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It was the last time I ever saw her, and I pray that I may never again see man or woman in such a condition. Meanwhile, the two men who lay by the fountain in the moonlight showed signs of life. Gregorios first came to himself, for he had only fainted. He was in great pain, but was as eager as the rest to restore Paul to consciousness.
"I will tell you, Marchetto," said Gregorios, gravely. "The lion and the lamb shall lie down together, when the lion lies down with the lamb inside of him." "Take, and eat!" exclaimed the ready Jew, holding out the Rhodes tapestry to Balsamides. "A man who has fasted throughout Ramazán shall not break his fast with an onion," retorted Gregorios, laughing.
Gregorios Balsamides had arrived from Pera, and we were waiting for the Carvels, seated on the long bench before the house, where the view overlooks the Bosphorus.
"Allah bilir. He is always bringing me things to sell." "Other things?" "He showed me a gold chain one day in the winter. But it was not curious, so he took it to a jeweler in the jeweler's tcharshee, who gave him the value of the gold by weight." "Who is he?" asked Gregorios, judging that he ought to show some curiosity about the man. "I cannot tell," answered the Jew.
Perhaps nothing but the fear of death could have made him confess, after all, and Balsamides had a way of making death seem very real and near. "I will tell you this, Selim," said Gregorios. "If you will give me Alexander Patoff Effendi to-night, alive, well, and uninjured in any way, you shall go free, and I will engage that you shall not be hurt. You evidently wished to keep the Khanum's secret.
Sultan Mahmud II. believed that he could paralyse the movements of the Greeks by terrific cruelty. On Easter Sunday, April 22, the Patriarch Gregorios and three other bishops were executed in Constantinople a deed which caused a thrill of horror from the Moslem capital to the mountains of Greece, and the palaces of St. Petersburg.
When I found them all together, Gregorios took me aside and drew a crumpled mass of papers from his pocket with his uninjured hand. "I stayed behind to save your papers and your money," he said quietly. "I have seen houses burn before, and there is generally no time to be lost." I wonder what there is at the bottom of that man's strange nature.
"You need not tear me in pieces. He killed himself." The news was so unexpected that Balsamides and I both started and looked at each other. The Lala spoke with the greatest decision. "How did he kill himself?" asked Gregorios sternly. "I will tell you, as far as I know. The Bekjí of Agia Sophia, the same who admitted the Effendi, took me up by the other staircase.
In the mean while I went home, and found Gregorios reading, as usual when he was not on duty at Yildiz-Kiöshk, the "Star-Palace," where the Sultan resides. "Have you deposited your friends in a place of safety?" he asked, looking up from his book. "Have they all come, even the old maid with the green eyes, and the mad lady whom Patoff is so unfortunate as to call his mother?" "All," I answered.
The signs of extreme suffering disappeared from the Khanum's face, and she once more looked up. "Your medicine is good, Giaour," she said, with the ghost of a disdainful laugh. But her voice was still very weak and hoarse. "It will not save you unless you confess what became of the Frank," said Gregorios, again putting his instrument into the case, and the case into his pocket.
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