. The near East; Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople. was in Athens just before and just after the dec-laration of war against Turkey, when spies wereeverywhere, when a Turkish spy was discovered inAthens disguised as a Greek priest, and a womanwas caught near Lycabettus in the act of poisoningthe water-supply of the city. One morning early,when I was on the sea near Salamis in a small boatwith a Greek fisherman, I was arrested on suspicionof being a spy, and was brought before the admiralin supreme command of the fleet. My passport wasin Athens at my hotel, the admiral evidently disbe-li
. The near East; Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople. was in Athens just before and just after the dec-laration of war against Turkey, when spies wereeverywhere, when a Turkish spy was discovered inAthens disguised as a Greek priest, and a womanwas caught near Lycabettus in the act of poisoningthe water-supply of the city. One morning early,when I was on the sea near Salamis in a small boatwith a Greek fisherman, I was arrested on suspicionof being a spy, and was brought before the admiralin supreme command of the fleet. My passport wasin Athens at my hotel, the admiral evidently disbe-lieved my explanations, and I was handed over tothe police at the Piraeus, accompanied by a reportfrom the admiral in which, as was afterward madeknown to me, he stated that I was a very suspiciouscharacter. And now to the test of Hellenic goodmanners. Eventually a guard of police carrying rifles wassent to convey me from the Piraeus to Athens, and inthe middle of the afternoon I was obliged to walk as 86 THE ACADEMY, MOUNT LYCABETTUS INTHE BACKGROUND. From a photOKrapli, copyright, by Iliderwocd & Indcrw .1, N. \. IN AND NEAR ATHENS a prisoner through the streets of the Piraeus, to takethe tram to Phalerum, to get out there and wait forhalf an hour at a railway-station, and to travel in thetrain to Athens. In Athens I was made to walk threetimes, always guarded closely, through the prin-cipal streets and squares of the city, and twice pastmy hotel in the Constitution Square during the mostbusy hour of the day. Eventually, at night, I wasreleased. Now, the Hellenes are considered bymany people to be very inquisitive. During my pub-lic exposure as a prisoner I met with no really dis-agreeable curiosity from the crowd. Many peoplediscreetly inquired of my guards who I was andwhat I had done, and naturally a great many morestared at me. But nobody followed me and my at-tendants as we marched on our way from one policestation to another, to the War Office, etc. There wasno pushing or
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