Chapter

 1     I|          them personally.~ ~The head Mufti had already hurled three
 2   III|        servants, Abdullah, the Chief Mufti, and Damad Ibrahim, the
 3   III|            after whom came the Chief Mufti, who read aloud a verse
 4   III|           waiting outside. The Chief Mufti entered first, and after
 5   III|            meet and right, the Chief Mufti was the first to speak.~ ~"
 6   III|        seemed as if, while the Chief Mufti was speaking, he had not
 7   III|              a reality."~ ~The Chief Mufti folded his hands across
 8   III|             Padishah!" And the Chief Mufti drew aside and was silent.~ ~
 9   III|            and both he and the Chief Mufti withdrew.~ ~At the gate
10   III|            of the Seraglio the Chief Mufti said to the Grand Vizier
11     V|          Pasha, the Kiaja, the Chief Mufti, and the Sheik of the Aja
12     V|       thereupon he ordered the chief mufti to bring him the Alkoran
13     V|        diamonds. This copy the Chief Mufti brought to the Sultan, and
14     V|           Grand Vizier and the Chief Mufti continued to detain the
15    VI|               his princes, the Chief Mufti, and Ispirizade.~ ~Though
16    VI|         three softas awoke the Chief Mufti and Ispirizade, and laid
17    VI|           Grand Vizier and the Chief Mufti have been arranging Lantern
18   VII| announcements:~ ~"Death to the Chief Mufti!~ ~"Death to the Grand Vizier!~ ~"
19   VII|              Grand Vizier, the Chief Mufti, the Sheiks, and the Kodzhagians
20   VII|          would come too.~ ~The Chief Mufti did not believe it to be
21   VII|            then," murmured the Chief Mufti in his beard.~ ~"And what
22   VII|              Seraglio, let the Chief Mufti and Ispirizade open the
23   VII|              Grand Vizier, the Chief Mufti, the Kapudan Pasha, and
24  VIII|            state - myself, the Chief Mufti, the Grand Vizier, and the
25  VIII|             Kapudan Pasha, the Chief Mufti, and the Grand Vizier."~ ~
26  VIII|           Grand Vizier and the Chief Mufti," said Sulali.~ ~The Sultan,
27  VIII|           Grand Vizier and the Chief Mufti? Slay them, too, for faults
28  VIII|           Grand Vizier and the Chief Mufti.~ ~Halil reflected. The
29  VIII|              Halil permits the Chief Mufti to live, but he demands
30  VIII|             of Prince Murad, and the Mufti and the Ulemas remained
31  VIII|        Ispirizade came for the Chief Mufti, and invited him to say
32  VIII|              four victims. The Chief Mufti perhaps may save his life,
33  VIII|          Vizier to elect a new Chief Mufti from among the Ulemas. The
34  VIII|              banishment of the Chief Mufti."~ ~The Sultan tore up the
35  VIII|           the message that the Chief Mufti might go free.~ ~The old
36  VIII|        breaking."~ ~"Call hither the mufti and Sulali!"~ ~Both of them
37  VIII|            doomed."~ ~Sulali and the mufti fell down on their knees.~ ~"
38  VIII|              master?" cried the aged mufti, bitterly weeping as he