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It is a case of life or death." "I have got life and death in my pocket," answered Gregorios, his eyes beginning to sparkle. "Can you read Turkish? Of course you can. Read that." I took the folded document and examined it. "This is an Iradè!" I exclaimed, in great surprise; "an imperial order to arrest Laleli Khanum Effendi, good heavens!
"Now," said Balsamides to the negro, "no one can hear us. You have one chance of life. Tell us at once where we can find the Russian Effendi whose property you stole and sold to Marchetto in the bazaar." In the dim gloom I almost fancied that the black man changed color as Gregorios put this question, but he answered coolly enough. "You cannot find him," he said.
Therefore I say that he was taken alive." "Where?" "In Santa Sophia." "But then," argued Balsamides, "the driver would have seen him carried out." "Yes," I admitted. "That is the difficulty. But he might perhaps have been taken through the porch; at all events, he must have gone down the stairs alone, taking the lantern." "They found the lantern," said Gregorios. "You did not know that?
It was six o'clock in the morning, and the sun was nearly up. I thought it had been one of the longest nights I ever remembered. While Balsamides dismissed the coachman, I led Alexander quickly into the house and up the narrow stairs. In a few minutes Gregorios joined us, and coffee was brought. "I think you could wear my clothes," he said, looking at Alexander with a scarcely perceptible smile.
What is the matter?" cried Paul, opening his sleepy eyes wide with astonishment as he saw Balsamides standing before him, white as death with the excitement of the night. "Has anything happened?" "Everything has happened," said Gregorios.
She shrank together in her snuff-colored, bag-shaped gown, and hesitated before she would put out her small hand, and her eyes expressed ineffable disgust. But at last she held out her fingers, and Gregorios succeeded in getting at her wrist. The pulse was very quick, and fluttered and sank at every fourth or fifth beat. "The Khanum is in great pain," said Gregorios.
The general Christian revolution thus seemed fairly launched, and in the first panic the threatened Moslems began reprisals of an equally general kind. In the larger Turkish cities there were massacres of Christian minorities, and the Government lent countenance to them by murdering its own principal Christian official Gregorios, the Greek patriarch at Constantinople, on April 22, 1821.
Nothing prevented him any longer from marrying Hermione, and he looked forward to the consummation of all his hopes in the immediate future. The day closed in a great rejoicing. John Carvel insisted that we should all dine with him that night; and our numbers being now swelled by the addition of Alexander Patoff and Gregorios Balsamides, we were a large party, ten at table.
"If I could make Rhodes tapestry, I should be as rich as the Hunkyar," retorted Marchetto, squatting on the matted floor and slowly drawing the magnificent tapestry across his knees, so that Gregorios could see it to advantage. "Do you take me for a madman?" asked the aid-de-camp. "I do not care for Rhodes tapestry. Kaldyr! If it were old, it would have holes in it."
"You will do very well in that position. Now say your Fatihah, and be quick about it. I cannot wait all night." "You are not in earnest, Gregorios?" I asked in English, for my blood ran cold at the sight. "Very much in earnest," he answered in Turkish, presenting the muzzle of the pistol to the Lala's head. "This fellow shall not laugh at our beards a second time. I will count three.
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