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"Greet Halil Patrona in my name," said the Sultan, "and tell him that I will satisfy all his just demands, if he promises to dismiss his forces immediately afterwards." The Chaszeki Aga and Sulali Hassan, with the twenty bostanjis, forced their way through the thick crowd which thronged the streets till they reached the central mosque.
You know that no wild beast is savage when once it has been well fed." The Sultan pretended not to hear these words. He did not even look up when the Kapudan spoke. "Seek out Halil Patrona!" he said to the Chaszeki Aga, "and greet him in the name of the Padishah!" What! Greet Halil Patrona in the name of the Padishah!
He declared that the rebels had been playing fast and loose with his name, and that he knew nothing whatever of their wishes. "Then take with you the Chaszeki Aga and twenty bostanjis, and go in search of Halil Patrona, and find out what he wants!" commanded the Padishah. "It is a pity to give worthy men unnecessary trouble, most glorious Sultan," said Abdi Pasha bitterly.
When the Janissaries on guard informed him that the Sultan's Chaszeki Aga had arrived and wanted to speak to him, he drily replied: "He can wait. I must attend to worthier men than he first of all." And who, then, were these worthier men? Well, first of all there was the old master-cobbler, Suleiman, whom they had dragged by force from his house where he had been hiding under the floor.
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