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CHAPTER 5 – TWO SHIRTS OF FLAME 
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And I turned and entered my tent. Crouched in a corner Cennet was 
looking at me with startled eyes. She was exactly like a beaten up cat. I 
approached her, she showed me in silence all her wounds. I shrugged my 
shoulders.
---You deserve it. If what they say is true be grateful that you have so far 
escaped like that. I said.
Without answering she lowered her eyes. She would act exactly like this 
at home. At the end of every sin or infidelity when I looked attentively at 
her face and before the undeniable proofs she would lower her eyes with 
a bashful and innocent expression and become silent. 
Perhaps this is why a sudden fury filled my nerves. With a very sharp 
voice I said to Cennet: 
--- From this evening there is no question. You must absolutely leave… 
----Where to, Sir? 
----Wherever you want, but you cannot stay in this village any longer, 
you must absolutely, absolutely go… 
There descended on her naturally dark chestnut coloured eyes a shadow 
of deep anxiety
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. Frowning for a while she thought. She then said: 
---I will go, I will go but if they block my way and do something to me… 
---I will give you two of my men to take you to the place you are going 
to.
She got more agitated. She was surprised. She waited sitting on bent 
knees until the villagers completely receded from our vicinity; she then 
suddenly pulled herself together, got up and without seeing it necessary 
to say a word to me she walked out. Where to? Which direction? I do not 
know. According to my sergeant’s statement she took the mountain road 
at the back. This road is extremely hard and long. In order to arrive to the 
first village you must walk for four hours without a break. And it was 
late. 
What will this poor woman do? How is she going to walk barefoot and 
bleeding in the darkness of the evening and later in the loneliness of the 
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I translate my transcription of the original text from 
Dergâh
: “Kudretten sürmeli koyu kestane renkli gözlerine 
derin bir endişenin gölgesi çöktü.” The 1985 edition (page 134) prints: “Kudretten sürmeli koyu kestane renkli 
gözlerine derin bir endişe çöktü.”. 

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