They came on the Sunday: four men between fifty and seventy, in good coats, who had all been at Emir's father's funeral and none of whom had set foot in the yali since.
Halil Kaya was the eldest and did most of the talking. He had a farm near Bursa and an interest in the port that nobody wrote down, and he had been careful with Emir for eleven years in the way that men are careful with a nephew who has more than they do.