The Sultan's Eyes by Kelly Gardiner

Author:Kelly Gardiner
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2013-10-10T11:00:00+00:00

I shouldn’t have been surprised. In the seraglio, everyone knew everything. I smiled. How had my friends and I ever imagined we could keep it a secret?

‘That is exactly what I was going to tell you about,’ I said. ‘It’s very exciting news — at least, I think it is.’

‘Colonel Orga reported to my grandmother that you and your friend broke in there.’

‘He saw us there, yes. But we didn’t break in. Al-Qasim borrowed a key from the library. No damage was done.’

The Sultan grinned. ‘That is excellent. I can’t stand Colonel Orga. He always reports things to my grandmother. When I’m older, I’ll have him posted to the desert somewhere.’

‘What did you find, Isabella?’ Aye asked.

‘Wonderful things!’

‘Can I see?’ said the Sultan.

‘Of course. They’re your wonderful things.’

So I led them both, followed by a troop of guards, through the courtyard and along the hallway to the hidden library. Al-Qasim and Nuri Effendi were already there.

‘Here we are, Your Magnificence,’ I said. ‘The secret knowledge of the ancients.’

‘What is all this?’ The Sultan climbed up onto a bench and gazed around him. ‘Books?’

‘But such books,’ I said. ‘Collected by your forefathers and kept safe for decades. Perhaps centuries. In here, we think, are treasures that have been lost forever to the rest of the world. But not to you. And not any more.’

Aye picked up one of the bundles of parchment from the table. ‘This is in Greek. Is it very old?’

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