I tiil soup on tor at t burn,”    a couple of turns in t .

        t not pity for o ask w had happened.

        “Don’t boto e inside,” I said, “I’ll be out as soon as I ches.”

        I dos t I o Ramadaivities, s aook up my c back,” I said to poor Nesim.

        Blad I reet in my little Jetles force out team, and I said:“Shekure’s former husband is back.”

        Black fell silent and stayed t il    the waning day.

        “ime later.

        From tion I guessed t S at    t S o, I opened a door of ag to tatement.

        “urned o my eyes.

        “I    seen    from the house.”

        “?”

        “From your face.”

        “tell me everything,” he said decisively.

        Black roubled    uand t Esternally at ternally to tell everyted to tio be the doors of so many unhappy homes.

        “ I’ve    ted your    ened old S t    ernoon, and t if    find S’s motful . S told to ed cautiously, but couldn’t e to a decision. toernoon, S left to be her.”

        “hings?”

        “ Sold you about    to get o ime ters th me.”

        “Did so them?”

        “I knoies of anbul,” I said proudly, “to her house, her husband and her honor as Shekure is.”

        “But I am her husband now.”

        typically male uainty t alo o pieces.

        “e a note and gave it to me to deliver to S described    o a turn of imate ceremony,    o be her and how he was never going back.”

        “how did Shekure respond?”

        “Sed for you all t h poor Orhan.”

        “ about hayriye?”

        “ing for years for tunity to droiful er. te, may    in peace.    S alone in fear of murderers and gs,    along ahrough me.”

        “ did e?”

        to God t your unfortu read or e, because able fation, s read tter, only tiful maiden reading tter.”

        “ did you read in Shekure’s face?”

        “helplessness.”

        For a long time    speak. Aing nig my clotcery lined o greet t.

        “Slo Black later, “I ’t get up taking me chis?”

        “Before y me to aking you to some generous and brave young men so you    spread out your bundle a lovers.”

        It    Black could still make jokes in iable state, but I could fato gatake you to eo deats and brawls.”

        “If you tio be tellige nor brawl.”

        e passed tered traigo of t o a barbers ill open. I sao ter barber being s-looking boy    of an oil lamp. Before long, tice, and later, t a side street in Sudent, ure involved in suche darkness, sword in hand.

        “Do you plan on raiding a y in broad daylight?” I said.

        “It’s not day, it’s nigone more pleased than joking.

        “Don’t be so fident just because you’ve put toget’s    catc of ttle army wandering around.”

        “No one c of us.”

        “Yesterday t raided a tavern and t Sa? 1rkap 1, beating up everyoook a bloo ick died. In tc t.”

        “I    to dearly departed Elegant Effendi’s c all to S Effendi been spending a lot of time he preacher from Erzurum?”

        “If I sounded out Elegant Effendi’s     it migimately o sest clot to involve myself in yal and political affairs—hom anyway.”

        As ered treet,

        branut and mulberry trees glimmered in t of tcled trees and carried t of roup to neig. As to bark one by one, I pointed out to Black. e stared quietly at its dark roof and sters. Black ake positions around ty garden, oyard gate and berees in back.

        “Iryatar beggar,” I said. “ reet better tinually plays an’s vulgar monkeys. it letting your ouc or ten silver pieces and ell you everything he knows.”

        From a distance, I c t of to pressure ions. , I’m not sure    ice, co beat tatar t of c    last, but tatar hey killed him.

        “ice.

        “    rust e t ten. “take t to t to    t to her,” he said.

        “ you ten anytook te.

        “If I see, it’ll iell her’s vile murderer.”

        “Is true?”

        “Just tell her.”

        g tatar, ed    fet o tion t I’d dra t so I    o leave.

        uck my o te neiger cutting off o one man married anoto tell me t turks en kill a man for no reason. I loo be    Nesim, at il soup. Even t resisted, I t about o ty ing at me.

        “Clotfits.”

        I se filtering out betters move. te fated me ied at a loable o .

        “Shekure,” I said, “your husband’s here.”

        “hie?”

        “to fight hasan.”

        “ e father-in-law.

        “uake a look at te like a proud ambassador of taing his merciless will.

        As tlemanly fate, S me pour you a boil soup to warm you up.”

        “I don’t like lentil soup,” I said at first. I didn’t like tress of t    sed to be alone er her.

        “tell Black t it’s all because of S,” s niged all nigrembled    until m. My ced!    kind of mot from o e back, told me t Our Sultan’s torturers alk and t h.”

        “asn’t Black her was being killed?”

        “Estiful black eyes wide, “I beg of you, help me.”

        “tell me and and help.”

        “Do you turned?” sears. “Black urned, I believed him.”

        But I could tell from    sell. “I o infer from t s did S s hasan because she had married Black?

        tered carrying fresible.    sigell from    after te Effendi, t be sold, couldn’t be dismissed— of fresood trutter as S be t finding a o find a fat of iions, to love any good husband.

        “You’re seeking    ,” I said unto be making decisions h your mind.”

        “I’m prepared to go back to Black immediately    I ain ditions!” S. “ treat S and Or inquire about my reasons for ing    abide by our inal ditions of marriage— I’m talking about.    me all aloo fend for myself last nig murderers, thieves and hasan.”

        “ yet found your fat old me to tell you he has.”

        “So him?”

        Before I could anse, said, “tell Black Effendi I ’t take ty of er-in-la my son being present.”

        “ softly.

        “iquette,    son is on nesses.”

        “e the soup Shekure had offered me.

        “ to gaters and otoms Office,”    yet dull men er erday, tain to be os tonight.”

        “e didn’t see anyt,” I said as I oo say?”

        I asked tion of to intimidate    S I was really

        addressing ruly ting turn of    I liked her indecisiveness.

        “e don’t    Black,” S said fidently. “And make t visit, fat lady.”

        “But tableclot your pretty mote red s clotil I return, you    open it up and take a look, try on, alter and sew wever you like.”

        I . I’d never seen S ears. As soon as I adjusted to tside, Black stopped me on the muddy road, sword in hand.

        “ o t to buy o celebrate Surn. Per case you’ll e to blo red sword of elling w he’ll do.”

        “ did Shekure say?”

        “tely not, I    give up my daug if I        Se er s and your disappearance    a    in t same old    you        e back or anyt. S, and it seems ts to return to you, but sain ditions.”

        Staring directly into Black’s eyes, I listed io once h a genuine ambassador.

        “I, too, ion,” I said. “I’m o ted out tters of t. “In a little    door. ’ll be to stop. If    ate to attack him.”

        My    befit an ambassador, to    myself get carried aime, as soon as I yelled “Clot directly to ther-in-law.

        “tire neigs, t is everyone, kno Sates of to life aurned o you from    Moses, it’d be of no use for he’s divorced from Shekure.

        You’ve abducted a married    I tell you o your punis for the judge .”

        “take,” said tely. “e didn’t abduct S all! I’m to God.    all alone, o seek ser s, sake    never fet t t o hem.”

        “S to return to your father’s house?”

        So cry on at of t ?    embraced    . But Est: I kne Sears    to appease bot o make a decision. But I also kneears, because to cry, too. A iced t    snake, was als.

        As if to pay back t g, Blad ta t very moment by banging on tters and f t t door tering ram whe house.

        “You’re an experienced and dignified man,” I said, enced by my oears, “ope t Shekure is on her way.”

        “ould you send an unprotected o treets hose dogs?”

        “Ss to go,” I said. ituffed up fr.

        “In t case so open the door and leave,” he said.

        I sat do anot more tears, to cry louder, aking into at tening cries from outside and ttering ram t seemed on troying to gain time.

        “My beautiful Sed all of your terms, ing for you lovingly, you no longer his

        on your cloak, don your veil, take your belongings and your cly back to your house.”

        tatement of mine made to open her eyes in shock.

        “I’m afraid of hasan,” she said, “his revenge will be horrible. he’s wild. Remember, I came here on my own.”

        “t cel out your ake refuge someake you back. As for he way we have for years.” I smiled.

        “But I’m not going to open turo him of my own free will.”

        “My dearest S open t tterly avenge such meddling.”

        I could see from    sood. “t’s    for to break it doake us by force.”

        I kne o alternative for S t means blood    involved in t for years. No and by and d raided to abduct a here.”

        I once again uretfully ive and calculating telliet everyt I could no loered to t. Actually, I     t Black’s men, ed in me,    going too far and migreat at any moment,    to So cry fake tears, but    couldn’t be feigned.

        Stepping ttop, t’s enough!”

        tion outside and tbeat.

        “Mot of inspiration and in a s voice, as if I o ts to go ake issue .”

        t my mout, lifted teceps. tside entered as t all of us ance. S said, “I’m going to tell Uncle hasan.”

        I saake up o leave, and I ly relieved, I il soup.

        Black elligent enoug to e anyer So let S take along o leave th us.

        “Be afraid of    and vengeance. o Shekure’s ear.

        time at tove of t t years of     could sell t t it bore tenc    by ing back here.

        It    t t brougoget, one Je range neigreets aion of Black’s men, and just like a caravan carrying treasure, -of-treets and solitary, seldom-visited neigo avoid running into guards, Janissaries, curious imes, t see your ually bumping against eae anotion t t us into t. Just beters, time cold as s in tables.

        Everao t and    districts, s of Istanbul—t is excluding ts and tunate unities gregated—occasionally felt t s, ed and turned    end t I could still make out certain street ers t I’d patiently passed in time toting my satcailor’s Street, table adjat to Nurullay, tes on Acrobats Street and the Falers

        Arcade t led into tain, and t oe fat all, but to some oterious destination.

        telling    ell you, no out of spite, but because I’m vi S to erest. But Black, intelligent as rusted me.

        e reet be ed at treet. e art of a figicks and tter pain.

        Black o one of    trusted men, forcibly took t, causing to cry, and id tance audent told me ake me cut; t is,    let me stay    of fate or some ing attempt to keep secret ts of t?

        tood to be a coffee treet opped as soon as it’d begun. Croered a; at first I t ting, but no, troying took out all of ts, glasses and loables u of torcroyed tried to stop t o get a target s ill effects,     and tomac dulled telled caused men to lose t ed Muurned do o iful an in disguise. It rics for a nigru in moral etiquette, and if I finally made it    I mig to drink too muc poison.

        Sie a fey, and t ood t t eo    up all titution and coffee in Istanbul and punised Muo music. t ted rators. I suddenly recalled t knew no bounds.

        A coffee maker’s appreered     collapse, but , melded in h

        roup and began to ctle out of fear. I noticed Black reize somebody and ate. By to collect toget ts uishe crowd became a fused mob.

        Black grabbed me by tudent take me areets,” o your udeo slip a running as ed. My ts    if Estaken out of t possibly tinue ory,    she now?
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