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house。 For a time; Shevket locked himself in his late father’s room; and even

though we called for Black’s help; neither he nor his men came。 After Shekure

agreed  to  let  Shevket  take  along  his  Uncle  Hasan’s  ruby…handled  dagger;  the

boy was willing to leave the house with us。

“Be afraid of Hasan and his red sword;” said the father…in…law with genuine

worry  rather  than  an  air  of  defeat  and  vengeance。  He  kissed  each  of  his

grandchildren; sniffing their heads。 He also whispered into Shekure’s ear。

When I saw Shekure gazing one last time at the door; walls and stove of the

house;  I  remembered  once  again  how  this  was  where  she  spent  the  happiest

years of her life with her first husband。 But could she also tell that this same

house  was  the  refuge  of  two  miserable  and  lonely  men;  and  that  it  bore  the

stench of death? I didn’t walk with her on the way back for she had broken my

heart by ing back here。

It wasn’t the cold and blackness of the night that brought together the two

fatherless  children  and  three  women—one  servant;  one  Jewess  and  one

widow—it was the strange neighborhoods; the nearly impassable streets and

the fear of Hasan。 Our crowded pany was under the protection of Black’s

men; and just like a caravan carrying treasure; we walked over out…of…the…way

roads;  backstreets  and  solitary;  seldom…visited  neighborhoods;  so  as  to  avoid

running  into  guards;  Janissaries;  curious  neighborhood  thugs;  thieves  or

Hasan。  At  times;  through  blackness  in  which  you  couldn’t  see  your  hand

before your face; we groped our way; perpetually bumping against each other

and the walls。 We walked clinging to one another; overe by the sensation

that   the   living   dead;   jinns   and   demons   would   surely   emerge   from

underground and abduct us into the night。 Just behind the walls and closed

shutters;  which  we  felt  blindly  with  our  hands;  we  heard  the  snoring  and

coughing  of  people  in  the  nighttime  cold  as  well  as  the  lowing  of  beasts  in

their stables。

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Even Esther; no stranger to the poorest and worst districts; who’d walked

all  the  streets  of  Istanbul—that  is  excluding  those  neighborhoods  wherein

migrants    and    the    members    of    various    unfortunate    munities

congregated—occasionally  felt  that  we  would  vanish  on  these  streets;  which

twisted and turned without end through an endless blackness。 Yet I could still

make out certain street corners that I’d patiently passed in the daytime toting

my  satchel;  for  example;  I  recognized  the  walls  of  Head  Tailor’s  Street;  the

sharp smell of manure—which for some reason reminded me of cinnamon—

ing from the stable adjacent to Nurullah Hoja’s property; the fire…ravaged

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