How Rift Was Created between ideal couple? Where devil was failed

Once there lived a ideal couple in Istanbul. The marriage of this couple was successful for many years. This troubled the devil. He had destroyed the peace of many homes already and successfully created rift between husband and wife, father and son and brother. However, he was failed to create any rift among this couple for many years.

One day the devil was talking to old woman, when the man who had thus far baffled him passed by. The devil groaned at the thought of his repeated failures. Turning to the old woman he said:

"I will give you as a reward a pair of yellow slippers if you make that man quarrel with his wife."

The old woman was delighted, and at once began to scheme and work to win the slippers. At an hour when she was sure that the lady is alone at home, she went and solicited alms, weeping and bemoaning her sad fate at being a lonely old woman whose husband was died long time ago.  She appealed to the lady for compassion in proportion as she hoped for the duration of the cup she and her husband quaffed in undivided happiness.  The lady was very generous to the old woman, each day giving her something; so much so, that the thought that her good husband might think her extravagant often gave her some uneasiness.

One day the old woman looked into the shop-door of her benefactress's husband and planted the first evil seed by calling out:

"Ah! if men only knew where the money they work for from morning till night goes, or knew what their wives did when they were away, some homes would not be so happy."

The evil woman then went her way, and the good shopman wondered why she had said these words to him. A passing thought suggested that it was strange that of late of his wife had asked him several times for a few extra piasters. The next day, the old woman as usual solicited alms of her victim. In the fulness of her hypocrisy she embraced the young lade before departing, taking care to leave the imprint of her blackened hand on her dup's back. The old woman then again went to the shop, looked at her victim's husband, and said:

"Oh! how blind men are! They only look in a woman's face for truth and loyalty; they forget to look at the back where the stamp of the lover's hand is to be seen."

As before, the old woman disappeared. But the mind of the shopman was troubled and his heart was heavy. In this oppressed state he went to his home, and an opportunity offering he looked at his wife's back, and was aghast to see there the impression of a hand. He got up and left his home, a broken hearted man.

The devil was deeply impressed at the signal success of the old woman, and hasten to redeem his promise. He took a long pole, tied the pair of sleepers at the end, and hurried off to the old woman. Arriving at her house he called out to her to open the window. When she did this, he thrust in the pair of yellow slippers, begging her to take them, but not to come near him; they were hard-earned slippers, he said; she had succeeded where he had failed; so that he was afraid her and eas anxious to keep out of her way.