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When Zeenab was thus removed out of my reach, I had no inducement to remain in the physician's service. I therefore sought and secured a post as nasakchi, or officer of the chief executioner. I was now a person of authority with the crowd, and used my stick so freely upon their heads and backs that I soon acquired a reputation for courage.
I abandoned everything, and left Tehran next day determined to become a real dervish, and spend the rest of my life in penitence and privations. III. Among the Holy Men As I was preparing next night to sleep on the bare ground outside a caravanserai for I was almost destitute I saw a horseman ride up whom I recognised. It was one of the nasakchis who had assisted in the burial of Zeenab.
When we went back with the Shah to Tehran, a horrid event occurred which plunged me in the greatest misery. I heard that Zeenab was ill, and unable to dance before the Shah; and, knowing the royal methods of treating unsatisfactory slaves, I feared greatly for the consequences. My fears were warranted.
I was ordered, with others, to wait below the tower of the royal harem at midnight and bear away a corpse. We saw a woman struggling with two men at the top of the tower. The woman was flung over. We rushed forward. At my feet, in the death-agony, lay my beloved Zeenab. I hung over her in the deepest despair; my feelings could not be concealed from the ruffians around me.
I came presently to exchanging glances with a beautiful Curdish slave. From glances we came to conversation. At length, when Zeenab for that was her name was alone in the women's apartments, she would invite me down from the terrace, and we would spend long hours feasting and singing together. But our felicity was destined to be interrupted.
The Shah came with his full suite, dined gorgeously at my master's expense, and, as is customary, visited the women's apartments. Presently came the news that my master had presented the Shah with Zeenab! She was to be trained as a dancing-girl, and was to dance before the Shah on his return from the campaign.
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