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tree  harmoniously;  Master  Osman  would  slap  me  so  hard  that;  amid  bitter

tears; forests would burgeon before me。 After angrily striking me in the head

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because I couldn’t see the errors at the bottoms of pages; he lovingly took up a

mirror and placed it before the page so I could see the work as if for the first

time。 Then pressing his cheek to mine; he so lovingly identified the mistakes

that magically appeared in the mirror image of the picture that I never forgot

either the love or the ritual。 The morning after a night spent weeping in my

bed; my pride violated because he chastised me with a ruler before everyone;

he came and kissed my arms so tenderly that I passionately knew I’d one day

bee a legendary miniaturist。 Nay; it was not I who drew that horse。”

“We;”  Black  was  referring  to  Stork  and  himself;  “will  search  the  dervish

house  for  the  last  picture  which  was  stolen  by  the  accursed  man  who

murdered my Enishte。 Did you ever see that last picture?”

“It  is  nothing  that  could  be  accepted  by  Our  Sultan;  illuminators  like  us

bound to the old masters or by Muslims bound to their faith;” I said and fell

silent。

My statement made him more eager。 He and Stork began their search of the

premises; turning the whole place upside down。 A few times; simply to make

their  work  easier;  I  went  to  them。  In  one  of  the  dervish  cells  with  a  leaky

ceiling;  I  pointed  out  the  hole  in  the  floor  so  they  wouldn’t  fall  and  could

search  it  if  they  so  desired。  I  gave  them  the  large  key  to  the  small  room  in

which  the  sheikh  lived  thirty  years  ago;  before  the  adherents  of  this  lodge

joined  up  with  the  Bektashis  and  dispersed。  They  entered  eagerly;  but  when

they saw that an entire wall was missing and the room was open to the rain;

they didn’t even bother to search it。

It pleased me that Butterfly wasn’t with them; but if evidence implicating

me were found; he; too; would join their ranks。 Stork was of the same mind as

Black; who was afraid that Master Osman would turn us over to the torturers;

and  maintained  that  we  must  support  one  another  and  must  be  united  in

confronting the Head Treasurer。 I sensed Black was not only motivated by the

desire  to  give  Shekure  a  genuine  wedding  present  by  finding  his  Enisthe’s

murderer;  he  also  intended  to  set  Ottoman  miniaturists  on  the  path  of

European masters by paying them with the Sultan’s money in order to finish

his Enishte’s book in imitation of the Franks (which was not only sacrilegious;

but ridiculous)。 I also understood; with some certainty; that at the root of this

scheme was Stork’s desire to be rid of us and even of Master Osman; for he

dreamt  of  being  Head  Illuminator  and  (since  everyone  guessed  that  Master

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