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heard a momentary clattering; we both waited in silence; but nobody entered。

I recalled how even when she was only twelve; Shekure had aroused in me an

odd feeling because she knew more than I did。

“The ghost of the Hanged Jew haunts this place;” she said。

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“Do you ever e here?”

“Jinns;  phantoms;  the  living  dead…they  e  with  the  wind;  possess

objects  and  make  sounds  out  of  silence。  Everything  speaks。  I  don’t  have  to

e all the way here。 I can hear them。”

“Shevket brought me here to show me the dead cat; but it was gone。”

“I understand you told him that you killed his father。”

“Not exactly。 Is that the way my words were twisted? Not that I killed his

father; rather that I’d like to bee his father。”

“Why did you say that you’d killed his father?”

“He’d asked me first if I’d ever killed a man。 I told him the truth; that I’d

killed two men。”

“In order to boast?”

“To  boast;  and  to  impress  a  child  whose  mother  I  love;  because  I  realized

that  this  mother  forted  those  two  little  brigands  by  exaggerating  the

wartime  heroics  of  their  father  and  by  showing  off  the  remnants  of  his

plunder in the house。”

“Go on boasting then! They don’t like you。”

“Shevket doesn’t like me; but Orhan does;” I said; in the prideful glow of

having caught my beloved’s error。 “Yet; I shall bee father to them both。”

We  shuddered  anxiously  and  trembled  in  the  half…light  as  though  the

shadow  of  some  nonexistent  thing  had  passed  between  us。  I  pulled  myself

together and saw that Shekure was crying with tiny sobs。

“My  ill…fated  husband  has  a  brother  named  Hasan。  As  I  waited  for  my

husband’s return; I lived two years in the same house with him and my father…

in…law。 He fell in love with me。 Lately; he’s suspicious of what might be going

on。 He’s furious imagining that I might marry somebody else; you perhaps。 He

sent  word  declaring  that  he  wants  to  take  me  back  to  their  house  by  force。

They say that since I’m not a widow in the eyes of the judge; they’re going to

force me back there in the name of my husband。 They might raid our house at

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