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Updated: May 7, 2025
Then I will tell you: You must bow your heads beneath the yoke. You must obey the commands of the tschorbadji." "Never! never!" cried the men. "Has not the sheik himself forbidden us to do so? Did not the ulemas, as late as yesterday evening at sunset, command us in Allah's name to be firm?"
"Remember, you are the Lord of my life, the light of my eyes! Remember that I have no one but you in all the world, and that your Masa is as solitary as in a wilderness when you are not beside her. Remember that, O my father!" "Enough!" interrupted Mohammed, in a harsh voice. "Enough words. You there, you men of Praousta, will you pay the tax, the double tax, as the tschorbadji has ordered?"
The tax that the men of Praousta were commanded to pay, was by an order from Stamboul, destined for Cousrouf Pacha, and this was a sign to the proud man that his sun was in the ascendant, that he would soon be released from his exile, and therefore he was defiant and haughty toward the tschorbadji.
He approached Masa, and, bending over her, said, softly: "Rise, daughter of thy father. Your sorrow and trouble have passed away. Be gay and happy once more. That which wicked men sought to do unto you has been frustrated. Your father is free. Tschorbadji," said he, "command your servant Mohammed command him to unlock the gate of this cage, and to release the prisoners he has guarded so closely."
He was instructed to place himself in front of the mosque, call the people together by the sound of the tomtom, and announce to them, in the name of the tschorbadji, that all who would see the victims of their rebellion should come up the mountain, but without arms, and only three at a time.
True, the tschorbadji had attempted to deny this, but the additional expense was nevertheless clearly owing to the pacha's presence in Cavalla. Moreover, the sad story of the unhappy Masa, who had chosen to die rather than become a slave, was now known. Yes, she had taken her own life of that, no one now entertained a doubt. She had assuredly thrown herself from the cliffs into the sea.
I remember hearing the scha-er tell of a Circassian slave whom the grand- admiral, at Stamboul, purchased, and subsequently called his friend. He was not ashamed of him, although the lad called Cousrouf was, after all, only a slave." "In the name of Allah, I pray you, be still!" cried the tschorbadji, looking anxiously at Mohammed.
"Lo, ye servants of justice!" exclaimed the sheik in a solemn voice, "I say, go up to the city, and inform the tschorbadji that he has demanded more than is just of the men of Praousta." An overwhelming, thundering huzza interrupted the sheik. "Speak on," was then the cry. "Let us hear what the good sheik has to say to us!"
Will Osman succeed in softening his heart? At this moment the door opens, and a veiled woman enters the room. She advances with light and noiseless footstep, and kneels down before the tschorbadji. "O master, be merciful to your servant! Sheik Alepp's daughter kneels before you ! Incline your heart to mercy, and give back to me my father!" "Gladly would I do so, were it in my power," sighed he.
"And did you not go to the sheik and ulemas?" "The men of Praousta went themselves, and brought out the sheik and the ulemas, that they might speak decisively for all. We were to take their answer to the tschorbadji." "And they did this?" cried Mohammed, forgetting all proper reverence, and speaking to the men in the presence of the governor.
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