In the year 1612, twenty years before the period of which we write, a Frenchman, still young, arrived at Tripoli, with one servant.
The captain of the vessel3 which brought him to Tripoli had frequent opportunity to observe that his passenger was very expert in matters pertaining4 to navigation; he concluded finally that the traveller was an officer on the vessels5 and galleys7 of the king, and he was not mistaken.
Seigneur Pog—we continue to give him this assumed name—was an excellent sailor, as we shall soon see.
Upon his arrival at Tripoli, Pog, after having, according to the custom of Barbary, bought the protection of Bey Hassan, hired a house in the suburbs of the city, not far from the sea. He lived there during one year with his valet in profound solitude8.
Some French merchants, established at Tripoli, exhausted9 their powers of conjecture10 on the singular taste of their compatriot, who came, as they thought, through mere11 caprice, to inhabit a wild and deserted12 coast.
Some attributed this eccentricity13 to a violent, desperate grief; others saw, if not an unpardonable folly14, a monomania, at least, in his strange determination.
These last suppositions did not lack foundation.
At certain periods of the year, Pog, it was said, was subject to such attacks of despair and rage that belated herdsmen, passing his solitary15 house at night, would hear furious and frantic16 cries.
Three or four years passed in this manner.
To distract his mind from gloomy thoughts, and to recuperate17 his health, Pog made long voyages at sea in a small vessel, but a very smooth and swift-sailing ship which he himself managed with rare skill. His crew consisted of two young slave Moors18.
One day, one of the most famous and cruel corsairs of Tripoli, named Kemal-Reis, came near perishing with his galley6, which ran aground on the Coast a short distance from the house of Pog.
Pog was just returning from one of his voyages. Recognising the galley of Kemal-Reis, he set sail toward her, and rendered her the most efficient aid.
One of Pog’s slaves reported later that he had heard him say, “Man would be too happy if all the wolves and tigers were destroyed.” So the saving of Kemal-Reis, dreaded20 for reason of his cruelties, was due to the bitter misanthropy of Pog. Instead of yielding to an impulse of natural generosity21, he desired to preserve to humanity one of its most terrible scourges22.
A short time after this event Kemal-Reis visited the isolated23 house of the Frenchman, and, by degrees, a sort of intimacy24 was established between the pirate and the misanthrope25.
One day the newsmongers of Tripoli learned with astonishment26 that Pog had embarked27 on board the galley of Kemal-Reis. They supposed the Frenchman to be very rich, and that he had freighted the Tripolitan vessel in order to take a voyage of pleasure on the coast of Barbary and Egypt and Syria.
To the great astonishment of the public, Kemal-Reis returned a month after his departure, with his galley filled with French slaves, captured from the coasts of Languedoc and Provence, and the rumour28 was current in Tripoli that the favourable29 results of this audacious enter-prise were owing to the information and advice given by Pog, who knew better than any one else the weak points on the seashore of France. This rumour soon acquired such probability that our consul31 at Tripoli deemed it his duty to inform against Pog, and to instruct the ministers of Louis XIII. of what had happened.
And here we make the statement, once for all, that in 1610, as well as in 1630 and in 1700, the abduction of inhabitants from our coasts by the regencies of Barbary was almost never considered a cause for a declaration of war against these powers. Our consuls33 assisted at the disembarking of the captives and generally acted as mediators for their ransom34.
If any measures were taken against Pog, it was because he had, as a Frenchman, assisted with his own hand in an attack upon his country.
The information given by the consul was in vain, to the great scandal of our compatriots and of Europeans established at Tripoli. Pog made a solemn abjuration35, renounced37 the cross, assumed the turban, and henceforth remained unmolested.
Kemal-Reis had everywhere proclaimed that the new renegade was one of the best captains whom he had ever known, and that the regency of Barbary could not have made a more useful acquisition. From that moment Pog-Reis equipped a galley and directed his operations solely38 against French vessels, and especially against the galleys of Malta, commanded by the chevaliers of our nation. Several times he ravaged39 the coasts of Languedoc and Provence with impunity40. It must be said, however, that this fury for plunder41 and destruction only seized Pog, so to speak, periodically, and by paroxysms, and his rage seemed to reach its height about the end of the month of December.
During that month he showed himself without pity, and it is related, with a shudder42 of horror, that several times he had the throats of a great number of captives cut,—a frightful43 and bloody44 holocaust45 which he offered, doubtless, on some painful and dreaded anniversary. The month of December passed, his mind, obscured by a bloodthirsty madness, became more calm, when, returning to Tripoli, and shutting himself up in his solitude, he remained sometimes two or three months without putting to sea. Then, his desperate soul again possessed46 by some bitter resentment47, he equipped his galley anew, and recommenced his atrocious career.
Among the French captives whom he had taken in his first expedition with Kemal-Reis, and whom he had generously abandoned to this corsair, upon the sole condition that liberty should never be restored to them, was one whom he retained,—a child of four or five years carried away from the coast of Languedoc, with an old woman who died during the passage. This child of unparagoned beauty was Erebus.
Pog named him thus, as if he wished by the fatal name to predestinate the unfortunate child to the career to which his evil designs devoted48 him.
In the intensity49 of his hatred50 of the human race, Pog had the infernal desire to destroy the soul of this unfortunate child, by giving him the most pernicious education. He devoted himself to this task with abominable51 perseverance52. As Erebus advanced in years, Pog, without reason for his absurd eccentricities53, alternately expended54 upon the boy a furious aversion and cruelty, and impulsive55 demonstrations56 of solicitude,—these last being the only sentiments af kindness he had felt for many years. By degrees, these spasmodic expressions of sympathy discontinued, and Pog soon included Erebus in the common execration57 with which he pursued mankind, and adhered to his fatal resolution with deadly persistence58. Far from leaving the boy’s mind uneducated, he took particular pains in developing it. Among the numerous slaves which his avocation59 of rapine brought in his way, Pog-Reis easily found professors and teachers of all sorts, and what he failed to find he purchased from other corsairs or obtained by other means.
For instance, having learned that a celebrated60 Spanish painter, named Juan Pelieko, lived in Barcelona, he employed every stratagem61 to draw him out of the city, and at last succeeded in capturing him and taking him to Tripoli. When this artist had perfected Erebus in his art, Pog had him put in chains, in which servitude he remained until he died.
In his impious and cruel course of experiment, Pog, desiring to force his victim through every degree in the scale of iniquity62, from vice30 to crime, took pleasure in making the child acquainted with all kinds of sin, and in giving him opportunities for culture and accomplishments63. He argued that with ordinary intelligence a man was only an ordinary villain64, but that various resources enabled him to achieve the most wonderful results in audacious wickedness. Through this abominable system, the arts, instead of elevating the soul of Erebus, were designed to develop a passion for sensual pleasures, and to materialise an otherwise exalted65 nature.
When the wonders of painting and music do not lift the soul into the infinite realm of the ideal, when one seeks only a melody more or less agreeable to the ear, or a form more or less attractive to the eye, then the arts deprave rather than ennoble mankind.
Surely, Pog must have had a terrible vengeance66 to wreak67 upon humanity, his misanthropy must have partaken of the nature of madness, that he could have been guilty of the sacrilegious cruelty of thus degrading a pure young soul!
No scruple68 or regret made him hesitate. As a tender father would seek to guard his child’s mind from dangerous thoughts, and to encourage in his young heart all noble and generous instincts, Pog, on the other hand, left no means untried to corrupt69 this unhappy child, and to excite his bad passions.
It is with certain moral organisations as with physical natures,—they can be injured and enfeebled, but not completely ruined, so healthy and vigorous is their vital germ. Thus it was with Erebus. By a special providence70, the pernicious teachings of Pog had not yet, so to speak, essentially71 altered the heart of the poor boy.
The singular instinct of contradiction peculiar72 to youth saved him from many dangers. The very facility with which he could, scarcely adolescent, have yielded to every excess, the odious73 temptations they dared set before him, sufficed to preserve him from precocious74 dissipations.
In a word, the natural exaltation of his sentiments urged him to cultivate the sweet, pure, and noble emotions from which they endeavoured to remove him, but unfortunately the fatal influence of Pog had not been absolutely vain. The ardent75 character of Erebus retained a sad evidence of the perversity76 of his education.
If in some moments he had passionate77 yearnings toward good, if he struggled against the detestable counsels of his tutor, the habit of a warlike and adventurous78 life which he had led from the age of twelve or thirteen years, the impetuosity of his character, and the transport of his passions, often dragged him into grievous excess. From his earliest youth, Pog had taken him along in the various incursions into the shore, and the courage and natural daring of Erebus had been valiantly79 exhibited in several combats.
Instructed by experience and by practice, he had learned with great facility the avocation of sailor and mariner80, and the constant aim of Pog had been to inculcate in him a profound and relentless81 hatred of the chevaliers of Malta, who were represented to him as the murderers of his family, and the secret of this murder Pog had faithfully promised to reveal to him some day.
Yet nothing was more false. Pog had no knowledge of the parents of the child, left an orphan82 at such an early age, but he wished to perpetuate83 in his victim his own hatred of the chevaliers of religion.
Erebus renewed his vows84, and an ardent desire for vengeance developed in his young soul against the soldiers of Christ, whom he believed to be the murderers of his family. In other respects, Erebus gave less satisfaction to Pog. Cruelty in cold blood was revolting to him, and sometimes he was deeply moved at the sight of human suffering. Pog had often observed that irony85 and sarcasm86 were a powerful and infallible arm in combating the natural nobility of the youth’s character, and by comparing him to a clergyman, or a tonsured87 Christian88, or accusing him of weakness and cowardice89, he often provoked the unhappy boy to culpable90 acts.
The scene in the rocks of Ollioules, where Erebus saw Reine for the first time, is a striking proof of that constant struggle between his natural inclinations91 and the bad passions that Pog excited in his heart.
The first impulse of Erebus was to hasten to the rescue of Raimond V. and to respond with almost filial veneration92 to the old man’s outburst of gratitude,—in fact, to believe himself rewarded for his generous conduct by the satisfaction of his conscience and the grateful looks of the young girl; but a bitter sarcasm from Pog, a coarse jest from Trimalcyon, changed these noble emotions into sensual desire and a profound disdain93 for the courageous94 action by which he had just honoured himself.
Yet, in spite of the cynical95 bantering96 of the two pirates, the enchanting97 beauty of Reine made a profound impression upon Erebus.
He had never loved, his heart had never taken part in the coarse pleasures which he had sought among the slaves that the hazard of war had thrown into his hands.
Pog and Trimalcyon were not long in perceiving a certain change in the character of Erebus.
Some indiscreet words enlightened Pog as to the powerful influence of this first love upon the young man, and he began to fear the consequences of this passion, in elevating the heart of Erebus,—a love which would make the young man blush for the abominable life he was leading, and awaken98 in him the most generous sentiments. Pog, therefore resolved to kill this love by possession, and proposed to Erebus to abduct32 Reine by force.
He encountered a lively resistance in the young pirate. Erebus thought the proposed abduction atrocious; he wished to be loved or to make himself loved.
Pog then suggested another plan. He flattered the self-love of Erebus beyond measure, by proving to him that he must have made a profound impression on the heart of the young girl, but that it was necessary, by mysterious means, to preserve and increase the remembrance that she would necessarily hide from the knowledge of her father. Then, when he was sure of being loved, he was to appear, offer to carry her away, and withdraw if she did not accept his proposal.
This plan, which Pog intended to modify at its conclusion, satisfied Erebus. We have seen how it was partly executed at Maison-Forte.
A Moor19 who had accompanied the young pirate at sea from his childhood, and who was warmly attached to him, was to introduce himself secretly into the castle of Anbiez.
This man was the Bohemian whom we have seen at Maison-Forte. He had accompanied Erebus at the time of the audacious journey of the three pirates in Provence. When they reached the port of Cette again, where they had left their chebec, they embarked and rejoined their galleys, which were anchored in the islands of Majorca, then open to all the pirates of the Mediterranean99.
There, Erebus, Pog, Trimalcyon, and Hadji—such was the name of the Bohemian—contrived their plans.
The day of the adventure in the gorges100 of Ollioules Hadji had described the old gentleman whom Erebus had just saved, and the young girl, to his hosts in Marseilles, who gave him the name of Raimond V. and his young daughter, for the Baron101 des Anbiez was well known in Provence.
During his sojourn102 at Majorca, Erebus, who in his leisure occupied himself in the art of painting, made as a souvenir the miniature of which we have spoken, and a skilful103 goldsmith enamelled the little dove on some objects intended for Reine. Finally, Erebus added a portrait of himself, which was placed in the medallion ornamenting104 the guzla of the Bohemian.
These preparations completed, the Moor departed, taking with him, as a means of correspondence with the two pirates, two pigeons raised on board the chebec of Erebus, and habituated to seek and to recognise this vessel, which they regained105 with a jerk of the wing as soon as they perceived it, at a distance beyond the power of the eye of man.
At the end of fifteen days, the two galleys and the chebec began to cruise and beat about in view of the coasts of Provence.
As we have said, the month of December was Pog’s gloomy month, the period in which his cruel instincts were exasperated106 to a ferocious107 monomania.
He had dared present himself under an assumed name to the Marshal of Vitry, only to examine at leisure the state of the coast and the fortifications of Marseilles, as he had the audacious design of surprising and ravaging108 the city, and burning the port. He counted on his understanding with some Moors established in Marseilles, to make himself master of the boom of the harbour.
However absurd or impossible it may appear, this attack, or rather this surprise, might have been successful. Pog did not despair of it If the arrangements that he had manipulated failed at his signal, he was sure at least of being able to lay waste a coast which was without defence, and the little city of La Ciotat, for reason of its proximity109 to Maison-Forte, must in this case share the fate of Marseilles.
In the tumult110 of the battle, Reine des Anbiez could easily be carried off.
We have seen that the manoeuvres of the Bohemian succeeded.
A long time hidden among the rocks which bordered upon Maison-Forte, he had several times seen Reine in the balcony of the window of her oratory111, and had observed that this window often remained open. Thanks to his agility112, the Bohemian had introduced himself there twice in the evening,—the first time with the crystal vase containing a Persian amaryllis, a bulbous plant which blooms in a few days; the second time with the miniature.
Certain of having established these mysterious antecedents sufficiently113 well to excite the curiosity of Reine, and thus force her to think of Erebus, Hadji, thinking he could present himself at Maison-Forte without awakening114 suspicion, was returning to the house of Raimond V., and on the way met the recorder Isnard and his retinue115.
Fifteen days after his arrival at Maison-Forte, the chebec, at the setting of the sun, began to cruise at large. Hadji then sent one of the pigeons as the bearer of a letter, informing Erebus that he was loved, and Pog where he could attempt a landing, in case he should be compelled to renounce36 his intention of surprising Marseilles.
The watchman’s eagle intercepted116 this correspondence by devouring117 the messenger. Unhappily, Hadji had another emissary. The next day, at sunset, the chebec appeared again, and a letter carried by the second pigeon announced to Erebus that he was loved, and to Pog that the most favourable moment for a descent upon La Ciotat was Christmas Day, a time when all the Proven?als were occupied with their family feasts and merrymaking.
The tempest began to blow the very evening of the day on which Erebus received this intelligence. He rejoined the two galleys which were cruising off the coast of Hyères; the weather becoming more and more violent, the three vessels put into Port Mage, on the island of Port-Cros. As we have said, they had been anchored there since the day before, impatiently waiting for the wind to change, as the celebration of Christmas would occur the day after the morrow. Before attempting anything at La Ciotat, Pog wished to assure himself that his enterprise on Marseilles was not possible.
Now that we are acquainted with the fatal ties which bound Erebus to Pog, we will follow the young adventurer on the galley of Trimalcyon.
He slowly ascended118 on board the Sybarite and entered the apartment where dinner was being served.
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