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Updated: May 6, 2025
In good spirits the boys returned to the sheepcote. The doctor left them at the "Old Hag's Rock." They took from him a closely-written note for Bacha Filina, who readily enough agreed to everything. He even sent Stephen to build the bench, and also gave permission to the boys to carry whey and flowers to the sick lady. Again it was Sunday. That day no one from the hut went to church.
"Your treasures?" Bacha was surprised still, not knowing whether it was a beautiful, but impossible dream. He could not get enough of the voice that was speaking to him. The face was older, changed, but the voice was the same. It always sounded to Peter Filina like music. And so it was today. "We are expecting the father of Madame Slavkovsky today, and I am going to meet him." "I am that father."
In the meanwhile Leucippus has fallen in love with Bacha, the widow of a citizen, and frequents her house secretly, where being surprised by his father, he protests so strongly of her chastity hoping thereby to save her credit and his own that the old duke falls in love with her himself, and shortly afterwards marries her.
Not knowing what course to take, he went to Turkey, and in order to succeed there, had himself circumcised, put on the turban, and entered into the militia. His blasphemy advanced him, his talents and his colour distinguished him; he became Bacha, and the confidential man in the Morea, where the Turks were making war against the Venetians.
"Perhaps the sadness will pass from him when we come to him." The crackling of dry branches under the bare feet of the boys roused Bacha. He looked around. The children stood a short distance off. Should they go to him or not? "Where are you going?" he called to them. They came running. "Only to meet you, Bacha." "Well, why did you come to meet me?"
He came in his coach as far as the sheepcotes, and before Ondrejko realized it, he carried away his mother, and also Bacha Filina. Before they went they arranged for Ondrejko to remain longer with Bacha, and he would go to his mother only for visits.
Ondrejko finally asked, and looked at the same time in such a way at Bacha that he would have to be a very hard man to refuse. Disturbed from his meditation, Bacha looked for a while into the beautiful inquiring eyes, then with a deep breath he began: "Many years ago I was a boy like you two.
The Venetians thought the bargain too good to be refused, and the Pope, in the interest of the Church, accorded all the demands of the Bacha. When Vatteville was quite assured that his conditions would be complied with, he took his measures so well that he executed perfectly all he had undertaken. Immediately after he threw himself into the Venetian army, and passed into Italy.
This wrong thought grew in my heart, and my envy increased from year to year till we were about as old as you two boys; and now comes the sad part which I never shall forget, and that is what is pressing me to the earth unto today." Bacha pointed over to the mountain opposite them. "Do you see yonder mountain?" The boys nodded. "There we used to live at the foot of the mountain.
Not only both the boys, but everybody else was afraid of these storm-clouds, even the herdsmen and the sheep, as well as the longhaired, fourfooted guards of the sheepfold. Bacha Filina did not get mad easily, but when he did, it was worthwhile. Though Ondrejko was the son of his lord, Bacha Filina didn't let him get by with anything.
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