Chapter

 1     I|              for I want to write a letter to someone, and then with
 2     I|         there wrote and sealed his letter, and thrust it beneath the
 3     I|            has occurred to me. The letter I have just written on your
 4     I|           have sent along with the letter. Now, however, I cannot
 5     I|           to your house, take this letter together with the purse,
 6     I|        will compel him to whom the letter is addressed to accept the
 7     I|        rope-ladder, found both the letter and the money under the
 8     I|          dwelt the man to whom the letter entrusted to him by the
 9     I|          Accordingly he handed the letter to the money-[Pg 31]changer
10     I|        examined the address of the letter, and forthwith was filled
11     I|          know the man to whom this letter is directed."~ ~"Well, all
12     I|          of astonishment, took the letter, which hitherto he had not
13     I|           Then he who gave me this letter must needs be a madman,
14     I|            either the purse or the letter. Of a truth the man who
15     I|         best if you break open the letter and read it, then you will
16     I|           what he has to do with a letter addressed to him is, certainly,
17     I|            what was written in the letter.~ ~"Worthy Halil Patrona!~ ~"
18     I|            purse accompanying this letter. It contains five thousand
19     I|          after reading through the letter. "Who else, I should like
20    VI|             and laid before them a letter written on parchment which
21    VI|           of a mosque. The[Pg 125] letter was apparently written with
22    VI|           s own Ministers.~ ~"This letter deserves to be thrown into
23    XI|          again until he knew every letter of them by heart. They were
24   XII|            of vellum, and tied the letter beneath the wing of the
25  XIII|          carrier-pigeon bringing a letter.~ ~Gül-Bejáze opens the
26  XIII|               Gül-Bejáze opens the letter and reads it through - and
27  XIII|          the valley. She shows the letter to an old serving-maid,
28  XIII| serving-maid, telling her that the letter says that Halil is about