CHAPTER SEVEN“I come,” the visitor said in a deep gravelly voice, “from his Highness the Sultan to ask of Your Excellency, a very great favour.”
The Vizier looked at him in surprise.
Then he said,
“You have not told me who you are.”
“I am the Chief Eunuch of His Highness’s harem.”
Listening Malva guessed that he must be the Head and Controller of it.
And she wondered why this ornate man should be calling at this hour on the Vizier.
But she was so terrified of her own position that she could think of nothing else except that the newcomer broke the rising tension, at least for a time, between herself and the Vizier.
As if he realised that he was not quite as important as he thought he was at first, the Vizier then sat down and indicated with a snap of his fingers that the servants sh
