Achmed Kueprilizade collected together the ten thousand shebejis,
bostanjis, and baltajis who dwelt round the Seraglio, and when everyone
was in despair attacked the rebels in the open streets, routed them in
the piazzas, and in three days seven thousand of the people fell beneath
his blows--and so the realm had peace once more.
Janaki also fell. They chopped off his head and he offered not the
slightest resistance.
As for Pelivan and Kabakulak they were banished for their cowardice.
So Achmed Kueprilizade became Grand Vizier.
As for Achmed III. he lived nine years longer in the Seven Towers, and
tradition says he died by poison.
FOOTNOTES:
[17] Tiger.
[18] Mouse.
CHAPTER XIII.
THE EMPTY PLACE.
Everything was now calm and quiet, and the world pursued its ordinary
course; but far away among the Blue Mountains dwells a woman who knows
nothing of all that is going on around her, and who every evening
ascends the highest summit of the hills surrounding her little hut and
gazes eagerly, longingly, in the direction of Stambul, following with
her eyes the long zig-zag path which vanishes in the dim distance--will
he come to-day whom she has so long awaited in vain?
Every evening she returns mournfully to her little dwelling, and
whenever she sits down to supper she places opposite to her a platter
and a mug--and so she waits for him who comes not. At night she lays
Halil's pillow beside her, and puts _their_ child between the pillow and
herself that he may find it there when he comes.
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