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Romain, in the rear. He shall not stop to plunder. I give him one hour in which to do my bidding. Ride thou now as if a falcon led thee. For Allah and life!" Next he called his Aga of Janissaries. "Have the hordes before this gate retired. They have served their turn; they have made the ditch passable, and the Gabours are faint with killing them.
He gave his guides but one order: "Take me to the house the Gabours call the Glory of God." "Sancta Sophia, my Lord?" "Sancta Sophia and bid the runners run." His Sheik-ul-Islam was pleased. "Hear!" he said to the dervishes with him. "The Lord Mahommed will make mosques of the houses of Christ before sitting down in one of the palaces. His first honors are to God and the Prophet."
His capital and the slender remnant of his empire are lost unless the Gabours of Venice and Italy come to his aid. Will they? The Holy Father, using the opportunity, will try once more to bring the Eastern Church to its knees, and failing, will leave it to its fate. If my Lord knocked at these gates to-morrow, Notaras would open one of them, and I another.... Yet the Emperor will fight.
For that thou hast thy sword, and I mine Amin!... It is the will of God that we despoil these Gabours of their wealth and their women; for are they not of those of whom it is said: 'In their hearts is a disease, and God hath increased their disease, and for them is ordained a painful punishment, because they have charged the Prophet of God with falsehood'? That they who escape the sharpness of our swords shall be as beggars, and slaves, and homeless wanderers such is the punishment, and it is the judgment of God Amin! ... That they shall leave all they have behind them so also hath God willed, and I say it shall be.
And behind his composed countenance the Jew smiled, for, as he read it, the byplay was an acknowledgment of his influence over the chosen of God. And he was right. Suddenly Mahommed replaced the sword, and standing before him, asked abruptly: "Tell me, have the stars fixed the day when I may assault the Gabours?" "They have, my Lord." "Give it to me."
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