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He rose, and pressed the document to his lips and forehead. "What!" cried Laleli, in sudden terror, her voice gathering strength from her fright. "It is an order, dated to-day, to arrest Laleli Khanum Effendi, and to convey her to a place of safety, where she shall await the further commands of his Majesty." "It is false," murmured the Khanum. But her white fingers twisted each other nervously.
The perspiration streamed down her yellow wrinkled face, and Balsamides feared the end was come. "You must tell me first, or it will be of no use," he said. But he quickly filled the syringe, and prepared to repeat the former operation. "I cannot," groaned Laleli. "I die! quick! Then I will tell."
I know nothing what shall I say?" muttered Laleli incoherently, her thin fingers twitching at the stuff of her snuff-colored gown, while as she bent her head her short, coarse, black hair fell over her yellow cheeks, and concealed her expression from Gregorios. "You have not much time," he answered. "The pain will soon seize you more sharply than before.
Why not 'cabbage rose, or 'artichoke, or 'asparagus'? Laleli is an extraordinary woman, my friend, and has been in the habit of doing extraordinary things, ever since she poisoned her husband. She is the sister of a very high and mighty personage, who has been dead some time. She was married to an important officer in the government.
Moreover, if you will take the trouble to visit Santa Sophia during the last nights of Ramazán, you will understand how Alexander Patoff disappeared; and if you will go over the house of Laleli Khanum Effendi, which is now to be sold, you will see how impossible it was for him to escape from such a place.
His disappearance had furnished the gossips with a subject of conversation during many weeks, and his coming back revived the whole story, with the addition of a satisfactory ending. In consideration of the fact that Laleli Khanum was dead, Count Ananoff thought it best to take no official notice of the matter. To treat it diplomatically would be useless, he said.
"If, therefore, you would be healed, repent of sin, and if you have done anything that is sinful, command that it be undone, if possible. If not, your pain will return, and I cannot save you." "How do you, a Giaour, talk to me of repentance?" asked Laleli, in scornful tones. "While you try to extract the eyelash from my eye, you do not see the beam which has entered your own."
But you can not. Only Allah is great!" "If the Khanum will permit her servant to approach her and to touch her hand" suggested Balsamides, humbly. "Gelinis, come," muttered Laleli. But she drew the pale green veil that was round her throat a little higher, so as to cover her mouth. "What is this vile body that it should be any longer withheld from the touch of the unbeliever?
"It is our way of looking at things, I suppose," returned Balsamides. "I will see the story-teller, and explain as much as possible of the situation. What I most fear is that we may have to take somebody else into our confidence." "Do none of the ladies in the embassies know this Laleli, as you call her?" I asked. "Yes. Many Frank ladies have been to see her.
"But I strongly advise you to decide at once. You are beginning to suffer, and I warn you that unless you confess you shall not have the medicine." "I lived without it until you came," answered Laleli. "I can live without it now, if it is my fate." Her voice trembled convulsively, but she finished her sentence by a great effort. "It is not your fate," returned Gregorios.
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