Mahommed sat awhile in deep abstraction, his face flushed, his hands working nervously1 in their own clasp. The subject possessing him was very pleasurable. How could it be else?
On his side the Prince waited deferentially2, but very observant. He was confident of the impression made; he even thought he could follow the young Turk's reflections point by point; still it was wisest to let him alone, for the cooling time of the sober second thought would come, and then how much better if there were room for him to believe the decision his own.
"It is very well, Prince," Mahommed said, finally, struggling to keep down every sign of excitement. "I had accounts of you from Mirza the Emir, and it is the truth, which neither of us will be the worse of knowing, that I see nothing of disagreement in what he told me, and in what you now tell me of yourself. The conceptions I formed of you are justified3: you are learned and of great experience; you are a good man given to charity as the Prophet has ordered, and a believer in God. At various times in the world's history, if we may trust the writers, great men have had their greatness foretold4 them; now if I think myself in the way of addition to the list of those so fortunate, it is because I put faith in you as in a friendly Prophet."
At this the Prince threw up both hands.
"Friendly am I, my lord, more than friendly, but not a Prophet. I am only a Messenger, an Interpreter of the Superior Powers."
Much he feared the demands upon him if he permitted the impression that he was a Prophet to go uncontradicted; as an astrologer, he could in need thrust the stars between him and the unreasonable5. And his judgment6 was quickly affirmed.
"As you will, O Prince," said Mahommed. "Messenger, interpreter, prophet, whichever pleases you, the burden of what you bring me is nevertheless of chiefest account. Comes a herald7, we survey him, and ask voucher8 for his pretensions9; are we satisfied with them, why then he gives place in our interest, and becomes secondary to the matter he bears. Is it not so?"
"It is righteously said, my Lord."
"And when I take up this which you have brought me"--Mahommed laid a hand upon his throat as if in aid of the effort he was making to keep calm and talk with dignity--"I cannot deny its power; for when was there an imaginative young man who first permitted ambition and love of glory to build golden palaces for their abiding10 in his heart, with self-control to stop his ears to promises apparently11 from Heaven? O Prince, if you are indeed my friend, you will not laugh at me when you are alone!... Moreover I would not you should believe your tidings received carelessly or as a morsel12 sweet on my tongue; but as wine warms to the blood coursing to the brain, it has started inquiries13 and anxieties you alone can allay14. And first, the great glory whose running is to fill the East, like an unsetting sun, tell me of it; for, as we all know, glory is of various kinds; there is one kind reserved for poets, orators15, and professors cunning in the arts, and another for cheer of such as find delight in swords and bossy16 shields, and armor well bedight, and in horses, and who exult17 in battle, and in setting armies afield, in changing boundary lines, and in taking rest and giving respite18 in the citadels19 of towns happily assaulted. And as of these the regard is various, tell me the kind mine is to be."
"The stars speak not doubtfully, my Lord. When Mars rises ascendant in either of his Houses, they that moment born are devoted20 to war, and, have they their bent21, they shall be soldiers; nor soldiers merely, but as the conjunctions are good, conquerors23, and fortunate, and Samael, his angel, becomes their angel. Has my Lord ever seen his nativity?"
"Yes."
"Then he knows whereof I speak."
Mahommed nodded affirmatively, and said, "The fame is to my taste, doubt not; but, Prince, were thy words duly weighed, then my glory is to be surpassing. Now, I am of a line of heroes. Othman, the founder24; Orchan, father of the Janissaries; Solyman, who accepted the crescent moon seen in a dream by the sea at Cyzicus as Allah's bidding to pass the Hellespont to Tzympe in Europe; Amurath, conqueror22 of Adrianople; Bajazet, who put an end to Christian25 crusading in the field of Nicopolis --these filled the East with their separate renowns; and my father Amurath, did he not subdue26 Hunyades? Yet, Prince, you tell me my glory is to transcend27 theirs. Now--because I am ready to believe you--say if it is to burst upon me suddenly or to signalize a long career. The enjoyment28 of immortality29 won in youth must be a pleasant thing."
"I cannot answer, my Lord"
"Cannot?"
And Mahommed's eagerness came near getting the better of his will.
"I have nothing from the stars by which to speak, and I dare not assume to reply for myself."
Then Mahommed's eyes became severely30 bright, and the bones of his hands shone white through the skin, so hard did he compress them.
"How long am I to wait before the glory you promise me ripens31 ready for gathering32? If it requires long campaigns, shall I summon the armies now?"
A tone, a stress of voice in the question sent a shiver through the Prince despite his self-command. His gaze upon Mahommed's countenance33, already settled, intensified34, and almost before the last word passed he saw the idea he was expected to satisfy, and that it was the point to which his interrogator35 had been really tending from the commencement of the interview. To gain a moment, he affected36 not to clearly understand; after a repetition, he in turn asked, with a meaning look:
"Is not thy father, O Prince, now in his eighty-fifth year?"
Mahommed leaned further forward.
"And is it not eight and twenty years since he began reigning37 wisely and well?"
"Suffer me to answer now. Besides his age which pleads for him, your father has not allowed greatness and power to shade the love he gave you heartily39 the hour he first took you in his arms. Nature protests against his cutting off, and in this instance, O Prince, the voice of Nature is the voice of Allah. So say I speaking for myself."
Mahommed's face relaxed its hardness, and he moved and breathed freely while replying: "I do not know what the influences require of me."
"Speak you of the stars, my Lord," the other returned, "hear me, and with distinctness. As yet they have intrusted me with the one prediction, and that you have. In other words, they are committed to a horoscope based upon your nativity, and from it your glory has been rightly delivered. So much is permitted us by the astrologic law we practise. But this now asked me, a circumstance in especial, appertains to you as chief of forces not yet yours. Wherefore--heed well, my Lord--I advise you to make note of the minute of the hour of the day you gird yourself with the sword of sovereignty which, at this speaking, is your great father's by sanction of Heaven; then will I cast a horoscope for Mahommed the Sultan, not Mahommed, son of Amurath merely--then, by virtue40 of my office of Interpreter of the Stars, having the proper writing in my hand, I will tell you this you now seek, together with all else pertaining41 to your sovereignty intrusted me for communication. I will tell you when the glory is open to you, and the time for setting forward to make it yours--even the dawning of the term of preparation necessarily precedent42 to the movement itself. Now am I understood? Will my Lord tell me I am understood?"
An observation here may not be amiss. The reader will of course notice the clever obtrusion43 of the stars in the speech; yet its real craft was in the reservations covered. Presuming it possible for the Prince to have fixed44 a time to Mahommed's satisfaction, telling it would have been like giving away the meat of an apple, and retaining the rind. The wise man who sets out to make himself a need to another will carefully husband his capital. Moreover it is of importance to keep in mind through this period of our story that with the Prince of India everything was subsidiary to his scheme of unity45 in God. To which end it was not enough to be a need to Mahommed; he must also bring the young potentate46 to wait upon him for the signal to begin the movement against Constantinople; for such in simplicity47 was the design scarcely concealed48 under the glozing of "the East against the West." That is to say, until he knew Constantine's disposition49 with respect to the superlative project, his policy was delay. What, in illustration, if the Emperor proved a friend? In falconry the hawk50 is carried into the field hooded51, and cast off only when the game is flushed. So the Prince of India thought as he concluded his speech, and looked at the handsome face of the Lord Mahommed.
The latter was disappointed, and showed it. He averted53 his eyes, knit his brows, and took a little time before answering; then a flash of passion seized him.
"With all thy wisdom, Prince, thou knowest not how hard waiting will be. There is nothing in Nature sweeter than glory, and on the other hand nothing so intolerably bitter as hungering for it when it is in open prospect54. What irony55 in the providence56 which permits us to harvest greatness in the days of our decline! I dream of it for my youth, for then most can be made of it. There was a Greek--not of the Byzantine breed in the imperial kennel57 yonder"--he emphasized the negative with a contemptuous glance in the direction of Constantinople--"a Greek of the old time of real heroes, he who has the first place in history as a conqueror. Think you he was happy because he owned the world? Delight in property merely, a horse, a palace, a ship, a kingdom, is vulgar: any man can be owner of something; the beggar polishes his crutch58 for the same reason the king gilds59 his throne--it belongs to him. Possession means satiety60. But achieve thou immortality in thy first manhood, and it shall remain to thee as the ring to a bride or as his bride to the bridegroom.--Let it be as you say. I bow to the stars. Between me and the sovereignty my father stands, a good man to whom I give love for love; and he shall not be disturbed by me or any of mine. In so far I will honor your advice; and in the other matter also, there shall be one ready to note the minute of the hour the succession falls to me. But what if then you are absent?"
"A word from my Lord will bring me to him; and His Majesty61 is liable to go after his fathers at any moment"--
"Ay, and alas62!" Mahommed interposed, with unaffected sorrow, "a king may keep his boundaries clean, and even extend them thitherward from the centre, and be a fear unto men; yet shall death oblige him at last. All is from God."
The Prince was courtier enough to respect the feeling evinced.
"But I interrupted you," Mahommed presently added. "I pray pardon."
"I was about to say, my Lord, if I am not with you when His Majesty, your father, bows to the final call--for the entertainment of such was Paradise set upon its high hill!--let a messenger seek me in Constantinople; and it may even serve well if the Governor of this Castle be instructed to keep his gates always open to me, and himself obedient to my requests."
"A good suggestion! I will attend to it. But"--
Again he lapsed64 into abstraction, and the Prince held his peace watchfully65.
"Prince," Mahommed said at length, "it is not often I put myself at another's bidding, for freedom to go where one pleases is not more to a common man than is freedom to do what pleases him to a sovereign; yet so will I with you in this matter; and as is the custom of Moslems setting out on a voyage I say of our venture, 'In the name of God be its courses and its moorings.' That settled, hearken further. What you have given me is not all comprehensible. As I understand you, I am to find the surpassing glory in a field of war. Tell me, lies the field far or near? Where is it? And who is he I am to challenge? There will be room and occasion for combat around me everywhere, or, if the occasion exist not, my Spahis in a day's ride can make one. There is nothing stranger than how small a cause suffices us to set man against man, life or death. But--and now I come to the very difficulty--looking here and there I cannot see a war new in any respect, either of parties, or objects, or pretence67, out of which such a prodigious68 fame is to be plucked. You discern the darkness in which I am groping. Light, O Prince--give me light!"
For an instant the mind of the Jew, sown with subtlety69 as a mine with fine ore, was stirred with admiration70 of the quality so strikingly manifested in this demand; but collecting himself, he said, calmly, for the question had been foreseen:
"My Lord was pleased to say a short while ago that the Emir Mirza, on his return from the Hajj, told him of me. Did Mirza tell also of my forbidding him to say anything of the predictions I then intrusted him?"
"Yes," Mahommed answered, smiling, "and I have loved him for the disobedience. He satisfied me to whom he thought his duty was first owing."
"Well, if evil ensue from the disclosure, it may be justly charged to my indiscretion. Let it pass--only, in reporting me, did not Mirza say, Lord Mahommed, that the prohibition71 I laid upon him proceeded from a prudent72 regard for your interests?"
"Yes."
"And in speaking of the change in the status of the world I then announced, and of the refluent wave the East was to pour upon the West"--
"And of the doom73 of Constantinople!" Mahommed cried, in a sudden transport of excitement.
"Ay, and of the hero thou wert to be, my Lord! Said he nothing of the other caution I gave him, how absolute verity74 could only be had by a recast of the horoscope at the city itself? And how I was even then on my way thither63?"
"Truly, O Prince. Mirza is a marvel75!"
"Thanks, my Lord. The assurance prepares me to answer your last demand."
Then, lowering his voice, the Prince returned to his ordinary manner.
"The glory you are to look for will not depend upon conditions such as parties to the war, or its immediate76 cause, or the place of its wagement."
Mahommed listened with open mouth.
"My Lord knows of the dispute long in progress between the Pope of Rome and the Patriarch of Constantinople; one claiming to be the head of the Church of Christ, the other insisting on his equality. The dispute, my Lord also knows, has been carried from East to West, and back and back again, prelate replying to prelate, until the whole Church is falling to pieces, and on every Christian tongue the 'Church East' and the 'Church West' are common as morning salutations."
Mahommed nodded.
"Now, my Lord," the Prince continued, the magnetic eyes intensely bright, "you and I know the capital of Christianity is yonder "--he pointed52 toward Constantinople--"and that conquering it is taking from Christ and giving to Mahomet. What more of definition of thy glory wilt77 thou require? Thus early I salute78 thee a Sword of God."
Mahommed sprang from his couch, and strode the floor, frequently clapping his hands. Upon the passing of the ecstasy79, he stopped in front of the Prince.
"I see it now--the feat80 of arms impossible to my father reserved for me."
Again he walked, clapping his hands.
"I pray your pardon," he said, when the fit was over. "In my great joy I interrupted you."
"I regret to try my Lord's patience further," the Prince answered, with admirable diplomacy81. "It were better, however, to take another step in the explanation now. A few months after separating from Mirza in Mecca, I arrived in Constantinople, and every night since, the heavens being clear, I have questioned the stars early and late. I cannot repeat to my Lord all the inquiries I made of them, so many were they, and so varied82 in form, nor the bases I laid hold of for horoscopes, each having, as I hoped, to do with the date of the founding of the city. What calculations I have made--tables of figures to cover the sky with a tapestry83 of algebraic and geometrical symbols: The walks of astrology are well known --I mean those legitimate--nevertheless in my great anxiety, I have even ventured into the arcana of magic forbidden to the Faithful. The seven good angels, and the seven bad, beginning with Jubanladace, first of the good, a celestial84 messenger, helmeted, sworded with flame, and otherwise beautiful to behold85, and ending with Barman, the lowest of the bad, the consort86 and ally of witches--I besought87 them all for what they could tell me. Is the time of the running of the city now, to-morrow, next week-- when? Such the burden of my inquiry88. As yet, my Lord, no answer has been given. I am merely bid keep watch on the schism89 of the Church. In some way the end we hope has connection with that rancor90, if, indeed, it be not the grand result. With clear discernment of the tendencies, the Roman Pontiff is striving to lay the quarrel; but he speaks to a rising tide. We cannot hasten the event; neither can he delay it. Our role is patience--patience. At last Europe will fall away, and leave the Greek to care of himself; then, my Lord, you have but to be ready. The end is in the throes of its beginning now."
"Still you leave me in the dark," Mahommed cried, with a frown.
"Nay91, my Lord, there is a chance for us to make the stars speak."
The beguiler92 appeared to hesitate.
"A chance?" Mahommed asked.
"It is dependent, my Lord."
"Upon what?"
"The life of the Sultan, thy father."
"Speak not in riddles93, O Prince."
"Upon his death, thou wilt enter on the sovereignty."
"Still I see not clearly."
"With the horoscope of Mahommed the Sultan in my hand, then certainly as the stars perform their circuits, being set thereunto from the first morning, they must respond to me; and then, find I Mars in the Ascendant, well dignified94 essentially95 and accidentally, I can lead my Lord out of the darkness."
"Then, Prince?"
"He may see the Christian capital at his mercy."
"But if Mars be not in the Ascendant?"
"My Lord must wait."
Mahommed sprang to his feet, gnashing his teeth.
"My Lord," said the Prince, calmly, "a man's destiny is never unalterable; it is like a pitcher96 filled with wine which he is carrying to his lips--it may be broken on the way, and its contents spilled. Such has often happened through impatience97 and pride. What is waiting but the wise man's hour of preparation?"
The quiet manner helped the sound philosophy. Mahommed took seat, remarking, "You remind me, Prince, of the saying of the Koran, 'Whatsoever98 good betideth thee, O man, it is from God, and whatsoever evil betideth, from thyself is it.' I am satisfied. Only"--
The Prince summoned all his faculties99 again.
"Only I see two periods of waiting before me; one from this until I take up the sovereignty; the other thence till thou bringest me the mandate100 of the stars. I fear not the second period, for, as thou sayest, I can then lose myself in making ready; but the first, the meantime--ah, Prince, speak of it. Tell me how I can find surcease of the chafing101 of my spirit."
The comprehension of the wily Hebrew did not fail him. His heart beat violently. He was master! Once more he was in position to change the world. A word though not more than "now," and he could marshal the East, which he so loved, against the West, which he so hated. If Constantinople failed him, Christianity must yield its seat to Islam. He saw it all flash-like; yet at no time in the interview did his face betoken102 such placidity104 of feeling. The meantime was his, not Mahommed's--his to lengthen105 or shorten--his for preparation. He could afford to be placid103.
"There is much for my Lord to do," he said.
"When, O Prince--now?"
"It is for him to think and act as if Constantinople were his capital temporarily in possession of another."
The words caught attention, and it is hard saying what Mahommed's countenance betokened106. The reader must think of him as of a listener just awakened107 to a new idea of infinite personal concern.
"It is for him now to learn the city within and without," the Jew proceeded; "its streets and edifices108; its halls and walls; its strong and weak places; its inhabitants, commerce, foreign relations; the character of its ruler, his resources and policies; its daily events; its cliques109 and clubs, and religious factions110; especially is it for him to foment111 the differences Latin and Greek."
It is questionable112 if any of the things imparted had been so effective upon Mahommed as this one. Not only did his last doubt of the man talking disappear; it excited a boundless113 admiration for him, and the freshest novitiate in human nature knows how almost impossible it is to refuse trust when once we have been brought to admire. "Oh!" Mahommed cried. "A pastime, a pastime, if I could be there!"
"Nay, my Lord," said the insidious114 counsellor, with a smile, "how do kings manage to be everywhere at the same time?"
"They have their Ambassadors. But I am not a king."
"Not yet a king"--the speaker laid stress upon the adverb--"nevertheless public representation is one thing; secret agency another."
Mahommed's voice sank almost to a whisper.
"Wilt thou accept this agency?"
"It is for me to observe the heavens at night, while calculations will take my days. I trust my Lord in his wisdom will excuse me."
"Where is one for the service? Name him, Prince--one as good."
"There is one better. Bethink you, my Lord, the business is of a long time; it may run through years."
Mahommed's brow knit darkly at the reminder115.
"And he who undertakes it should enter Constantinople and live there above suspicion. He must be crafty116, intelligent, courtly in manner, accomplished117 in arms, of high rank, and with means to carry his state bravely, for not only ought he to be conspicuous118 in the Hippodrome; he should be welcome in the palace. Along with other facilities, he must be provided to buy service in the Emperor's bedroom and council chamber-- nay, at his elbow. It is of prime importance that he possesses my Lord's confidence unalterably. Am I understood?"
"The man, Prince, the man!"
"My Lord has already named him."
"I?"
"Only to-night my Lord spoke119 of him as a marvel."
"Mirza!" exclaimed Mahommed, clapping his hands.
"Mirza," the Prince returned, and proceeded without pause: "Despatch120 him to Italy; then let him appear in Constantinople, embarked121 from a galley122, habited like a Roman, and with a suitable Italian title. He speaks Italian already, is fixed in his religion, and in knightly123 honor. Not all the gifts at the despot's disposal, nor the blandishments of society can shake his allegiance--he worships my Lord."
"My servant has found much favor with you, O Prince?"
Accepting the remark as a question, the other answered:
"Did I not spend the night with him at El Zaribah? Was I not witness of his trial of faith at the Holy Kaaba? Have I not heard from my Lord himself how, when put to choice, he ignored my prohibition respecting the stars?"
Mahommed arose, and again walked to and fro.
"There is a trouble in this proposal, Prince," he said, halting abruptly124. "So has Mirza become a part of me, I am scarcely myself without him."
Another turn across the floor, and he seemed to become reconciled. "Let us have done for to-night," he next said. "The game is imperative125, but it will not be harmed by a full discussion. Stay with me to-morrow, Prince."
The Prince remembered the Emperor. Not unlikely a message from that high personage was at his house, received in course of the day.
"True, very true, and the invitation is a great honor to me," he replied, bowing; "but I am reminded that the gossips in Byzantium will feast each other when to-morrow it passes from court to bazaar126 how the Princess Irene and the Prince of India were driven by the storm to accept hospitality in the White Castle. And if it get abroad, that Mahommed, son of the great Amurath, came also to the Castle, who may foretell127 the suspicions to hatch in the city? No, my Lord, I submit it is better for me to depart with the Princess at the subsidence of the waters."
"Be it so," Mahommed returned, cordially. "We understand each other. I am to wait and you to communicate with me; and now, morning comes apace, good night."
He held his hand to the Jew; whereat the latter knelt and kissed the hand, but retained it to say:
"My Lord, if I know him rightly, will not sleep to-night; thought is an enemy to sleep; and besides the inspiration there is in the destiny promised, its achievement lies all before him. Yet I wish to leave behind me one further topic, promising128 it is as much greater than any other as the Heavens are higher than the earth."
"Rise, Prince," said Mahommed, helping129 him to his feet. "Such ceremonious salutation whether in reception or at departure may be dispensed130 with hereafter; thou art not a stranger, but more than a guest. I count thee my friend whom everything shall wait upon--even myself. Speak now of what thou callest the greater scheme. I am most curious."
There was a silence while one might count ten slowly. The Jew in that space concentrated the mysterious force of which he was master in great store, so it shone in his eyes, gave tone to his voice, and was an outgoing of WILL in overwhelming current. "Lord Mahommed," he said, "I know you are a believer in God."
The young Turk was conscious of a strange thrill passing through him from brain to body.
"In nature and every quality the God of the Jew, the Christian, and the Moslem66 is the same. Take we their own sayings. Christ and Mahomet were witnesses sent to testify of Him first, highest and alone--Him the universal Father. Yet behold the perversity131 of man. God has been deposed132, and for ages believers in Him have been divided amongst themselves; wherefore hate, jealousies133, wars, battle and the smoke of slaughter134 perpetually. But now is He at last minded to be restored. Hear, Lord Mahommed, hear with soul and mortal ear!"
The words and manner caught and exalted135 Mahommed's spirit. As Michael, with a sweep of his wings, is supposed to pass the nether136 depths, an impulsion bore the son of Amurath up to a higher and clearer plane. He could not but hear.
"Be it true now that God permits His presence to be known in human affairs only when He has a purpose to justify137 His interposition; then, as we dare not presume the capital of Christendom goes to its fall without His permission, why your designation for the mighty138 work? That you may be personally glorified139, my Lord? Look higher. See yourself His chosen instrument--and this the deed! From the seat of the Caesars, its conquest an argument, He means you to bring men together in His name. Titles may remain--Jew, Moslem, Christian, Buddhist--but there shall be an end of wars for religion--all mankind are to be brethren in Him. This the deed, my Lord--Unity in God, and from it, a miracle of the ages slow to come but certain, the evolution of peace and goodwill140 amongst men. I leave the idea with you. Good night!"
Mahommed remained so impressed and confounded that the seer was permitted to walk out as from an empty room. Mirza received him outside the door.
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