The Prince of India, left in the passage of the Castle with Sergius, was not displeased2 with the course the adventure appeared to be taking. In the first place, he felt no alarm for Lael; she might be uncomfortable in the quarter to which she had been conducted, but that was all, and it would not last long. The guardianship3 of the eunuch was in his view a guaranty of her personal safety. In the next place, acquaintance with the Princess might prove serviceable in the future. He believed Lael fitted for the highest rank; she was already educated beyond the requirements of the age for women; her beauty was indisputable; as a consequence, he had thought of her a light in the court; and not unpleasantly it occurred to him now that the fair Princess might carry keys for both the inner and outer doors of the royal residence.
Generally the affair which was of concern to Lael was an affair of absorbing interest to the Prince; in this instance, however, another theme offered itself for the moment a superior attraction.
The impression left by the young master of ceremonies in the reception at the landing was of a kind to arouse curiosity. His appearance, manner, speech and the homage5 paid him denoted exalted6 rank; while the confidence with which he spoke7 for Sultan Amurath was most remarkable8. His acceptance of the terms presented by the Princess Irene was little short of downright treaty-making; and what common official dared carry assumption to such a height? Finally the Prince fell to thinking if there was any person the actual governor of the Castle would quietly permit to go masquerading in his authority and title.
Then everything pointed9 him to Prince Mahommed. The correspondence in age was perfect; the martial10 array seen galloping11 down the bank was a fitting escort for the heir-apparent of the gray Sultan; and he alone might with propriety12 speak for his father in a matter of state.
"A mistake cannot be serious," said the Prince to himself, at the end of the review. "I will proceed upon the theory that the young man is Prince Mahommed."
This was no sooner determined13 than the restless mind flew forward to an audience. The time and place--midnight in the lonesome old Castle--were propitious15, and he was prepared for it.
Indeed it was the very purpose he had in view the night of the repast in his tent at El Zaribah where he so mysteriously intrusted the Emir Mirza with revelations concerning the doom16 of Constantinople.
Once more he ran over the scheme which had brought him from Cipango. If Islam could not be brought to lead in the project, Christendom might be more amenable17 to reason. The Moslem18 world was to be reached through the Kaliph whom he expected to find in Egypt; wherefore his contemplated19 trip down the Nile from Kash-Cush. If driven to the Christian20, Constantine was to be his operator. Such in broadest generality was the plan of execution he had resolved upon.
But to these possibilities he had appended another of which it is now necessary to speak.
Enough has been given to apprise21 the reader of the things to which the Prince preferably devoted22 himself. These were international affairs, and transcendently war. If indeed the latter were not the object he had always specially23 in mind, it was the end to which his management usually conducted. For mere24 enjoyment25 in the sight of men facing the death which strangely passed him by, he delighted in hovering26 on the edge of battle until there was a crisis, and then plunging27 into its heated heart.
He had also a peculiar28 method of bringing war about. This consisted in providing for punishments in case his enterprises miscarried. Invariably somebody suffered for such failures. In that way he soothed29 the pangs30 of wounded vanity.
When he was inventing the means for executing his plots, and forming the relations essential to them, it was his habit to select instruments of punishment in advance.
Probably no better illustration of this feature of his dealings can be given than is furnished by the affair now engaging him. If he failed to move the Kaliph to lead the reform, he would resort to Constantine; if the Emperor also declined, he would make him pay the penalty; then came the reservation. So soon after his arrival from Cipango as he could inform himself of the political conditions of the world to which he was returning, he fixed31 upon Mahommed to avenge32 him upon the offending Greek.
The meeting with Mirza at El Zaribah was a favorable opportunity to begin operating upon the young Turk. The tale the Emir received that night under solemn injunctions of secrecy33 was really intended for his master. How well it was devised for the end in view the reader will be able to judge from what is now to follow.
The audience with Mahommed determined upon by the Prince of India, our first point of interest is in observing how he set about accomplishing it. His promptness was characteristic.
Directly the ladies had disappeared with the eunuch, the soldiers poured from their hiding places in the Castle, and seeing one whom he judged an officer, the Prince called to him in Turkish:
"Ho, my friend!"
The man was obliging.
"Present my salutations to the Governor of the Castle, and say the Prince of India desires speech with him."
The soldier hesitated.
"Understand," said the Prince, quickly, "my message is not to the great Lord who received me at the landing. But the Governor in fact. Bring him here."
The confident manner prevailed.
Presently the messenger returned with a burly, middle-aged34 person in guidance. A green turban above a round face, large black eyes in muffling35 of fleshy lids, pallid36 cheeks lost in dense37 beard, a drab gown lined with yellow fur, a naked cimeter in a silk-embroidered sash, bespoke38 the Turk; but how unlike the handsome, fateful-looking masquerader at the river side!
"The Prince of India has the honor of speech with the Governor of the Castle?"
"God be praised," the Governor replied. "I was seeking your Highness. Besides wishing to join in your thanks for happy deliverance from the storm, I thought to discharge my duty as a Moslem host by conducting you to refreshments39 and repose41. Follow me, I pray."
A few steps on the way, the Governor stopped:
"Was there not a companion--a younger man--a Dervish?"
"A monk42," said the Prince; "and the question reminds me of my attendant, a negro. Send for him--or better, bring them both to me. I wish them to share my apartment."
In a short time the three were in quarters, if one small room may be so dignified43. The walls were cold gray stone; one oblong narrow port-hole admitted scanty44 light; a rough bench, an immense kettle-drum shaped like the half of an egg-shell, and propped45 broadside up, some piles of loose straw, each with folded sheepskins on it, constituted the furnishment.
Sergius made no sign of surprise or disappointment. Possibly the chamber46 and its contents were reproductions of his cell up in Bielo-Osero. Nilo gave himself to study of the drum, reminded, doubtless, of similar warlike devices in Kash-Cush. The Prince alone expostulated. Taking a stand between the Governor and the door, he said:
"A question before thou goest hence."
The Turk gazed at him silently.
"To what accommodations have the Princess Irene and her attendant been taken? Are they vile48 as these?"
"The reception room of my harem is the most comfortable the Castle affords," the Governor answered.
"And they?"
"They are occupying it."
"Not by courtesy of thine. He who could put the hospitality of the Prince Mahommed to shame by maltreating one of his guests."
He paused, and grimly surveyed the room.
"Such a servant would be as evil-minded to another guest; and that the other is a woman, would not affect his imbruited soul."
"The Prince Mahommed!" the Governor exclaimed.
"Yes. What brings him here, matters not; his wish to keep the Romans in ignorance of his near presence, I know as well as thou; none the less, it was his royal word we accepted. As for thee--thou mightest have promised faith and hospitality with thy hand on the Prophet's beard, yet would I have bidden the Princess trust herself to the tempest sooner."
Sergius was now standing49 by, but the conversation being in Turkish, he listened without understanding.
"Thou ass1!" the Prince continued. "Not to know that the kinswoman of the Roman Emperor, under this roof by treaty with the mighty50 Amurath, his son the negotiator, is our guardian4! When the storm shall have spent itself, and the waters quieted down, she will resume her journey. Then--it may be in the morning--she will first ask for us, and then thy master will require to know how we have passed the night. Ah, thou beginnest to see!"
The Governor's head was drooping51; his hands crossed themselves upon his stomach; and when he raised his eyes, they were full of deprecation and entreaty52.
"Your Highness--most noble Lord--condescend to hear me."
"Speak. I am awake to hear the falsehood thou hast invented in excuse of thy perfidy53 to us, and thy treason to him, the most generous of masters, the most chivalrous54 of knights56."
"Your Highness has greatly misconceived me. In the first place you have forgotten the crowded state of the Castle. Every room and passage is filled with the suite57 and escort of"--
He hesitated, and turned pale, like a man dropped suddenly into a great danger. The shrewd guest caught at the broken sentence and finished it:
"Of Prince Mahommed!"
"With the suite and escort," the Governor repeated.... "In the next place, it was not my intention to leave you unprovided. From my own apartments, light, beds and seats were ordered to be brought here, with meats for refreshment40, and water for cleansing58 and draught59. The order is in course of execution now. Indeed, your Highness, I swear by the first chapter of the Koran"--
"Take something less holy to swear by," cried the Prince.
"Then, by the bones of the Faithful, I swear I meant to make you comfortable, even to my own deprivation60."
"By thy young master's bidding?"
The Governor bent61 forward very low.
"Well," said the Prince, softening62 his manner--"the misconception was natural."
"Yes--yes."
"And now thou hast only to prove thy intention by making it good."
"Trust me, your Highness."
"Trust thee? Ay, on proof. I have a commission"--
The Prince then drew a ring from his finger.
"Take this," he said, "and deliver it to the Emir Mirza."
The assurance of the speech was irresistible63; so the Turk held out his hand to receive the token.
"And say to the Emir, that I desire him to thank the Most Compassionate64 and Merciful for the salvation65 of which we were witnesses at the southwest corner of the Kaaba."
"What!" exclaimed the Governor. "Art thou a Moslem?"
"I am not a Christian."
The Governor, accepting the ring, kissed the hand offering it, and took his departure, moving backward, and with downcast eyes, his manner declarative of the most abject66 humility67.
Hardly was the door closed behind the outgoing official, when the Prince began to laugh quietly and rub his hands together--quietly, we say, for the feeling was not merriment so much as self-gratulation.
There was cleverness in having doubted the personality of the individual who received the refugees at the landing; there was greater cleverness in the belief which converted the Governor into the Prince Mahommed; but the play by which the fact was uncovered--if not a stroke of genius, how may it be better described? The Prince of India thought as he laughed:
"Not long now until Amurath joins his fathers, and then--Mahommed."
Presently he stopped, a step half taken, his gaze upon the floor, his hands clasped behind him. He stood so still it would not have been amiss to believe a thought was all the life there was in him. He certainly did believe in astrology. Had not men been always ruled by what they imagined heavenly signs? How distinctly he remembered the age of the oracle68 and the augur69! Upon their going out he became a believer in the stars as prophets, and then an adept70; afterwhile he reached a stage when he habitually71 mistook the commonest natural results, even coincidences, for confirmations73 of planetary forecasts. And now this halting and breathlessness was from sudden recollection that the horoscope lying on his table in Constantinople had relation to Mahommed in his capacity of Conqueror74. How marvellous also that from the meeting with Constantine in the street of the city, he should have been blown by a tempest to a meeting with Mahommed in the White Castle!
These circumstances, trifling75 to the reader, were of deep influence to the Prince of India. While he stands there rigid76 as a figure marbleized in mid14 action, he is saying to himself:
"The audience will take place--Heaven has ordered it. Would I knew what manner of man this Mahommed is!"
He had seen a handsome youth, graceful77 in bearing, quick and subtle in speech, cultivated and evidently used to governing. Very good, but what an advantage there would be in knowing the bents and inclinations78 of the royal lad beforehand.
Presently the schemer's head arose. The boyish Prince was going about in armor when soft raiment would be excusable--and that meant ambition, dreams of conquest, dedication79 to martial glory. Very good indeed! And then his manner under the eyes of the girlish Princess--how quickly her high-born grace had captivated him! Something impossible were he not of a romantic turn, a poet, sentimentalist, knight55 errant.
The Prince clapped his hands. He knew the appeals effective with such natures. Let the audience come.... Ah, but--
Again he sunk into thought. Youths like Mahommed were apt to be wilful80. How was he to be controlled? One expedient81 after another was swiftly considered and as swiftly rejected. At last the right one! Like his ancestors from Ertoghrul down, the young Turk was a believer in the stars. Not unlikely he was then in the Castle by permission of his astrologer. Indeed, if Mirza had repeated the conversation and predictions at El Zaribah, the Prince of India was being waited for with an impatience82 due a master of the astral craft. Again the Wanderer cried, "Let the audience come!" and peace and confidence were possessing him when a loud report and continuous rumble83 in the room set the solid floor to quaking. He looked around in time to see the big drum quivering under a blow from Nilo.
From the negro his gaze wandered to Sergius standing before the one loophole by which light and air were let into the dismal84 chamber; and recalling the monk as the sole attendant of the Princess Irene, he thought it best to speak to him.
Drawing near, he observed the cowl thrown back, and that the face was raised, the eyes closed, the hands palm to palm upon the breast. Involuntarily he stopped, not because he was one of those who always presume the most Holy Presence when prayer is being offered--he stopped, wondering where he had seen that countenance85. The delicate features, the pallid complexion86, the immature87 beard, the fair hair parted in the middle, and falling in wavy88 locks over the shoulders, the aspect manly89 yet womanly in its refinement90, were strangely familiar to him. It was his first view of the monk's face. Where had he seen it? His memory went back, far back of the recent. A chill struck his heart. The features, look, air, portrait, the expression indefinable except as a light of outcoming spirit, were those of the man he had helped crucify before the Damascus gate in the Holy City, and whom he could no more cast out of mind than he could the bones from his body. His feet seemed rooting into the flinty flags beneath them. He heard the centurion91 call to him: "Ho, there! If thou knowest the Golgotha, come show it." He felt the sorrowful eyes of the condemned92 upon him. He struck the bloody93 cheek, and cried as to a beast: "Go faster, Jesus!" And then the words, wrung94 from infinite patience at last broken:
"I am going, but do thou TARRY TILL I COME."
For relief, he spoke:
"What dost thou, my friend?"
Sergius opened his eyes and answered simply, "I am praying."
"To whom?"
"To God."
"Art thou a Christian?"
"Yes."
"God is for the Jew and the Moslem."
"Nay," said Sergius, looking at the Prince without taking down his hands, "all who believe in God find happiness and salvation in Him--the Christian as well as the Jew and the Moslem."
The questions had been put with abrupt95 intensity96; now the inquisitor drew back astonished. He heard the very postulate47 of the scheme to which he was devoting himself--and from a boy so like the dead Christ he was working to blot97 out of worship he seemed the Christ arisen!
The amazement98 passed slowly, and with its going the habitual72 shrewdness and capacity to make servants of circumstances apparently99 the most untoward100 returned. The youth had intellect, impressiveness, aptitude101 in words, and a sublime102 idea. But what of his spirit--his courage--his endurance in the Faith?
"How came this doctrine103 to thee?"
The Prince spoke deferentially104.
"From the good father Hilarion."
"Who is he?"
"The Archimandrite of Bielo-Osero."
"Yes."
"How did he receive it?"
"From the Spirit of God, whence Christ had his wisdom--whence all good men have their goodness--by virtue106 of which they, like Him, become sons of God."
"What is thy name?"
"Sergius."
"Sergius"--the Prince, now fully107 recovered, exerted his power of will-- "Sergius, thou art a heretic."
At this accusation108, so terrible in those days, the monk raised the rosary of large beads109 dangling110 from his girdle, kissed the cross, and stood surveying the accuser with pity.
"That is," the Prince continued with greater severity, "speak thou thus to the Patriarch yonder"--he waved a hand toward Constantinople--"dare repeat the saying to a commission appointed to try thee for heresy111, and thou wilt112 thyself taste the pangs of crucifixion or be cast to the beasts."
The monk arose to his great height, and replied, fervently113:
"Knowest thou when death hath the sweetness of sleep? I will tell thee"-- A light certainly not from the narrow aperture114 in the wall collected upon his countenance, and shone visibly--"It is when a martyr115 dies knowing both of God's hands are a pillow under his head."
The Prince dropped his eyes, for he was asking himself, was such sweetness of sleep appointed for him? Resuming his natural manner, he said: "I understand thee, Sergius. Probably no man in the world, go thou East or West, will ever understand thee better. God's hands under my head, welcome death!--Let us be friends."
Sergius took his offered hand.
Just then there was a noise at the door, and a troop of servants entered with lighted lamps, rugs, a table, stools, and beds and bedding, and it was not long until the apartment was made habitable. The Prince, otherwise well satisfied, wanted nothing then but a reply from Mirza; and in the midst of his wonder at the latter's delay, a page in brilliant costume appeared, and called out:
"The Emir Mirza!"
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