Chapters 26-30, pp. 322-340 Summary

In chapter twenty-six, it is raining, and this makes Lame Ali feel sure that the police can only use one road to Kozan. Lame Ali shows Memed where to make his ambush. Memed sleeps and in the morning has to wait the whole day, concealed with his horse in the reed beds. Then at the end of the day, the police come with the prisoners. Memed shoots a policeman in the leg and scatters the others. Then Iraz and Hatche come over to him and he puts them on the horse. A short time later, Lame Ali brings another horse and Memed and the two women ride to the Chichekli valley.

In chapter twenty-seven, Abdi wanders around the town from the coffeehouse to the fruit stand, complaining that Memed is after him. Abdi is summoned to Ali...