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whatsoever  to  leave;  and  that  furthermore;  only  by  remaining  here  until

morning  examining  pictures  by  the  light  of  oil  lamps  and  candles  could  he

execute  properly  Our  Sultan’s  charge;  my  first  response;  as  I  informed  him;

was to remain here with him and the dwarf。

However; when the door was opened and my master conveyed our wish to

the  waiting  chiefs  and  asked  permission  of  the  Head  Treasurer;  immediately

regretted my decision。 I longed for Shekure and our house。 I grew increasingly

restless as I wondered how she would manage; spending the night alone with

the children and how she would batten down the now…repaired shutters of the

windows。

Through  the  opened  half  of  the  Treasury  portal;  I  was  beckoned  to  the

magnificence of life outside by the large damp plane trees in the courtyard of

the  Enderun—now  under  a  hint  of  fog—and  by  the  gestures  of  two  royal

pages; speaking to each other in a sign language so as not to disturb the peace

of Our Sultan; but I remained where I was; frozen by embarrassment and guilt。

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WE TWO DERVISHES

Yea; the rumor that our picture was among the pages from China; Samarkand

and  Herat  prising  an  album  hidden  away  in  the  remotest  corner  of  the

Treasury  filled  with  the  plunder  of  hundreds  of  countries  over  hundreds  of

years by the ancestors of His Excellency; Our Sultan; was most probably spread

to  the  miniaturists’  division  by  the  dwarf  Jezmi  Agha。  If  we  might  now

recount our own story in our own fashion—the will of God be with us—we

hope that none of the crowd in this fine coffeehouse will take offense。

One  hundred  and  ten  years  have  passed  since  our  deaths;  forty  since  the

closing  of  our  irredeemable;  Persia…partisan  dervish  lodges;  those  dens  of

heresy and nests of devilry; but see for yourselves; here we are before you。 How

could this be? I’ll tell you how: We were rendered in the Veian style! As this

illustration  indicates;  one  day  we  two  dervishes  were  tramping  through  Our

Sultan’s domains from one city to the next。

We were barefoot; our heads were shaven; and we were half naked; each of

us was wearing a vest and the hide of a deer; a belt around our waists and we

were holding our walking sticks; our begging bowls dangling from our necks

by a chain; one of us was carrying an axe for cutting wood; and the other a

spoon to eat whatever food God had blessed us with。

At that moment; standing before a caravansary beside a fountain; my dear

friend; nay; my beloved; nay; my brother and I had given ourselves over to the

usual argument: “You first please; no you first;” we were noisily deferring to

each  other  as  to  who’d  be  the  first  to  take  up  the  spoon  and  eat  from  the

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