g. But as mucive and more fertile first ion to t for S poisoned tter time to being rejected; my desire on icy nigo sputter out and vanisoves of a caravansary, repeatedly dreaming after a nig I o a desolate abyss along ion t I  was furnished by Shekure.

    “ere you a after deato meet s of men and heir beds?”

    “No, I .”

    “e take a long journey after deat afraid of dying.  I fear is dying before I finisan’s book.”

    Part of me felt I ronger, more reasonable and more reliable te, and part of me  of tan t I’d purco meet er’s er going doairs, I’d take out of table and ride away.

    I told s to turists. I kissed  it to my foreairs, entered tyard, and sensing ted t I  t table door, a breeze began to stir. I led my o t of tyard, and  as if rong, large-veined legs, ience and ubbornness ered treet, I  to sly mount my steed and disappear doo return again, tish.

    “My brave man, my young ruly as  you be married? Or might you be a bachelor?

    ould you deign to buy a silk  lover from Estanbul’s premier peddler of fine cloth?”

    “Nay.”

    “A red saslas silk?”

    “Nay.”

    “Don’t go on piping ”nay‘ at me like t!  like you not  lover? eary-eyed maidens are burning  and so gesture. At time, he skill of a

    magician  of tter to appear in ealt, and as if I’d been training for t for years, I ily and artfully placed it into my sas ter and felt like fire against tween my belly and back.

    “Ride at an amble,” said Esturn rig t breaking str