"I am very sorry I startled you," I said. "You are certainly ill, or you would not be so easily upset."
I laid my hand as I spoke27 on her soft tresses, but she withdrew from the touch, sinking down among the cushions. Leaving her to recover her composure, I took up the half-empty cup she had dropped on the central table. Thirsty myself, I had almost drained without tasting it, when a little half-stifled cry of dismay checked me. The moment I removed the cup from my mouth I perceived its flavour—the unmistakable taste of the dravadoné ("courage cup"), so disagreeable to us both, which we had shared on our bridal evening. Wetting with one drop the test-stone attached to my watch-chain, it presented the local discoloration indicating the narcotic28 poison which is the chief ingredient of this compound.
"I don't think this is wise, child," I said, turning once more to Eveena. To my amazement29, far from having recovered the effect of her surprise, she was yet more overcome than at first; crouching30 among the cushions with her head bent31 down over her knees, and covering her face with her hands. Reclining in the soft pile, I held her in my arms, overcoming perforce what seemed hysterical32 reluctance33; but when I would have withdrawn34 the little hands, she threw herself on my knee, burying her face in the cushions.
"It is very wicked," she sobbed36; "I cannot ask you to forgive me."
"Forgive what, my child? Eveena, you are certainly ill. Calm yourself, and don't try to talk just now."
"I am not ill, I assure you," she faltered37, resisting the arm that sought to raise her; "but …"
In my hands, however, she was powerless as an infant; and I would hear nothing till I held her gathered within my arm and her two hands fast in my right. Now that I could look into the face she strove to avert38, it was clear that she was neither hysterical nor simply ill; her agitation39, however unreasonable40 and extravagant41, was real.
"What troubles you, my own? I promise you not to say one word of reproach; I only want to understand with what you so bitterly reproach yourself."
"But you cannot help being angry," she urged, "if you understand what I have done. It is the charny, which I never tasted till that night, and never ought to have tasted again. I know you cannot forgive me; only take my fault for granted, and don't question me."
These incoherent words threw the first glimpse of light on the meaning of her distress42 and penitence43. I doubt if the best woman in Christendom would so reproach and abase44 herself, if convicted of even a worse sin than the secret use of those stimulants45 for which the charny is a Martial equivalent. No Martialist would dream of poisoning his blood and besotting his brain with alcohol in any form. But their opiates affect a race addicted46 to physical repose47, to sensuous48 enjoyment49 rather than to sensual excitement, and to lucid50 intellectual contemplation, with a sense of serene51 delight as supremely52 delicious to their temperament53 as the dreamy illusions of haschisch to the Turk, the fierce frenzy54 of bhang to the Malay, or the wild excitement of brandy or Geneva to the races of Northern Europe. But as with the luxury of intoxication55 in Europe, so in Mars indulgence in these drugs, freely permitted to the one sex, is strictly56 forbidden by opinion and domestic rule to the other. A lady discovered in the use of charny is as deeply disgraced as an European matron detected in the secret enjoyment of spirits and cigars; and her lord and master takes care to render her sufficiently57 conscious of her fault.
And there was something stranger here than a violation58 of the artificial restraint of sex. Slightly and seldom as the Golden Circle touches the lines defining personal or social morality—carefully as the Founder59 has abstained60 from imposing61 an ethical62 code of his own, or attaching to his precepts63 any rule not directly derived64 from the fundamental tenets or necessary to the cohesion65 of the Order—he had expressed in strong terms his dread66 and horror of narcotism67; the use for pleasure's sake, not to relieve pain or nervous excitement, of drugs which act, as he said, through the brain upon the soul. His judgment68, expressed with unusual directness and severity and enforced by experience, has become with his followers69 a tradition not less imperative71 than the most binding72 of their laws. It was so held, above all, in that household in which Eveena and I had first learnt the "lore73 of the Starlight." Esmo, indeed, regarded not merely as an unscientific superstition74, but as blasphemous75 folly76, the rejection77 of any means of restoring health or relieving pain which Providence78 has placed within human reach. But he abhorred79 the use for pleasure's sake of poisons affirmed to reduce the activity and in the long-run to impair80 the energies of the mind, and weaken the moral sense and the will, more intensely than the strictest follower70 of the Arabian Prophet abhors81 the draughts82 which deprive man of the full use of the senses, intelligence, and conscience which Allah has bestowed84, and degrade him below the brute85, Esmo's children, moreover, were not more strictly compelled to respect the letter than carefully instructed in the principle of every command for which he claimed their obedience86.
But in such measure as Eveena's distress became intelligible87, the fault of which she accused herself became incredible. I could not believe that she could be wilfully88 disloyal to me—still less that she could have suddenly broken through the fixed89 ideas of her whole life, the principles engraved90 on her mind by education more stringently91 than the maxims92 of the Koran or the Levitical Law on the children of Ishmael or of Israel; and this while the impressive rites93 of Initiation94, the imprecation at which I myself had shuddered95, were fresh in her memory—their impression infinitely96 deepened, moreover, by the awful mystery of that Vision of which even yet we were half afraid to speak to one another. While I hesitated to reply, gathering97 up as well as I could the thread of these thoughts as they passed in a few seconds through my mind, my left hand touched an object hidden in my bride's zone. I drew out a tiny crystal phial three parts full, taken, as I saw, from the medicine-chest Esmo had carefully stocked and as carefully fastened. As, holding this, I turned again to her, Eveena repeated: "Punish, but don't question me!"
"My own," I said, "you are far more punished already than you deserve or I can bear to see. How did you get this?"
Releasing her hands, she drew from the folds of her robe the electric keys, which, by a separate combination, would unlock each of my cases;—without which it was impossible to open or force them.
"Yes, I remember; and you were surprised that I trusted them to you. And now you expect me to believe that you have abused that trust, deceived me, broken a rule which in your father's house and by all our Order is held sacred as the rings of the Signet, for a drug which twelve days ago you disliked as much as I?"
"It is true."
The words were spoken with downcast eyes, in the low faltering98 tone natural to a confession99 of disgrace.
"It is not true, Eveena; or if true in form, false in matter. If it were possible that you could wish to deceive me, you knew it could not be for long."
"I meant to be found out," she interrupted, "only not yet."
She had betrayed herself, stung by words that seemed to express the one doubt she could not nerve herself to endure—doubt of her loyalty100 to me. Before I could speak, she looked up hastily, and began to retract101. I stopped her.
"I see—when you had done with it. But, Eveena, why conceal102 it? Do you think I would not have given this or all the contents of the chest into your hands, and asked no question?"
"Do you mean it? Could you have so trusted me?"
"My child! is it difficult to trust where I know there is no temptation to wrong? Do you think that to-day I have doubted or suspected you, even while you have accused yourself? I cannot guess at your motive103, but I am as sure as ever of your loyalty. Take these things,"—forcing back upon her the phial and the magnets,—"yes, and the test-stone." … She burst into passionate104 tears.
"I cannot endure this. If I had dreamed your patience would have borne with me half so far, I would never have tried it so, even for your own sake. I meant to be found out and accept the consequences in silence. But you trust me so, that I must tell you what I wanted to conceal. When you kept on the surface it made me so ill"—-
"But, Eveena, if the remedy be not worse than the sickness, why not ask for it openly?"
"It was not that. Don't you understand? Of course, I would bear any suffering rather than have done this; but then you would have found me out at once. I wanted to conceal my suffering, not to escape it."
"My child! my child! how could you put us both to all this pain?"
"You know you would not have given me the draught83; you would have left the surface at once; and I cannot bear to be always in the way, always hindering your pleasures, and even your discoveries. You came across a distance that makes a bigger world than this look less than that light, through solitude105 and dangers and horrors I cannot bear to think of, to see and examine this world of ours. And then you leave things unseen or half-seen, you spoil your work, because a girl is seasick106! You ran great risk of death and got badly hurt to see what our hunting was like, and you will not let my head ache that you may find out what our sea-storms and currents are! How can I bear to be such a burden upon you? You trust me, and, I believe," (she added, colouring), "you love me, twelvefold more than I deserve; yet you think me unwilling107 or unworthy to take ever so small an interest in your work, to bear a few hours' discomfort108 for it and for you. And yet," she went on passionately109, "I may sit trembling and heart-sick for a whole day alone that you may carry out your purpose. I may receive the only real sting your lips have given, because I could not bear that pain without crying. And so with everything. It is not that I must not suffer pain, but that the pain must not come from without. Your lips would punish a fault with words that shame and sting for a day, a summer, a year; your hand must never inflict110 a sting that may smart for ten minutes. And it is not only that you do this, but you pride yourself on it. Why? It is not that you think the pain of the body so much worse than that of the spirit:—you that smiled at me when you were too badly bruised111 and torn to stand, yet could scarcely keep back your tears just now, when you thought that I had suffered half an hour of sorrow I did not quite deserve. Why then? Do you think that women feel so differently? Have the women of your Earth hearts so much harder and skins so much softer than ours?"
She spoke with most unusual impetuosity, and with that absolute simplicity112 and sincerity113 which marked her every look and word, which gave them, for me at least, an unspeakable charm, and for all who heard her a characteristic individuality unlike the speech or manner of any other woman. As soon suspect an infant of elaborate sarcasm114 as Eveena of affectation, irony115, or conscious paradox116. Nay117, while her voice was in my ears, I never could feel that her views were paradoxical. The direct straightforwardness118 and simple structure of the Martial language enhanced this peculiar16 effect of her speech; and much that seems infantine in translation was all but eloquent119 as she spoke it. Often, as on this occasion, I felt guilty of insincerity, of a verbal fencing unworthy of her unalloyed good faith and earnestness, as I endeavoured to parry thrusts that went to the very heart of all those instinctive120 doctrines121 which I could the less defend on the moment, because I had never before dreamed that they could be doubted.
"At any rate," I said at last, "your sex gain by my heresy123, since they are as richly gifted in stinging words as we in physical force."
"So much the worse for them, surely," she answered simply, "if it be right that men should rule and women obey?"
"That is the received doctrine122 on Earth," I answered. "In practice, men command and women disobey them; men bully124 and women lie. But in truth, Eveena, having a wife only too loyal and too loving, I don't care to canvass125 the deserts of ordinary women or the discipline of other households. I own that it was wrong to scold you. Do not insist on making me say that it would have been a little less wrong to beat you!"
She laughed—her low, sweet, silvery laugh, the like of which I have hardly heard among Earthly women, even of the simpler, more child-like races of the East and South; a laugh still stranger in a world where childhood is seldom bright and womanhood mostly sad and fretful. Of the very few satisfactory memories I bore away from that world, the sweetest is the recollection of that laugh, which I heard for the first time on the morrow of our bridals, and for the last time on the day before we parted. I cherish it as evidence that, despite many and bitter troubles, my bride's short married life was not wholly unhappy. By this time she had found out that we had left the surface, and began to remonstrate126.
"Nay, I have seen all I care to see, my own. I confess the justice of your claim, as the partner of my life, to be the partner of its paramount127 purpose. You are more precious to me than all the discoveries of which I ever dreamed, and I will not for any purpose whatsoever128 expose you to real peril129 or serious pain. But henceforth I will ask you to bear discomfort and inconvenience when the object is worth it, and to help me wherever your help can avail."
"I can help you?"
"Much, and in many ways, my Eveena. You will soon learn to understand what I wish to examine and the use of the instruments I employ; and then you will be the most useful of assistants, as you are the best and most welcome of companions."
As I spoke a soft colour suffused130 her face, and her eyes brightened with a joy and contentment such as no promise of pleasure or indulgence could have inspired. To be the partner of adventure and hardship, the drudge131 in toil132 and sentinel in peril, was the boon133 she claimed, the best guerdon I could promise. If but the promise might have been better fulfilled!
It was not till in latitude 9° S. we emerged into the open ocean, and presently found ourselves free from the currents of the narrow waters, that, in order to see the remarkable134 island of which I had caught sight in my descent, I requested Ergimo to remain for some hours above the surface. The island rises directly out of the sea, and is absolutely unascendible. Balloons, however, render access possible, both to its summit and to its cave-pierced sides. It is the home of enormous flocks of white birds, which resemble in form the heron rather than the eider duck, but which, like the latter, line with down drawn35 from their own breasts the nests which, counted by millions, occupy every nook and cranny of the crystalline walls, about ten miles in circumference135. Each of the nests is nearly as large as that of the stork136. They are made of a jelly digested from the bones of the fish upon which the birds prey137, and are almost as white in colour as the birds themselves. Freshly formed nest dissolved in hot water makes dishes as much to the taste of Martialists as the famous bird-nest soup to that of the Chinese. Both down and nests, therefore, are largely plundered138; but the birds are never injured, and care is taken in robbing them to leave enough of the outer portion of the nest to constitute a bed for the eggs, and encourage the creatures to rebuild and reline it.
One harvest only is permitted, the second stripping of feathers and the rebuilt nest being left undisturbed. The caverns139 are lined with a white guano, now some feet thick, since it has ceased to be sought for manure140; the Martialists having discovered means of saturating141 the soil with ammonia procured142 from the nitrogen of the atmosphere, which with the sewage and other similar materials enables them to dispense143 with this valuable bird manure. Whether the white colour of the island, perceptible even in a large Terrestrial telescope, is in any degree due to the whiteness of the birds, their nests, and leavings, or wholly to reflection from the bright spar-like surface of the rock itself, and especially of the flat table-like summit, I will not pretend to say.
From this point we held our course south-westward, and entered the northernmost of two extraordinary gulfs of exactly similar shape, separated by an isthmus145 and peninsula which assume on a map the form of a gigantic hammer. The strait by which each gulf144 is entered is about a hundred miles in length and ten in breadth. The gulf itself, if it should not rather be called an inland sea, occupies a total area of about 100,000 square miles. The isthmus, 500 miles in length by 50 in breadth, ends in a roughly square peninsula of about 10,000 square miles in extent, nearly the whole of which is a plateau 2000 feet above the sea-level. On the narrowest point of the isthmus, just where it joins the mainland, and where a sheltered bay runs up from either sea, is situated146 the great city of Amakasfe, the natural centre of Martial life and commerce. At this point we found awaiting us the balloon which was to convey us to the Court of the Suzerain. A very light but strong metallic147 framework maintained the form of the "fish-shaped" or spindle-shaped balloon itself, which closely resembled that of our vessel8, its dimensions being of necessity greater. Attached to this framework was the car of similar form, about twelve feet in length and six in depth, the upper third of the sides, however, being of open-work, so as not to interfere148 with the survey of the traveller. Eveena could not help shivering at the sight of the slight vehicle and the enormous machine of thin, bladder-like material by which it was to be upheld. She embarked149, indeed, without a word, her alarm betraying itself by no voluntary sign, unless it were the tight clasp of my hand, resembling that of a child frightened, but ashamed to confess its fear. I noticed, however, that she so arranged her veil as to cover her eyes when the signal for the start was given. She was, therefore, wholly unconscious of the sudden spring, unattended by the slightest jolt150 or shake, which raised us at once 500 feet above the coast, and under whose influence, to my eyes, the ground appeared suddenly to fall from us. When I drew out the folds of her veil, it was with no little amazement that she saw the sky around her, the sea and the city far below. An aerial current to the north-westward at our present level, which had been selected on that account, carried us at a rate of some twelve miles an hour; a rate much increased, however, by the sails at the stern of the car, sails of thin metal fixed on strong frames, and striking with a screw-like motion. Their lack of expanse was compensated151 by a rapidity of motion such that they seemed to the eye not to move at all, presenting the appearance of an uniform disc reflecting the rays of the Sun, which was now almost immediately above us. Towards evening the Residence of the Campta became visible on the north-western horizon. It was built on a plateau about 400 feet above the sea-level, towards which the ground from all sides sloped up almost imperceptibly. Around it was a garden of great extent with a number of trees of every sort, some of them masses of the darkest green, others of bright yellow, contrasting similarly shaped masses of almost equal size clothed from base to top in a continuous sheet of pink, emerald, white or crimson152 flowers. The turf presented almost as great a variety of colours, arranged in. every conceivable pattern, above which rose innumerable flower-beds, uniform or varied153, the smallest perhaps two, the largest more than 200 feet in diameter; each circle of bloom higher than that outside it, till in some cases the centre rose even ten feet above the general level. The building itself was low, having nowhere more than two stories. One wing, pointed154 out to me by Ergimo, was appropriated to the household of the Prince; the centre standing out in front and rear, divided by a court almost as wide as the wings; the further wing accommodating the attendants and officials of the Court. We landed, just before the evening mist began to gather, at the foot of an inclined way of a concrete resembling jasper, leading up to the main entrance of the Palace.
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