"Terrible Feng-Shui here. Worst I ever saw. You two crazy?"
"Because of...?" Dixon indicating behind them, in thickening dusk, the Visto sweeping1 away.
"It acts as a Conduit for what we call Sha, or, as they say in Spanish California, Bad Energy.— Imagine a Wind, a truly ill wind, bringing fail?ure, poverty, disgrace, betrayal,— every kind of bad luck there is,— all blowing through, night and day, with many times the force of the worst storm you were ever in."
"No one intends to live directly upon the Visto," Mason speaking as to a Child. "The object being, that the people shall set their homes to one side or another. That it be a Boundary, nothing more."
"Boundary!" The Chinaman begins to pull upon his hair and paw the earth with brocade-slipper'd feet. "Ev'rywhere else on earth, Boundaries follow Nature,— coast-lines, ridge-tops, river-banks,— so honoring the Dragon or Shan within, from which Land-Scape ever takes its form. To mark a right Line upon the Earth is to inflict3 upon the Dragon's very Flesh, a sword-slash, a long, perfect scar, impossible for any who live out here the year 'round to see as other than hateful Assault. How can it pass unanswer'd?"
This is the third continent he has been doing Feng-Shui jobs on, and he thought he'd seen crazy people in Europe, but these are beyond folly4. Whig country-homes, sinister5 chateaux, Adriatic villas6, Hungarian hot springs, Danish harems in the Turkish style,— not one of their owners having hir'd him out of respect for the Dragon, nor for what he could do or find out or even tell them,— when 'twas not innocently to indulge a fascination7 with the exotic, 'twas to permit themselves yet one more hope in the realm of the Subjunctive, one more grasp at the last radiant whis?pers of the last bights of Robe-hem, billowing ?ther-driven at the back of an ever-departing Deity8. A people without faith,— very well, he could understand it, now and then even respect it,— yet here in America, is little but Faith,— church-spires on every town skyline, traveling minis?ters who draw congregations by the hundreds and thousands, across flooded pastures, beneath rain-combed skies and in under the outspread wings of their white tents, singing far off in the woods, full of fervent9 strange harmonies that grow louder as the traveler approaches—
Frowning at his Luo-Pan, the mystic Chinaman shakes his head and mutters, "Even the currents of Earth are with them."
" 'Them'?"
"I have an enemy in these parts, I believe,— a certain Jesuit who does not wish me well."
"French?" inquires Mason.
"Spanish, I believe. Father Zarpazo, the Wolf of Jesus, as he is known in his native Land, though I had the misfortune to meet him in my own. He has his Training directly from those who persecuted10 Molinos and his followers,— he is accordingly sworn to destroy all who seek God without passing through the toll-gate of Jesus. The Molinistas, as do certain Bud?dhists of my own land, believ'd that the most direct Way to the Deity was to sit, quietly. If this meant using Jesus as but a stage on a journey, or even passing him by, why so be it. Buddhists12 speak of finding it neces?sary, if the Buddha13 be blocking one's Way, to kill him. Jesuits do not like to hear this sort of thing, of course, it puts far too much into question. If access to God need not be by way of Jesus, what is to become of Jesuits? And the sheer amount of Silence requir'd,— do you think they could ever abide14 that?
"Zarpazo,— as relentless15 in his hatred16 of those he hunts down as they are indifferent, in their love of God, to the passions driving him. Jansenist Convulsionaries, Crypto-Illuminati, and Neo-Quietists alike have felt his cultivated Wrath17, some taken before dawn by men in black, others accosted18 brazenly19 upon the steps of cathedrals,— clapp'd into
iron and leather restraints, going along amiably20 enough, puzzl'd, sure it must be a mistake.
"European docility21,— no one with Power has ever under-appreciated its comforts. So you may imagine the loss of morale22, among visitors such as Padre Zarpazo, before the fact of China, as they see how far from Docility they have journeyed,— and what they have come into the midst of. Wild Chinamen! How could they ever have deem'd us ready for their Jesus? Somehow Feng-Shui became their principal Enemy. Without it in the World,— is this what they believ'd?— Jesus would have a better chance of finding converts in China. Accordingly, 'twould be a holy Ser?vice23 to destroy Feng-Shui."
Zhang adverts24 to his Luo-Pan, and with fingers unhesitating proceeds to move various of its Rings forward and retrograde. Dixon, happening by, is drawn25 by the Instrument.
"Another Needle man,— so there's two of us. Ah hope Mason's not troubling thee upon the Topick,— he's unusually loyal to Heavenly Methods, is all."
"You would find even more congenial a Disciple26 of the Fuh-kien School, whose faith in the Needle is absolute,— whereas I am of the Kan-cheu School, which places the Dragon of the land above all else. Come, look. See here? These are the Moon-stations, the Stars fix'd and moving, signs of the Zodiack...we use all that,— but first comes the Dragon, and what the Needle responds to, is the Dragon's very Life."
"What Mason can't abide is that it never points to what he calls True North. As if the Needle's were False North."
"Zarpazo as well,— his Vows27 include one sworn to Zero Degrees, Zero Minutes, Zero Seconds, or perfect North. He is the Lord of the Zero. The Impurity28 of this Earth keeps him driven in a holy Rage.— Which is why he wants this Visto."
" 'Wants— ' "
"News of the Visto will bring him surely as a Gaze brings a Suitor. Purity of Azimuth is his Passion. He was in Italy when your Sponsor Le Maire was producing the Line from Rome to Rimini, he was in Peru with La Condamine and in Lapp-land with Bouguer,— 'tis his Destiny to inflict these Tellurick Injuries, as 'tis mine to resist them.”
"I didn't know than'. Thee come here, then, to oppose our Mission...? to seek our Failure...? Why, Sir? What possible ill Motives29 can we be serving, in marking out this tiny bit of a Lesser30 Circle?"
"Once, Monsieur Allegre had as little hesitation31 in slicing straight thro' the carcasses of Animals and viewing aesthetickally the patterns of Bone and Fat and Flesh thus expos'd. Now, no longer! Heaven has per?mitted him to see the distinction between Blade and Body,— the aggres?sive exactitude of one, the helpless indeterminacy of the other. In that difference lies the Potency32 of the Sin."
"Eeh,— but,— that's Jesuit talk. Captain.— The fell'd Trees aren't just lying there unus'd. There are plenty of Americans but a short trip away who come and fetch them for Firewood or Fences or building-Logs. How can tha think so ill of this Line? A fellow Surveyor. I cannot imagine it."
"Fret33 not,— my business is with the Jesuit. We happen to be the prin?cipal Persona? here, not you two! Nor has your Line any Primacy in this, being rather a Stage-Setting, dark and fearful as the Battlements of Elsi-nore, for the struggle Zarpazo and I must enact34 upon the very mortal Edge of this great Torrent35 of sha,— which at any moment either of us might slip, fall in, and be borne away, Westward36, into the Vanishing-Point and gone."
"And Mason and I,— "
"Bystanders. Background. Stage-Managers of that perilous37 Flux,— little more."
"Eeh." Dixon thinks about it. "Well it's no worse than Copernicus, is it...? The Center of it all, moving someplace else like thah'...? Better not mention this to Mason."
P. Zarpazo being a master of disguise, Capt. Zhang, by now half insane anyway, becomes convinced that the Priest has actually penetrated38 the Camp, and only waits his moment to administer that poison'd Stiletto preferr'd by a Jesuit confronting Error. "It's got to be an axman," the Captain decides. "They come and go with entire freedom. Each pos?sesses a Rifle and a choice of Blades. It could be Mr. Barnes. It could even be Stig. Yes! Yes that's it, 'tis Stig!"
"Friend Zhang," soothes39 Dixon, "Stig is in a number of difficulties at the moment, but none includes you. He could find neither the time, nor
the repose40 of Spirit, to cause you harm in any way that a Jesuit would describe as at all useful. The same is true of the other Hands. Ev'ryone is too busy."
"He's here," insists the far too bright-eyed Geomancer. "If he's not an axman, then,— he must be one of the camp-followers,— Guy Spit the Pass-bank Bully41, one of those Vasquez Brothers,— even one of Mrs. Eggslap's Girls. There is no limit to his ingenuity42!"
"If he were one of the Ladies, Stig would have discover'd thah' by now."
"Stig could be a Confederate!"
"Captain, pray regard yourself."
The Oriental Operative thereupon grows bodily plumb43 and symmet-rick,— his eyelids44 lower, his breathing decelerates, and presently he bows in Apology. "You're right, of course. I'm behaving like Chef Armand with his Duck. Which of us doesn't have an Unseen Persecutor45? My case is probably no worse than your own."
"Mine...? Why," Dixon again fumescent, "I'm brisk as a Bee these Days. Not a care in the World. Who'd be after me?" Yet he avoids meet?ing Zhang's eyes.
' 'Tis widely assum'd that you are here on behalf of the Jesuit Le Maire, co-engineer with Boscovich, fifteen years ago, of yet another long, straight Europeans' Line, the Two Degrees of Latitude47 sliced across Italy from Rome to Rimini. Ever since then, Sha has flow'd unremittingly across that miserably48 Empoped and beduked and Dismember'd Penin?sula, Tuscany and Milan taken by Austria, Modena and Genoa by the French, despotism ev'rywhere...."
"Come, come, beg to differ, even a simple child of the Pit country knows that since that last peace Treaty, why Italy's been enjoying a long and wonderful era of prosperity and improvement. If this be Despo?tism,...?"
"Go to Italy," scolds the Captain, "and look."
"Well,— what about Maria Theresa, then...?"
"The Jesuit Protectress,— a charming exception to the reign49 of Bru?tality uncheck'd, throughout the rest of Christendom,— whilst your Jesuits go on attempting to eradicate50 Feng-Shui from human awareness51, and to promote the inscription52 upon the Earth of these enormously long straight Lines,— as in Lapp-land, in Peru, Encyclopédistes in expedi-
tionary Costume, squirting Perfume about, and taking these exquisitely53
precise Sights whilst neglecting to turn their Instruments.... Tho'
Degrees of Longitude54 and Latitude in Name, yet in Earthly reality are they Channels mark'd for the transport of some unseen Influence, one carefully assembl'd cairn, one Oolite Prism, one perfectly55 incis'd lead Plate, to the next,— when these are dispos'd in a Right Line aim'd at Ohio, it is natural to inquire, what other scientifick Workings may lie in the area— Who'd benefit most? None, it would seem, but the con2?sciously criminal in Publick Life as in Private, who know how to tap into the unremitting torrent of Sha roaring all night and all day, and convert it to their own uses. Howling like a great Boulevard of souls condemn'd to wander up and down the grim surfaces."
"Moreover," now interjects Mr. Everybeet the Quartz-scryer, "west of here, in the Hills 'round Cheat and Monongahela, are secret Lead Mines, which the Indians guard jealously." These Deposits occur not as Flats, as in Durham, nor as Veins56, as in Derbyshire, but rather as spherickal Caverns57, of wondrous58 Regularity59, fill'd with a Galena, remarkably60 pure, nearly free of other Minerals. "Perfect Spheres of Lead ore, that is, are situated61 inside those Mountains, often dozens of Yards across, exerting Tellurick Effects unfathomable." Mr. Everybeet now produces a power?ful Glass, beneath which he places samples of finely divided Rock. "The Limestone62 Matrix thro' which these Plumbaginous Orbs63 are distributed, proves to be of a peculiar64 sort, already familiar to you."
"Oolite," Mason and Dixon suppose.
"Plenty out here, ev'ryplace ye go, they sure didn't need to import it from England." The Surveyors have a look thro' the Glass, which reveals a fine structure of tiny Cells, each a Sphere with another nested concen-trickally within, much like Fish Roe65 in appearance. " - Your own Lin?ear Emplacement of Marker-Stones, whatever the reason, requires this sort of Fine structure, weakly tho' precisely66 Magnetick,— Lime, in cer?tain of the Cells, having been replac'd with Iron,— whereas the fam'd Egyptian Pyramids, whose ever-mystickal Purposes, beyond the simply Funerary, are much speculated upon, requir'd Limestone with another sort of Fine Structure altogether,— containing numberless ancient Shells, each made up of hundreds of square Chambers67, arrang'd in per?fect Spirals.”
He has been out to the secret Ore-diggings, at Night, amid a maze68 of Hills and Hollows, with Sentries69 at ev'ry turn of the Trail. Out-croppings of Limestone, whiter than they ought to be, shone in the Star-light. He was met by Native Vendors70, with Coils, and Foils, and Bars of Lead, half-inch Balls and small unflattering Toy images including those of the King, and Mr. Franklin. The odor of Sulfur71 was ev'rywhere. The Valleys were lit with many small Fires, at each of which Ore was being burn'd to a Regulus of the Metal. Among the Indian smelters, Proximity72 to Fumes46 and Dust had produc'd a number of Ailments73, from chronick Melancholy74 to haunting without Mercy, to early Death. They gap'd at the Scryer with blunted, sorrowing faces, some screaming words that no one offer'd to translate.
"Most unhappy," recalls Mr. Everybeet. "Not at all the Paradise one has been led to expect. Lead out here is a much-needed metal,— who controls Lead controls the supply of Ammunition75, for all sides in ev'ry Dispute, not to mention a segment of the Tellurick-energy Market. Celeron's lead Plates may indeed have been but the visible Calibrating76 Devices for a much more extensive Engine below,— perhaps an Array of them, and a City to surround that...a Plutonian History unfolding far below our feet, all unknown to us above, but for occasional Volca?noes and Earth tremors78. A complete, largely unsens'd World, held within our own, like a child in a Womb, waiting for some Summons to Light...."
"I consider'd myself not unacquainted with Mania," records the Revd, "but until the Spectacle I and, by now, ev'ryone else in camp are wit?nessing Capt. Zhang make of himself, I have known, I collect, as yet but few of its Flow'rings. 'I shall wear black robes,' he declares, '— if El Lobo de Jesus may, why so shall I.' And he does. Spanish phrases increasingly creep into his Conversation, and a small Beard is one day visible upon his chin."
"Spend enough time in these Mountains," as Capt. Shelby avers79, "and sooner or later you see ev'rything. This has happen'd out here before, tho' they usually change into real Wolves...?”
"Well I can't understand it," frowns Mason, "— the Chinese are known far and wide as a learned and sagacious People, quite beyond behavior of this sort,—
"Except," Dixon points out, "that this one is insane, of course."
Mason spreads his hands. "Which of us can say?"
"Falls a few Links short of a Chain, for fair...?"
"Yet,— if he were telling the truth? and there were a dangerous Spaniard on his way here? 'twould be trouble for the Party, without Doubt. Either way, we might have to ask the Captain to leave."
"Eeh,— now they're chucking Stilettos about, it's 'we' again...?"
"Look ye, Dixon, only you can get him to go. He already thinks you're a Jesuit Agent. All you have to do is advise him to stay, and he'll do the opposite."
"If he believes that his enemy may arrive at any moment, he'll prefer to wait, won't he...?— feeling safer, as who would not, among arm'd Protestants...?"
"?Andale, mis Hijos!" 'Tis the Chinaman himself. It had better be. Axmen nonetheless go scattering80, spilling coffee, clutching what's left of evening Mess. Capt. Shelby puts on a Pair of Philadelphia Pebble-Lenses to verify what he seems to be seeing. Mason, making encourag?ing gestures, urges Dixon, "Go on,...go on," in loud whispers, as he takes himself behind the Cook's Waggon81. Dixon stares. The Metamor?phosis is alarming. Violet Piping outlines the Captain several times over against the perfect Black of the Soutane. He turns, revealing upon the back a gigantick and Floridly render'd Chinese Dragon, in many colors, including Heliotrope82 and Prussian Blue.
"By the time he finally arrives in this Camp," announces Capt. Zhang, "no one will be able to tell, which is the real Zarpazo. We Two will meet then in a struggle to the death, witness'd by all...the axmen will place bets.. .there will be beer and Dutch Pretzels, a bottomless Urn11 of Coffee, depending how long the contest takes, perhaps a free Luncheon83 as well."
"And if only one of you shows up...?"
"How could you ever be sure which one it was?— Oh, and meaning no offense,— for an Insolent84 Question like that, the 'real' Zarpazo would have you publickly aflame in the nearest Glade85, before you even under-
stood what you'd done. His Chinese impersonator might wait but a few minutes more."
"Mighty86 harsh talk, Captain," says Shelby. "But you know, I'm a Cap?tain too, and now I wonder'd if I might just have a chat with you, Captain to Captain, as you'd say."
"You do me honor, Captain."
"What troubles us, Captain, about your Spanish friend, is his way of wanting to kill anyone who doesn't agree with him. Hardly do around here, you see. Likely, after a short while, to be no one left. Withal, if one of us gets lucky and prevails, then we have the problem of a dead Jesuit, thousands of miles from home, inside a Territory where he ought not to be. Others, some sooner or later with real power, will be making inquiries87. In either case, you would have to flee."
"You are all safe, so long as I have,"— thumb and Index together, he twirls his wrist and is immediately holding up a dark Red sphere about the size of a Cherry,— "this. 'Tis a Pearl, yet not from beneath the Sea. Once it was a Cyst, growing within the Brain of a Cobra. None but expe-rienc'd Harvesters are able to tell which Cobras bear them and which are not worth killing88. The pearls are taken north into the Himalayan Moun?tains, where they find use in the Tibetan Medicine— Therefore fear not the Advent89 of the Wolf, for here is the soul of the Cobra, yet living, yet potent90."
"I'll buy one!" Dixon cries. Mason looks upward, patiently.
That night, at Zsuzsa's Exhibition, in Torchlight, before the gleaming eyes of lovesick Axmen, "Great Frederick has chang'd the face of War, created a new Power upon the Continent,...lo, the Prussian columns,— keeping ever their Intervals91, and each precisely upon his mark, wheel?ing,... the Angles of the Hats, as of the Wigs92, calculated as to the Field of Vision, for most efficient Fire."
When it is time for questions from the audience,— "Began at Ramil-lies, in fact," notes Professor Voam, to all nearby, "— 'twas well before the first Charles, that men envied and sought to copy, nay93, outdo, the loos'd Locks of the other half of humanity. All the history of England since that discredited94 Dynasty has been about Hair,— and nothing else,
the tied-back wigs of Marlborough's riflemen at Ramillies being so ide?ally Hanoverian, so perfected a compromise between the Stuart wanton?ness and the shorn Republican Pate95, that today any hair worn forward of the shoulders, is but Jacobitism by means of Coiffure,— a wordless sedi?tion, that places in question all our hard-won Arrangements."
"Do you mean," Zsuzsa cries, "a perfect balance between the Feminine and the Masculine? English Soldiers? My Brain,— ah, I must think...."
"My good young Woman." Captain Shelby flourishing his Brows. "Whilst Europe was enjoying such tidy doings as yours,— over here, in our own collateral96 wars, we rather suffer'd one by one, in terror, alone among the Leagues of Trees unending. The only German precision we know of's right here," patting the octagonal Barrel of his Lancaster Rifle, as if 'twere the Flank of a faithful Dog.
"Geometry and slaughter97!" ejaculates Squire98 Haligast, "— The future of war, yet ancient as the mindless Exactitudes of Alexander's Phalanx."
"Perhaps," the Revd suggests, "we attribute to the Armies of old, a level of common Belief long inaccessible99 to our own skeptical100 Souls. Making the Prussian example all the more mystical,— whom or what can any modern army believe in enough to obey? If not God, nor one's King... ?"
"They submit," Zsuzsa replies, "to the preemptive needs of the Manoeuvre101,— a Soldier's Faith at last must rest in the Impurity of his own desires. What can Hansel possibly wish for, that Heinz in front of him, and Dieter behind, and a couple of Fritzes on either side, have not already desir'd,— multiplied by all the ranks and files, stretching away across the Plain? The same blonde from down the Street, the same Pot of beer, the same sack of Gold deliver'd by some Elf, for doing nothing. Who is unique? Who is not own'd by someone? What do any of their desires mat?ter, if they can be of no use to the Manoeuvre, where all is timed from a single Pulse, each understanding no more than he must,—
" 'Tis he!" screams Capt. Zhang, leaping to the Platform and taking a position as if astride a Horse, extending his hands precisely before him. Zsuzsa, her eyes very wide, swiftly undoes102 some buttons of her Tunic103, to reach for a Pistol of British make, and a Lady's Powder-Flask with a Stopper of strip'd blue Venetian Glass, purring, "Captain, Cap?tain, not in here. Run along now, take it outside, you have all the For?est to play in.”
"Reveal yourself, Wolf of Jesus. Zhang does not kill Fools, nor may he in honor kill you, whilst you linger within that contemptible104 disguise."
"What, this old Rongy?— Will someone explain this to me? Don Foppo de Pin-Heado, here, seems upset."
"Perhaps if Mademoiselle, as a gesture of good intent, would put aside her,— ehm,— " cajoles Mr. Barnes.
"We call it a Pistol, the same as men do," twirling the Weapon by its trigger-guard. "Now that you have spoken to the Lady in Breeches, per?haps77 you could have a word with the man in skirts."
"He's not a real Jesuit," Mason assures her.
"Or, perhaps all too real!" the Captain with a look of evil glee,— "for suppose I was never Zhang, but rather Zarpazo, all the Time! HA,— ha-ha!" His Laugh, tho' hideously105 fiendish enough, seems practis'd.
"Or," replies Mr. Barnes, "that you are neither, but yet another damn'd Fabulator, such as ever haunt encampments, white or Indian, ev'ry night, somewhere in this Continent."
"Too many possible Stories. You may not have time enough to find out which is the right one."
"Best thing's draw up a Book, for there's certain to be wagering106 upon the Question?" offers Guy Spit.
Ethelmer, downstairs, alone, at the Clavier, hair loos'd, apostrophizes a Thermometer,— throughout which the Listener may imagine a series of idiotic107 still-life Views, first of the Thermometer, registering some low temperature,— then of Ethelmer, singing to it, then back to the Ther?mometer again, and so forth108.
Say, Mister Fahrenheit109,
She doesn't treat me right, [advert to Thermometer]
Wish you could warm up that Lady of mine,— [then back to
'Thelmer, &c.]
Look at you, on the wall,
Don't have a, care at all,—
Even tho' our love has plung'd,
To minus ninety-nine,— now, Doctor
Celsius110, and ev'ryone else, yes,
Say, you've plenty to spare,—
Don't let us freeze, can't you
Send some Degrees, from where-
-Ever you are, out there,—
Damme,
Mister Fahrenheit,—
Here comes another night,
I shall once again be shiv'ring through,
With no help from your Scale,
Tie all Ice and Hail, and
I'll turn-into a Snow-man, too.
"Where's Brae, Thelmer?" DePugh, self-Mesmeriz'd, having lost his way to the Larder111.
"Dreaming. As to what, I can only say with certainty, that 'tis not of me." "Romance, you did your best." "Ah. But not my worst.”
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