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第84部分(第4页)

“Don’t  be  so  confident  just  because  you’ve  put  together  a  gang;”  I  said。

“Let’s hope the Janissaries don’t catch sight of this fully equipped little army

wandering around。”

“No one will catch sight of us。”

“Yesterday the Erzurumis first raided a tavern and then the dervish house

at Sa??rkap?; beating up everyone they found in both places。 An elderly man

who  took  a  blow  to  his  head  with  a  stick  died。  In  this  pitch  blackness;  they

might think you’re of their lot。”

“I hear you went to dearly departed Elegant Effendi’s house; saw his wife;

God bless her; and the horse sketches with the smeared ink before relaying it

all  to  Shekure。  Had  Elegant  Effendi  been  spending  a  lot  of  time  with  the

henchmen of the preacher from Erzurum?”

“If I sounded out Elegant Effendi’s wife; it was because I thought it might

ultimately help my poor Shekure;” I said。 “Anyway; I’d gone there to show her

the latest cloth which had e off the Flemish ship; not to involve myself in

your  legal  and  political  affairs—which  my  poor  brain  couldn’t  fathom

anyway。”

As  we  entered  the  street;  which  ran  behind  Charsh?kap?;  my  heart

quickened with fear。 The bare; wet branches of the chestnut and mulberry trees

glimmered in the pale light of the half…moon。 A breeze kicked up by jinns and

the  living  dead  rippled  the  laced  edging  of  my  satchel;  whistled  through  the

trees and carried the scent of our group to neighborhood dogs lying in wait。 As

they began to bark one by one; I pointed out the house to Black。 We stared

quietly at its dark roof and shutters。 Black had the men take positions around

the  house:  in  the  empty  garden;  on  either  side  of  the  courtyard  gate  and

behind the fig trees in back。

“In that entryway over there is a vile Tatar beggar;” I said。 “He’s blind; but

he’ll   know   who’s   e   and   gone   along   this   street   better   than   the

neighborhood headman does。 He continually plays with himself as if he were

one of the Sultan’s vulgar monkeys。 Without letting your hand touch his; give

him eight or ten silver pieces and he’ll tell you everything he knows。”

From  a  distance;  I  watched  Black  hand  over  the  coins;  then  lay  his  sword

against  the  throat  of  the  beggar  and  begin  to  pressure  him  with  questions。

Next; I’m not sure how it happened; the barber’s apprentice; who I thought

was simply watching the house; began to beat the Tatar with the butt of his

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