_ 340 _ woman and so as not to be recognised, she took the dress that the woman was wearing and her child and walked to the house of a farmworker. She ordered the woman to go elsewhere and hurried to the house of the farmworker where she stayed several days. She did not want to reveal who she was, either to the farmworker or to the woman she had met, until the Turk returned to Turkey. The Sheikh much loved this wife, and he admired her greatly. He had a three-year old son by her, who was his heir. Having thus escaped, the Sheikh went directly to Colcania, where he assembled his troops and in a few days, he formed a large army with the intention of returning to do battle with the Turk, while grieving over his wife whom he assumed to be dead. The Sheikh came with his army, which grew bigger every day against the Turk, because when those who had no news about him and others who had taken to the woods after the battle was lost saw him, they came out of hiding and joined him on the way back so as to do battle once again. When he was two days journey from Tabriz, he learned that the Turk had already left ten days before, so he set out for Tabriz. One day subsequently, Dormiscan’s Guazil, who is now the Sheikh’s Governor, was passing, with about sixty
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