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Updated: May 29, 2025
"'Once I found out that thief No. 132, the grand vizier, wished to twist the treasurer's neck, to get back what he had stolen. I too was then in the Turkish secret police; only a sort of No. 10, simply a fraudulent bankrupt. I had a good idea: now if I could manage to push on into the ranks of the No. 50 thieves! I went to the pasha, and revealed the secret that he was on the list of rich men whom the minister meant to strangle as conspirators, in order to secure their property. What would he give me if I saved both him and his treasures? Ali Tschorbadschi promised me a quarter of his wealth when once we should both be in safety. "Yes," said I, "but I should like to know first how much the whole comes to, for I will do nothing with my eyes shut. I am a family man I have a son whom I should like to settle in life." Ha! ha! The old man said it so seriously that it makes me laugh now to think of it. 'You have a son? said the pasha to my father. 'That is well; if I escape I will give my only daughter to your son, and so the whole property will remain in the family: send me your son that I may know him. By God! if I had only known then that the lovely lady with the white face and meeting brows was destined for me! Do you hear, comrade? but I must have another drink, to drown my grief. .
The next day Timéa asked him whether her father, Ali Tschorbadschi, would also arrive in that world to which she was going? To this delicate question the minister was unable to give a satisfactory reply. "But is it not the case that I shall there still be the wife of Herr Levetinczy?" asked Timéa, with lively curiosity.
"I told him the circumstances. 'I knew this Timar when he was a poor skipper, and had to wash his own potatoes in the ship's galley. Once I was sent by the Turkish police to track an escaped pasha who had fled on one of Timar's ships to Hungary. 'What was his name? growled my father. 'Ali Tschorbadschi. 'What! he exclaimed, striking me on the knee. He leaped up so that I thought he would jump overboard. Ha! ha! he forgot the chain. .
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