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Elegant  Effendi  left  here  on  his  last  night;  did  he  mention  he’d  be  seeing

anyone besides Enishte Effendi? Did you ever consider that he might’ve been

going to meet somebody else?”

“This was found on his person;” she said。

She  removed  a  folded  piece  of  paper  from  a  lidded  wicker  box;  which

contained embroidery needles; pieces of cloth and a large walnut。

When I took up the crumpled piece of rough paper and examined it; I saw a

variety of shapes drawn in ink that had run and smudged in the well water。 I’d

just determined what the forms were when Kalbiye voiced my thoughts。

“Horses;” she said。 “But late Elegant Effendi only did gilding work。 He never

drew horses。 And no one would’ve ever asked him to render a horse。”

Your  elderly  Esther  was  looking  at  the  horses  which  had  been  quickly

sketched; but she couldn’t quite make anything of them。

“If I were to take this piece of paper to Shekure; she’d be quite pleased;” I

said。

“If Shekure desires to see these sketches; let her e get them herself;” said

Kalbiye with no small hint of conceit。

268

I AM CALLED BLACK

Maybe you’ve understood by now that for men like myself; that is; melancholy

men  for  whom  love;  agony;  happiness  and  misery  are  just  excuses  for

maintaining eternal loneliness; life offers neither great joy nor great sadness。

I’m not saying we can’t relate to other souls overwhelmed by these feelings;

on the contrary; we sympathize with them。 What we cannot fathom is the odd

disquiet  our  souls  sink  into  at  such  times。  This  silent  turmoil  dims  our

intellects and dampens our hearts; usurping the place reserved for the true joy

and sadness we ought to experience。

I had buried her father; thank God; hurried home from the funeral; and in a

gesture of condolence; embraced my wife; Shekure; then suddenly; in a fit of

tears she collapsed onto a large cushion with her children; who were glaring at

me with spite; and I didn’t know what to do。 Her misery coincided with my

victory。 In one fell swoop; I had wed the dream of my youth; freed myself from

her  father  who  belittled  me;  and  bee  master  of  the  house。  Who  would

ever believe the sincerity of my tears? But believe me; it wasn’t like that。 I truly

wanted to grieve; but couldn’t: Enishte had always been more of a father to

me than my real father。 But since the meddlesome preacher who’d performed

Enishte’s  final  ablution  never  stopped  babbling;  the  rumor  that  my  Enishte

died under mysterious circumstances spread among the neighbors during the

funeral—as  I  could  sense  standing  in  the  courtyard  of  the  mosque。  I  didn’t

want my inability to cry to be interpreted negatively; I don’t have to tell you

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