One who has seen the boats in which fishermen now work the eddies1 and still waters of the Bosphorus will not require a description of the vessel2 the Prince and Lael stepped into when they arrived at the Grand Gate of Blacherne. He need only be told that instead of being pitch-black outside and in, it was white, except the gunwale which was freshly gilt3. The untravelled reader, however, must imagine a long narrow craft, upturned at both ends, graceful4 in every line, and constructed for speed and beauty. Well aft there was a box without cover, luxuriously5 cushioned, lined with chocolate velvet6, and wide enough to seat two persons comfortably; behind it, a decked space for a servant, pilot or guard. This arrangement left all forward for the rowers, each handling two oars7.
Ten rowers, trained, stout9, and clad in white headkerchiefs, shirts and trousers of the same hue10, and Greek jackets of brilliant scarlet11, profusely12 figured over with yellow braid, sat stolidly13, blades in hand and ready dipped, when the passengers took their places, the Prince and Lael in the box, and Nilo behind them as guard. The vessel was too light to permit a ceremonious reception.
In front of the party, on the northern shore of the famous harbor, were the heights of Pera. The ravines and grass-green benches into which they were broken, with here and there a garden hut enclosed in a patch of filbert bushes--for Pera was not then the city it now is--were of no interest to the Prince; dropping his eyes to the water, they took in a medley14 of shipping15, then involuntarily turned to the cold gray face of the wall he was leaving. And while seeing in vivid recollection the benignant countenance16 of Constantine bent17 upon him from the chair in the street, he thought of the horoscope he had spent the night in taking and the forenoon in calculating. With a darkened brow, he gave the word, and the boat was pushed off and presently seeking the broader channel of the Bosphorus.
The day was delightful18. A breeze danced merrily over the surface of the water. Soft white summer clouds hung so sleepily in the southwest they scarce suggested motion. Seeing the color deepen in Lael's cheeks, and listening to her questions, he surrendered himself to the pleasures of the situation, not the least being the admiration19 she attracted.
By ships at anchor, and through lesser20 craft of every variety they sped, followed by exclamations22 frequently outspoken23:
"Who is she? Who can she be?"
Thus pursued, they flew past the gate of St. Peter, turned the point of Galata, and left the Fish Market port behind; proceeding25 then in parallelism with the north shore, they glided26 under the great round tower so tall and up so far overhead it seemed a part of the sky. Off Tophane, they were in the Bosphorus, with Scutari at their right, and Point Serail at their backs.
Viewed from the harbor on the sea, the old historic Point leaves upon the well informed an impression that in a day long gone, yielding to a spasm27 of justice, Asia cast it off into the waves. Its beauty is Circean. Almost from the beginning it has been the chosen place in which men ran rounds gay and grave, virtuous28 and wanton, foolish and philosophic29, brave and cowardly--where love, hate, jealousy30, avarice31, ambition and envy have delighted to burn their lights before Heaven--where, possibly with one exception, Providence32 has more frequently come nearer lifting its veil than in any other spot of earth.
Again and again, the Prince, loth to quit the view, turned and refilled his eyes with Sancta Sophia, of which, from his position, the wall at the water's edge, the lesser churches of the Virgin33 Hodegetria and St. Irene, and the topmost sections far extending of the palaces of Bucoleon seemed but foundations. The edifice34, as he saw it then, depended on itself for effect, the Turk having not yet, in sign of Mohammedan conversion35, broken the line of its marvellous dome36 with minarets37. At length he set about telling stories of the Point.
Off the site of the present palace of Dolma-Batchi he told of Euphrosyne, the daughter of the Empress Irene; and seeing how the sorrowful fortune of the beautiful child engaged Lael's sympathies, he became interested as a narrator, and failed to notice the unusual warmth tempering the air about Tchiragan. Neither did he observe that the northern sky, before so clear and blue, was whitening with haze38.
To avoid the current running past Arnoot-Kouy, the rowers crossed to the Asiatic side under the promontory39 of Candilli.
Other boats thronged40 the charming expanse; but as most of them were of a humbler class sporting one rower, the Prince's, with its liveried ten, was a surpassing attraction. Sometimes the strangers, to gratify their curiosity, drew quite near, but always without affronting41 him; knowing the homage42 was to Lael, he was happy when it was effusively43 rendered.
His progress was most satisfactory until he rounded Candilli. Then a flock of small boats came down upon him pell-mell, the rowers pulling their uttermost, the passengers in panic.
The urgency impelling44 them was equally recognized by the ships and larger vessels45 out in the channel. Anchors were going down, sails furling, and oars drawing in. Above them, moreover, much beyond their usual levels of flight troops of gulls46 were circling on rapid wings screaming excitedly.
The Prince had reached the part of greatest interest in the story he was telling--how the cruel and remorseless Emperor Michel, determined47 to wed21 the innocent and helpless Euphrosyne, shamelessly cheated the Church and cajoled the Senate--when Nilo touched his shoulder, and awoke him to the situation. A glance over the water--another at the sky--and he comprehended danger of some kind was impending48. At the same moment Lael commenced shivering and complaining of cold. The air had undergone a sudden change. Presently Nilo's red cloak was sheltering her.
The boat was in position to bring everything into view, and he spoke24 to the rowers:
"A storm is rising."
They ceased work, and looked over their shoulders, each for himself.
"A blow from the sea, and it comes fast. What we shall do is for my Lord to say," one of them returned.
The Prince grew anxious for Lael. What was done must be for her--he had no thought else.
A cloud was forming over the whole northeastern quarter of the sky, along the horizon black, overhead a vast gray wave, in its heart copper-hued, seething49, interworking, now a distended50 sail, now a sail bursted; and the wind could he heard whipping the shreds51 into fleece, and whirling them a confusion of vaporous banners. Yet glassy, the water reflected the tint52 of the cloud. The hush53 holding it was like the drawn54 breath of a victim waiting the first turn of the torturous55 wheel.
The Asiatic shore offered the Prince a long stretch, and he persisted in coasting it until the donjon of the White Castle--that terror to Christians--arrested his eye. There were houses much nearer, some of them actually overhanging the water; but the donjon seemed specially56 inviting57; at all events, he coolly reflected, if the Governor of the Castle denied him refuge, the little river near by known as the Sweet Waters of Asia would receive him, and getting under its bank, he might hope to escape the fury of the wind and waves. He shouted resolutely59:
"To the White Castle! Make it before the wind strikes, my men, and I will double your hire."
"We may make it," the rower answered, somewhat sullenly60, "but"--
"What?" asked the Prince.
"The devil has his lodgings61 there. Many men have gone into its accursed gates on errands of peace, and never been heard of again."
The Prince laughed.
"We lose time--forward! If there be a fiend in the Castle, I promise you he is not waiting for us."
The twenty oars fell as one, and the boat jumped like a steed under a stab of the spur.
Thus boldly the race with the storm was begun. The judgment62 of the challenger, assuming the Prince to be such, may be questioned. The river was the goal.
Could he reach it before the wind descended63 in dangerous force?--That was the very point of contest.
The chances, it is to be remembered next, were not of a kind to admit weighing with any approach to certainty; it was difficult even to marshal them for consideration. The distance was somewhat less than three-quarters of a mile; on the other part, the competing cloud was wrestling with the mountain height of Alem Daghy, about four miles away. The dead calm was an advantage; unfortunately it was more than offset64 by the velocity65 of the current which, though not so strong by the littoral66 of Candilli as under the opposite bluffs67 of Roumeli-Hissar, was still a serious opposing force. The boatmen were skilful68, and could be relied upon to pull loyally; for, passing the reward offered in the event of their winning, the dangers of failure were to them alike. Treating the contest as a race, with the storm and the boat as competitors, the Prince was not without chances of success.
But whatever the outcome of the venture, Lael would be put to discomfort69. His care of her was so habitually70 marked by tender solicitude71 one cannot avoid wondering at him now.
After all he may have judged the affair more closely than at first appears. The sides of the boat were low, but danger from that cause might be obviated72 by the skill of the rowers; and then Alem Daghy was not a trifling73 obstacle in the path of the gale74. It might be trusted to hold the cloud awhile; after which a time would be required by the wind to travel the miles intervening.
Certainly it had been more prudent75 to make the shore, and seek refuge in one of the houses there. But the retort of the spirited Jew of that day, as in this, was a contemptuous refusal of assistance, and the degree to which this son of Israel was governed by the eternal resentment76 can be best appreciated by recalling the number of his days on earth.
At the first response to the vigorous pull of the oarsmen, Lael drew the red cloak over her face, and laid her head against the Prince. He put his arm around her, and seeing nothing and saying nothing, she trusted in him.
The rowers, pulling with strength from the start, gradually quickened the stroke, and were presently in perfect harmony of action. A short sough accompanied each dip of the blades; an expiration77, like that of the woodman striking a blow with his axe78, announced the movement completed. The cords of their brawny79 necks played fast and free; the perspiration80 ran down their faces like rain upon glass. Their teeth clinched81. They turned neither right nor left; but with their straining eyes fixed82 upon him, by his looks they judged both their own well-doing and the progress of their competitor.
Seeing the boat pointed83 directly toward the Castle, the Prince watched the cloud. Occasionally he commended the rowers.
"Well done, my men!--Hold to that, and we will win!"
The unusual brightness of his eyes alone betrayed excitement. Once he looked over the yet quiet upper field of water. His was the only vessel in motion. Even the great ships were lying to. No--there was another small boat like his own coming down along the Asiatic shore as if to meet him. Its position appeared about as far above the mouth of the river as his was below it; and its three or five rowers were plainly doing their best. With grim pleasure, he accepted the stranger as another competitor in the race.
The friendly heights of Alem, seen from the Bosphorus, are one great forest always beautifully green. Even as the Prince looked at them, they lost color, as if a hand out of the cloud had suddenly dropped a curtain of white gauze over them. He glanced back over the course, then forward. The donjon was showing the loopholes that pitted its southern face. Excellent as the speed had been, more was required. Half the distance remained to be overcome--and the enemy not four miles away.
"Faster, men!" he called out. "The gust84 has broken from the mountain. I hear its roaring."
They turned involuntarily, and with a look measured the space yet to be covered, the distance of the foe85, and the rate at which he was coming. Nor less did they measure the danger. They too heard its warning, the muffled86 roar as of rocks and trees snatched up and grinding to atoms in the inner coils of the cloud.
"It is not a blow," one said, speaking quick, "but a"--
"Storm."
The word was the Prince's.
"Yes, my Lord."
Just then the water by the boat was rippled87 by a breath, purring, timorous88, but icy.
The effect on the oarsmen was stronger than any word from the master could have been. They finished a pull long and united; then while the oars swung forward taking reach for another, they all arose to their feet, paused a moment, dipped the blades deeper, gave vent58 to a cry so continuous it sounded like a wail89, and at the same time sunk back into their seats, pulling as they fell. This was their ultimate exertion90. A jet of water spurted91 from the foot of the sharp bow, and the bubbles and oar8 eddies flew behind indistinguishably.
"Well done!" said the Prince, his eyes glowing.
Thenceforward the men continued to rise at the end of a stroke, and fall as they commenced delivery of another. Their action was quick, steady, machine-like; they gripped the water deep, and made no slips; with a thought of the exhilaration an eagle must feel when swooping92 from his eyrie, the Prince looked at the cloud defiantly93 as a challenger might. Each moment the donjon loomed94 up more plainly. He saw now, not merely the windows and loopholes, but the joinery of the stones in their courses. Suddenly he beheld95 another wonder--an army of men mounted and galloping96 along the river bank toward the Castle.
The array stretched back into the woods. In its van were two flags borne side by side, one green, the other red. Both were surrounded by a troop in bright armor. No need for him to ask to whom they belonged. They told him of Mecca and Mahomet--on the red, he doubted not seeing the old Ottomanic symbols, in their meaning poetic97, in their simplicity98 beautiful as any ever appropriated for martial99 purposes. The riders were Turks. But why the green flag? Where it went somebody more than the chief of a sanjak, more than the governor of a castle, or even a province, led the way.
The number trailing after the flags was scarcely less mysterious. They were too many to be of the garrison100; and then the battlements of the Castle were lined with men also under arms. Not daring to speak of this new apparition101 lest his oarsmen might take alarm, the Prince smiled, thinking of another party to the race--a fourth competitor.
He sought the opposing boat next. It had made good time. There were five oarsmen in it; and, like his own, they were rising and falling with each stroke. In the passengers' place, he could make out two persons whom he took to be women.
A roll of thunder from the cloud startled the crew. Clear, angry, majestic102, it filled the mighty103 gorge104 of the Bosphorus. Under the sound the water seemed to shrink away. Lael looked out from her hiding, but as quickly drew back, crowding closer to the Prince. To calm her he said, lightly,
"Fear nothing, O my Gul Bahar! A pretty race we are having with the cloud yonder; we are winning, and it is not pleased. There is no danger."
She answered by doubling the folds of the gown about her head.
Steadily105, lithely106, and with never an error the rowers drove through the waves--steadily, and in exact time, their cry arose cadencing each stroke. They did their part truly. Well might the master cry them, "Good, good." But all the while the wind was tugging107 mightily108 at its cloudy car; every instant the rattle109 of its wheels sounded nearer. The trees on the hills behind the Castle were bending and bowing; and not merely around the boat, but far as could be seen the surface of the ancient channel was a-shirr and a-shatter under beating of advance gusts110.
And now the mouth of the Sweet Waters, shallowed by a wide extended osier bank, came into view; and the Castle was visible from base to upper merlon, the donjon, in relief against the blackened sky, rising more ghostly than ever. And right at hand were the flags, and the riders galloping with them. And there, coming bravely in, was the competing boat.
Over toward Roumeli-Hissar the sea birds congregated111 in noisy flocks, alarmed at the long line of foam112 the wind was whisking down the current. Behind the foam, the world seemed dissolving into spray.
Then the boats were seen from the Castle, and a company of soldiers ran out and down the bank. A noise like the rushing of a river sounded directly overhead. The wind struck the Castle, and in the thick of the mists and flying leaves hurled113 at it, the donjon disappeared.
"We win, we win, my men!" the Prince shouted. "Courage--good spirit--brave work--treble wages! Wine and wassail to-morrow!"
The boat, with the last word, shot into the little river, and up to the landing of the Castle just as the baffled wind burst over the refuge. And simultaneously114 the van of the army galloped115 under the walls and the competing boat arrived.
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