The sedan was set down before a marble gate on the third terrace.
"My duty is hardly complete. Suffer me to conduct you farther," the officer said, politely, as the Prince stepped from the box.
"And my servants?"
"They will await you."
The speakers were near the left corner of a building which projected considerably1 from the general front line of the Palace. The wall, the gateway2, and the building were of white marble smoothly3 dressed.
After a few words with Syama, the Prince followed his guide into a narrow enclosure on the right of which there was a flight of steps, and on the left a guard house. Ascending4 the steps, the two traversed a passage until they came to a door.
"The waiting-room. Enter," said the conductor.
Four heavily curtained windows lighted the apartment. In the centre there were a massive table, and, slightly removed from it, a burnished5 copper6 brazier. Bright-hued rugs covered the floor, and here and there stools carven and upholstered were drawn7 against the painted walls. The officer, having seen his charge comfortably seated, excused himself and disappeared.
Hardly was he gone when two servants handsomely attired8 came in with refreshments--fruits in natural state, fruits candied, sweetened bread, sherbet, wine and water. A chief followed them, and, with much humility9 of manner, led the Prince to a seat at the table, and invited him to help himself. The guest was then left alone; and while he ate and drank he wondered at the stillness prevalent; the very house seemed in awe10.
Ere long another official entered, and after apologizing for introducing himself, said: "I am Dean of the Court. In the absence of my lord Phranza, it has fallen to me to discharge, well as I can, the duties of Grand Chamberlain."
The Prince, observant of the scrutinizing12 glance the Dean gave his person, acknowledged the honor done him, and the pleasure he derived13 from the acquaintance. The Dean ought to be happy; he had great fame in the city and abroad as a most courteous14, intelligent, and faithful servant; there was no doubt he deserved preeminently the confidence his royal master reposed15 in him.
"I am come, O Prince," the old functionary17 said, after thanks for the friendly words, "to ascertain18 if you are refreshed, and ready for the audience."
"I am ready."
"Let us to His Majesty19 then. If I precede you, I pray pardon."
Drawing the portiere aside, the Dean held it for the other's passage.
They entered an extensive inner court, surrounded on three sides by a gallery resting on pillars. On the fourth side, a magnificent staircase ascended20 to a main landing, whence, parting right and left, it terminated in the gallery. Floor, stairs, balustrading, pillars, everything here was red marble flooded with light from a circular aperture21 in the roof open to the sky.
Along the stairs, at intervals22, officers armed and in armor were stationed, and keeping their positions faced inwardly, they seemed like statues. Other armed men were in the galleries. The silence was impressive. Coming presently to an arched door, the Prince glanced into a deep chamber11, and at the further end of it beheld23 the Emperor seated in a chair of state on a dais curtained and canopied24 with purple velvet25.
"Take heed26 now, O Prince," said the Dean, in a low voice. "Yonder is His Majesty. Do thou imitate me in all things. Come."
With this kindly27 caution the Dean led into the chamber of public audience. Just within the door, he halter, crossed hands upon his breast, and dropped to his knees, his eyes downcast; rising, he kept on about halfway28 to the dais, and again knelt; when near his person's length from the dais, he knelt and fully29 prostrated30 himself. The Prince punctiliously31 executed every motion, except that at the instant of halting the last time he threw both hands up after the manner of Orientals. A velvet carpet of the accepted imperial color stretched from door to dais greatly facilitated the observances.
A statuesque soldier, with lance and shield, stood at the left of the dais, a guard against treachery; by the chair, bare-headed, bare-legged, otherwise a figure in a yellow tunic32 lightly breastplated, appeared the sword-bearer, his slippers33 stayed with bands of gold, a blade clasped to his body by the left forearm, the hilt above his shoulder; and spacious34 as the chamber was, a row of dignitaries civil, military, and ecclesiastical lined the walls each in prescribed regalia. The hush35 already noticed was observable here, indicative of rigid36 decorum and awful reverence37. "Rise, Prince of India," the Emperor said, without movement.
The visitor obeyed.
The last of the Palaeologae was in Basilean costume; a golden circlet on his head brilliantly jewelled and holding a purple velvet cap in place; an overgown of the material of the cap but darker in tint38, and belted at the waist; a mantle39 stiff with embroidery40 of pearls hanging by narrow bands so as to drop from the shoulder over the breast and back, leaving the neck bare; an ample lap-robe of dark purple cloth sparkling with precious stones covering his nether41 limbs. The chair was square in form without back or arms; its front posts twined and intricately inlaid with ivory and silver, and topped each with a golden cone42 for hand-rest. The bareness of the neck was relieved by four strings43 of pearls dropped from the circlet two on a side, and drawn from behind the ears forward so as to lightly tip the upper edge of the mantle. The right hand rested at the moment on the right cone of the chair; the left was free. The attitude of the figure thus presented was easy and unconstrained, the countenance44 high and noble, and altogether the guest admitted to himself that he had seldom been introduced to royalty45 more really imposing46.
There was hardly an instant allowed for these observations. To set his guest at ease, Constantine continued: "The way to our door is devious47 and upward. I hope it has not too severely48 tried you."
"Your Majesty, were the road many times more trying I would willingly brave it to be the recipient49 of honors and attentions which have made the Emperor of Constantinople famous in many far countries, and not least in mine."
The courtierly turn of the reply did not escape the Emperor. It had been strange if he had not put the character of his guest to question; indeed, an investigation50 had proceeded by his order, with the invitation to audience as a result; and now the self-possession of the stranger, together with his answer, swept the last doubt from, the imperial mind. An attendant, responding to a sign, came forward.
"Bring me wine," and as the servant disappeared with the order, Constantine again addressed his visitor. "You maybe a Brahman or an Islamite," he said, with a pleasant look to cover any possible mistake: "in either case, O Prince, I take it for granted that the offer of a draught51 of Chian will not be resented."
"I am neither a Mohammedan, nor a devotee of the gentle son of Maya. I am not even a Hindoo in religion. My faith leads me to be thankful for all God's gifts to his creatures. I will take the cup Your Majesty deigns52 to propose."
The words were spoken with childlike simplicity53 of manner; yet nowhere in these pages have we had a finer example of the subtlety54 which, characteristic of the speaker, seemed inspiration rather than study. He knew from general report how religion dominated his host, and on the spur of the moment, thought to pique55 curiosity with respect to his own faith; seeing, as he fancied, a clear path to another audience, with ampler opportunity to submit and discuss the idea of Universal Brotherhood56 in God.
The glance with which he accompanied assent57 to the cup was taken as a mere58 accentuation of gratitude59; it was, however, for discovery. Had the Emperor noticed the declaration of what he was not? Did his intelligence suggest how unusual it was for an Indian to be neither a Mohammedan, nor a Brahman, nor even a Buddhist60 in religion? He saw a sudden lifting of the brows, generally the preliminary of a question; he even made an answer ready; but the other's impulse seemed to spend itself in an inquiring look, which, lingering slightly, might mean much or nothing. The Prince resolved to wait.
Constantine, as will be seen presently, did observe the negations, and was moved to make them the subject of remark at the moment; but inordinately61 sensitive respecting his own religious convictions, he imagined others like himself in that respect, and upon the scruple62, for which the reader will not fail to duly credit him, deferred64 inquiry65 until the visitor was somewhat better understood.
Just then the cupbearer appeared with the wine; a girlish lad he was, with long blond curls. Kneeling before the dais, he rested a silver platter and the liquor sparkling on it in a crystal decanter upon his right knee, waiting the imperial pleasure.
Taking the sign given him, the Dean stepped forward and filled the two cups of chased gold also on the platter, and delivered them. Then the Emperor held his cup up while he said in a voice sufficiently66 raised for general hearing:
"Prince of India, I desired your presence to-day the rather to discharge myself of obligations for important assistance rendered my kinswoman, the Princess Irene of Therapia, during her detention67 at the White Castle; a circumstance of such late occurrence it must be still fresh in your memory. By her account the Governor was most courteous and hospitable68, and exerted himself to make her stay in his stronghold agreeable as possible. Something truly extraordinary, considering the forbidding exterior69 of the house, and the limited means of entertainment it must have to offer, she declared he succeeded in converting what threatened to be a serious situation into an adventure replete70 with pleasant surprises. A delegate is now at the Castle assuring the Governor of my appreciation71 of his friendly conduct. By her account, also, I am bounden to you, Prince, scarcely less than to him."
The gravity of the visitor at hearing this was severely attacked. Great as was his self-control, he smiled at thought of the dilemma72 the Governor was in, listening to a speech of royal thanks and receiving rich presents in lieu of his young master Mahommed. When the envoy73 returned and reported, if perchance he should describe the Turk whom he found in actual keeping of the Castle, the discrepancy74 between his picture of the man and that of the Princess would be both mysterious and remarkable75.
"Your Majesty," the Prince returned, with a deprecating gesture, "the storm menaced me quite as much as the Princess, and calls for confession76 of my inability to see wherein I rendered her service free of regard for myself. Indeed, it is my duty to inform Your Majesty, all these noble witnesses hearing me, that I am more beholden to your noble kinswoman for help and deliverance in the affair than she can be to me. But for the courage and address, not to mention the dignity and force with which she availed herself of her royal relationship, resolving what was at first a simple invitation to refuge into a high treaty between the heads of two great powers, I and my daughter"--
"Daughter, said you?"
"Yes, Your Majesty--Heaven has so favored me--I, my daughter, and my frightened boatmen would have been committed to the river near the Castle, without recourse except in prayer to Heaven. Nay78, Your Majesty, have I permission to say on, Charity had never a sweeter flowering than when the Princess remembered to take the stranger under her protection. I am past the age of enthusiasm and extravagance--my beard and dimming eyes prove the admission--yet I declare, weighing each word, she has the wit, the spirit, the goodness, the loveliness to be the noblest of queens to the best of kings; and fails she such choice, it will be because destiny has been struck by some unaccountable forgetfulness."
By this time the courtiers, drawn in from the walls, composed a very brilliant circle around the throne, each one curious to hear the stranger as he had been to see him; and they were quick to point his last sentence; for most of them had been with the Emperor in the voyage to Therapia, which was still a theme of wager79 and wrangle80 scarcely less interesting than in its first hour. By one impulse they ventured a glance at the royal face, seeking a revelation; but the countenance was steady as a mask.
"The encomium81 is well bestowed82, and approves thy experience, Prince, as a reader of women," Constantine said, with just enough fervor83. "Henceforth I shall know the degree of trust to repose16 in thy judgment84, other problems as difficult being in controversy85. Nevertheless, is the lady to be believed, then, O Prince, I repeat my acknowledgment of indebtedness. It pleases me to greatly estimate thy influence and good judgment happily exerted. Mayst thou live long, Prince of India, and always find thyself as now among friends who charge themselves to be watchful86 for opportunities to befriend thee."
He raised the cup.
"It is Your Majesty's pleasure," the guest replied, and they drank together.
"A seat for the Prince of India," the Emperor next directed.
The chair, when brought, was declined.
"In my palace--for at home I exercise the functions of a king--it often falls to me to give audiences; if public, we call them durbars; and then an inferior may not sit in my presence. The rule, like all governing the session, is of my own enactment87. I see plainly how greatly Your Majesty designs to heap me with honors; and if I dare decline this one, it is not from disposition88 to do a teacher's part, but from habit which has the sanction of heredity, and the argument self addressed: Shall I despise my own ordinances89? God forbid!"
A murmur90 from the concourse was distinctly audible, which the Dean interpreted by repeated affirmative nods. In other words, by this stroke the able visitor won the court as he had already won its head; insomuch that the most doubting of the doubters would not have refused to certify91 him on belief the very Prince of India he claimed to be. The Emperor, on his part, could not but defer63 to scruples92 so cogently93 and solemnly put; at the same time, out of his very certainty respecting the guest, he passed to a question which in probability the reader has been for some time entertaining.
"The makers94 of a law should be first to observe it; for having done so, they then have God's license95 to exert themselves in its enforcement; and when one is found observant of a principle which has root so perceptibly in conscience, to deny him his pleasure were inexcusable. Have thy will, Prince."
The applause which greeted the decision of His Majesty was hardly out of ear when he proceeded:
"Again I pray you, Sir Guest--I greatly misapprehend the travellers who tell of India, if the people of that venerable country are not given to ceremonials religious as well as secular96. Many of our own observances of a sacred nature are traceable to study and discernment of the good effects of form in worship, and since some of them are unquestionably borrowed from temples of the Pagan gods, yet others may be of Hindoo origin. Who shall say? Wherefore, speaking generally, I should fear to ask you to any of our Church mysteries which I did not know were purely97 Greek. One such we have this evening. We call it Pannychides. Its principal feature is a procession of monastic brethren from the holy houses of the city and Islands--all within the jurisdiction98 of our Eastern Church, which, please God, is of broader lines than our State. The fathers have been assembling for the celebration several days. They will form in the city at set of sun, throwing the march into the night. Here, within our grounds, more particularly at the door of the Chapel99 of our Holy Virgin100 of Blacherne, I will meet them. They will pass the night in prayer, an army on bended knees, sorrowing for the pains of our Saviour101 in Gethsemane. I was uncertain what faith you profess102; yet, Prince, I thought--forgive me, if it was an error--a sight of the spirit of our Churchmen as it will be manifested on this occasion might prove interesting to you; so I have taken the liberty of ordering a stand erected103 for your accommodation at a position favorable to witnessing the procession in movement up the terraces. No one has seen the spectacle without realizing as never before the firmness of the hold Christ has taken upon the souls of men." The last words startled the Prince. Christ's hold upon the souls of men! The very thing he wanted to learn, and, if possible, measure. A cloud of thoughts fell about him; yet he kept clear head, and answered quietly:
"Your Majesty has done me great kindness. I am already interested in the Mystery. Since we cannot hope ever to behold77 God with these mortal eyes, the nearest amend104 for the deprivation105 is the privilege of seeing men in multitudes demonstrating their love of Him."
Constantine's eyes lingered on the Prince's face. The utterances106 attracted him. The manner was so artfully reverential as not to leave a suspicion of the guile107 behind it. Going down great galleries, every one has had his attention suddenly arrested; he pauses, looks, and looks again, then wakes to find the attraction was not a picture, but only a flash within his own mind. So, with the guest before him, the Emperor was thinking of the man rather than seeing him--thinking of him with curiosity fully awakened108, and a desire to know him better. And had he followed up the desire, he would have found its source in the idea that India was a region in which reflection and psychological experiment had been exhausted--where if one appeared with a thought it turned old ere it could be explained--where wisdom had fructified109 until there was no knowledge more--where the teaching capacity was all there was remaining. That is to say, in the day of the last Byzantine Emperor, centuries ago, humanity in India was, as now, a clock stopped, but stopped in the act of striking, leaving a glory in the air imaginable like the continuing sound of hushed cathedral bells.
"Prince," he at length said, "you will remain here until the procession is announced at the Grand Gate. I will then give you a guide and a guard. Our steward110 has orders to look after your comfort." Turning then to the acting111 Chamberlain, he added: "Good Dean, have we not a little time in which to hear our guest further?"
"Your Majesty, an hour at least."
"You hear, O Prince? Provided always that it be not to your displeasure, tell me what I am to understand by the disclaimer which, broadly interpreted, leaves you either a Jew or a Christian112?"
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