“Now it’s all over! Now I’ll find peace!” he said. And he uttered an obscene blasphemy against someone calling him by an insulting name.
“It wasn’t enough that he killed my blood brother,” he went on to say: “It wasn’t enough that he destroyed my happiness and my health, but he still came now and again to poison the miserable life that was left to me!”
When he saw that I couldn’t find anything ready to say to him, he said:
“I know. You are a learned man and you will laugh. That’s why I didn’t say anything to you up till now. But the sheikh of our teké, our dervish lodge, is more educated than you; he is a saint. And whoever follows his word follows God’s will. For three years now, the ghost has persecuted me. No one saved me. If I went to the fair, I found him in front of me; if I went
