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Updated: May 25, 2025
As the twilight hour once crept over hill and valley, the evening meal was spread on the open lawn before the cottage, and when this was over, all sat there and told of the events that had passed, and each other's experiences, for the few past months, during which time Komel had remained a prisoner at the Sultan's palace.
The notes she had heard were those of an instrument, played by some favorite of the harem, who looked forth upon the night scene, and coupled its charms with the notes of her lute. But this too soon died away, and again Komel breathed quick and anxiously as she sat there at midnight.
Hunger had attacked them, for the provisions they had saved were now all gone, and this, added to the exposure they suffered, caused many a blanched cheek, and Komel and Zillah seemed ready to give way under the trial.
All eyes were turned upon him as he stood for a moment, when Komel exclaimed, trembling as she said so: "Is this a miracle, or do my eyes deceive me? that is is " "Aphiz Adegah," said the Armenian, while an honest tear wet his cheek. "Komel!" murmured the young mountaineer, as he pressed her trembling form to his breast.
They had taken the precaution to secure some food, though in a damaged state, and partaking sparingly of this as the moon lit up the wild scene, and the sea went down after its turmoil and tempest, they arranged themselves to sleep, Komel and Zillah close by each other's side, and the poor idiot boy coiled himself silently at their feet.
They had grown up together from very childhood, played together, worked together, sharing each other's burthens, and mutually aiding each other; now quietly watching the sheep and goats upon the hillsides, and now working side by side in the fields, content and happy, so they were always together. Komel was almost too beautiful.
As soon as the excitement attendant upon the scene we have related had subsided, Komel once more turned in wonder to recall those sweet notes, so endeared to her by a thousand associations, and to wonder from whom and whence they came.
He did not exactly fear that Komel's parents would sell her to go to Constantinople, though they were now, since war and pestilence had swept away lands, home and title, poor enough; and yet there was an undefined fear ever acting in his heart as to her he loved. Sometimes when he realized this most keenly, he could not help whispering his forebodings to Komel herself.
"Can you see no reason now why he should not live, at least, in Constantinople?" "None." "He had his choice, and was told that he might leave here in peace; but he chose to stay and die." "And for his devotion to me you have killed him?" continued Komel, bitterly. "Not for his devotion, but his stubbornness," said the Sultan. "Come, Komel, smile once more.
"We owe much to you," replied Selim. Thus saying, the Armenian and Selim entered the cabin together, where Zillah and Komel sat listening to each other's stories, and fast coming to know each other better and better. Suddenly Komel turned to Selim, and after acknowledging how much she already owed him and the Armenian, said "There is one thing I meant to have asked you before."
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