# A free life outside the palace walls (1909-1957)  
Look at this weird destiny that my path has taken from the Palace to a hovel (Hayat, 1957, p. 7).  
With the dethronement of Abdülhamid II, Nadir Agha found himself in prison. In the words of Hakan Erdem:  
The dispersal of the Imperial Harem and the punishment of the ex-Sultan's slaves, who were regarded as the tools of his absolutism, began simultaneously. The eunuchs of the Palace were imprisoned. One of them, the Chief Musäbih (companion), Cevher Aga, was accused of being one of the founders of the obscure Muhammedan League (Cemiyet-iMubammediye) which had incited the mutiny. He was publicly executed and his fortune was confiscated by the Treasury. The Third Musäbih, Nadir Agha, saved his life only by admitting that he had bribed the soldiers to mutiny, and by showing the whereabouts of some of Abdülhamid's valuables to the Macedonians (Erdem, 1996, p. 148).  
As in the case of Cevher and Nadir Agha, the proximity of the eunuchs to the members of the Ottoman dynasty put them in a position of both great power and great vulnerability since they had the ear of the Sultan and controlled the information flow. According to Nadir, Cevher Agha, who was always interested in receiving jurnals (information), fell prey to this habit of his. Nadir Agha also agrees with the daughter of Abdülhamid that Cevher Agha was the target of the personal enmity of the jurnalcs (a sort of collector of information) who used to submit his jurnals to Abdülhamid through Cevher and who, afterwards, wanted to get rid of him. After 33 days of imprisonment, Nadir Agha stepped into his new life without any idea of what to do next. His own words are worth quoting at length: