about noon
`` What did you do to the Turks ? '' said I. `` Hanged them . We are not animals -- we simply , hanged them . '' Somewhere about noon we rode down a gorge into the village of El Oghlu . It was a miserable place , with a miserable , tiny kahveh in the midst of it , and Kagig set that alight before our end of the column came within a quarter of a mile of it . We burned the rest of the village , for he sent back Ephraim to order no shelter left for the regiments that would surely come and hunt us down . But the business took time , and we were farther than ever behind Kagig when the last wooden roof began to cockle and crack in the heat .