Months had passed away since the disappearance2 of the gay Thavánan, once the favourite of the potent3 monarch4 of Shoa. Fallen in a single day from his high estate, and deprived of an eye before the scoffing5 multitude, the innocent victim to intrigue6 had departed alone and on foot through the gateway8 of the palace. A thousand cavaliers had that morning obeyed his least command, but not one attended him in the hour of adversity; and shunned9 as a thing accursed by the brutal10 mob, he wended his way in moody11 silence to his home in the green meadow of the Chaka. But the myrmidons of tyranny had outstripped12 his heavy footstep. Ashes alone proclaimed the site of his late flourishing abode13, and a solitary14 goat, bleating15 amid the ruins, was all that remained of his once numerous possessions.
The king’s áferoch had been busy since early morn, and every thing had been swept with the besom of destruction. The flocks and the herds16 of the disgraced noble were now in the royal pastures, and his family and relatives, his serfs and drudges17, in the household of the despotic monarch. Stunned18 by the fatal intelligence, Thavánan, followed only by the goat, withdrew unnoticed from the scene of desolation, and his very name was for a time forgotten in the land.
Towards the close of the year strange reports were circulated from the palace. Unseen hands abstracted the choicest viands—the clearest hydromel was drained ere it reached the expectant lip—and a thousand vagaries19 were played in the great hall of entertainment. The replenished20 horn was dashed untasted to the ground, and the delicate morsel21 transferred from the gaping22 mouth to the rushes which strewed23 the floor. The monarch himself was not exempt24 from the foul25 plague. His palate was daily cheated of some accustomed dainty; and once, to the horror of the assembled courtiers, a bloody26 tail was inserted as the royal jaws27 opened to essay a dish prepared in the seraglio—a loud laugh ringing meanwhile among the rafters of the banqueting-room, which struck upon the ear of the discomfited28 despot like the merry tones of his exiled favourite.
Priests were called in to the rescue—holy books were read, and consecrated29 water profusely30 sprinkled upon the walls, but all without the slightest effect. Doors were closed and double-locked, and guards were planted over every aperture31, yet still the pest continued without any abatement32. The palace was in a state of terror and confusion, and the life of the king became weary and burdensome.
Awful voices now sounded at night through the lone7 apartments, and apparitions33 haunted the imperial slumbers34. The band of nocturnal singers was trebled, but the stout36 lungs of thirty hale priests, who surrounded the royal bed-chamber37, and elevated their voices in psalm38 to a more frantic39 key than had ever before been heard in Shoa, failed to intimidate40 the goblin. Tossing on his couch, the restless monarch sunk weary to sleep, only to be jaded41 by spectres and evil dreams, in which the wronged Thavánan invariably appeared as the chief tormentor.
The nuisance continued without intermission, until, on the high festival of Easter, harassed42 and exhausted43, the Negoos took his customary seat in the great hall of his ancestors. The groaning44 table was once again well filled. The holy feast had induced chiefs and nobles in some degree to overcome the fears which had latterly estranged45 them entirely46 from the banquet; but there was no joy in the depressed47 eye, no mirth or hilarity48 on the tongue of any guest, and a low whisper hardly disturbed the silence which reigned50 among the dismayed assembly.
The usual infernal sallies were on this day practised exclusively at the royal board, before which the uneasy monarch, occupying a high alcove51, and surrounded by pages and men at arms, reclined in his wonted grandeur52. Suddenly, another figure appeared at the table, resting one hand in a curiously53 wrought54 earthen vase, and extending the other high, in defiance55 towards the throne.
“The lost Thavánan!” shouted the crowd: “he has pawned56 his soul to the fiend”—and swords flashed from the scabbard, as men’s hearts were strengthened at the sight of danger in a tangible57 form. But high over the storm rose the voice of the despot:—“Back, minions58, back! we will ourselves deal with the ingrate59. Death—but a lingering death—shall be the portion of him who trifles with the pleasure of kings!”
It was indeed Thavánan who confronted the frown of majesty60; but how changed from the mild and handsome favourite of former days! White as the feather of the Rása, his dishevelled hair floated over the bent61 shoulder, and stern revenge was graven in the deep furrows62 of his pallid63 cheek. His solitary eye gleamed with infernal expression, and bright with the cabalistic figures of magic lore64, a golden fillet screened the mutilated orb65. Retaining his disdainful position, he cast first a withering66 glance over the crowd, and then addressed the prince in words of scorn:—
“False monarch, repent67 in time, for the serpent will turn upon its destroyer. Proud descendant of the race of Solomon, the wit of thy illustrious ancestor is dull in comparison with the wisdom of the meanest disciple68 of Wárobal. I defy thy myrmidons and thyself!”
And uttering these words, Thavánan instantaneously disappeared from before the gaze of the astounded69 and crest-fallen court.
The waters of the mystic vase hissed70 and bubbled for a moment. A dark cloud of stifling71 steam shot aloft, and a thick crust of red ashes, which strewed the board, remained the sole memento72 of the unwelcome intrusion. Again the hearts of the vassals73 fell within them; and whilst a gloomy silence pervaded74 the hall, the triumphant75 song of the tormentor came ringing among the notes of wild music.
“Far down in the depths of the azure76 blue,
Away from the mists of the cold dull sky,
Concealed77 from detested78 mortal view,
Thavánan lives in liberty.”
The courage of the tyrant79 quailed80 before the dread81 powers which were in array against him, and resolved upon an act of tardy82 justice. Freedom was restored to the degraded and enslaved family, and the confiscated83 lands were returned threefold to the impoverished84 race. But the door of the royal harem was closed on the fair daughter of the house of Thavánan, and the wail85 of the captive maid still cried aloud for redress86. Persecution87, nevertheless, ceased for a time; and men breathed more freely as their hopes gained ground that the spirit of the avenger88 was appeased89.
On the proclamation of the annual military expedition, the chiefs and nobles of Shoa thronged90 once more to the capital. Swarming91 around the black tents of their warrior92 leaders, multitudes were spread over hill and dale, and the Amhára host, in all its savage93 magnificence, had mustered94 on the highest mountains of Anko. But evil omens95 and portentous96 signs were witnessed continually. Dogs howled unceasingly during the livelong night. Throughout the hours of day, the shrike croaked97 from every bush; and the merlin, turning her back on the passing cavalier, arranged her sober plumage on the stone, without bestowing98, in earnest of victory and success, one glimpse of her snow-white breast.
No heed99 was given by the stern monarch to these portents100 of coming evil; and on the eve of the intended march the halls of the palace were crowded with all the chivalry101 of Efát. Boisterous102 mirth presided at the banquet; but as the last horn of old hydromel was drained to the downfall of the Galla, there arose a fearful cry from the interior enclosure, and bands of eunuchs, with horror depicted103 upon their withered104 countenances105, burst into the chamber from every direction. Falling prostrate107 at the footstool of the throne, they proclaimed the disaster which had descended108 like a thunderbolt on the heretofore unsullied honour of the nation. “He has left the old and the ugly,” sobbed109 the trembling guardians110; “but alas111 for the fair and beautiful ones of the harem, they are all gone on the wings of the evening wind!”
King and nobles rushed into the court-yard, and every hut which crowned the pinnacle112 of the capital poured forth113 its inmates114 to gaze at the wondrous115 spectacle. High over the up-reared peak of the mountain soared a rich rosy116 cloud, lit by the last glorious rays of the setting sun, and charged with a freight more prized than the fine gold of Kordofán. Amhára’s fairest daughters were revealed to the unhallowed view of the gaping multitude, and no envious117 vest shrouded118 their amazing charms. All had been caught up by the whirlwind in the simple dress of ordinary avocation119; and as their light laughing voices came tinkling120 from above, they carried the bitter truth to the exasperated121 monarch, that the captives enjoyed their present thraldom122 as a happy release from the bolt of the harem gate, and the rod of the testy123 old eunuch.
Dishonoured124 in the eyes of his subjects, and smarting under the loss of objects which still held a place in his heart, the despot stamped and raged in uncontrollable fury. The beat of the nugáreet and the voice of the herald125 forthwith proclaimed the abandonment of the projected expedition; and, plunged126 in the deepest mortification127, Asfa Woosen retired128 to brood in solitude129 over his unprecedented130 misfortune.
Morn witnessed the dispersion to their respective quarters of governors and their levies131; and before the shades of another evening had closed over the deep valley of the Airára, a breathless courier galloped132 through the palace-gates with the unlooked-for but welcome tidings, that the ladies of the royal harem had been discovered reposing133 unattended among the high fern and heather of the adjacent mountain side.
Again were the parchment faces of the wrinkled eunuchs radiant in sallow lustre134. Three hundred mules135 were instantly dispatched for the conveyance136 of the truant137 flock to their fold; and at midnight the muffled138 damsels were consigned139, amid the cracked exultations of attendants, to their wonted cages in the palace.
But the fair sister of Thavánan was not of the number, neither could any clue be obtained to her fate or condition. A small scroll140 had indeed been discovered on the turf, sealed and bearing the address of the ruler of Shoa—a gigantic glow-worm, attached by a single yellow hair to the envelope, having particularly attracted attention to that which it was conjectured141 might contain the desired information.
The curiosity of the king finally overcame the cautious scruples142 of the priesthood, who advised the immediate143 destruction of the missive. As the wax crumbled144 between his fingers, a roar of thunder shook the palace to its foundations, whilst a stream of black dust, pouring from the parchment to the table, gradually assumed the semblance145 of a pillar of sand agitated146 by the fierce whirl of the storm. A pungent147 odour impregnated the apartment, and the crackling sound of the devouring148 element was followed by the presence of the dread tormentor.
“I have come once again, monarch of the hard heart, to repay the debt which is still due, and, blasted like the much-injured Thavánan, thy soul may henceforward entertain some feeling of pity for thy fellow-men. Listen to thy doom149. No mercy was shown unto me, and none shall be extended to thee. Thy son, after a short reign49 of terror, shall fall by the hand of a slave, and die cursing the author of his existence; and thy son’s son shall bear upon his disfigured countenance106 the searing mark of his ancestor’s cruelty. My face thou shalt see no more—Spirit of the flame, perform thy task.” A bright flash shot from the centre of the dark threatening column, and curled towards the king, a sickening sulphuric fume150 filling the presence chamber, and the necromancer151 vanished in the thick smoke.
Plunged for hours in a death-like stupor152, Asfa Woosen was only aroused from his lethargy to bewail the loss of the left eye, which had been scorched153 in the socket154 by the contact of the fierce flame. The calamity155 greatly softened156 and influenced the actions of his after-life; and torture and mutilation grew gradually out of custom in the kingdom of Shoa.
During the reign of his grandson, the one-eyed Sáhela Selássie, there dwelt in a mossy cavern157, among the recesses158 of the forest of Manték, a hermit159 of renowned160 sanctity. Father Peter was universally feared and beloved, but none knew from whence he derived161 food or nourishment162. The skin of the agazin formed his humble163 garb164, and a rude leathern girdle encircled his loins. His charms and amulets165 were never known to fail, and his language was not as that of other men. Crowds daily gathered round his cave in the rock to receive on their knees the benediction166 of the recluse167; but no one had ever entered the cell, and few cared to pass it after nightfall. Moans and cries of agony then mingled168 with the midnight blast; and the sound of the scourge169 was often heard amid prayers for deliverance from the evil one.
On a fresh morning of May, when the roses and jessamine were scenting170 the dewy air, the wild flowers springing over the face of the green meadow, and birds warbled pleasantly amid the rich foliage171, the peasants came as usual to listen to the words of other days, and to receive the blessing172 of the austere173 anchorite. But the accustomed seat was vacant, and no answer being returned to the voice of inquiry174, the boldest entered the retreat. Curiously emblazoned scrolls175 and relics176 were strewed among the nooks and mouldy recesses of the damp grotto177; the body of the venerable hermit was stretched in eternal slumber35 upon a bed of sharp stones; and the tale soon spread through the land that the holy Father Peter—now no more—was indeed the dread necromancer Thavánan, who had thus, by the continued penance178 of half a century, expiated179 his fierce act of apostasy180.
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disappearance
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monarch
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scoffing
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intrigue
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gateway
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brutal
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moody
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solitary
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herds
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stunned
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vagaries
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morsel
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exempt
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foul
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jaws
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profusely
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aperture
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abatement
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apparitions
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slumbers
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slumber
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psalm
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frantic
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intimidate
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jaded
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harassed
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exhausted
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groaning
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estranged
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entirely
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depressed
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hilarity
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reign
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curiously
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defiance
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majesty
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withering
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