as if to ask how
could this logic be anything but irrefutable.</div>
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"But, you said Saint Paul ate at this very
table," Lucky persisted. "This very table!" Lucky pressed a
finger against the table, rocking it back and forth. It was very old and
rickety, but nearly two thousand years old he did not believe.</div>
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Stephanos gave a tired sigh, then he reached down and
picked up a stone that was bracing one side of the table. He handed it to
Lucky, who gaped, because the stone was actually a finger from a marble statue.</div>
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"And over there," the old man said,
pointing. Lucky was startled to see a dirty marble arm, propping open the back
door of the café. Stephanos pounded the table. "What do you make of that,
American boy?" he demanded. "Is Stephanos a teller of false
stories?"</div>
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Lucky shook his head - no, it didn’t seem so – and
Stephanos grinned in toothless victory at his friends.</div>
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Jim said it was time to go and Lucky shyly thanked
his new friends and left a few shillings on the table to buy a round of drinks.
They drove for awhile, not saying anything. Lucky looked at the passing
landscape with new eyes. He saw the remnants of ancient Rome everywhere. Torsos
and limbs of old statues lying in the fields, Roman columns half-supporting
houses and even goat sheds. </div>
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He saw a black-cloaked priest coming down the road, a
long staff with a crook to support him, a boy running by his side, carrying his
sacramental purse. The priest had a tall hat and a thick black beard that
reached his waist. Long wooden beads hung at his side, and as they passed and
Jim smiled a hello, Lucky could hear the beads clacking.</div>
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Through half-closed eyes Lucky imagined that the
priest was Paul, come to Cyprus at the urging of Barnabas, to convert the
people to Christianity. It took no trouble at all – one minute he was in the
car with Jim, the next in 46 A.D., running by Paul’s side, bearing the
sacrament – the holy host - to some poor, dying person. </div>
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"It’s like it all happened only yesterday,"
Lucky murmured.</div>
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Jim looked at him with a crooked grin and said,
"In Cyprus the past is always close. The old man, Stephanos, spoke as if
he had seen Saint Paul only yesterday. Well, in the minds of Stephanos and his
friends, that’s exactly what happened. And Barnabas – oh – he’s even closer,
because he one of us. A Cypriot, a cousin, possibly even a brother or an
uncle." </div>
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Jim curled his fingers together into a fist.
"That’s how close Stephanos feels to Barnabas." Jim tossed the hand
outward, uncurling the fingers, as if throwing something. "You should know
that what Stephanos didn’t tell you – was ashamed to say – was that Barnabas
was stoned to death in that very square. And quite possibly an ancestor of
Stephanos threw the stone that made a martyr and a saint of Barnabas."</div>
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Jim chuckled and shook his head. "We are an
island of living ghosts, Lucky," he said. "Phoenician ghosts.
Egyptian ghosts. Persian ghosts. Athenian ghosts. Roman and Turkish and
Venetian and now British ghosts." He reached out and rubbed Lucky’s head
affectionately. "And now I have my young American ghost," he said.</div>
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"I’m no ghost," Lucky said. Then he thought
about who he really was – the son of a spy; a spook – and laughed, saying,
"Okay, you’re right. I’m a ghost."</div>
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Jim laughed as well, although he didn’t really know
what Lucky’s joke was.</div>
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They were winding their way up into the mountains now
and as they came to a dirt track, Jim pulled the car over, saying, "I want
to show you a very special ghost, Lucky. The most important ghost in Paphos,
and maybe in all of Cyprus and beyond."</div>
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They got out of the car, which was the old black
Plymouth borrowed from Kyriakos, and walked down a narrow goat trail that ran
through a grove of tall pines. The only sound was the distant whisper of the
breeze tickling the very top branches and the soft passage of their feet over
the nettled path. As they walked, the scent of the crushed nettles rose up, so
sharp, it made Lucky’s eyes tear. Small lizards and insects froze in their
presence, then scuttled away, sometimes practically dashing under their feet.
Lucky and Jim had to walk carefully so they didn’t hurt the little creatures.</div>
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As always, there were long lines of ants bisecting
the path and Lucky took professional note of their species and habits. He saw
one group dragging a still-living centipede into a nest.</div>
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Then Lucky heard faint sounds overhead – a scrape of
something hard against wood. A shiver ran down his back. He had the strangest feeling
that something – or someone -was watching him. He paused, looking up, peering
through the branches which were only partially illuminated by the sun’s
dappling light. Then, gradually, he saw a pair of huge yellow eyes peering down
at him and their pupils were strangely slanted.</div>
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He jumped, old superstitions crawling up as he
momentarily thought he was looking into the eyes of Satan.</div>
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Then he laughed, a little weakly, when he realized it
was not Satan, but a goat. And from the look in its eye and the heavy horns on
its head, it was an angry billy goat at that. Lucky stepped hastily to the side
as the goat let go a load of urine and feces. It bleated, rubbed its horns
against the branches and started eating again. Lucky sighed with relief. Then
he saw other goats in the trees, casually walking along the branches and
feeding on the pine needles. He had no idea goats could climb trees, but there
they were, not only bigger than life, but trying to shit on him as well.</div>
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Jim told him later that it was a mouflon, a kind of
wild goat, thought to be the ancestor of all modern domestic breeds.</div>
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He heard Demetrakis call his name and Lucky left the
goat to move onward, pushing through a stand of soft, fragrant fern and he soon
he came into a small grotto set into a mossy hillside that dripped with
moisture. </div>
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"Here, Lucky," Jim said, pointing at what
at first appeared to be an oddly-shaped hunk of gray stone, about the size of a
small child.</div>
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Lucky frowned. Set around the stone were the melted
remains of candles and what seemed to be food set on leaf platters. Ants and
other insects were streaming across the platters, carrying the remains away.</div>
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"Look closer," Jim said.</div>
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Lucky leaned down and saw that the stone was actually
an extremely worn carving of a woman – she was quite fat with a bulging belly,
pendulous breasts and exaggerated private parts. She seemed to be seated on a
sort of a chair with long arms that had faint cat-like faces at the ends. What
he could make out of the woman’s features was a simple oval with marks for the
mouth and nose and wide-gaping stone eyes.</div>
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"This is Aphrodite," Jim said. He waved a
hand, indicating the candles and the remains of the food. "And this is a
temple where people worship her in secret. They burn candles and make
offerings, praying for her help."</div>
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Lucky was amazed. All the pictures he’d seen of
Aphrodite were from the Greeks and Romans, displaying fabulously beautiful
women who could be modern film stars. "She’s kind of, you know…" the
boy broke off, about to say that she was fat and ugly. He didn’t want to offend
the goddess, even if she was just an old hunk of stone.</div>
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"This is a very primitive form of the
goddess," Jim said. "Before she was even known as Aphrodite. Before
Ishtar, or Inanna, or even Isis. Some scholars say she is the Mother Goddess,
worshipped by people all over the Mediterranean before the time of Noah and the
flood." </div>
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Jim shrugged. "It’s possible she goes back even
before that to the stone age. Even so, it was from this ancient goddess that
the legend of Aphrodite grew – and from there to Mary, the mother of Jesus. The
old mother goddess is usually depicted so – seated on a throne of two leopards
as she is about to give birth to a holy child."</div>
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He pointed and Lucky saw a baby’s head emerging from
between her thighs.</div>
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Puzzled, Lucky asked, "But that was so long ago
and people still come here to worship?"</div>
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Jim said, "People in trouble look for help where
they can find it. Down in Paphos you can visit the bath of Aphrodite, where
there is a replica of the goddess as she was idealized by the Athenians. Very
beautiful. The original mosaic is in Nicosia. Aphrodite, of course, was
supposedly born in Paphos and it is more than likely that the myth of the
goddess of love was inspired by early worshippers who visited places like
this."</div>
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Lucky thought a minute, then said, "So we have,
St. Paul and St. Barnabas and the Mother Goddess and Aphrodite, the Goddess Of
Love, all in one place?"</div>
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Jim smiled. "Yes, Lucky," he said.
"All in one place."</div>
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He started to turn away, hesitated and almost blessed
himself, then he grinned ruefully at the superstition and led Lucky out of the
grove.</div>
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‘Now, we’ll go see the beginning of things, the
result of love," he told Lucky. "The baptism of my cousin’s little
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<b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">"Y</span>ou see these great stones?" </b>Jim
asked Lucky, pointing to the immense boulders arranged along the seawall
guarding Famagusta Harbor. "They fired stones like these at the Turkish
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He showed Lucky square holes cut through the wall’s
foundation. "The catapults were set up here – they drove timbers through
those holes to brace the weapons. Then they lifted the stones up – using hoists
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Jim peered out to sea as if tracing the path of the
imaginary shot. He indicated a distant jetty. "They could reach that point
with admirable accuracy," he said, surprising Lucky because it was so far
away and the boulders were so enormous – they stood chest high to him and two
men with very long encircling arms might have just been able to touch fingers.</div>
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Lucky imagined the stones crashing into a Turkish
ship – models of which were on display in the much-neglected museum. Big as those ships were –
three deckers rowed by hundreds of slaves – the boulders would have crashed
through the timbers and ripped out the bottoms.</div>
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"Thousands of poor prisoners went to their
deaths," Jim said, as if reading Lucky’s mind, "when the ships sank.
They were chained to their oars, if you can imagine, so they couldn’t escape."</div>
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Jim was telling Lucky about the great Sixteenth
Century siege of Famagusta by the Turks. It was during the era when the
Venetians ruled the island. Their influence, as Jim pointed out, was everywhere
in Cyprus. The walls of Nicosia showed traces of their design, as did many of
the buildings. As for Famagusta, Jim said it was so Venetian in design that if
you transported it whole to Italy it would fit in perfectly with the local
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Actually, there was Old Famagusta and New Famagusta.
Old Famagusta consisted of the original walled city, including the famous Tower
Of Othello. This area had been nearly abandoned and was little more than a
museum site with little money to maintain it. Most of the homes and shops in
Old Famagusta had long been abandoned, their roofs stove in, windows and doors
gaping blankly like pulled teeth, and only derelicts and Gypsies living here -
along with an incredible number of rats. As they drove to the harbor Lucky saw
rats big enough to challenge dogs strolling along the rooftops, acting as if
they feared nothing in this world or the next.</div>
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The harbor itself was just as desolate – so silted
up, as Jim explained, that no ship of any size could use it. The ramparts of
the fort were etched with strange symbols carved into the stone and Jim said
these were Christian prayers scraped by the castle’s defenders over many long
months of misery during the Turkish siege. Othello’s Tower turned out to be as
bleak as Shakespeare's play. It was actually a series of four buildings – fortress bastions
that guarded the harbor. The main tower, many stories high, loomed over the
ancient defenses, a broken stone edifice swarming with lizards to complete the
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Eventually the Turks prevailed, but at a loss of
upwards of 50,000 men against the 8,000 defending Greeks and their Italian
masters. It was a brutal victory, Jim said, that hardened the heart of the
Turks against Greek Cypriots forever. Later, Lucky would come to realize just
how understanding – and forgiving - Jim’s statement was. His teacher did not
agree with the old Greek adage that "to understand the heart of a Turk,
you must cut it out, roast it and eat it whole."</div>
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When the boy stepped through the portal into the main
tower – the one purporting to be Othello’s – Lucky was nearly overwhelmed by
the oppressive, humid air that smelled of rat feces and dank mold. He didn’t
want to explore further, but Jim moved blithely onward, climbing the circular
steps and calling for Lucky to follow. The story of Othello, he explained as he
mounted the steps, was allegedly based on a true incident. An Italian count, so
dark in countenance that he was called "The Moor," was accused of unnamed
crimes by the mysterious Venetian "Council Of Ten." He was sentenced
to exile in Cyprus, along with his subordinates, Iago and Cassio. </div>
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But Jim was careful to point out that the story was
far from accurate – except in its intent. There was an obscure Italian novel by
the even more obscure Italian author – Cintio – that was probably the basis for
Shakespeare’s play. "I found a discarded copy when I was at school in
Athens," Jim said, "and I read it thinking that I might find some
great insight about Shakespeare. But it was a very bad book and if you read it
yourself, you’d never think that so great a literary work could come from
something so awful."</div>
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Lucky was astonished. "You mean Shakespeare
stole the idea from a book?"</div>
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"No, no, no," Jim said. "He didn’t
steal anything. He only learned about the story of the people trapped in such
an injustice. Like the ‘Count Of Monte Cristo,’ you know. Also a piece of great
fiction based on partially true events – a man falsely accused by men so
powerful and evil that they don’t even name his supposed crimes."</div>
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After examining the tower, which was too depressing
to invite a long visit, Jim showed Lucky the rest of the fortifications,
especially the great stone pits that marked the area around the battlements.
"These served two purposes," Jim informed Lucky. "The first
purpose was to draw off the smoke of the cannons and the Greek fire during
battle. The second was to torture the captives."</div>
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He took Lucky to one particularly deep pit. There
were no protective barriers and when Lucky leaned down and gazed into infinite
darkness it made him dizzy. Jim pulled him back. He laughed, saying,
"Don’t look into the devil’s eye, Lucky, for he will be sure to come and
get you."</div>
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And this is how Lucky learned the name of these pits
– devil’s eyes. Their purpose – other than drawing off cannon smoke – was soon
demonstrated by Jim, who lit a rolled up newspaper and dropped it into the
depths. The makeshift torch floated downward, sparking flame and smoke. It took
a long time for it to reach the bottom and there it smoldered and sparked. The
chamber became brighter still when Jim sent another newspaper torch to the
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"I want you to take a good look, Lucky,"
Jim said, urging him forward. Lucky hesitated, but Jim gripped the back of his
belt and leaned him forward, so that he was practically hovering over the pit.
"Do you see the bones, Lucky" he asked. "Do you see the remains
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The question scared the hell out of the boy, but also
intrigued him. So, hanging by his belt he peered down into the gloom at shaft’s
bottom where he could see the shattered objects with forms of grisly familiarity.
They immediately became recognizable when he saw all the broken skulls
scattered through the ancient carnage.</div>
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Jim pulled him back in and Lucky was so shocked by
what he had seen that all fear drained out of him. "Who were those
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"Prisoners," Jim replied. "But they
were prisoners of the Turks. Men taken when the siege was broken. This is where
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He said they threw people bodily into the pits -
which were so deep that all their bones were broken, but not so deep that they
died right away. Then they’d interrogate these men, rubbing mutton grease on
them to attract the rats and then they’d continue to question them while swarms
of feeding rats covered them. If the prisoners were cooperative, the Turks would
shoot them through the head to end their agony and then walk away. If they were
not, the Turks would just walk away. In either case, the rats had their meal.</div>
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"I have it on good authority," Jim said,
"that your good friend Mr. Edgar Allen Poe was inspired to write his
famous story, ‘The Pit And The Pendulum,’ after reading about the devil’s eyes
of Famagusta."</div>
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Lucky grinned as insight dawned. "All roads lead
to Cyprus," he said, "and not Rome."</div>
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Jim chuckled in appreciation. "Oh, but the
Romans were here too," he murmured, "and for a very long time. So
even their roads led to Cyprus."</div>
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They had lunch at a fisherman’s taverna on the
outskirts of Famagusta. As they savored the delightful dishes of smoked squid
and bits of different kinds of fish "cooked" ceviche style in lemon
and spring onions and spices, along with bread and olives and olive oil, Jim
told Lucky what it was like to be an islander.</div>
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"When I was in Athens I realized that life on an
island is different than any other sort of place," Jim said.."Except,
perhaps, mountain folk – who also live isolated lives, marked by stimulating
visits from strangers. In Cyprus we have both – the islanders in the flatlands
of the Nicosia plain and the mountains, like Troodos where I was born. But let
me stay with the culture of the island – it explains both regions very well. My
country is no more than one hundred and forty miles long and at its widest
point, ninety miles across," Jim said. "It sits at the far edge of a
great inland sea – the Mediterranean - where all of Western art and culture and
science and thought originated. And during that golden era, Cyprus was always
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"Everything comes to an island. The process is
well known: An island begins as bare rock, or coral. Seeds float in, animals
who have been washed out to sea clinging to a piece of wood, the birds in the
sky, also dropping seeds when they come to rest. Forests spring up as do the
grassy plains. The people follow – fleeing enemies, or looking for a new life.
They arrive in log canoes – or possibly rafts made of reed; then in ships with
sails. People of all sorts – refugees, shipwrecked sailors, saints and
scoundrels. Ideas arrive, from bad men and good, from criminals and artists.
So, you see an island is a place that fetches things to it. Whatever is
floating in the sea will someday wash up. And all these things, these ideas,
mix in and make a place like no other on the face of the earth. This is
especially so with Cyprus, because at heart we are more Greek than even the Greeks.
All the old ways that have been forgotten in Athens are with us here fresh and
new as the day they were delivered to us by the gods."</div>
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Lucky was reminded of what Joe Davis had said about
the Athenian view of Cyprus. "They think they’re a bunch of pagan hicks
from the sticks, who sound like the Greek version of Ma and Pa Kettle,"
he’d opined at a recent CIA chess party. "Athens just talks about Enosis
and freeing the Cypriots. But the junta doesn’t mean it one bit. They’re just
diddling the Turks, is all. The guys on the other side of the Black Sea. Which
has been their policy for pretty near four thousand years. Shoot, to Athens,
Enosis is a bogus idea pushed by ignorant people."</div>
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<b>When Lucky encountered</b> David Sisco at the Embassy Easter party, his first thought was that the only thing that had improved about the boy, was his sneer. It practically dripped from his skinny Italian face when he
used it on Lucky and said, "Hey, Cole, heard you went got yourself beat up
at school."</div>
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Lucky noticed the sneer was emphasized by a slight
darkening of Sisco’s upper lip. Obviously the kid was trying to nurture some
sort of a moustache. Lucky peered at it ostentatiously, saying, "Did you
know you had a centipede on your lip?"</div>
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Sisco snatched at his face in alarm, making even his
cronies laugh. When he understood that the joke was on him, he turned dark with
anger, balling up his fists. </div>
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Lucky smiled and winked. "Maybe you want to give
me some boxing lessons, David," he said, "so I can protect myself
better next time five guys jump me."</div>
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Sisco quickly unclenched his fists and took a step
back, looking around in case he needed help. When he saw his father and mother
in line with the other adults at the outdoor buffet table, he relaxed and the
sneer returned. "Very funny, Cole," he said. "Watch me laugh,
ha, ha. You should go on the Milton Berle show." </div>
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Deciding that the last thing he wanted to do was get
in a fight with the son of his father’s boss, Lucky edged away. Up until now
he’d been feeling pretty good about the party - his father had been called into
work and wouldn’t be there.</div>
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But with his parents so close, Sisco was emboldened.
"Cole’s so dumb," he told his friends, "that his mommy had to
get him a Cypriot blockhead for a tutor. Otherwise he couldn’t keep up."</div>
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Now David’s cronies were laughing at Lucky. He didn’t
mind that so much, but Sisco had crossed the line when he insulted Jim. Even
so, he was determined to get away from this budding social disaster. He forced
a grin, and shrugged, saying, "Well, I’ll see you guys later."</div>
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Once again he tried to turn away. But this time one
of David’s friends reached out and gripped Lucky’s elbow. It was Ken Roberts,
whose father was captain of the Marine embassy guard. "I hear you brag
about bein’ a pretty good boxer," Ken said. Roberts was two years older
than Lucky, half-a-head taller with bull-like shoulders. He had a military crew
cut like his father’s, with pale blue eyes under a heavy forehead.</div>
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Lucky gently removed the hand and replied, "Nothing
to brag about. I took a few lessons, is all."</div>
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Roberts smiled, revealing a mouthful of crooked
teeth. "That’s good enough for me," he said, rolling those big
shoulders. "I haven’t had a good fight in a long time. Why don’t we go out
back and try it on?"</div>
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Lucky didn’t want to dodge the fight and be branded a
coward. On the other hand, there were already a few people who thought he was a
juvenile delinquent. "Why sneak around like a couple of snot-nosed
kids?" Lucky said. "Let’s hit the embassy gym and check out some
gloves. Get the Marine there to referee a few rounds. That way you could teach
me a few pointers and maybe I could show you some stuff you don’t know."</div>
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Out of the corner of his eye, Lucky saw David
slipping around behind him and he realized they were going to do the old trick
where one boy kneels behind the other, while his buddy gives the guy a big
shove. Then Roberts would probably "accidentally" trip and fall
knee-first into Lucky’s stomach. They didn’t want to just fight, they wanted to
leave him humiliated and gasping for breath on the lawn.</div>
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Stalling so Sisco could maneuver, Roberts pretended
to consider. "Don’t know if the gym’s open."</div>
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The trick was so old that Neanderthal boys probably
played it on one another. So was the counter, no doubt. It had been taught to
Lucky by a sharecropper’s kid in Clearwater, Florida.</div>
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Like Roberts, he pretended to consider. "Well,
why don’t we go see?" he said.</div>
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In his mind’s eye the entire incident flashed before
him a bare instant before he went into action. Right now Sisco was getting into
position. Roberts was about to step forward and shove Lucky with both hands.
But before he could act, Lucky planned to step back, grinding his heel into
Sisco’s hand. When Sisco squealed in pain, Lucky would react in mock surprise
and fall back, grabbing Roberts by the belt. Then they’d both crash into Sisco
and with their combined weight might even crack a couple of Sisco’s ribs. </div>
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But a split second before any of this occurred, a
scolding female voice rang out: "David Sisco, what are you doing crawling
on the ground?" </div>
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They all turned to see who it was, then froze. The
scolding female they were presented with was Donna Kelly, a fourteen-year-old
Irish colleen, with a dark tumble of hair, snapping black eyes and a complexion
of pure cream. She was also the daughter of the American embassy’s political
officer – Gen. Randolph Kelly - a one star Army general on loan to the state
department. He was also CIA in a big way. Lucky knew from the gossip that he’d
been an OSS bravo who’d parachuted behind enemy lines during WWII. Was
captured, tortured, and had revealed nothing before he escaped. In other words,
in the world Lucky lived in Gen. Kelly was just this side of God and the equal,
if not the tacit superior, of David Sisco Senior. </div>
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David Sisco The Younger looked up at Donna from his
ungainly position on the lawn and giggled like a fool. He scrambled to his
feet, stumbling a couple of times, before he reached the erect position. Ken
Roberts turned beet red and took several quick steps away from Lucky, wiping
his hands across his crew cut as if he were looking for sun glasses. Lucky, who
had no reason to feel any guilt at all, recognized immediately that Donna was
throwing him a life preserver. </div>
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He stepped around the clumsy figure of Sisco, still
half-kneeling on the lawn. "Donna!" he said, with real pleasure.
"I was just going to get some Easter cake and something to drink." He
gestured at David and the others. "But I was delayed by a little kid
stuff. I didn’t want to play, but felt obligated." He indicated the
food-ladened tables. "Tried any of the goodies yet?" he asked. </div>
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"No, I haven’t," Donna said, taking Lucky’s
proffered arm. "I hear the Easter cake is lovely." The two of them
strode away, leaving Sisco Junior and his minions sulking like naughty tots.</div>
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Gen. Kelly had just assumed his post – he was
recently transferred from Turkey. Lucky and Donna had met during orientation
for CIA dependents in D.C. nearly two years before. They’d become reacquainted
recently at an embassy reception for her father. Like Lucky, Donna was an avid
reader and insatiably curious about the world.</div>
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"Thanks for rescuing me," Lucky said, as
they moved along the buffet table, getting some frosted cake and cold glasses
of orange squash. "In another minute I’d have been rolling all over the
ground like a stupid little kid."</div>
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Donna laughed. "I knew David liked to drag
people down to his level," she said. "But that was ridiculous. The
last time I saw a stunt like that was in the third grade."</div>
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They found a quiet place under a tree and Lucky
spread his jacket on the lawn for Donna. She was quite fetching in a white
party dress and a broad sunhat, with a black band. She had a matching black
ribbon around her throat that set off her creamy complexion.</div>
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"I almost didn’t come because of Sisco,"
Lucky confessed. "He’s pretty adept at spoiling my good time."</div>
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"Never mind David Sisco," Donna said
scornfully, waving a hand that seemed to dismiss Sisco from the face of the
earth. Then she leaned closer, her dark eyes aglow. "I heard about your
tutor. I was so excited for you. He’s Greek, isn’t he?"</div>
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Lucky nodded. "I’ve never learned so much in
such a short time. He’s tough, don’t get me wrong. Very strict. But he makes
everything so interesting I can’t wait until school starts every day."</div>
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Donna sighed, a little envious. "I’m at this
girl’s school," she said. "There’s only fourteen of us, but we spend
more time walking around with books on our heads, than we do reading
them."</div>
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Lucky frowned. "Books are on your head? Whatever
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Donna laughed. "They’re teaching us how to walk
like ladies," she said. "You balance the book and practice walking
very straight, with your shoulders back." She finished her cake and put
the plate to the side. "Speaking of books," she said, "I’m in
the middle of the most marvelous novel. John Steinbeck’s ‘East Of Eden.’" </div>
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Lucky nodded. He’d heard of it – the book had only
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said.</div>
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"Exactly," Donna said, "It’s starts in
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"I’d never read Steinbeck before I went to the
hospital," Lucky said. "They had ‘Cannery Row’ there and ‘The Pearl.’
Steinbeck’s my new favorite. It used to be Hemingway."</div>
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Donna wrinkled her nose. "I’m not allowed to
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"Sure, I know what you mean," Lucky said,
trying to appear worldly. "But he’s a pretty important writer. I heard
that he might get the Nobel Prize for literature one of these days. Then what
will your parents say?"</div>
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Donna smiled and shook her head in bemusement.
"If he were made a saint, he’d still be banned in my house," she
said. "Once my father makes up his mind about something – and the same
goes with my mother – that becomes Kelly Law. It’s like Newton, but more
definitive."</div>
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Lucky said, "One of the British officers gave me
a copy of ‘The Old Man And The Sea.' It’s not so, you know – ooh, la, la. But
it’s really good. And it’s small…" he indicated how small with barely
parted fingers… "small enough to hide. Maybe I could lend it to you. If
you got caught, you could blame me. Say you were just being polite by accepting
it. But you never even thought of reading it."</div>
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"You <i>are</i> subversive, Lucky," Donna
said. "Sneaking perfectly proper girls books by authors they aren’t
allowed to read."</div>
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"I’m – I’m sorry," Lucky said, embarrassed.
Then he saw that she was laughing – it was a joke. And he became emboldened.
"Well, I could come here to give it to you… Sneaking it in, like you said.
Or…" He was thinking quickly now… "I heard there was a circus pretty
soon. A gypsy circus the weekend after next. I could get some tickets and maybe
we could… well, go together. And I could give you the book there. At the
circus."</div>
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The whole time he had talked, he hadn’t looked Donna in
the face, fearing she would refuse him with a scornful frown after the first
words out of his mouth. But when he came to the end, he looked up hopefully,
and saw a girl with "yes," practically written all over her face. </div>
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Just so he wouldn’t misunderstand her acceptance,
Donna leaned forward, the faint scent of violets coming with her and she gave
Lucky a quick, but very warm kiss on the mouth. Her face slid forward, rubbing
against his cheek, and she whispered in his ear: "Yes."</div>
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Someone called Donna’s name and she sat bolt upright,
brushing her dress as if ridding it of cake crumbs. She turned casually and
raised a hand to wave at her mother who was across the lawn, saying goodbye to
Mr. and Mrs. Sisco and son.</div>
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"Donna," her mother called. "Come say
goodbye to our guests."</div>
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"Yes mother," Donna replied. Then to Lucky
she whispered, "And good riddance."</div>
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She dashed across the lawn, hoisting her party dress
to reveal long, gazelle-like legs. Lucky watched her run, enjoying the look of
her legs and the sway of her hips. He saw David staring at her too and he
laughed to himself, thinking, You don’t have a chance you s.o.b. </div>
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He settled back on the warm grass, head pillowed on
folded hands, feeling good about himself. A momentary pang came when Athena’s
lovely face rose up. But that wasn’t his fault, was it? Sure, he still loved
her and everything, but her father had forbidden Lucky to see her again. Even
so, Andreas said, by and by, there could be a way around Yorgo. On the other
hand, here was Donna Kelly, a perfectly nice American girl who read books and
liked to discuss them. They would go to the circus, he would slip her the book,
and then they’d discuss the merits of Steinbeck and Hemingway, and maybe even
Faulkner.</div>
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What was the harm in that?</div>
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<b>Lucky spent a
sleepless night</b> waiting for Easter to dawn and it wasn’t all because of
depressed thoughts of George. His father had returned home close to midnight
and had proceeded to get drunk. Lucky huddled in his room, listening as his
father’s voice grew louder, while his mother’s disappeared into whispers. </div>
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Any minute, he figured his father would get him up
and a night of misery would begin. Thankfully, the moment never came and after
awhile the house grew silent and he guessed that his father had passed out. He
slept a little after that, but then he had terrible dreams about George’s last
moments – the doctors and nurses struggling to save his life and then gasping
his last breath. The dream kept repeating itself, until finally, Lucky forced
himself awake. He was trembling and covered with a cold sweat. He was parched,
but was afraid that if went into the kitchen for water that his father would
wake up.</div>
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He got out his book about ants and after a time lost
himself in their marvelous underground cities. Then the roosters crowed and
Lucky hurried to wash and dress for church. Sometimes his father would sit
silently in some corner, drinking and smoking cigarettes, waiting for someone
to get up. But if that were so, Lucky would be already dressed for church and
could use that as an excuse to escape. Thankfully, his father was nowhere to be
seen, so Lucky left a note for his mother, quietly called for a taxi and rushed
out of the house.</div>
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He wandered around Nicosia, watching the city awaken
on a Sunday morning. The Greek Orthodox church didn’t celebrate Easter on the
same day as the Catholics, but even so, the air was filled with the music and
scores of tolling bells, once again reminding Lucky of Poe’s poem. After
meeting Donna, it also reminded him of Hemingway’s "For Whom The Bell
Tolls," which was about the Spanish Civil War – the Communists against the
Fascists, with the Communists as the heroes. Jim had given him a copy of
"A Treasury Of English Verse," and one the first poem’s they had
discussed was John Donne’s "For Whom The Bell Tolls" - the poem that
inspired Hemingway's poem. The point of the poem and the book, Jim said, was
that every man’s suffering, every man’s loss, had an impact on each of us, even
though we might not recognize it at the time. </div>
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Lucky thought maybe that was his father’s trouble.
All the things people were suffering all over the world came through the
pipeline of the CIA. Maybe all those things, those terrible things, piled up on
him until he couldn’t he couldn’t bear it and so he lashed out at his family.
The boy grimaced. He was giving his father way too much credit, he thought. He
was making his father sound far too noble. Besides – he’d been terrorizing
Lucky and his mother well before he joined the CIA.</div>
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But George - now there was an example that fit the
poem. When George had died it certainly had been felt by Lucky in a major way.
He wished mightily that he had said something comforting to George on the day
of his death, instead of stupid stuff about an egg. However, even if he could
have taken that back - what do you say to a guy who is going to die? Don’t
worry, everything will be okay? </div>
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Hardly.</div>
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Or, maybe you should say that. Maybe everything would
then be okay. Lucky was with Omar Khayyam, who doubted very much that there was
heaven or hell and so therefore no afterlife. But at least once you were dead
it wouldn’t hurt anymore – and George had definitely been in pain. Lucky
shivered as he remembered the poor man’s pitiful moans. </div>
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Okay, enough was enough. No more feeling sorry for
yourself.</div>
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Lucky ate breakfast at a taverna and caught a rickety
bus ride home. A mile short of the village, the bus broke down and Lucky got
off. He hung around to see if he could help the driver, but the man had a
plentitude of men and boys to tell him what to do and besides, Lucky was
wearing a suit that he didn’t dare get dirty. He marched along the road,
enjoying the fresh air washing across the fields, empty of labor on a Sunday,
except for the ever-present goat herders and their charges. A car horn sounded
behind him. Lucky was already on the side of the road, but he automatically
moved further away and kept walking. </div>
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The horn beeped again and he heard a wild guitar
strum – a run of Spanish chords. At the same moment someone shouted,
"Lucky!"</div>
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He turned, recognizing the guitar and the voice and
his heart jumped for joy as Harry pulled up in a long officer’s car. The top
was thrown back to reveal his three best friends at the hospital; Harry, at the
wheel, Brian with his guitar and Kenneth with his widest grin. Accompanying
them were four remarkably pretty Cypriot girls – all decked out in bright sun
dresses and wide-brimmed hats and as the car came to a halt the girls’
wonderful perfume washed over him like a gentle meadow breeze.</div>
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Harry said, "We’ve come to get you, old boy, and
carry you off to the beach."</div>
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Brian said, "We escaped the hospital on your
account, so don’t disappoint us."</div>
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Kenneth added, "Altogether now, girls,"
waving his hands like a maestro of a grand orchestra. </div>
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And all the girls shouted in melodious unison:
"Happy George’s Day, Mr. Lucky."</div>
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Lucky didn’t know what to say. He stuttered,
"But… but…"</div>
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Harry broke in. "But me no buts. Already spoke
to your mum. It’s quite alright and officially approved." He tossed Lucky
a duffel bag. "She even sent along some beach togs. Now, into the car
before your girlfriend starts thinking that you find her homely."</div>
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He waved at the odd girl out – a round and giggly
little thing, just a little older than Donna. She was very pretty in her thin,
flowered dress, bare plump arms, and shapely stocking-sheathed legs.</div>
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She offered Lucky her hand. "How do you do, Mr.
Lucky?" she said in heavily accented English.</div>
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Lucky blushed from head to toe. "Fine thank
you," he said, but it was more of a croak than a real voice.</div>
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"Ever the gentleman, our Lucky," Brian
joked and Kenneth opened the rear door and Lucky hopped in. Immediately,
Lucky’s girl threw her arms around him and kissed him on the cheek. Brian
strummed his guitar dramatically, setting up Harry’s announcement.</div>
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Pulling his own girl closer to him, Harry said,
"From now until tomorrow’s dawn, Easter is George’s Day, sacrilegious
though that may seem. And every Easter the four of us – me and you and Brian
and Kenneth – will think of George and celebrate his memory. Sort of a lad’s
rites of Spring, you know. A rebirth. And where better than the land of
Aphrodite to celebrate rebirth?" </div>
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He grabbed a champagne bottle from his laughing
companion’s hand and hoisted it high. "Gentlemen, George has risen!"</div>
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The other guys all shouted "George has
risen!" And Harry took a big swig of champagne and it was passed around
the car, to Brian and Kenneth and their dates, then to Lucky’s date, who smiled
so prettily when she handed him the champagne that he lost his heart.</div>
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Lucky lofted the bottle. "George has
risen!" he cried, and drank deeply.</div>
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<b>With the car
radio blaring</b> BBC dance music, they drove to Larnaca, then a little south
to a cove where Brian had taken a year’s lease on a seaside cottage. </div>
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Harry, Brian and Kenneth had all been released from
the hospital a few weeks before and were living in officer’s quarters at the
main base – waiting for orders. Their next assignments could come at any day,
which made the year’s lease on what was essentially a weekender’s cottage a
definite extravagance even at inexpensive Cypriot prices. By now Lucky knew
that Brian’s family was well off – maybe even rich - and so the cottage was a
bit of a surprise. Small and unassuming, it had been previously leased by an
artist who was more interested in the light than ambience. So its main feature
was that the whole front of the house consisted of floor to ceiling shutters –
all painted various colors – that opened onto the beach. Screens kept the
insects out, but not the breeze so although it was a warm day, the fresh salty
air whipped through the cottage, making everything and everybody sparkle with
life and enthusiasm.</div>
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There was a well in back with water so cold it made
your teeth ache. Brian said he’d had it tested and that it was pure.</div>
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"Not that I worry – my policy is to cut all
water with gin," Brian said. He was putting very little water into glasses
full of gin as he spoke. "Touch of malaria, you know."</div>
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Kenneth hooted: "When the ward sister caught you
with the cognac you said <i>that</i> was for your ‘touch of malaria.’ So, which
is it Brian – gin or cognac that cures malaria?"</div>
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Brian said, with much solemnity, "There are
those who say that gin is the goddess of curative powers. Detractors, which are
legion, claim that cognac is the way to good health." Brian indicated his
bar, which was well stocked with both and said, "If the Army has taught me
anything, it is that one has to be prepared for all contingencies. So,
gentlemen, be you believers in gin or men of the cognac faith, your salvation
is assured."</div>
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Harry trooped in, carrying the car radio. The girls
followed him, pulling wires into the room. An expert on communications in
war-torn lands, Harry had already planned out the evening’s musical
entertainment.</div>
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"All I have to say about your plans, Brian,"
he said, "is that we need to fetch the colas and lemon squash from the
car. Lucky’s had enough malaria prevention." Lucky groaned in protest.
Harry said, "I gave my implicit promise to your mother that we would
return you in reasonable condition." He looked at Lucky’s girl, whose name
was Mesina, and grinned. "But I didn’t say that you wouldn’t return with a
little seasoning, did I?"</div>
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Brian laughed, plugged in some wires, twirled the
dials and wild Greek music started to play.</div>
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One of the women clapped and stomped her feet, posing
like a dancer on a stage. "Oopa!" Mesina cried. "Oopa!"
shouted another. "Oopa!" Lucky cried.</div>
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They all began to dance. Awkwardly at first, but
better as the music soared on and the girls turned, their skirts swirling above
their knees. Soon everything became very cheery, very merry. Food appeared -
delivered by some local village men. The party continued. Lucky drank colas and
lemon squash, but sometimes Mesina slipped a little gin into his glass and his
heart grew warmer, his soul lighter until he thought he was going to soar away
into the starry night.</div>
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They went swimming – never mind the beach togs, they
all went naked. "It’s called skinny dipping in the States," Lucky
told Harry, trying to sound adult as he stood barely hip deep in the phosphorescent water.</div>
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Brian hooted and splashed, sending a scatter of water
droplets that looked like a glowing pirate’s treasure of gems – all green and
blue and red and yellow – cascading against him and running down his body in
glorious streams of Technicolor.</div>
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Mesina paddled to him, ducked her head under water,
then rose up and spit a long stream of fabulous color. Lucky laughed at such a
sight and the girl closed in on him, pressing her body against his – all her
curves flowing over him. They kissed and then kissed some more until it became
necessary to retreat to a place on the beach – just behind a rock. Mesina had a
blanket there and jug of lemon squash punch, with just a touch of gin. They
made love for what seemed like forever. It wasn’t Lucky’s first time. He'd fumbled about with an older girl a few times, but now that experience seemed so - well, juvenile. And this was... Glorious!</div>
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Even so, although Mesina wasn’t much more than
sixteen, she was a full grown woman in her world and full of tenderness and
understanding. She whispered delirious things to Lucky about being so happy
that she was with such a sweet boy and instead of being insulted at being
called a boy, Lucky took it as she meant it - a compliment.</div>
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A little later, he fell asleep, the girl beside him,
the warm Mediterranean breeze blowing over him. </div>
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Once again he dreamed of George, but the images were
softer now, not so frantic. And this time just before George died he whispered:
"Happy Easter, my Lucky old sun."</div>
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<b>Monday was the
first day</b> of Easter vacation and was marked by the twin invasions of
Pallouriotissa by the New Zealand Army and Mr. and Mrs. Walters, soon to be
known as Gundaree and Gundara, and their three-year-old son Eric. </div>
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The army was first. A little before dawn Lucky was
awakened by the rumbling of engines. Bright lights blared through the shutters
and he heard men barking orders in English. Curiosity soon overcame sleepiness
and he crawled out of bed and threw open the doors. As he walked onto the
veranda, he saw large shadows lumbering along the main road. Headlights swept
across the scene, illuminating troop trucks, with canvas tops and sides, moving
into the field across the street. As soon as they pulled up, men poured out of
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Then he heard the distinctive rattle and clank of
armored vehicles and a moment later several tanks loomed out of the night,
looking like prehistoric creatures with their turrets and cannons. Their
commanders stood in the hatchways, goggles slung back over their helmets so
when they bent down to bellow orders to the men on the ground, they looked like
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Lucky heard Charlie crying in his nursery and the
voice of his mother and the hoots of Brosina as they hurried to the bawling
child. How Brosina, who was stone deaf, knew when Charlie was crying always
mystified Lucky. Through sign language she indicated that she could feel the
vibrations of a baby’s cries in the springs of her mattress and since she
always ran to his brother the moment he started squalling he had no reason to
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Soon his mother came into the room, cradling Charlie
and rocking him back and forth. He was calmly sucking on a bottle and seemed to
be content. "What’s all the racket, Luck?" his mother asked. "It
sounds like the Barnum and Bailey Circus out there."</div>
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"Just the army, mom," he said.
"Setting up camp across the street."</div>
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His mother nodded, saying, "Your father
mentioned there were maneuvers going on all over the island. In case there was
trouble over Stalin." </div>
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Lucky grimaced. The Russian dictator’s death had
sparked world-wide riots that were still continuing. From what he could gather
from the BBC, anyone and everyone with a lost cause had channeled their grief
into renewed passion for their demands. Although things were relatively quiet
in Cyprus, the British were worried that Enosis would once again rear its
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After breakfast, Lucky wandered out to watch the
soldiers set up camp. Already, tents were pitched, camp fires lit and army
cooks were dishing up breakfast to hungry men lined up before stainless steel
steam tables. Lucky noticed that most of the men returned to their tents to
crouch over little individual fires where they had pots of tea on the boil. </div>
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He peered up at the two flags flying over the camp –
hoisted on portable staffs. There was the familiar Union Jack of the British,
but next to it was a much different banner. In its left corner, it displayed
the union jack against a sea blue background. To the right were four stars laid
out like a cross. Lucky frowned – he knew he should know what the emblem meant,
but at the moment it escaped him.</div>
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He crossed the street to investigate further. The
soldiers looked up at him, with friendly grins and said things like,
"Takin’ the tiki tour, mate?" Or, "Up with the sparrow farts,
are ye?" Also, "How’s it goin’, bugalugs." And, "Take a
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The last, was a soldier pointing out Lucky to his
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Lucky bridled at this. "I’m not British,"
he said, "I’m American."</div>
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This got everyone’s interest. Young soldiers were
suddenly twice as friendly as before. "Sorry about that, bugalugs,"
said the offending party. "And you’re welcome to some tea." </div>
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The soldier indicated the pot resting next to the
fire. His friend made a space for Lucky and the boy squatted between them.
Other men came over, presumably to see what an American looked and sounded
like.</div>
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"Where’s your crib, Yank?" his new friend
asked, as he poured Lucky some tea, then offered him a tin of condensed milk.</div>
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Lucky indicated the impressive sandstone villa across
the street. "Over there."</div>
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The men all gave him odd looks and Lucky realized his
house made him fit the European stereotype of "the rich American."
Searching for common ground, he said, "All the oranges and lemons and
grapes are ripe, if you guys want some."</div>
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There were appreciative murmurs all around. Then his
new friend – Charlie, was his name, just like Lucky’s brother – said,
"What we want is some decent food, mate. And maybe somethin’ to drink,
like. Ain’t there any pie carts about?"</div>
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Lucky frowned. "Pie carts?" he asked.
"There’s no bakery, here. The village is too small."</div>
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"No, no, mate," Charlie said. "A pie
cart’s just Kiwi for a food sellin’ truck." He showed Lucky the gray glop
in his plate. "All we get is powdered eggs and greasy bangers, you
know."</div>
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Lucky knew just what to do. "I can get some guys
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Someone else spoke up. "Ask him if there’s any
boozers can deliver." The man looked over his shoulder for officers or Non
Coms. "But on the quiet like."</div>
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Lucky laughed. "That’s easy," he said.
"I’ll get somebody up from the taverna to take your order." Then he
turned serious. "If they ask for some money first, you can trust them,
okay? Nobody will cheat you in Pallouriotissa."</div>
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He rose, eager to get things organized, but then he
hesitated. "You don’t talk like the Brits I know," he said. Then he
indicated the unfamiliar banner fluttering next to the Union Jack. "And
that flag… what does that stand for?"</div>
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Charlie laughed. "We’re kiwis, mate," he
said. "From the lands down under."</div>
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Light dawned for Lucky. "New Zealanders?"
he marveled.</div>
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"Yep. And we ain’t any more British than you
are, Yank," he said. "Sorry we insulted you like we did."</div>
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Lucky shrugged. "Oh, I know some really nice
guys who are British," he said. Then he laughed. "And they’re even
officers, too."</div>
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This drew a chorus of groans and whistles and
good-natured laughter. And as Lucky scrambled away to hunt up food and drink
for Charlie and the others, he thought that this was a pretty nice way to start
his vacation. </div>
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Within the hour, the village boys were swarming the
camp, offering fresh eggs and meat and bread, as well as produce. Soon the New
Zealanders were having a good "fry up" going. Cooking the food over
their campfires in pans full of sizzling oil. Even the officers got into the
game, buying up choice bits at premium prices. </div>
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A little later, Andreas drove a goat cart into the
camp. It was the delivery cart from the local taverna. At Lucky’s suggestion,
they’d hired Andreas to sell their wares: cases of beer and bottles of wine and
fiery liquor. Once again, even the officers got into the game – charmed by
Andreas’ fine and cultured English. By late afternoon the whole camp was in
grand spirits, to say the least, and the young soldiers were playing a game of
soccer with the village boys – doing their best to let the locals score points
whenever they got too far ahead.</div>
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Near day’s end, Charlie came to Lucky and said,
"You’ve done grand by us, Yank. Anytime you get to New Zealand, you just
lookup your old mate Charlie and I’ll show you a grand time as well."</div>
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Lucky thanked him and started away. Charlie’s tent
mate stopped him. "Can you do some magic with some girls, too, Yank?"
he asked.</div>
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He saw Charlie’s face darken at the insult. But it
had been too good a day for Lucky to take offense. "You’ll have to go to
the city for that, Mr. Kiwi Man," he said, thinking of the red light
district near Jim’s house. "All the girls in this village are good girls
and engaged to be married."</div>
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The man started to make a retort but Charlie clapped
him on the back so hard he knocked the man’s breath out of him. "Come on,
Tom," he said. "Let’s get to the beer before it’s gone the way of
your poor manners."</div>
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Rather than be insulted, Lucky thought the whole
thing was pretty funny. Charlie’s tent mate was merely trying to act much older
than he was – which was maybe seventeen, a few years more than Lucky. So the
beer had not only gone to his head, but to ego as well. He just wanted to act
like the other guys, the older guys. Not realizing that they had all been souls
of propriety with the locals. The poor kid – and Lucky thought of the soldier
as a kid – would wake up in the morning mortified at his behavior.</div>
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As Lucky crossed the road, he heard a tinny horn
squeak from behind him - Beep! Beep! </div>
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He was so surprised that instead of getting out of
the way he stood stock still. Beneath the Beep! Beep! he heard what might have
been engine sounds. Kind of a clatter and a lot of squealing of fan belts. The
horn sounded again: Beep! Beep! </div>
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Lucky thought, if this was a car horn, the car just
had to be mouse-size. Like one of the little people’s cars they had in the
British Boys Own Beano comics. He turned to look at the source of the Beeps and
to his amazement he saw a vehicle not much bigger than the Beano cars. It was a
brand new 1952 Peugeot. And it was a pitiful thing. The word nerdy had not yet
been invented, but if it had, it could have been well applied to that dinky Peugeot.
True, in the past, the Peugeot had been a racing wonder, with many Gran Prix
victories to the factory’s credit. Unfortunately, the newly designed
after-the-war Peugeot could barely get out of its own way. The car’s only
reliable component was that tinny little horn that went Beep! Beep! Beep!</div>
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A pinch-faced little man poked his head out the
window. He stuttered in despicable Greek, "Uh, uh, poosha… uh…
poosha…" He stopped in mid-Greek torture and pulled his head back inside
and Lucky saw an equally pinched-faced woman sitting next to him – a phrase
book in hand. She said something to the man and the guy nodded and stuck his
head back out the window. "Oh, yes," he said, "uh… poosha
mahk…ria… uh… Palurio… uh."</div>
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Lucky took pity on him. Obviously, the couple had
mistaken him for a Cypriot kid. He said, "If you’re looking for
Pallouriotissa, mister, you’re already there."</div>
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<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
The man looked surprised. He grimaced in what Lucky
supposed was an attempt to smile. "You must be the Cole boy," he
said, the accent flat and very American.</div>
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Lucky nodded. "Everybody calls me Lucky,"
he said. </div>
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The woman rolled down her window and put her head
out. She was about his mom’s age, he guessed. "We’re the Walters’,"
she said. "Ruth and Jack Walters." In the back seat a small child
squealed with laughter. "And that’s Eric," she said, turning to stuff
a pacifier in the kid’s mouth, shutting off the laugh. "He’s three,"
she said, a little defensively. </div>
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Lucky guessed because three was kind of old for a kid
to be sucking on a pacifier. But that was none of his business.</div>
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Then Mr. Walters said, "We’re your new
neighbors." </div>
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That surprised Lucky. There was a villa nearly as
large as his place right next door and separated by a low wall with a white
wrought iron railing. But it had always been vacant. The house belonged to
Yorgo and it was Lucky’s understanding that it was meant for Athena when she
got old enough to marry. It was part of her dowry. What was surprised him was
that somehow he hadn’t heard about Yorgo renting the place out – he usually
knew everything that went on in the village.</div>
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Before he could think of what to say, his mother came
out of the gate. "Ruth, Jack, there you are," she said. "We’ve
been expecting you. Welcome to Pallouriotissa." Then to Lucky she said,
"Show them where to park, hon, while I get the keys to their house."</div>
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Feeling a little resentful for being left out of such
an important event, Lucky did as he was told – trying hard not to act sullen.
After all, it wasn’t the couple’s fault. He sighed, realizing it wasn’t his
mother’s fault either. She’d been absent so much lately that they really hadn’t
had much time together.</div>
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A second surprise greeted Lucky when the couple
climbed out of the Peugeot. They weren’t exactly dwarves, but even at thirteen
Lucky was taller than Mr. Walters, which made Lucky tower over Mrs. Walters.
Even more amazing was the sight of Eric as he clambered out of the car. He was
a rolly polly child with fat cherub’s cheeks and he was remarkably large for
his age – especially considering the size of his mother and father. </div>
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He was also the cheeriest little kid Lucky had ever
met. Eric seemed to find everything hilarious. A snail crawling slowly across
the pavement caused him to break into peals of laughter. And when little
Charlie – who was about the same age – offered to share the biscuit he’d been
munching – Eric became positively convulsed with mirth as his mother scrambled
to intercept the soggy gift.</div>
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"Is Eric always this happy?" Helen asked,
smiling at the beaming child.</div>
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"Oh, yes," Ruth Walters said, giving a
weary shake of her head. "Always."</div>
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Her husband nodded in sour agreement. "He’s
easily amused," he said. "The doctor assures us he’ll grow out of
it."</div>
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Lucky’s eyebrows shot up. "But why would- "
he began, but his mother’s sharp look cut off his question. Which was why any
doctor would be alarmed at a happy child. The Walters were too self-absorbed to
notice anything.</div>
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Ruth began a long story about the poor service and
"barbaric meals" they’d endured during their long stay at the hotel.
And when Lucky realized they were talking about the same place he’d stayed at
he was so angry it was all he could do to keep from speaking out.</div>
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John picked up where Ruth left off when she once
again plugged the pacifier into Eric’s mouth to cut off the kid’s laughter. In
a whiny, nasal voice, John described his frustrating search for a
"civilized car" in this land of "very used car dealers."
Lucky would have loved to tell him exactly what he thought of their 1952
Peugeot, but noticed that his mother’s eyes were dangerously bright, her mouth
frozen in a half-smile. She was obviously just as irritated by these people as
he was.</div>
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Just then – thank God – Thea entered with a basket of
food and other comforts for their new neighbors. Gratefully, Helen rose, took
the basket and handed it to Ruth.</div>
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"A few things to make your first night
comfortable," she said.</div>
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Ruth thanked her in a whiny voice, adding,
"We’ll always be in your debt for finding us a decent home."</div>
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"Don’t mention it," Lucky’s mother said and
from the tone in her voice he knew she <i>really </i>meant it. She turned to
Lucky. "Could you ask Thea to show the Walters their place and help them
get settled."</div>
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Lucky complied in a burst of Greek that startled the
Walters. John’s eyebrows rose and Ruth put a hand to her mouth. But they said
nothing. Instead, John gingerly lifted up his son and followed Thea out of the
house. </div>
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Later, Lucky’s mother told him with grim amusement
that Ruth had asked Helen if she wasn’t "worried about poor Lucky going
native."</div>
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"Why’d you do it, mom?" Lucky demanded.
"Why’d you tell them about Pallouriotissa?"</div>
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His mother sighed. "I felt sorry for little
Eric," she said. "We met them at a get-acquainted party and Eric just
made me laugh, that’s all. You know, God forgive me, but I can’t stand his
mother and father. And that made me feel guilty. So I helped them find a place
to live."</div>
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"But it’s right next door!" Lucky groaned.</div>
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"I know, I know," his mother said.
"But look on the bright side. I almost asked Ruth to be your teacher
instead of Jim."</div>
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Lucky goggled. "What are you talking
about?" he demanded – horrified at the prospect.</div>
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"Well, both Ruth and John were originally
teachers in Arlington. But, with all the recruiting going on, John ended up at
The Pickle Factory…" This was a very private euphemism for the CIA. Lucky
knew the Agency was under pressure to grow fast, but… John Walters! That was
ridiculous. "So… well," his mother continued, "Ruth complained
that she had quit her teaching job to come to Cyprus. And for a little while I
thought it would be better to have her teach you than for you to go back to the
British school."</div>
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Lucky was disgusted. "Never," he said.
"She’s horrible. Worse than a nun sucking lemons."</div>
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"It’s not nice to speak about people that
way," his mother said. "I’m sure Ruth has many good points." But
Lucky knew from the look on her face that if pressed, she wouldn’t have been
able to name one. Then she laughed and said, "There’s always Eric. He’s
reason enough."</div>
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Lucky couldn’t disagree. Later, when Eric earned the
moniker of Kerosene Eric, all his doubts would return.</div>
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<b>On Saturday,
April 4,</b> there was an Easter party at the American embassy. A luncheon was
scheduled, with an egg hunt for the little kids on the embassy lawn. This was
followed by games and a movie for the older kids and a cocktail party and
dancing for the parents. Those with very young children were encouraged to
bring their maids and a nursery was set up in the embassy.</div>
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Lucky’s mother and the other wives had been busy all
week readying the annual spring fashion show, with the American women modeling
creations from Paris – via Beirut – with proceeds earmarked for a local
orphanage. Expatriates were the same the world over: any excuse for a party
with their own nationality was welcome to the extreme, and the Americans were
no different. </div>
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Lucky, however, was not looking forward to the event.
This was just the kind of thing that might set his father off on a binge. The
family had enjoyed a reprieve of sorts since Lucky’s illness. But the pressures
had been building for a long time and he knew his dad was just looking for an
excuse for a break out. He prayed mightily that some Middle-East shaking event
would interfere with his father’s presence at the party. Another major fly in
the ointment was David Sisco, who had declared himself Lucky’s enemy when they
were at the British school together. Larry and Tom reported that the station
chief’s son had been poisoning the other kids’ minds against him and Lucky was
in no mood for that kind of a confrontation. </div>
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"I can’t go, mom," he said late Thursday
afternoon when she laid out the clothes she thought he ought to wear to the
weekend party. "I’ve got an essay due for Jim first thing Monday." </div>
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When his mother pointed out that he’d had an entire
week of idleness to produce the essay, Lucky shrugged and said, "I forgot
about the Easter party. Thought I’d write it this weekend."</div>
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"You can write it tonight," his mother
said. "And if you’re not done, you have all day tomorrow as well."</div>
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Lucky was horrified. "I can’t tonight," he
said. "I’m taking Athena to the movies."</div>
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His mother sighed. "I’m sorry… getting ready for
the party and all… I forgot to tell you…"</div>
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Lucky was suddenly very alarmed. "Tell me
what?"</div>
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"Yorgo called while you were playing soccer with
the soldiers."</div>
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Lucky heart sunk. "Okay…?" He tried not to
look worried, but he dreaded what was coming. Had Yorgo found out that he’d
unbuttoned Athena’s blouse? With her help, no less?!? Had Yorgo told Lucky’s
mother? He didn’t think so- her manner was too mild.</div>
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His mother said, "They’re having a big family
gathering tomorrow and Athena has to help her mother get ready tonight."</div>
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"Did he invite me?" Lucky asked, keeping
his voice neutral.</div>
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"No, he didn’t," Helen said. Then, catching
a small bit of Lucky’s concern, she hastened to say, "But I told him about
the embassy party. Otherwise, I’m sure he would have."</div>
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Sure, Lucky thought dourly. Now he was sure that
Yorgo must have guessed some of what had been going on. We’ll be forbidden to
see each other, he thought. He started to ask his mother if Yorgo had said
anything else, then decided it was best not to arouse her suspicions. </div>
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He shrugged, pretending unconcern, saying it probably
wasn’t that good of a movie anyway. But as soon as he could, he looked up
Andreas to see what was up.</div>
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"Oh, Lucky, Yorgo’s pretty mad at you I
think," Andreas said. "But, don’t worry. He’ll be okay after
awhile."</div>
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Lucky sighed. "What’ll I say to him when he
takes me to school Monday?"</div>
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Andreas wagged a finger. "If I were you, I would
find another way to school for a small time. Yorgo will calm down faster that
way."</div>
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This was getting worse. Andreas took pity on him.
"It’s not so bad," he said. "Everyone will forgive you pretty
soon. You’re just a man and a man can’t always help himself. Besides, Athena’s
yah-yah likes you a lot. So, maybe you can sneak a visit sometimes when Yorgo
isn’t there. But not for awhile, okay?"</div>
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Lucky nodded. It wasn’t okay, but he no choice in
the matter.</div>
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<i>Previously:
It's Palm Sunday and with Easter a week away Lucky is troubled by the memory of
George, the soldier who died next to him in the British Army hospital. He
attends Mass - a rare occurrence for Lucky, then spots Andreas aboard a bus
headed for home in Pallouriotissa. Lucky joins him on the crowded bus, he
learns more about Jim's past, then the two boys being to gossip. The number one
topic is their super radical young Communist friend, Sandros, who has
apparently fled the village.</i></div>
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"What did he do, try to blow up the police
station " Lucky asked, only half in jest. </div>
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Andreas shrugged. "Nothing so terrible," he
said. "But he did paint Enosis on the police chief’s car."</div>
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The car – a 1930’s era Lincoln – was the chief’s
pride and joy. Every day he had one of his men wash it, after which he would
hold inspection, going over the vehicle far more carefully than he did the
condition of his men’s uniforms. Lucky laughed as he imagined the man – a big,
heavyset Turk with an enormous moustache – being confronted with Sandros’
artwork.</div>
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Then he frowned, remembering the incident at the
hospital. "There was a man at the hospital," he told Andreas,
"who was shot in the leg for painting Enosis on a barracks wall."</div>
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"Oh, Lucky," Andreas mourned, "the
situation is getting darker by the day. But don’t worry about Sandros. The cops
in Pallouriotissa don’t have guns. And if they did, they wouldn’t shoot
Sandros. He’s just a boy like us."</div>
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"Where is he hiding?" Lucky asked. "Or
can’t you say?"</div>
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"Oh, everybody knows where Sandros is,"
Andreas said. "Even the police. He’s with his uncle in Limassol. Soon as
things calm down he’ll come back. Maybe he’ll even wash the police chief’s car
to make up for what he’s done. It is a nice car, isn’t it? And the chief gives
all the kids rides in it sometimes. Takes grannies to the market. For a Turk,
he’s not so bad."</div>
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Lucky said this was probably so. Unspoken was the
fact that the chief had rushed Andreas to the hospital many times in that car
when some minor injury – deadly to someone with hemophilia – had occurred.</div>
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Andreas said, "You know, Lucky, everyone is
saying you are practically a Cypriot now. And they say you will soon be a
genius, because you are being taught by the second most intelligent man in all
of Cyprus."</div>
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Lucky first instinct was to ask who the most
intelligent man in Cyprus was, but instead he said, "I didn’t know
Demetrakis was so famous."</div>
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"Oh, sure, Lucky, he’s famous alright,"
Andreas said. "Maybe you didn’t know… he is an orphan."</div>
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Lucky’s eyebrows shot up. He had no idea… In fact, he
realized, he knew very little about Jim.</div>
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Andreas caught his surprise and nodded. "It’s a
very sad story," he said. "There was the influenza all over Cyprus.
My grandfather told me it was like the plague from the old days. Everyone was
dying. And this plague, the influenza, came to Demetrakis’ village – up in the
Troodos Mountains – and it killed his mother and father and all his brothers
and sisters. So he was all alone." </div>
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Andreas sighed. "Of course he had cousins –
everyone in Cyprus has cousins. And he had uncles and aunts, of course. But
everyone was very poor at that time – children were starving. So they didn’t
know what to do about our Demetrakis."</div>
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"What happened?" Lucky asked. "I mean,
Jim has an important business now. He’s not rich… but… but… sometimes he has
lunch with the mayor and other important people. Just last week this big
builder, a Lebanese guy, bought a thousand pounds worth of tires."</div>
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As Lucky talked, Andreas’ brows popped up and down
like a shooting gallery target as he reacted to each element. Lunch with the
mayor, eyebrows up. Lebanese, another eyebrow pop, plus a rubbing of two
fingers together to underscore the well-known wealth of the men from Beirut.
The thousand pounds remark almost sent his eyebrows scurrying into his hair
like fleeing caterpillars. This was an enormous amount of money – equaling
nearly five thousand dollars American. A year’s wages in the U.S., fifteen to
twenty years pay, in Cyprus. People like Brosina or Thea, the Cole family
maids, could live well for the rest of their lives on that kind of money.</div>
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Seeing Andreas’ reaction, Lucky hastened to explain.
"That’s how much the contract is for," he said. "Not how much
Jim gets to put in his pocket. Most of it goes to Raleigh Tires and the
bank."</div>
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"Oh, sure," Andreas said, "but even
so, it must be a pretty penny. He’s saving to get married you know."</div>
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Lucky shook his head. "No, I didn’t. Who’s he
marrying?"</div>
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"Oh, a girl from Paphos. Very beautiful. I saw
her once or twice. They’ve been engaged ever since Jim went to Athens to study
at the university."</div>
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"So why didn’t they get married after he came
back?" Lucky asked.</div>
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"Politics," Andreas said with a knowing
wink. "Her father is a red and Demetrakis is in the middle. He thinks
Enosis is a good idea, but he thinks we should do it with… what’s the word…
talking… no, that’s not it…"</div>
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"Negotiation?" Lucky suggested. "With
the British?" He was remembering Jim’s mayoral mission to form a committee
of young businessmen to speak to the British.</div>
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"Yes, yes, negotiation," Andreas said,
pleased at learning such an important word. "Like the English did in India
and the other colonies."</div>
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But Lucky was more interested in Demetrakis than
politics. He asked, "You said Jim was an orphan and poor, so how did he
get to go to the university in Athens?"</div>
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"Oh, that’s an interesting story, Lucky,"
Andreas said. "Sure, he was poor. Really poor. My grandmother, who knew
his mother and father, said that when Demetrakis was a baby, his belly was big
and his hair was red from not eating. But this old widow woman, who was pretty poor
herself, took him into her home. She was a cousin, I think. Or, maybe an aunt…
I’m not sure. My grandmother said she was a witch. I don’t know if she was, but
she was the only woman in Demetrakis’ village who could read, so that was
making people frown and worry. </div>
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"Well, what happened is this widow woman – who
may have been a witch - taught Demetrakis how to read and write and do his
sums, so when he went to school, pretty quick everybody realized he was smarter
than all the other kids. He was so smart that the village sent somebody to talk
to the monks in the Troodos monastery about teaching Demetrakis at their
school, which is pretty famous. </div>
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"They sent a priest, a very wise man, to see
Demetrakis and give him some tests. Well, he passed them all with flags up high,
yes? However, money was required for his education, because the monastery is
poor, you know. So the village got together and everybody put some money in, or
promised chickens, or eggs or goats and pretty soon they had enough to pay for
the school."</div>
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"But after the monastery, didn’t Jim go to the
university in Athens?" Lucky asked. Andreas nodded. "So, how did he
get the money for that?" he wanted to know.</div>
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Andreas leaned forward, real pleasure and pride in a
fellow islander glowing in his eyes. "He got the award money," he
said. "He took a test – and got the highest score any Cypriot boy has ever
received – and won an award for four years of study in Athens."</div>
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"A scholarship?" Lucky asked. "Is that
what you mean? Jim won a scholarship?"</div>
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Andreas frowned, unfamiliar with the word. "I
suppose so," he said. "It didn’t pay for his travel to Greece, but it
was enough for a place to live and food to eat and all his books for four
years." He held up four fingers for emphasis. "Four!" The boy
grinned shyly. "That’s what I want to do," he said. "Make a…
scholarship… and go study in Athens like Demetrakis."</div>
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Lucky leaned back against the bench. He thought about
all the things Jim must have suffered and all he had accomplished – overcoming
unimaginable difficulties. It made his own worries, his own problems seem
small.</div>
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The bus jolted to a stop, brakes squealing, exhaust
curling up under the vehicle and coming through the floorboards. Lucky could
also smell the acrid smoke of over-stressed brake and clutch lining and wondered
how often buses like this simply ran off the road because they couldn’t stop.
Several people disembarked and several more got on. As they were paying and
finding seats, Lucky heard jangling bells – like cowbells – and heard the
driver suddenly start cursing a blue streak. Lucky looked up and saw the driver
was on his feet, shaking a fist at someone on the bottom step.</div>
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The foul words that issued from the driver’s mouth
went far beyond the obscenities that Andreas and the other boys had taught
Lucky in giggling language classes out of earshot of adults.</div>
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Interspersed with the curses – which ranged from the
scatological impossible to the sexually ridiculous – were shouted cries of
"Ekso! Ekso!" – meaning, get out! get out! And Lucky realized the
driver was forbidding the person to enter the bus. Some passengers saw what was
happening and jumped to their feet, crowding down the aisle and shouting,
"Ekso! Ekso!"</div>
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Lucky couldn’t tell if the person they were shouting
out was a man or woman. The invader was clothed from head to toe in filthy rags
of every variety. They could have come from dresses, or discarded suits, or old
blankets or even funeral shrouds. A faded, multi-colored hood was pulled over
the head, hiding the face.</div>
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The unwanted one had a bell in one hand, which he or
she rang with a steady beat. A harsh voice cried out the beggar’s plea of
"Baksheesh! Baksheesh!" </div>
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Then the creature lifted its head and pulled back the
hood to reveal the most ghastly thing Lucky had ever seen. The flesh of that face
was all torn and full of odd growths. Two black holes, surrounded by raw flesh,
suggested nostrils where a nose had once resided. The mouth was lipless, broken
yellow teeth grinning a mirthless grin.</div>
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"Ekso, Ekso!" cried the passengers.
"Baksheesh, Baksheesh," was the beggar’s reply. And in a ghastly way
it was like the church bells warring with the wail of the Shahada from the
reconstructed minarets.</div>
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Repelled as he was, Lucky reached into his pocket and
clawed out bills and change. He started forward to the door, but he was afraid
to come too close and grateful when Andreas held him back.</div>
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"He’s a leper," he hissed. "A
leper!"</div>
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Lucky threw the money at the leper. Paper money and
coins scattered on the ground. The leper looked up at Lucky and that awful
mouth came open and he croaked:</div>
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"Efharistoh!" The word was slurred, but
Lucky knew the meaning – Thank you. Again he croaked, "Efharistoh!"
Then he reached down to gather up the money and the driver jerked the lever
that slammed the doors and crammed his foot onto the accelerator. And with wild
grinding gears and flatulent exhaust, they lurched away from that nightmare on
the road.</div>
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For a time, the whole bus was abuzz with indignation.
People came up and congratulated the driver for being so steadfast. But no one
spoke to Lucky, or mentioned his cast-away offering. They all looked at him,
however, from the sides of their eyes. Lucky felt ashamed.</div>
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"I didn’t mean to throw the money at him,"
he finally whispered to Andreas. "I was just trying to… you, know… help.
Baksheesh, that’s all."</div>
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Andreas sighed. "No one is blaming you,
Lucky," he said. "They are just… oh, you know… they were cruel and
you were kind… so they don’t want to look at you, because they must look at
their own sin in the mirror, you understand?" Lucky shook his head. He
didn’t. "Well, it doesn’t matter," Andreas said. "You did a good
thing, but maybe not so good as you would like. We did bad things, but maybe
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His voice trailed off. How could he explain the
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North where… Then he became confused and quite upset. Because he thought about
people he knew in the North and their terrible comments about colored people.
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He sighed. "You’re right, Andreas," he
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was the same as the guys back in Florida acted to the Negro. Except, I don’t
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wouldn’t touch him," he said. "They think they could get the curse,
right? The disease? So that’s all that makes him safe." He bowed his head.
"Maybe someday they will shoot him," he said. "Do you suppose it
would make him happy? He’s so… you know… leepimenos… What’s the word?… "
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"Yes, miserable, like the French word for
crying," Andreas said. "A sad and miserable place for a man to be. A
village of lepers. Girls who are lepers. Women who are lepers. Men and boys who
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he said, "Sometimes I think I have a bad life, you know? But then I see a
leper…" he shrugged… "Always somebody who has a greater curse, yes?
Much worse than your own life. And just think – the leper probably knows
somebody who is worse off them him. Sure, he has no nose. But other guys, might
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once," he said, "about World War One – The first war with the
Germans. This guy is hit by an artillery shell. But he still lives. Except he
has no arms or legs. No face. No eyes. No tongue. He can hear and feel, that’s
all. So that is his life in the hospital – a man who is trapped in his mind.
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"Sure, Lucky, that’s really bad," Andreas
said. "Worse, even, than the leper." He lapsed into silence,
thinking. Then he said, "This disease I have… the curse of the blood. Some
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"Sure, it’s stupid, Lucky," Andreas said.
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"Yeah, Lucky," he said. "They’ll kill
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He reached into his pocket and pulled out a
cigarette. He lit it up, breathing out great wreaths of smoke. Then he coughed
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<b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">A</span>s Easter neared,</b> Lucky’s mood darkened. He
had the date firmly fixed in his mind – April 5, which was Easter Sunday in the
Year Of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty Three. To Lucky, the date was George’s
day. A day he’d stolen when he’d taken the egg. And in all the days that had
passed, there was nothing he could think of to make amends.</div>
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Looking for solace, Lucky attended Mass for the first
time in many months on Palm Sunday, March 26. It was at St. Andrews Church in
Nicosia and he went alone. His parents never went to church, although they
insisted on his attendance. His answer was to cheat – using the excuse of
church to disappear for several hours on a Sunday and do what he liked to do,
making sure, of course, that his adventures didn’t soil his dress-up clothes.
But on this particular Sunday he felt he needed heavenly guidance, so he went
directly to church, instead of stopping off at a bookshop, or a Sunday carnival
at Metaxa Square. </div>
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St. Andrews was quite old, its stone edifice as gray
and ancient as the city’s walls. The church had a Byzantine look, with
complicated stonework and Levantine spires that were quite unlike the plainer
edifices of Roman Catholic churches in America. The interior of the church was
just as strange, with many more statues and icons of the apostles and the
saints, and especially the Virgin Mary, than Lucky was accustomed to. They were
all gilded and painted in fabulous colors, with wide rows of candles laid out
in front of each statue and long sticks of incense arcing out from ornate
holders. </div>
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When the boy went to say his confession – again, it
had been many sinful months since his last – he was confronted with a priest
who spoke no English, but only Greek and a little French. Lucky tried to make
do in Greek, but when he encountered his lustful thoughts for Athena, he only
knew gutter words to express them, so all his good intentions went out the
confessional booth window. He fell back on the old Catholic schoolboy ploy of
making up his sins, enumerating so many lies, so many acts of disobedience to
his parents, etc., calculating the minutes of penance this would draw later. To
his surprise, the priest’s ordered Act Of Contrition was not that different
than the priests handed out at Our Lady Of Sorrows church in Maryland. This
made the whole experience oddly comforting. It made him smile as he recalled
conspiring with friends, figuring out how many and what sort of sins they’d
admit to – always being careful not to duplicate. </div>
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After confession, Lucky attended Mass. Once again,
everything was strange, but familiar. When the priest spoke to the congregation
it was in Greek. The echoes in the church made it difficult for Lucky to
understand everything he said, but it was easy to imagine that he was informing
everyone about parish events – church socials, fund raising, that sort of
thing. The Mass was in Latin and as a former altar boy Lucky knew exactly what
was going on. Armed with his missal, which was in English, he also knew that
Catholics the world over – from Cyprus to Rome to Philadelphia to the
Philippines - were all saying the same things and reciting the same prayers. </div>
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On this particular Sunday, however, the comfort was
short-lived. He kept thinking of the night George died. The curtained bed. The
harsh whispers from the doctors and nurses. The frantic activity. The eerie
glow of the portable lights casting the ghastly shadow show on the walls and
ceiling. Lucky wanted to tell George he was sorry. Not about the egg so much.
He was pretty much past that now. As the Latin Mass washed over him he thought
- So what are you sorry for? That he had lived and George hadn’t? No. Dying
wasn’t so bad. Perhaps he was jealous. Envious of George’s escape. Could that
be? Maybe. But he wasn’t so envious now that he was caught up in the adventure
of learning with Jim. Okay, so there was no reason to feel as he did. Harry and
the guys had said so, hadn’t they? Yeah, but why did he cringe, why did he
ache, every time he thought about George? Maybe there wasn’t an answer.</div>
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As he left the church the whole experience suddenly
rose in his gorge. He got so sick he could barely make it down the stone stairs
and then he had to duck behind an iron gate, where he fell to his knees. He
hadn’t eaten – it was forbidden to eat before Communion - and to his horror, he
saw the white wafer that was the Host lying in a mess of green bile. He heard a
deep voice behind him and he turned, wiping his mouth and saw a bearded priest
standing over him. He said something in Greek, but the boy was so sick and
confused, he lost all ability to understand. </div>
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The priest reached out to him – to help or to
chastise, Lucky couldn’t tell. Frightened, he jumped to his feet and fled, the
priest calling after him.</div>
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He dodged down this street, then another, imagining
he was being pursued. Finally, he came to a small café with a few tables set
under a broad fig tree. He was thirsty, but you didn’t dare drink water from
the tap in Cyprus in those days, so he asked for a Coca Cola. It was served to
him in the bottle, cold and smelling of the ice chest it was kept in. He drank
it down, the raw cola cutting through the bitterness that coated his mouth and
throat. He drank and drank and drank, swallowing the entire contents of the
bottle.</div>
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"Are you sick, English boy?" the taverna
owner asked in Greek. Lucky blinked. He could suddenly understand the language
again. "I’m American, not English," he said, "and yes, I’m sick
to my stomach." He patted his belly. "Do you have something that
would help?"</div>
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The man pulled at his chin, clucking sympathetically.
"A little ouzo, I think," he said, parting two fingers slightly to
show just how little. "It’s better for you than Coca Cola."</div>
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He brought Lucky a glass of the milky liquor. The boy
sipped it tentatively and nearly got sick again. "Don’t surrender, my
young American friend," the man advised. "Drink a little more and you
will soon feel well again."</div>
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Lucky drank more and this time it went down smoothly,
spreading gentle warmth through his stomach. It tasted quite nice – a little
like licorice.</div>
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The man motioned, putting fingers to lips and tipping
his head back. "Finish it," he said. "And then I will bring you
some bread and cheese and a little olive oil. You’ll feel strong as a
bull." He threw out his burly chest and flexed his arms to demonstrate.</div>
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Lucky did as he was told, polishing off the ouzo. The
man patted his shoulder, as if congratulating him. Then he brought a plate with
a hunk of black bread, some pure white goat’s cheese and a bowl of olive oil.
He took the ouzo glass away. "No more of that," he said. "Or
else you will become sick all over again." Instead, he brought Lucky a
small glass of retsina – resin wine – to wash down his meal. It was an acquired
taste – having a turpentine bite – but Lucky had been introduced to the wine by
Andreas and Sandros and had grown to like it. </div>
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While he ate, feeling better with each bite and sip
of wine, he glanced about the taverna and noted that the only other people
there were a group of elderly men, sitting around a table sharing a water pipe
and playing tavali - a board game similar to backgammon. The men were intent,
taking a long time over each roll of the dice. He saw stacks of copper piastras
on the table and knew they were gambling.</div>
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Church bells started to play, very deep and melodious
and so loud that they drowned out the sounds of the traffic. Obviously the
bells were quite large. He looked up and saw a fabulous Greek Orthodox
cathedral at the end of the street. It was incredible that he hadn’t noticed it
before – he must have been really sick. There was something odd about the
church and for a moment he couldn’t figure out what it was. Then noticed that
on one side of the church there were traditional Orthodox spires. But on the
other side, where spires should have been, were the minarets of a mosque.
He rubbed his eyes, thinking he must be seeing things. But when he looked again
the odd architecture of the church or mosque or whatever it might be, was quite
evident.</div>
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To the left, he could make out the big bells rising
and falling in the church belfry and he could imagine a sturdy monk, the
sleeves of his robe rolled above his elbows, gripping the ropes and hauling
down with all his strength. If he didn’t let go, he’d surely be lifted off his
feet, so large were those bells. And the sound of them was fantastic – Bong!
Bong! Bong! Rolling along the street and resounding over the taverna like waves
splashing against a ship in the open sea.</div>
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A speaker crackled into life, startling Lucky. It
came from the right – from the minarets. And then he heard the amplified voice
of a muezzin wail: "Allah illahah illah 'lla…, la illahah illah
‘lla…" Followed by a second cry: "Wah Mohammadan rasulu 'llah… Wah
Mohammadan rasulu 'llah."</div>
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It was wild, haunting refrain that Lucky knew was a
prayer that was chanted five times a day in Moslem towns and villages and
neighborhoods all over the world. He’d been told that the prayer was called the
Shahada, consisting of the first words of The Koran, the Moslem bible. In
English, the words were: "There is no God but Allah. And Mohammed is his
Prophet"</div>
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Lucky cocked his head to listen to the next cry, but
as the muzzein audibly drew in his breath to continue his prayer – the speakers
crackling weirdly - the bells rang out even louder than before and at a faster
pace: Bong! Bong! Bong! And Lucky could imagine the monk working harder,
pulling on those ropes with even greater strength to make the bells sound out.</div>
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Then the muezzin’s voice was back, higher and louder,
the words drawn out in a long wail: "la illahah illah ‘lla." Followed
by a second cry: "Wah Mohammadan rasulu 'llah… Wah Mohammadan rasulu
'llah."</div>
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Here came the bells again, even louder and faster
than before. Lucky could see them swinging so hard one of them nearly flipped
end over end. Plainly, other monks were aiding the first. At the same time, the
volume of the mosque speaker was cranked up as high as it could go, sound waves
straining the speaker fabric to the breaking point. </div>
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The whole square was filled to the overflowing with a
crazy cacophony of sounds all mixed together: Bong!… La illahah Bong!… illah
'lla… Bong!… Wah Mohammadan… Bong!… rasulu 'llah… Bong!</div>
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It was so loud Lucky had to cover his ears. He
laughed and looked around to see the old men with their ears covered as well
and this made him laugh even more. Suddenly both the bells and wailing stopped
and the silence was so great that it was if it were a sound itself, just as
loud as what had gone on before. Lucky called for the taverna owner. As he paid
for the meal, adding a generous tip, he asked the man about what had just
happened.</div>
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The man started to speak, then shook his head.
"Englishmen no like," he said. Then he made a motion with his hand,
as if cutting the air. "Englishmen no like," he said again. Then he
shrugged. "It isn’t good to speak of," he said. Then he turned and
went to the old men and refilled their glasses from a bottle of yellow liquor.</div>
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The mystery of the odd church/mosque plus the food
lifted Lucky’s spirits and as he exited the taverna it was if he was leaving
his troubles behind. He was about to hail a taxi to take him home, but then
heard someone shout his name. He looked up and saw Andreas leaning out the
window of a bus, waving.</div>
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"Where are you going, Lucky?" he called.</div>
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"Home."</div>
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"Come. We’ll go together."</div>
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Glad for the company, Lucky sprinted for the bus,
which was just about to drive away. Andreas shouted for the driver to wait, which
the man did, grumbling with much bad humor as Lucky climbed aboard and paid up.
The boy looked about curiously – he’d never been on a Cypriot bus before. It
was only half full and most of the passengers were in their Sunday best, so it
didn’t have the same raucous air of other buses Lucky had seen during the work
week. There were no chickens or other animals and everyone seemed to be
carrying string bags of food – off to visit relations, no doubt, for
after-church meals. The bus seats were wooden benches and the floor was made of
ill-fitted narrow planks that let in light, dust and diesel fumes.</div>
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Andreas, pale as ever and dressed in a shabby brown
suit, sat near the front. He made room for Lucky to sit. The young Cypriot
guessed correctly that Lucky had come from Mass and said he had spent the
morning visiting a cousin who was having difficulties at school.</div>
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"I tutor him - like Demetrakis tutors you,"
he said with a grin.</div>
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Lucky told him about the strange happening in the
square, with bells ringing and the muezzin shouting all at the same time, as if
they were competing. "I asked the man at the taverna, but all he said was
that it was because of the English. And he went like this…" Lucky made a
chopping motion through the air. </div>
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Andreas laughed and clapped his hands together.
"Oh, he was afraid for nothing," he told Lucky. "It’s a famous
story and everybody knows it."</div>
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"Tell me," Lucky urged.</div>
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"Well, that um… ekleeseea … um…" </div>
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Lucky helped him find the word. "Church,"
he suggested. "But it’s so big, maybe it’s a cathedral – an ekleeseea,
like you said." </div>
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Andreas made motions that it didn’t matter.
"Church is easier for me to repeat, so we will call it a church. And it is
a very old church as you could probably see," he said. "But when the
Turks grabbed us…." He made grasping motions, clutching the air then
squeezing his fist, then tossing an imaginary object away… "they threw all
the Cypriots out of the church and made it into a… Tzamee… what’s the English…
Oh, yes… a mosque. It remained a Tzamee… a mosque… for many years. </div>
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"Only Turks could go there. And people were
angry because Turks were doing things – Moslem things - where the Christ above
should have had his place. Then the English came, and the Cypriot bishop
complained. He wanted the ekleeseea – the church - returned to the Christian
people. But the Turks didn’t like this idea and they refused. Soon there were
fights in the street…"</div>
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He searched for words. "Riots," Lucky
suggested. </div>
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"Yes… riots," Andreas said, nodding.
"Rock riots and stick riots. Many heads broken riots. So the English made
the decision. Like old King Solomon they cut the church in half. One side for
Greek Christians, the other for the damned Turks. But nobody liked this
decision very much. The priests and mullahs hated it more than anyone else. But
there is nothing they can do, because the English army will come with guns if
they have the riots again. Now sometimes they have the…" Andreas laughed
as the phrasing occurred to him… "They have the bells ringing riots… and
the…" he cupped his hands to his mouth like a megaphone… "the big
speaker riots instead of rocks and sticks." </div>
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Another thought came to him and he made a gesture.
"So maybe the English decision wasn’t such a bad thing in the end,"
he allowed. "Ringing bells and shouts are better than broken heads,
yes?"</div>
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Lucky agreed that it was, although he giggled as he
thought of what he had witnessed – the bells tolling versus the "la
illahah illah ‘lla" wailing. His teenage giggle was catching and the two
boys joked for awhile, laughing so hard that some of the other passengers
hissed at them to behave.</div>
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Chastened, they settled down and caught up on each
other’s news. The most interesting item of gossip was that Sandros had gone
into hiding.</div>
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"What did he do, try to blow up the police
station or something?" Lucky asked, only half in jest.</div>
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They drove to Famagusta in an old black Plymouth that
belonged to Jim’s friend Kyriakos, who joined them on trip. Kyriakos owned a
small fleet of trucks and had customers he wanted to visit in the old city.</div>
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"They’re Turks," he advised Lucky,
"and like all Turks they squeeze every shilling to death. But I do a good
business with them so I must suffer their ways." He shrugged. "Of
course, everybody in Famagusta is a Turk – even the Greeks have become Turks
for living so long among them."</div>
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On the way they skirted the edges of the British
Dhekelia military base and just before they came into view of the city they
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A young corporal peered at Jim and Kyriakos
suspiciously. "Papers," he said brusquely and when they were handed
over he examined them back to front. "Where are you going?"</div>
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Jim explained they were on an outing to Famagusta.
The soldier looked at Lucky through narrowed eyes. "You’re English, aren’t
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Lucky shook his head. "American," he said.
He pointed at Jim. "He’s my teacher and he’s going to show me Othello’s
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The soldier was surprised at this reply. "A
teacher?" he said, incredulous. "Say, do your mum and dad know what
you’re up to?"</div>
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Lucky assured him that they did. "You can call
my father at the embassy and see," the boy said, bluffing. </div>
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Neither his father or mother were reachable at any
place except the CIA base and there was no way Lucky was going to give the
soldier that number. To strengthen his bluff he presented his ID card – which
had a picture of him, plus query numbers at the embassy. It had a very imposing
seal on it and identified him as a diplomatic dependent. </div>
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He pointed at the numbers. "Go ahead and
call," he urged.</div>
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"You can pass," the soldier barked and
stepped back, waving for the other soldiers to lift the barricade.</div>
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"You sure you don’t want to call?" Lucky
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"I said you could pass," the soldier said
and marched stiffly away, the back of his neck beet red.</div>
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Kyriakos put the car into gear and they drove away. There
was a long silence. Then Lucky said, "Doesn’t that make you mad… I mean
this is your country. How come they can tell you where and when you can go
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Jim sighed. "It’s been that way for hundreds of
years," he said. "Before the English it was the Turks. Before the
Turks the Italians. Before the Italians the Crusaders. And so on all the way
back as long as our history has been written."</div>
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"It’s not right," Lucky said.</div>
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Kyriakos asked Jim what Lucky was saying. Jim
translated.</div>
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Kyriakos patted Lucky on the knee. "Good
boy," he said in English. "Good American boy."</div>
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Lucky was surprised to see that Kyriakos’ eyes were
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They continued on and finally they reached the sea,
which was shimmering and sparkling in the sun. The gray, imposing walls of
Famagusta were a few miles ahead. But instead of going directly there, Kyriakos
turned down a rutted road that wound through fragrant cedar until they came to
a small adobe cottage with blue painted shutters and doors. Two immense trees
towered over it, spreading the cooling shade nearly to the pebbled beach where
a fishing boat was tipped over on its side.</div>
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Jim said, "We have been asked to lunch with Kyriakos’
sister, Pavlina," he said. He indicated the boat. "Her husband is a
fisherman." Then he grinned, saying, "Actually, the invitation was
for ‘mese,’ which is rather more than lunch, as you will see."</div>
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Kyriakos tooted his horn and a merry crowd ran out of
the house – five children of various ages, along with a cheery woman Lucky
assumed was Pavlina and a small, wiry man with a weathered face and a broad
smile. The fisherman husband, no doubt.</div>
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Lucky was introduced all around – the fisherman’s
name was Christos, but he soon forgot the names of the children. Everyone made
a fuss over him, but they were especially attentive to Jim, who was an old
friend of the family. They gave Jim the place of honor at a broad table made of
rough boards that was set up under the trees. Lucky was put on one side,
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A flow of dishes and pottery poured across the table.
Some came from inside the house, some from the big roasting grill set near the
stone well, and the rest were from the large clay oven behind the house. Like
most Cypriot ovens it was large enough for an average-sized man to stand up in,
and half-again his length if he dared lay down on one of the wooden roasting
racks. </div>
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So this was a <i>mese</i>,
Lucky thought as he surveyed the table. It was exquisite – painted pottery of
every kind and variety was strewn across the slate-gray boards. And the plates
and bowls were heaped with an incredible variety of food of all colors, all
textures and – as Lucky would soon learn - of every flavor sensation. </div>
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There were mounds of vegetables, both roasted and raw
straight from the kitchen garden, all red and green and yellow. There were dark
brown and pale brown mounds of baked goodies – not just bread, but little
pancakes with surprises inside, such as a dollop of garlic olive oil, or a bit
of melted goat cheese and green onions that oozed out into your mouth when you
bit in. There were spinach pies and tasties of meat and raisins and rice rolled
into grape leaves. There were meats – goat kabobs, slices of mutton, pork and
something somebody said was camel, but Lucky didn’t want to think about it.
There was fowl: tiny roasted birds you could chew up bones and all, as well as
chicken and little black beads Lucky was told were the male parts of a rooster
spread on garlic toast; and sea food of all kinds- squid, octopus, sea perch,
tiny sardines roasted whole and a big red grouper spread out on a plate of
pilaf. Of course there were olives, tomatoes, onions, eggs, some pickled some
plain.</div>
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But as Lucky surveyed the table, he wondered if this
wasn’t out of the ordinary. How could such an obviously poor fisher family
afford such a spread on so common a day as a visit by their cousin.</div>
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Then he heard sharp whistles – the kind herders
shrill when calling their flock or their dogs – and loud shouts and he saw
people coming through the trees. Some were on foot, others on bicycles, and all
of them were carrying baskets of food and jugs of drink.</div>
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Someone shouted, "Viva! Mesa! Gramaphona! Which
Lucky later learned meant, "Life, feast and music."</div>
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Others took up the shout and to Lucky’s surprise,
someone went to Kyriakos’ car and got out Jim’s wind up Victrola from the trunk. They
stacked up some fish traps for a music stand and within a few minutes wild
Greek music was playing and everybody was dancing around the table, clapping
their hands and singing to a blushing Jim.</div>
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Lucky was astounded, thinking he must have missed
something. "Is this your birthday, or something?" he asked, hoping it
wasn’t, because he didn’t have a present.</div>
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"It’s sort of a birthday," Jim replied,
still laughing and sipping at a glass of ouzo. "When I went away to school
to Athens I didn’t have enough money for the boat passage." He indicated
Kyriakos, "So my friend and his sister conspired with Christos the fisherman
to sneak me out of the country."</div>
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Kyriakos was already drunk and he slapped Jim on the
shoulder and roared in Greek - "Tell him! Tell the good American boy how
we slipped past the British ships in the dead of night!"</div>
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And so Jim told him how they rowed half the night –
there was no wind and the seas were befogged – until they found the friendly
freighter that was waiting for him. Jim laid out palm to present all the
frolicking people. "It is to people like them, that I owe my education, my
brain, my life," he said.</div>
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Lucky didn’t know what to say, so he said something
stupid, something he had heard adults say when they were being polite.
"Your mother and father must be very proud."</div>
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To Lucky’s dismay his teacher’s face became sad, but
then a pretty girl danced over, offering Jim the other end of a kerchief. Jim
grabbed it and leaped up and whirled away in a dance to end all dances.
Swooping and swirling about the girl, drinking ouzo and then doing the Cossack
dance - which Jim later claimed originated with the Greeks - dropping to his
haunches and kicking out of his feet at a furious pace.</div>
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Lucky felt embarrassed at first – obviously he’d said
something wrong. Then a few girls came over and coaxed him to his feet. He was
a fairly good dancer anyway, thanks to childhood lessons from his Aunt Rita.
Also, Athena had taught him some of the Greek dances, so he bounded out with
confidence. And soon he was dancing along with the best of them, the Victrola
playing its crazy music, which would start out perfectly fine, then get slower
and slower as the spring wound down, until somebody jumped in to wind the crank
again.</div>
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Dusk came, then darkness and candles and torches and
oil lamps were hung from the trees and the dancing and feasting went on.</div>
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During a quiet moment, Jim slipped up to Lucky, who
was drinking thirstily from a dipper of cool well water. "I don’t think
we’re going to see Othello’s Tower just yet, Lucky," he said. "I hope
you’re not disappointed."</div>
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Lucky said, "I think this is a better story,
Jim."</div>
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<b>That Saturday
Lucky</b> set out to meet Jim at his apartment – a place he’d never been
before. Jim’s rooms were in a neighborhood of extremely narrow streets so
crowded with traffic that Lucky’s cab ended up being stalled between an water cart
and a towering freight wagon drawn by a team of panicked oxen who were jerking
this way and that – while their equally hysterical owner lashed them with a
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Giving up, Nikos pointed the way – "Just down
there, Mr. Lucky," he said, "and to the right. Two, maybe three
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Lucky nodded, paid him and climbed out. Nikos leaned
through the window. "Don’t mind the girls," he said, eyes gleaming
with mischief. "If they shout to you, just walk fast and pay them no
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The boy puzzled. "What girls?" he asked.</div>
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Nikos grinned and smoothed his mustache. "Only
the best girls in the world, Mr. Lucky," he said. "The ones who tried
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With that, he pulled hard on his wheel, bumped over a
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With some trepidation, and a great deal of curiosity,
Lucky walked down the cobble-stone street. There were no sidewalks – just
houses whose doors let out directly into the traffic. He edged past carts and
wagons, stepping over piles of steaming animal dung, turning sideways at times
to push through the crowd. The buildings on either side were old and drab,
except for the doors and window frames, which were painted in bright primary
colors – red and blue and green. The buildings seemed to be about three stories
high – possibly four in some places, but when Lucky looked up to check he felt
a disoriented, because instead of being straight, the buildings all leaned into
the street.<br />
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It was his impression that most of the buildings contained
apartments for families, because he could see washing stretched on lines across
the street and he could hear children shouting and mothers admonishing them.
Mixed in, however, were shops – a tiny bakery, a green grocer, a cobbler, a
carpenter and even a miniscule garage where a truck was crammed into an
impossibly small area and men were underneath working on it, while the ailing
engine coughed up foul black smoke. </div>
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As Lucky walked along he could see down even narrower
alleyways that ran between the buildings. Networks of electrical lines crawled
up the sides to provide power - but not water - to the buildings. The lines
were bolted into the brickwork, making it plain, in Lucky’s view, that the
building outdated the accommodations by many, many years. The distinctive odor
of outhouses made it doubly clear plumbing was minimal. He saw women with jerry
cans of water balanced on their hips, entering the buildings to carry their burdens
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Some the of the alleys offered a view of vertical
gardens – flowering vines and greenery that climbed the cables. Higher up,
where the sun could reach, he saw tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables
growing. At one point, he saw a boy perched on a ledge, peeling a cucumber and
from the peek Lucky got of greenery beyond, he realized that the boy was
enjoying the bounty of a rooftop garden. Then the street widened slightly,
offering a cobbled walkway on one side. He stepped onto it with some relief. He
was wearing his good clothes and shoes and at the far end of the block water
was pouring out of a main, carrying a river of filth down the street. </div>
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At that moment, a small boy popped up. He was wearing an
overlarge dirty white shirt, ragged khaki shorts and his legs and feet were
bare. He held up a beseeching hand to Lucky, who thought he was a beggar.</div>
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"Mister, Mister," the boy cried.
"Boutos! Boutos vas tah!"</div>
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Lucky jumped back. What the heck was the boy saying?
Why was he cursing at him? Boutos was the very rude word for female privates.
And the vas tah – well, like the peanut carts on the street, the boy was saying
they were "salty and hot."</div>
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The boy crowded closer, pointing upward. Lucky’s eyes
followed and he found himself looking at a Greek girl leaning over a balcony,
large breasts barely contained in a black brassiere, hanging down like ripe
melons ready to be picked. And the boy shouted, "Mister, Mister. Boutos!
Boutos vas tah!" Lucky thought the boy and the young woman were making fun
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Suddenly, windows were opening and other
scantily-clad women were leaning out and calling to him. Some of the voices
were sweet, others harsh: "Velos, suckee, suckee, English boy." And,
"Zestoh buthos, English. Just for you!" Also, "Boutos – Boutos
vastah!"</div>
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Now Lucky understood what Nikos had been talking
about. Odysseus might have been on a ship when the Sirens called, but surely he
was presented with a vision like this. A vision few men could resist. Why, even
in Lucky’s hottest teenage fantasies, he had never been presented with so many
half-naked women all begging him to do the most outrageous things, and
promising to do outrageous things in return.</div>
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A girl stepped out in front of him. She was young,
she was sweet, and she was wearing a very short nylon robe, open to reveal a
black bra and black panties. Lucky was stunned when he realized she was only
about Athena’s age and like Athena she had a lush young body – one which Lucky
had been lately permitted to explore.</div>
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"Hello, English boy," the girl said.</div>
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"I’m not English," Lucky said lamely,
"I’m American."</div>
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The moment he said it he kicked himself – how stupid!
But the girl lit up at his announcement. "American!" she said.
"American boy!" She turned her head up and shouted to the others:
"American boy!"</div>
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All the women responded in kind, all crying out,
"American boy! American boy!"</div>
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Suddenly Lucky was surrounded by half-dressed women
trying to mother him. They were all talking in combination Greek and English
and even Turkish…</div>
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"Oh, American boy… Are you lost, American boy?
Did someone hurt you? Who hurt you? Where are you going, American boy? Stay
with me, American boy, I will take you home to your mother so you won’t get
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befuddled, Lucky pawed out the slip of paper with Jim’s address. Immediately,
there was a babble of women saying they knew just where this place was. </div>
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A moment later, Lucky found himself being escorted
down the street by a gaggle of shady ladies who looked like they were straight
out of a set of French postcards. Except, this was better – because they were
real and they were enamored with Lucky for no reason that he could fathom - and
they all told him to come back anytime so they would teach their American boy
about – ooh-la-la…. For not so much money, you know… And he would never get
sick – they promised.</div>
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With their help, Lucky finally found Jim’s place. His
apartment was in an ancient three-story building set among other buildings of
similar age and design on a street barely wide enough for a cart or an
automobile to pass. Shops were scattered among the apartments, mostly tailors,
bootmakers, a bakery or two, a grocer and several tobacco stands. It was a
better neighborhood than the one Lucky had just left, to say the least.
Although there were no sidewalks – the cobbled street was in good repair and a
cleaning crew was following a water wagon, hosing down the cobbles and sweeping
the dirt into the shallow trough that ran down the center. </div>
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Most of the second and third story apartments had
small balconies, with wrought iron rails. Flowers and vegetables sat on most of
the balconies and wash dried on lines that ran across the street in endless
loops to apartments on the other side. More importantly, there were water
pipes, mixed with the electrical lines, climbing up the sides of the buildings.
These apartments boasted both power <i>and </i>water.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Lucky was greeted by two old women dressed in widows’
black. Jim had informed him that one of the women owned the building – her late
husband had been a man of importance – and the other was her former servant. He
used the word former, because they had been together so long that such
differences were forgotten and they both did the work equally, doting on one
another like aged sisters.</div>
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The ladies welcomed him with great formality,
introducing themselves as Aethra and Zephyr – Lucky recalled Jim saying Aethra
was his landlady. They escorted into the courtyard, where Jim was sitting under
an enormous fig tree eating a late breakfast and working on what appeared to be
a business letter. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"Lucky!" he cried. "Come have a little
coffee and a sweet, it’s almost time to go." He indicated the letter.
"I must finish this. It will only be a moment."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
The boy took a seat, let himself be fussed over by Aethra
and Zephyr, then leaned back to drink coffee and nibble on a honey cake. He
looked around, taking in the courtyard. It was quite large, although so
overgrown that it was hard to tell its size. An aged fountain with broken
filigree commanded the center. Lucky could see a few fish swimming in the
algae-green waters. Although very old, it was a working fountain and that same
green water spurted out of a broken statue that consisted only of human legs –
Lucky thought they might be a woman’s because they were so shapely, but they
could have been the legs of a boy. Nevertheless, the falling water provided a
peaceful, musical sound that gave the garden a magical feeling.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
The fig tree, Lucky learned, was quite ancient.
Aethra said her late husband had told her that the fig was old in his
grandmother’s time, so no one could say when it had first grown out of its
stone. Besides the fig, dwarf lemon, lime and orange trees were crowded in one
corner – a thick grape vine, heavy with clusters of fruit ran along a wall and
there scores of little dug-up plots filled with a wide variety of vegetables.
Chickens scratched around the yard, guarded by a watchful rooster, and several
rabbits nibbled on broken heads of lettuce the women had put out. It was a
refreshingly cool garden and the sound of the traffic that ran along the narrow
street just past the walls seemed so distant that Lucky felt as if he had
entered another world. He could smell oranges and rose blossoms and he lazily
shooed away a wasp that was trying to get at his honeycake. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Jim finished his letter, stuffed it into an envelope
and rose. "Are you good at keeping secrets, Lucky?" he asked.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
The question startled the boy so much that he nearly
blurted a foolish – and overly revealing – reply. Instead, he said rather
lamely, "I don’t tell on people, if that’s what you mean."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Jim smiled. "How foolish of me to ask," he
said. "Of course, you can keep a secret. You are a diplomat’s son, after
all."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
He put the
letter in his pocket, patted the place it occupied. "This is a letter to
the mayor."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Lucky’s eyebrows rose. "Of Nicosia?"</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"Yes, Nicosia," Jim said. Then: "I’m
telling you this – in confidence, you understand – because I think it is a good
lesson in civics… You know all the trouble we’ve had since the death of Joseph
Stalin?"</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Lucky nodded. There hadn’t been rioting on any great
scale, but a few remote police stations had been stoned and market days
disrupted by agitators. But tension had been increasing, judging from what
Sandros and Andreas had told him.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"As part of his efforts to pour oil on troubled
waters," Jim said, "the mayor wants me to form a committee of young
businessmen."</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Lucky was impressed. This was quite an honor.
"What would you do?" he asked, </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"Oh, just talk to people," Jim said.
"To our customers. To other businessmen and various clubs and
organizations. The idea is to urge patience. The belief being that if we are
patient, the British will eventually give us our independence."</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Lucky studied Jim. "Do really think they
will?" he asked.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Jim shrugged. "Logic – and by that I mean
business logic – says they will, or at least that they should. Under colonial
rule there are many things we can’t manufacture, or services that we can’t
perform. If we had our independence – and our hands were untied – we could attract
many investors. And, of course, the first beneficiaries would be the British,
because of our long, happy history with them."</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Lucky thought he heard some sarcasm in the last
sentence, but Jim did not reveal his true feelings with look, or body language.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"I don’t know," Lucky said. "I learned
in school – in America, I mean – that the English did the same things to us. We
couldn’t make anything of our own. We could grow cotton, but couldn’t make
shirts, much less other clothing. We had to sell the raw material to the
English factories so they could make the shirts, then we had to buy the shirts
back from them for a great deal of money. And it wasn’t only cotton. That’s
just a small example… Tea, for instance, which is the most famous thing." </div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
He eyed Jim. "Isn’t that what they’re doing in
Cyprus?" he asked, already knowing the answer, but wanting to hear what
Jim had to say.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Jim grimaced, fingering his own poor white shirt,
tucked into gray, businessman’s slacks. The slacks were well-tailored, fitting
Jim’s muscular form. But the shirt was a little yellow from too much washing
and the cuffs and collars were a bit worn. "I can’t get a decent shirt to
wear for my business," he said. "Suits I can get made – there are
some very good tailors who are friends of mine. But the making of shirts is
forbidden. I must buy from English import clubs and unless you are a rich man,
they are of very poor quality as you can see." He tugged at the stiff
collar. "It’s as you say, Lucky. Come the Revolution, the cause will be traced
to shirts!"</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"But what about this committee the mayor wants
you for," Lucky said. "Do you really think the British will listen? I
don’t mean to sound insulting, but it seems to me that a lot of English people
don’t think Cypriots are smart enough to take care of themselves."</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Jim was suddenly somber. He studied Lucky a moment,
as if surprised at his grasp of the situation. "All you say is true,
Lucky," he finally admitted. "Many do have a low opinion of us. It’s
always been so – since they first took over from the Turks."</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Lucky said, "Do you hate them for it? I mean, I
could understand if you did, because I used to hate the English myself. My
whole family is Irish. Ireland is where my great grandparents and everybody
came from and they hate the English something awful for things that were done
to them."</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Jim nodded, understanding what Lucky was getting at.
"I know some Irish soldiers," he said, "And that certainly sums
up their feelings."</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
This startled Lucky, because an Irish soldier could
only mean members of the IRA. Unless Jim was making a linguistic mistake. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Jim saw his puzzlement and grimaced. "Another
secret between us, Lucky," he said.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Lucky grinned. Sure it was. And his guess was also
right on – Jim<i> had</i> met some IRA types. But what were they doing in
Cyprus? He’d heard his father’s friends talk about a possible IRA linkup with
Cypriot dissidents, but that had all been speculation.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"You were telling me about your feelings
concerning the English," Jim prodded, anxious to get Lucky back on the
original subject.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Lucky nodded. "I used to hate the English. And
when I went to the British academy – well, some of them were just… just…
bullies! Not only the kids, but the teachers, too. At the end I was the only
American kid there and they all ganged up on me. Even my best friend turned on
me."</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Jim looked sad. "I guessed something like that
had happened," he said. "I suppose it’s like those ants you love to
study. Even a black ant or red ant from an identical species of ants will be
killed if it wanders into a strange nest. Isn’t that what you told me?"</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"I understand that now," Lucky said.
"But I didn’t then. Although, understanding things wouldn’t have helped
any. Just because you understand somebody, doesn’t mean they are going to stop hurting
you… and… you know… hurting other people."</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
He was thinking of his father, although he figured he
probably understood the British kids going after him a whole lot better than
his father’s rages.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"Anyway, I don’t think that way about the
English anymore," he said. "At least not all of them. I met some guys
in the hospital – wounded officers. And they were… well…" He looked up
defiantly at Jim. "My friends. Yeah, my friends! The best friends I’ve
ever had. They showed me… well… everything!" He swept a hand out, as if to
encompass the entire world.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"It’s good, Lucky," Jim said, "that
you should make friends with men who are so fine and brave." He smiled,
"Therefore you will understand why I count some Englishmen among my good
friends as well." Once again he tapped the place where the letter resided.
"Friends that I can trust to listen to the mayor’s views – and the views
of other young businessmen like myself."</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"First thing you should do," Lucky joked,
"is ask them to get you some decent shirts."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Jim laughed at that, then said, "Come up to my
room while I change and then we will be off on our small adventure."</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
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<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
His apartment was approached by outside stairs
leading up from the courtyard. As they ascended, Aethra said she’d be there
soon with some things for "washing up," and then Jim flung open the
door and invited Lucky in. From first glance, the place seemed to be a sparsely
furnished, two room apartment - a main room and a small kitchen with a
breakfast table. The lavatory, Lucky learned later, was outside in the
courtyard. The walls of the room were freshly white-washed and the floors were
of old red tile – polished to a sheen. The main room served as both bedroom and
living area. In one corner was a small iron-framed bed neatly made up with a
white-knit bedspread. An old, polished bedstand sat next to it – with several
stacks of books resting next to an unlit oil lamp. Against one wall was a tall
armoire made of hand-rubbed cedar with a plain, understated design. Lucky
assumed it served as a closet for Jim’s clothes. </div>
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Resting against another wall was an old oak cabinet –
about three-and-a-half feet high. A windup Victrola, with a highly polished
brass sounding bell, sat atop the cabinet. The cabinet doors were open and
Lucky could see records in their covers placed neatly inside. Next to the
cabinet Jim had made a bookcase of varnished boards that rested on thick blocks
of varnished wood - from Yorgo’s lumber yard, as it turned out. The case was
filled with books of every variety – tattered hardbacks, rough paper-bound
classics, and small, pocket-size volumes – as well as a stack of magazines in
several languages.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
The white-washed walls were decorated only with a few
magazine cutouts of old masters, set in plain frames. They were clearly copies
of paintings that were important to Jim – mostly impressionists, with one or
two more modern artists like Picasso and Dali.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
The balcony’s shutter doors were flung open, letting
the sunlight splay across the pictures so they looked like originals, instead
of photos cut from periodicals. Jim flipped a switch and the ceiling light
glowed into life. It was a single bulb that hung from the ceiling from a bare
wire. Lucky’s eyes traveled up the wire and saw that it came from a thick cable
– also white washed – that was stapled to the ceiling. It ran across the room
and exited through a neatly caulked hole. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
When Lucky lowered his eyes, he noticed that Jim
seemed a little embarrassed, going about the room and straightening things that
didn’t need to be straightened. It occurred to him Jim might think that Lucky –
who lived in a big house that was practically a mansion – might look poorly on Jim’s place. To the contrary, he thought it was wonderful.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"When I get to be a famous writer," he told
Jim, "I want a room just like this. My Aunt Rita has a famous musician
friend in New York who has a place kind of like this. It’s called a loft. All
his friends are jealous."</div>
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<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Jim flushed with pleasure at the praise. Then Aethra
and Zephyr entered with trays containing bowls of hot water and fresh
washcloths and towels. They fussed over Jim like loving mothers, or aunts,
making sure his razor was sharp and he had plenty of good soap for his beard
that wouldn’t irritate his skin. While they chattered, they kept looking at
Lucky and he soon realized that they were proud of Jim because he had an
American student. Sure, he was a successful young businessman, but teaching
Lucky – the son of an American diplomat - confirmed in their minds that Jim was
a scholar. More importantly, he was a respected Cypriot scholar – a very rare
thing in these times.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Eventually, Jim politely shooed them out. Then he
turned back to Lucky. All signs of his previous discomfort had vanished.
"While I get dressed," he said, "I want you to listen to
something."</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
He went to the Victrola, fetched a record from the
cupboard beneath and very carefully – fingers just touching the record’s edges
– withdrew it from its sleeve. He placed it on the record platform, then gently
and carefully wound up the Victrola’s spring with a crank slotted into the side
of the machine. He drew the large stylus over, poised it above the record, then
paused and put it back. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
He smiled to himself as if he’d just had an idea and
reached into a cupboard for a slender volume with a rough, pink paper cover. Lucky
knew it to be one of the many cheaply published college texts that Jim used to
supplement Lucky’s reading at school.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
"I think this will be helpful," he said,
handing the book to Lucky. It was a copy of Shakespeare’s "The
Tempest." </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Jim said, "People in Cyprus believe that the
magical island in ‘The Tempest’ was Cyprus. Others say it was somewhere else –
in the Atlantic, perhaps." He shrugged. "Who can say for certain? The
master set ‘Othello’ here, so why not ‘The Tempest?’"</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Lucky opened the book, but Jim raised a finger.
"Wait until I start the recording," he said. "I want you to read
along with the actors."</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
He returned to the Victrola, moved the stylus out
until it was hovering over the first groove. Then he nodded to Lucky, who open
the little book and began to read. At the same time - after a crackle and a hum
- there was a crash of lightning and roll of thunder as the play began. Lucky
was soon swept up by the story as the Master cried: <i>"…Fall to it,
yarely, or we run ourselves aground!"</i> </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
As he listened and read Lucky was acutely aware of
the sounds of the ancient city all around him – creaking wagon wheels,
complaining animals, the wailing cry of a muzzein calling the faithful to
prayer, while at the same time church bells sounded from afar. Out in the
garden the chickens were quietly clucking in the morning heat and a faint
breeze brought the scent of citrus trees in blossom. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
And like that day when he’d discovered "The
Rubaiyat,’ all the centuries between the creation of the work and the present
vanished and he drifted away on the magical tide of the Bard’s fabulous words
and images. </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Lucky traveled on camelback every day for a week and
after that at least once a week – as the season advanced, the Turk got more
consignments that paid better. Later, he and the Turk became friends and the
man gave him camel riding lessons, so that instead of being led by the Turk,
Lucky could guide the camel himself. He even galloped across fields several
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Finally, he bought the camel saddle from the Turk – set
on the ground on its four wood legs, the saddle made an admirable red-leather
footstool. It smelled so badly, however, that at first his mother wouldn’t let
him bring it in the house. But Brosina solved that with a cleaning mixture she
said was especially concocted centuries before to eliminate camel odors. His
mother joked that it was like Grandma’s Household Hints for Bedouins.</div>
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But back to that first momentous day:</div>
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At the outset Lucky felt sorry for the camel, but
then after it tried to sneakily bite him a few times, with him jerking back his
leg and the Turk swatting it with his stick, his sympathy soon subsided.
Looking at a few other camels on the same road, all whom were heavily burdened
with market goods, Lucky couldn’t figure out what the animal’s problem was.
This was an easy job – although Lucky wasn’t small for his age, neither was he
a behemoth. Still recovering from many weeks of illness, he had not yet
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But just to make sure the animal knew he meant it no
harm, when they reached the city gates and he climbed off, Lucky bought some
fruit and fed it to the animal – holding the pieces flat on his hand, like
feeding a horse. The Turk watched with careful approval – keeping his stick
ready in case his charge decided to bite. After that, Lucky always had
something for the camel when they met and although they never became friendly,
it mostly quit trying to bite and only tried to spit on him two or three times.</div>
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At the city gate, Lucky realized he had plenty of
time before school and could finally explore the blackmarket stalls. For the
first time, he entered on foot. Just past the entrance a band of Gypsy kids
burst past him and Lucky laughed, knowing their tricks, and pressed against the
stone wall fending off their swift-moving attempts to pick his pockets. They
went through like a chill wind, people shouting as they veered this way and
that, brushing against people and vehicles, carrying away whatever they could
get their skillful fingers on.</div>
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Lucky moved on and was soon enveloped by the strange
twilight atmosphere of the tunnel. At first, he was partly blind – like walking
from the sunlight into a theater after the movie started. His eyes soon became
accustomed to the dim light – which mostly came from the grated areas high overhead
where the city’s defenders had poured boiling oil, or hurled down spears and
heavy rocks on the enemy. Most of the stalls had small oil lamps hung from
poles and when Lucky looked down the length of the tunnel he could see all the
flickering lights swaying in the breeze of the passing traffic – with a tiny
pinpoint of light in the distance, marking the entrance into Nicosia.</div>
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At first, Lucky felt a little claustrophobic. On foot
– without Yorgo beeping his horn and racing his engine – the press of human
bodies pouring through the tunnel was intimidating. Adding to that pressure
were all the ox carts, horse-drawn wagons, burdened animals – ranging from
donkeys to camel – and the wheeled traffic, such as the numerous bicycles,
motorbikes, buses and even a few cars, trucks and polyglot vehicles of no
obvious ancestry. The odors filling this confined space were nearly
overpowering. The noxious gasoline fumes of engines, mixed with the strong
barnyard odors of the market crowd laid a thick base of olfactory pigment.
Mixed with this were the smells of the bazaar – burning incense and food
cooking over charcoal and dried dung braziers. </div>
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About twenty feet inside the entrance was a flower
stall and Lucky rushed to it, breathing deeply of roses, violets and gardenias.
Soon, the sights, scents and sounds of the Famagusta Gate bazaar settled into
something more manageable, something more realizable. He bought a gardenia from
the old widow woman who ran the stall, stuck it in his lapel and marched
bravely onward, soaking up the atmosphere of his first blackmarket. </div>
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The stalls consisted mainly of covered carts with
thick shutters that could be locked tightly and wheeled away when the business
day ended and the cops came around to clear the gate for the night. They were packed
with goods of every variety from every place in the world. Some were dedicated
to specific items. There were stalls selling medicinal herbs from China. Some
were devoted to diseases and common ailments. Others were aimed at more
specific afflictions, such as lagging virility. These carts were marked with
wax and wooden replicas of rhino horns and the hands of gorillas. "Make
you strong," a toothless old Greek woman promised Lucky, thrusting her
fist up and grinning.</div>
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Other stalls offered a bewildering variety of
merchandise. French condoms were mixed in with different caliber bullets – some
loose, some still in their boxes. Trays of junk jewelry were filled with
scarabs from Egypt, beetles from South America and fake pearls from Sardinia.
There were stalls devoted to pictures mounted on white cardboard. The pictures
ranged from children’s books, to mythology, to landscapes, to blatant
pornography. </div>
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There was food of every kind – kabobs, roasted eggs,
potatoes and corn, nuts of all kinds, trays of baked goods – some sweet, some
stuffed with cheeses and meats, plus big rounds of bread and hunks of cheese,
with olives soaked in dozens of different brines. There were candies of every
variety from all over the Middle East, as well ice cream and sherbets, and pudding
cakes floating in sugared rose water. </div>
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Some stalls were devoted to religious artifacts, such
as icons and incense and holy books. But those same stalls might also have a
tray filled with pornography from Algiers, or deadly butterfly knives from the
Philippines.</div>
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Lucky passed by several book stalls, pausing to see
that they were filled mostly with junk – battered romance novels and black and
white comics from Africa and Spain. But then he stopped at one stall that
contained some old college texts, including an English translation of Don
Quixote. He bought it for the equivalent of five cents, then, encouraged, dug
through moldy, worm-eaten books, searching for another prize. Starting to run
short of browsing time, Lucky confined himself to titles in English. </div>
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Then he came across a small, battered book entitled
"The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam." He’d never heard of it before, but it
sounded exotic, intriguing. Primed for a literary adventure, he opened the
book, gently turning its brittle pages. He soon realized that it was a volume
of poetry, but it was poetry unlike any he’d ever encountered. Lucky flipped
back to the first poem and read:</div>
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<i>"Awake! For the
morning in the bowl of night<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Has flung the stone
that puts the stars to flight.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>And
lo! The hunter of the east has caught<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>The sultan’s turret in
a noose of light."<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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He stood gaping, the dense traffic pouring past,
stunned by the imagery. Lucky had often sat by the marble cistern deep into the
night, hiding in the garden while his father raged about the house. He
remembered staring at the reflection of the stars swimming in the cistern’s
watery mirror, drawing comfort from sparkling lights, wondering if there were
planets whirling about those distant suns and if so, on one those planets, was
there perhaps a boy like him whose father was raging in the night and the boy
was staring into a cistern of his own, contemplating a companion in misery like
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You could draw a finger through that watery mirror
and feel a little bit like a god as you stirred up the stars burning there.
Once, overcome by frustration at the chaos that reigned in his home, Lucky’d
hurled a stone into the cistern – and the stars had indeed fled the
disturbance.</div>
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Pulse quickening, Lucky flipped the pages, stopping
when his eyes picked up a similar theme.</div>
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<i>"And that inverted
Bowl we call the Sky,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Whereunder crawling
coop’t we live and die,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Lift not thy hands to
it for help – for It<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Rolls impotently on as
Thou or I."<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Lucky felt a little giddy. The words reached out to
Lucky and touched him like he’d rarely been touched before. He wanted to read
more. But he was afraid the next poem would disappoint him, or that the magic
of the moment would suddenly vanish and the words would be revealed as ordinary
and maybe even a little trite. </div>
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He bought the book and hurried on to Jim’s shop. He’d
read the book later. But first, he wanted to find out about this man, this poet
– Omar Khayyam.</div>
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Lucky was just in time for school. He helped Jim open
up - sweeping the front with a broom dipped in a bucket of stale water. Water was
scarce in Cyprus and one had to be careful not to waste it. He did the job
thoroughly, full of energy from his discovery, and also because he was anxious
to please Jim who he knew worked very hard managing his shop, plus teaching
Lucky at the same time. They went through the usual morning lesson plan – and
it went easily since it involved Lucky’s favorite subjects – language, history
and what in modern times would be called the "natural sciences."</div>
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"Bugs and beasts," Jim jokingly called it,
although his approach to the subject was not joking at all. Jim was a firm
believer in observation – Lucky suggested it was the scientific method, Jim
said, no, it was the Aristotle Method and although Jim admitted Aristotle had
made many erroneous observations he swore by him. </div>
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"Observation is the legacy of Aristotle,"
Jim said. "He taught us how to see and how to analyze." Jim laughed.
"Of course, he taught that women have fewer teeth than men, which isn’t
true, so he must have been making some faulty observations that day."</div>
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It was then that Lucky showed Jim the book. His
teacher beamed with pleasure, saying "Ah, you’ve discovered the Persian –
a great observer in his own right. I was going to introduce you to him – but
later. After Shakespeare. However, since you have found him on your own, let us
see what we can learn about ‘old Khayyam,’ as he called himself."</div>
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And with that, he hung a closed sign on the shop and
rolled down the grates and locked them. With mounting interest, Lucky hurried
to keep up with Jim’s long strides. Were they going to meet a relative of Mr.
Khayyam’s, perhaps? A few minutes later, Lucky was escorted into an old musty
shop that was crammed with odd machines, stacks of paper, rolls of leather, and
shelf after shelf of books. It was a bookbinder’s shop, commanded by Mr.
Loizos, a Greek Cypriot who claimed more than a bit of Persian blood. When Jim
explained their mission, Mr. Loizos was quite enthusiastic and with great
ceremony showed them an alcove where he kept what Jim called the finest collection
of books related to Omar Khayyam in all of Cyprus. To Lucky’s surprise, few of
the books were in Persian or even Arabic – but Mr. Khayyam was represented in
every other language, French, German, Spanish and certainly English, where the
number of books made it seem he was most popular of all.</div>
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"The poems you have," Jim said, "were
translated by Edward Fitzgerald in the middle of the last century and some
people think his is still the best English translation because Mr. Fitzgerald
was also a poet and understood the artistic heart of Mr. Khayyam." He
paused, then said, "That is also my opinion." </div>
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"But who was he?" Lucky said. "Omar
Khayyam, I mean." </div>
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In his mind, he had the image of a tragic figure,
very much like Edgar Allen Poe, but in a burnoose. As it turned out, Lucky’s
image wasn’t that far from the truth – albeit a truth obscured by the dust of
many centuries. Perusing the books in the alcove, and taking copious notes,
Lucky learned that Khayyam lived in Persia during A.D. 1044 – 1123. To put that
in perspective, Jim pointed out that this was about the time of the Norman
invasion of England. The son of a tentmaker, Khayyam rose to become chief
astrologer of the sultan, his boyhood friend. A brilliant astronomer and
mathematician, Khayyam predated Galileo in many of his planetary discoveries
and was also a pioneer in algebra and geometry. But it was his poetry – the
fabulous quatrains collected in The Rubaiyat – that the world remembered him
for in modern times.</div>
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"What happened to him?" Lucky asked.</div>
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Jim sighed. "Unfortunately, truly great men are
rarely rewarded in this life," he said. "After his friend, the
Sultan, died, the Mullahs confiscated his property and drove him into exile for
speaking heresy."</div>
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Lucky was astounded. "What heresy?"</div>
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"Among other things," Jim said, "In
those days people believed that the earth was the center of the universe and
that sun and planets and stars revolved around it. Khayyam proved that this was
false. That it was we who revolved around the sun, and so on and so
forth."</div>
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"But… he was right," Lucky said, aghast.
"Why would they exile for speaking the truth?"</div>
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Jim raised a finger. "Remember Socrates?"
he said. "Was he not killed for speaking the truth."</div>
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"That was a thousand of years before,"
Lucky protested. "They should have learned by then."</div>
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Jim shrugged. "Well, considering that Galileo
was threatened with death by the Pope five hundred years after Khayyam – and
for the very same reason – I suppose we can say that human beings take a long
time to learn a thing." </div>
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He chuckled, adding, "Also, when you read his
poetry, you’ll see that Khayyam has other habits considered sinful by the
mullahs. He liked his wine, which is forbidden in Islam. And he also had his
doubts about religion – or even the existence of God."</div>
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Jim frowned. "Do you think your parents will
have trouble with that?" he asked. "I don’t want you to read
something that would upset them."</div>
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"Oh, no," Lucky said. "They won’t
mind." This was one of the few areas where Lucky’s parents shone above
others. "I can read anything I want, as long as I let them read it too.
They’ve never once forbidden a book. It’s a rule in our house."</div>
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Jim nodded, saying, "Of course, Lucky, I
remember they told me that in our first meeting. But I wanted to make
certain."</div>
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As they walked back to the shop, Jim asked,
"Would you like to take a trip with me this weekend, Lucky?"</div>
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Lucky was delighted. "Sure. Where to?"</div>
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"I was thinking that this would be a good time
to show you Othello’s Tower," Jim said. </div>
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At lunch, Lucky returned to the Famagusta Gate and slipped
out to other side, which overlooked the great central plain. He bought some
black bread and fetah cheese, along with a newspaper cone of olives and a Coke
out of a cold cart. The traffic was lighter now and consisted mostly of animal
drawn carts and people on foot, driving animals before them. The white camel
Lucky had ridden earlier, along with the little Turk who owned it, were
sprawled on the ground, snoozing in the midday sun – their animosity apparently
forgotten, with the Turk’s head nestled against the camel’s neck, and the
camel’s head resting across the driver’s lap. </div>
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The air was brisk and dark storm clouds were creeping
over the plains from the Troodos Mountains. The gray city walls loomed over the
scene, climbing high to the towers that marked the gate’s entrance. All along
the age-pocked stone, enormous lizards crept about, hunting insects and small
rodents. A young goat herder stopped near Lucky, putting his charges into a
patch of greenery, then while his goats ate he strode back and forth, making
challenging – forefinger over pointing finger - motions to Lucky. A game of
marbles? Lucky took the challenge and won the boy’s shooter in a few minutes.
He traded it back for a handful of pistachios, then settled down against the
ancient city walls to eat his lunch.</div>
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And at long last – he had been dragging out the
moment to make it better – he drew out the little book of poetry. He closed his
eyes, flipped the book open, and stabbed a finger, picking a poem at random. He
opened his eyes, heart beating with anticipation, and read:</div>
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<i>"With
them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>And
with my own hand labour'd it to grow:<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>And
this was all the Harvest that I reap'd --<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>‘I
came like Water and like Wind I go.’"<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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To Lucky, this four-line poem – this quatrain, this… this…
Rubaiyat… - summed up everything Jim and the books had revealed about Khayyam.
Omar offered the world knowledge in many forms, both scientific and artistic.
But in his day, he – and his work – were spurned. Any satisfaction Khayyam
might have felt were the brief rewards he must have realized when he made his
discoveries about the universe. Or wrote the perfect, four line poem. </div>
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As he said in the poem, "I came like water and
like wind I go." But here was Lucky, a thousand years later, reading this
poem and struggling to get a glimpse of the world through Omar Khayyam’s eyes.
Apparently, despite Khayyam’s pessimism, the perfume of his poetry had lingered
well past his death. He read on…</div>
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<i>"Think,
in this batter'd Caravanserai<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Whose
Doorways are alternate Night and Day,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>How
Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Abode
his Destined Hour and went his way."<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Lucky was almost knocked to the ground by those four
lines. They were the perfect description of reality as seen by the CIA – and
CIA brats, like himself. All the world’s most important people, posing for
their pictures, their moments of victory. President of this. Prime Minister of
that. Dictator here, President For Life, there. Generals and admirals and
senators and yes, even kings and queens. There were a few left, especially,
England’s Elizabeth II who would be crowned soon. </div>
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But Khayyam’s point was the same – men and women, big
and small, have a time on this earth that is not measured by their importance.
And, if you were targeted by a CIA or KGB assassin, that time might be even
shorter than the biblical "full span."</div>
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He continued reading:</div>
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<i>"Oh,
come with old Khayyam, and leave the Wise<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>To
talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies;<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>One
thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies;<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>The
Flower that once has blown forever dies."<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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And
then:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Up
from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>I
rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>And
many Knots unravel'd by the Road;<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>But
not the Master-Knot of Human Fate.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Lucky
looked around, once again taking in the Famagusta Gate. But this time he looked
at it differently, especially when an immense ox-drawn wagon exited. There were
six oxen in a line and the wagon itself was double-tiered – so high that the
top came close to scraping the iron spikes spearing down from the gates. The
wagon was loaded with a bizarre variety of things – household furniture, tavern
fixtures, farm implements and even scrap metal and glass sticking out from the
barred sides. As the ox cart emerged, two camels followed, carrying goods bound
for the villages. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The
ox cart stopped abruptly and one of the camels barked its shins. It bawled at
the obstruction, sidling around to get at the driver or one of the oxen so it
could bite them. Heavy sticks, kicks and curses drove it back. A fistfight
between the ox cart owner and the camel driver was narrowly averted by a priest
clad in black with a long white beard and a tall hat.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lucky
laid the book in his lap and looked out across the plains stretching out from
Nicosia. Far away a rainstorm moved across his view and the breeze brought the
smell of damp earth, spices and citrus and animals and cooking fires. An old
Turk hobbled by in his baggy-pants costume, followed by his woman – who was
draped head-to-toe in black. A beggar by the gate offered an old cracked
begging bowl to passersby, crying that eternal plea of the Middle East -
"Baksheesh! Baksheesh!" <o:p></o:p></div>
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Suddenly
Lucky felt like he was surrounded by the ancients who had once dwelt here, and
who lived here still. He was transported back a thousand years or more. He
imagined a young Omar Khayyam, sitting before gates exactly like these, and
thinking his thoughts and writing his poetry. Poetry that Lucky was now
reading. A camel bawled in protest. An ox cart driver lashed his whip. Angry
mothers chastised their children, someone shouted warnings as gypsy kids ran
past, scattering like sand driven by the wind. And far off he heard a muzzein
call the faithful to prayer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At
that moment, it seemed to Lucky that he could reach out and touch the smiling
face of Omar Khayyam. It was a young Khayyam, a boy about his age – thirteen,
or fourteen who presented himself in his imagination. In Lucky’s mind’s eye the
youthful Khayyam spilled out a bag of marbles, inviting him to play. In his
fantasy, Lucky spread out his own – setting up a target for them to both aim
at, to see who would go first. Omar grinned and leaned over, pointing finger
tucked under the middle finger for his snap shot. At that moment, Lucky knew he
would win with his superior American thumb shot. On a very good day he could
not only hit, but sometimes shatter his opponent’s marble using the thumb
clutched into the fist, exploding out and sending the marble forward like a
bullet.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Well,
Lucky thought, he wouldn’t be a poor sport about it and take all of Omar’s
prize marbles. He’d trade him for something else, so as not to embarrass him.
Some pistachios, maybe. Or, better yet, a moment of his time. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Tell
me, he’d ask, how you were able to write such wonderful words – poetry that
would last through the ages. And maybe, just maybe, the young Khayyam would
reveal his secrets. <o:p></o:p></div>
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A
bicycle bell rang and Lucky blinked back to a modicum of reality. He leaned
down to read one more poem:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>When
You and I behind the Veil are past,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Oh
but the long long while the World shall last,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Which
of our Coming and Departure heeds<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>As
much as the Ocean of a pebble-cast.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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The whole family was in the kitchen, so Athena had
to use pantomime to let him know what was going on. In between pouring coffee and
offering him some breakfast cake, Athena made motions – fingers hoisting to her
lips – and Lucky understood that Yorgo’s illness was self-inflicted, an ouzo
hangover. Athena crooked a finger across her lips to make a moustache. Then
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Lucky said goodbye and headed back to the main road,
thinking to catch a bus. Just past the twin olive trees that shaded Yorgo’s villa,
Athena caught up to him. He started to speak, but she quickly embraced him,
lips full on his, her body pressed against him so he could feel every curve and
hollow. Lately, every moment they’d had a chance to be alone, they’d become
more and more passionate in their embraces. Lucky savored the moment, thinking
that this is how he would like to spend his life – embracing Athena.</div>
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Then they heard Yah-Yah call Athena’s name. She broke
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Lucky stood there, heart racing, tingling from core
to skin. He wanted to run and catch her. Kiss her and embrace her – and ask her
what she’d meant by "goodbye." In Greek, goodbyes were usually
invitations to future meetings. Like "Stokahlo" - the ultimate
farewell and prayer for return. But in English goodbye was just goodbye. Gone
for a deal of time, perhaps forever, depending on how it was said. And the way
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Had Yorgo found out, or guessed, how intimate they’d
become since Lucky’s return from the hospital? They hadn’t actually… well, done
it. Although they’d come pretty close. Both had been a little frightened. Not
because they feared the act, but because if they were found out they wouldn’t
be able to see each other again. So, they’d purposely tried to cool things
down. But if Lucky’s suspicions were on the mark, it had been to no avail.
Yorgo was on to them and there was no telling what he would do or say. Oh, come
on, Lucky thought. Yorgo couldn’t know. Actually, there wasn’t anything for him
to know. If confronted, Lucky and Athena could deny everything with only a
twinge or two of conscience. No, his paranoia made no sense at all. </div>
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Even so, as Lucky walked up to the main road he
couldn’t help but worry. When he came upon the highway he was greeted by the
usual Wednesday market crowd. He figured he’d have no trouble catching a bus.
But then he suddenly found himself surrounded – and fascinated by – the foot
caravan he normally whizzed past on Yorgo’s powerful motorbike. Cheerful people
were plodding alongside wagons of every size and variety, filled with an
abundance of produce and live animals for sale. Wednesday was the main market
day when, traditionally, children were kept home from school so they could
their assist their parents. This became quite clear when, as Lucky walked
alongside the road, he was suddenly surrounded by children of all ages playing
games on the move.</div>
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Hopscotch was a favorite. Girls armed with thick
pieces of chalk ran ahead of their friends to draw squares for other girls to
jump through, their high voices crying out a refrain that to Lucky sounded like
this: "Yearo, yearo, olee… Stamese, oh, maanolee… Hithi-a, bothe-a,
stee-ska-mee… oh-le, maanolee, sto-ska-mene." Since it was chanted to the
tune of "Ring Around The Rosy," he had the general idea what the song
was about.<br />
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A favorite of the boys was a highly-mobile game of marbles. Target
marbles were tossed ahead, shooters crouching down and taking aim, trying to
hit the target. If they all missed – which was normal, because they were
running along to keep up with the cavalcade – the target boy grabbed his prize
marble and tossed it ahead again. With other kids shouting in Greek that he’d
thrown it too far, or too short, or not in the agreed upon direction.</div>
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Lucky joined the caravan - keeping watch for a bus,
or one of the rare taxis that plied this route - while he enjoyed the games.
After a time, he began to tire. It was a hot morning and the road was rough
under his thin-soled school shoes. He noticed that on his side of the highway
there were occasional groups of camels and their drivers, waiting for hire.
People carrying too heavy a load for their wagons, or their bikes, would stop
and dicker with the drivers and soon coins would trade hands and the goods
would be loaded aboard a camel and off they’d go to Nicosia.</div>
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At that moment Lucky had an idea that made him grin
from ear to ear. It was idea of a lifetime. When he came upon the next group of
drivers, he chose an old Turk with a white camel that looked pretty clean. It
also had a fairly new saddle – an object made of wood, with cross-braces for
the hump and covered in leather with big brass nails to hold the material to
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He casually approached the man, who was crouched over
a little fire where he was roasting eggs rolled in clay. Lucky wrinkled his
nose – the small fire had the acrid stench of dried camel dung. The man glanced
up at the boy with rheumy eyes, then quickly looked away, yawning with some
ostentation. As Lucky studied the camel and the saddle, the Turk pointedly
ignored him, breaking the clay away from one of the eggs, then peeling the
shell. When Lucky turned to address him, the man was fishing out salt wrapped
in a bit of newspaper. The Turk sprinkled salt on his egg and took a bite,
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Lucky pointed at the camel, "Pohsa kamila?"
he asked. Meaning - how much is the camel? The only Turkish he knew were a few
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The Turk shrugged and asked, "Poo?" Asking,
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all around the yellow – then finally tossing salt on the yolk and popping into
it into his mouth. Finally, he held out four fingers – indicating four
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literally stroking his chin. Four shillings? Outrageous! Why, he was only a teenaged boy - very light, no trouble at all for such a large camel. Not
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got to his feet, saying that the Turk was probably right. Why accept a
guaranteed commission – of <i>one </i>shilling – when many more shillings were
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And Lucky turned to hear the Turk lower his price to
three shillings. Obviously, the man had lost hope for a decent fare for the
day. Lucky immediately squatted down next to the man. He dug into his book bag
and withdrew a pack of cigarettes. To his private amusement, they were Camels.
He showed the Turk the pack and was pleased to see the sudden gleam of
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He shook out a cigarette and handed it over. The Turk poked a twig
into the camel dung fire and lit up, inhaling a large lungful of smoke, then
dreamily blowing out a thick cloud of fragrant American tobacco. Lucky quickly
made a deal. If the man fetched him to school every day for a week, he’d pay him
a shilling a day, plus two American cigarettes. Certain brands had to be
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Very well, then. A satisfied bargain had been struck
and the Turk rose to his feet and swatted the camel sharply on its rump,
shouting, "Na seekhononomay! Na seekhononomay!" The camel must have
been formerly owned by a Greek, because that’s the language the driver was
shouting in when he ordered the beast to, "Get up! Get up!"</div>
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Then, to Lucky’s alarm, the Turk laid into the animal
furiously, striking the creature with his thick staff, kicking and shouting
"Na seekhononomay!" until finally the camel stumbled to its feet,
groaning loudly in protest as it did so. It was not only an unhappy animal, but
a big one to boot – the largest creature Lucky had ever faced outside of a zoo.
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Sure, he’d ridden horses, even fallen off a few. And
certainly he’d been intimidated by the Brahma bulls in Clearwater, Florida. If
you got within a few yards of the fence, they’d charge it, ripping at the wire
with their enormous horns and tearing up the ground with their hooves. He’d
even seen one leap a wide drainage ditch and attack a truck, nearly turning it
over before some ranch hands got it under control. But this camel was even
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What was spooky was that while the camel didn’t
charge, it was plainly warning the Turk that it had enough of his treatment.
The camel pawed the ground with huge feet and made groaning noises in its
throat while the animal’s big head snaked this way and that on a long, thick
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The Turk had no fear. He struck the camel across the
nose, shouting curses in several languages – Lucky recognized Spanish and
Armenian obscenities among them. This only seemed to infuriate the animal more.
And at that moment, it seemed to Lucky that the camel took on the supreme form
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The animal farted a long and gaseous blast, filling
the atmosphere with an overpowering smell of bowel methane which made the
campfire set off long sparks. Lucky remembered Harry telling him that in T.E.
Lawrence’s original notes he’d joked about sticking fuses up the rectums of a
herd of camels to take El Alamein – which was the decisive battle of the WWII
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But the Turk was not to be intimidated. Shouting, he
once again smote the animal across the nose. And that’s when the camel
completely lost its temper. Bellowing with rage, it reared up on its high legs.
Lucky gasped - it was easily, two stories high. Any second he expected it to
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But instead of running, or even dodging, the little
Turk took a good, steady hold of the dangling reins and vaulted upward, kicking
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Then he calmly stepped aside as the camel bawled in
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Without further complaint, the camel proceeded to obey
the Turk’s every command. He swatted its flanks and it dropped to it knees,
whimpering with pain. The Turk motioned for Lucky to get on. The boy shook his
head. No way. Get on, the Turk demanded. Almost afraid that he’d suffer the
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Then the big animal was getting to its feet and Lucky
swayed back and forth, clinging to the pommel. More barked commands and they
started forward, the crowd parting to let them through and in a moment they were
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After he calmed down, Lucky started enjoying the
ride. Perched high above the market crowd, the rolling fields stretched out on
every side, he felt like Lawrence and he imagined himself in white robes and
leather boots, with a sword strapped at his side and a rifle slung over his
back like an Arab warrior. The saddle was quite comfortable and the motion of
the camel was a little like a sailing ship, swaying gently back and forth, the
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And it came to Lucky that this was an adventure he’d
be able to tell his children about someday. Other fathers boasted of the
hardships of going to school – walking miles in the snow, or the summer heat.
But he, Lucky Cole, would be able to say that he had once ridden to school on a
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in early March, Lucky was on his way to see Mr. Socrates, when he heard a
strange sound coming from the direction of the main street. He thought it was
thunder at first and he looked up to see if rain threatened. But only a cheery sun
and bright blue sky greeted him.<br />
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It couldn’t be thunder, because the sound was
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There was a whirr and all over the street birds shot up
into the sky, as if threatened. They circled overhead, beaks open as they cried
out, but he couldn’t hear them over the roaring sound. A shadow fell over him,
and Lucky dodged to the side just in time as a panicked camel raced by, pursued
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The roaring became louder and he wondered if it might
be an airplane coming in too low, perhaps in trouble and about to crash. Then
people were running past him, heading down the hill for the main street. Lucky
followed.<br />
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At the corner, he saw that the sidewalks on both sides of the main
thoroughfare were lined with people of all kinds, including shop keepers who
stood guard in their doorways. The street itself was oddly empty – not one
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Lucky noticed that everyone was looking toward the
Famagusta Gate. He saw other boys shinnying up light stanchions – getting up
higher so they could see better. Lucky spotted a likely perch for himself and
ran straight toward a store front. He let momentum carry him up the wall, then
he jumped, caught the overhanging sign and swung himself up.<br />
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Another boy tried
the same thing, faltered, and Lucky stuck out a hand, helping him. Without a
word both boys turned to look at the mouth of the Famagusta Gate, now plainly visible.
The noise seemed to be coming from the dark, cave-like entrance.</div>
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Packs of dogs were crouched on either side – none
were brave enough to stand in the center - barking at whatever approached. Now
Lucky could make a rhythmic beat, underlying the roaring noise. It was a Boom!
Boom! Boom! that shook him to the bones. Then the dogs turned tail and raced
away. A second later a band of gypsies poured out of the tunnel, scattering in
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The sound grew louder, and now Lucky thought he could
make out people shouting and screaming. He considered jumping down and running
back to the safety of Jim’s shop, but then he saw something swirling at the
gate entrance, like a gigantic swarm of bees, and then suddenly people started
pouring out onto the street.<br />
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There were hundreds upon hundreds of them - all
shouting and wailing so wildly that Lucky’s blood ran cold. He was afraid to
move from his perch, in case he might draw attention. </div>
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The crowd paused for moment, as if the gate were
having trouble disgorging them, then more people broke out – unfurling a huge
banner carried on long posts as high as telephone poles. Lucky gaped at what he
saw on the banner. It was a gigantic picture of a man with distinctive features
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It was Stalin.</div>
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The banner was draped in black and now suddenly Lucky
realized that all the people – men and women and children alike – were wearing
black of some kind. Some were draped head to toe in black, others wore black
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More people exited the gate – it was like a river of
black cloaked figures. All crying and wailing. He saw men drag their nails down
their faces, leaving bloody streaks. He saw women rip their hair from their
heads by the roots, blood streaming down from the wounds. Bare chested men,
dripping red from self-inflicted wounds, marched with the crowd pounding on
huge drums – boom! boom! boom! And the women cried a shrill and ancient cry:
"Ululululu." A stray and quite bizarre thought leaked from Lucky’s
mind – so this is what Poe meant when he wrote of ululation.</div>
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Priests with long beards and high hats marched on the
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"Oh, no," the boy next to him moaned in
Greek. "Stalin is dead. Oh, no. Oh, no!" And he burst into tears.
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It was then that he realized that this was a funeral
march. That in far off Russia, Stalin had died and the thousands of wailing
people he saw marching down the street were stricken with grief because they
saw Stalin as a hero as great as any in history. Even the priests – and
Communists were godless, weren’t they? – were mourning the death of the man
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It took two hours for the funeral procession to pass
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Then he heard someone shout his name and he looked
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"I’ve been looking everywhere for you,
Lucky," he said.</div>
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"I’m sorry," the boy said, swinging down
from the stanchion. "I should have come back and told you where I
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"It was a good thing for you to witness,"
Jim admitted, putting a hand on his shoulder. "You should always remember
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