Thus was celebrated this frightful wedding, in the scene of an awful crime, beside the corpse of a man who a moment before had been the husband of the bride and the brother of the bridegroom.
The assassins published the death of the pacha, attributing it, as is usual in Turkey, to a fit of cerebral apoplexy.

But the truth soon leaked out from the lying shrouds in which it had been wrapped.

Reports even exceeded the truth, and public opinion implicated Chainitza in a crime of which she had been but the witness.

Appearances certainly justified these suspicions.

The young wife had soon consoled herself in the arms of her second husband for the loss of the first, and her son by him presently died suddenly, thus leaving Soliman in lawful and peaceful possession of all his brother's wealth.