ABSTRACT
When Marie had reached Aleppo from Urfa, she and the family had stayed at Uncle Astor's until the priest's apartment was found. They were sympathetic to the author's family's plight: "Very well, then, Marie may bring the children." While Uncle Astor waited at the priest's home, Marie hurried off to bring the children. In fact, though happy at reunion of author's family, priest and his sister were very sad to see the children leave when they departed from Aleppo. When Vasil learned that thousands of Armenian children were still among the Arabs in the deserts of Syria, he took it upon himself to rescue as many as he could. At that time the Danish missionary Karen Jeppe was engaged in rescuing Armenian women and children from the desert. When he was bringing child number thirty-seven to Aleppo from the desert, the Arab from whom he had taken the child followed Vasil and killed him.
