Sergius' life in Constantinople had been almost void of incident. His introduction to the Patriarch by the Princess Irene started him well with that reverend official, whose confidence and love she commanded to a singular degree. His personal qualities, however, were very helpful. The gentleness of his nature, his youth, his simplicity2, respectfulness, intelligence and obvious piety3 were all in his favor; at the same time the strongest attraction he possessed4 with the strangers amongst whom he found himself was his likeness5 according to the received Byzantine ideal to Christ. He had a habit, moreover, of walking slowly, and with a quiet tread, his head lowered, his hands clasped before him. Coming in this mood suddenly upon persons, he often startled them; at such times, indeed, the disturbed parties were constrained6 to both observe and forgive him--he reminded them so strikingly of the Nazarene as He must have looked while in solitary7 walks by the sea or along the highways of Galilee. Whatever the cause, it is very certain His Serenity8, the Patriarch, from mere9 attention to the young Russian, passed speedily to interest in him, and manifested it in modes pleasant and noticeable. By his advice, Sergius attached himself to the Brotherhood10 of the Monastery11 of St. James of Manganese. This was the first incident in his city life out of the usual. The second was his presentation at court, where he was not less successful with the Emperor than he had been with the Patriarch. Yet Sergius was not happy. His was the old case of a spirit willing, even anxious, to do, but held in restraint. He saw about him such strong need of saving action; and the Christian12 plan, as he understood it, was so simple and efficacious. There was no difference in the value of souls. Taking Christ's own words, everything was from the Father, and He held the gates of Heaven open for the beggar and the emperor alike. Why not return to the plan devised, practised, and exemplified by the Saviour13 Himself? The idea bore heavily upon his mind, and accounted for the bent14 head and slow step fast becoming habitudes. At times the insurgent15 impulses seemed beyond control. This was particularly when he walked in crowded places; for then the people appeared an audience summoned and ready to hear him; he had only to go into their midst, call to them, and begin speaking; but often as he beheld16 the calm, patient, pleading face of the Princess Irene, and heard her say ever so gently: "Wait, wait! I know the situation--you do not. Our object is the most good. God will send the opportunity. Then martyrdom, if it come, is going to Heaven. Wait--I will give you the signal. You are to speak for me as well as yourself. You are to be my voice"--so often he grew reconciled.
There was another trouble more difficult of comprehension and description. Under its influence the sky did not look so blue as formerly17; the breeze was less refreshing18; the sun where it scattered19 its golden largesse20 over the sea failed to relieve it of dulness; and in all things, himself included, there was something wanting--exactly what he could not tell. However, as he had been indulging comparisons of life in Constantinople with life in Bielo-Osero, and longing21 for the holy quiet of the latter, he concluded he was homesick, and was ashamed. It was childishness! The Great Example had no home! And with that thought he struggled manfully to be a man forever done with such weaknesses.
It became his wont22 of afternoons when the weather was tolerable to seek the city wall opposite the old Chalcedonian point. In going thither23, he sometimes passed through the Hippodrome and Sta. Sophia, both in such contact to the collection of palaces known as the Bucoleon that each might have been fairly considered an appurtenance of the other. The exercises in the spacious24 palaestrae had small interest for him; there was always such evident rancor25 between the factions26 Blue and Green. The dome27 of the great Church he regarded man's best effort at construction, beyond which there was nothing more attainable28; but how it dwindled29 and faded when from the wall he looked at the sky, the sea, and the land, the handiworks of God!
On the wall, at a point marked by a shallow angle, there was a cracked stone bench, offering seawardly a view of the Isles30 of the Princes, and the Asian domain31 beyond Broussa to the Olympian heights; westwardly32, the Bucoleon and its terraced gardens were near by, and above them in the distance the Tower of Isaac Angelus arose over Blacherne, like a sentinel on guard against the opposing summits of Galata and Pera. From the bench, the walk, besides being wide and smooth, extended, with a slight curvature northward33 to the Acropolis, now Point Serail, and on the south to the Port of Julian. The airy promenade34 thus formed was reached by several stairs intermediate the landmarks35 mentioned; yet the main ascent36 was near the Imperial stables, and it consisted of a flight of stone steps built against the inner face of the wall, like a broad buttress37. This latter was for the public, and of sunny days it was used incessantly38. Everybody in the category of invalids39 affected40 it in especial, since litters and sedans were not inhibited41 there. In short, the popularity of this mural saunter can be easily imagined.
The afternoon of the day the Prince of India was in audience by the Emperor's invitation, Sergius was the sole occupant of the stone bench. The hour was pleasant; the distant effects were perfect; birds and boats enlivened the air and water; and in listening to the swish of waves amongst the rocks and pebbles42 below, so like whisperings, he forgot where he was, and his impatience43 and melancholy44, and the people strolling negligently45 past. One of his arms lay along the edge of the bulwark46 before him, and he was not thinking so much as simply enjoying existence. To such as noticed him he appeared a man in the drowsy47 stage next to sleep.
Afterwhile a voice aroused him, and, without moving, he became aware of two men stopped and talking. He could not avoid hearing them.
"She is coming," said one.
"How do you know?" the other asked.
"Have I not told you I keep a spy on the old Prince's house? A messenger from him has just reported the chair arrived for her; and this being her favorite stroll, she will be here presently."
"Have you considered the risks of your project?"
"Risks? Pah!"
The exclamation48 was with a contemptuous laugh.
"But they have grown since last night," the other persisted. "The Indian is now at the Palace, His Majesty49's guest."
"Yes, I had report of that also; but I have studied the game, and if you fear to join me, I will see it through alone. As an offence against law, it is abduction, not murder; and the penalty, imprisonment50, can be easily changed to banishment51, which with me means at the utmost a short absence to give friends an opportunity to prepare for my return. Consider, moreover, the subject of the offence will be a woman. Can you name an instance in which the kidnapper52 of a woman has been punished?--I mean in our time?"
"True, women are the cheapest commodity in the market; therefore"--
"I understand," the first speaker interposed, a little impatiently, "but Princes of India are not common in Constantinople, while their daughters are less so. See the temptation! Besides, in the decadence53 of our Byzantine empire, the criminal laws fail worse and worse of execution. Only last night my father, delivering a lecture, said neglect in this respect was one of the reasons of the Empire's going. Only the poor and degraded suffer penalties now. And I--pah! What have I to fear? Or thou? And from whom? When the girl's loss is discovered--you observe I am viewing the affair in its most malignant54 aspect--I know the course the Prince will take. He will run to the palace; there he will fall at the Emperor's feet, tell his tale of woe55, and"--
"And if thou art denounced?"
The conspirator56 laughed again. "The worse for the Prince," he at length replied. "The Hegumen, my honored father, will follow him to the palace, and--but let the details go! The relations between the Basileus and the Church are strained to breaking; and the condition is not sanable while the quarrel between the Patriarch and Scholarius waxes hotter."
"The Patriarch and Scholarius quarrelling? I had not heard of that."
"Openly, openly! His Majesty and the Patriarch are tenderly sympathetic. What more is wanting to set the Prophet scolding? The Patriarch, it is now known, will not be at the Pannychides to-night. His health began failing when, over his objection, it was decided57 to hold the Mystery, and last week he betook himself to the Holy Mountain. This morning the Prophet"--
"Thou meanest Scholarius?"
"Scholarius denounced him as an azymite, which is bad, if true; as unfaithful to God and the Church, which is worse; and as trying to convert the Emperor into an adherent58 of the Bishop59 of Rome, which, considering the Bishop is Satan unchained, will not admit of a further descent in sin. The Mystery tonight is Scholarius' scheme in contravention of His Serenity's efforts. Oh, it is a quarrel, and a big one, involving Church and State, and the infallibility of our newly risen Jeremiah. Thus full-handed, thinkest thou in a suit the Prince of India against the venerable Hegumen of all the St. James', His Majesty will hesitate? Is thy opinion of him as a politician so uncomplimentary? Think again, I say--think again!"
"Thy father's Brotherhood are His Majesty's friends!"
"Ah, the very point! They despise Scholarius now, and what an ado, what a political display, to drive them into his arms! The Princes of India, though they were numerous as the spectre caravan60, could not carry influence that far."
Here there was a rest in the conversation.
"Well, since thou wilt61 not be persuaded to let the enterprise go," the protesting friend next said, "at least agree with me that it is indiscreet to speak of it in a place public as this."
The laugh of the conspirator was heartier62 than before.
"Ah, hadst thou warned me not to speak of it to the"--
"Enough of that! The Prince of India is nothing to me--thou art my friend."
"Agree with me then that thou hast ears, while the public"--
"Have not, thou wouldst say. Still there are things which may not be whispered in a desert without being overheard."
"The Pagans who went before us had a god of wisdom, and they called him Hermes. I should say thou hast been to school to him. 'Twas he, doubtless, who taught outlaws63 to seek safety in crowded cities. By the same philosophy, where can one talk treason more securely than on this wall? Afraid of discovery! Not I, unless thou mumblest in thy sleep. We go about our good intents--the improvement of our fortune for instance-- with awful care, and step by step, fortifying64. The practice is applicable to wickedness. I am no bungler65. I will tell thee a tale.... Thou knowest the Brotherhood of the Monastery of St. James of Manganese is very ancient, and that the house in which it is quartered is about as old as the Brotherhood. Their archives are the richest in the empire. They have a special chamber66 and a librarian. Were he of the mind, he might write a history of Constantinople by original data without leaving his library. Fortunately the mere keepers of books seldom write books.... My father's office is in the Monastery, and I frequently find myself in his company there. He never fails to improve the opportunity to lecture me, for he is a good man. One day, by invitation, I accompanied the librarian to his place of keeping, and saw it, and wondered how he could be willing to give his days--he is now an old man--to such a mass of rot and smells. I spare you mention of the many things he showed me; for there was but one of real ado with what we are considering, an old document illuminated67 with an untarnished chrysobula. 'Here,' said he, 'is something curious.' The text was short--writers in those days knew the tricks of condensation68, and they practised them virtuously69. I asked him to give it to me--he refused--he would sooner have given me the last lock on his head, which is a great deal, seeing that hair grows precious exactly as it grows scantier70. So I made him hold the lamp while I read.... The document was dated about A.D. 1300--a century and a half gone, and proved to be a formal report by the Patriarch to a council of Bishops71 and Hegumen.... Thou knowest, I am sure, the great cistern72; not the Philoxenus, but the larger one, with an entrance west of Sta. Sophia, sometimes called the Imperial, because built by the first Constantine and enlarged by Justinian."
"I know it."
"Well, there was a great ceremony there one day; the same with which the report was concerned. The clergy73 attended in force and panoply74 led by His Serenity in person--monks, nuns76, deacons and deaconesses--in a word, the Church was present. The cistern had been profaned77. A son of Satan, moved by a most diabolical78 ingenuity79, had converted it into a den1 of wickedness surpassing sinful belief; and the procession and awful conclave80 were to assist His Serenity in restoring the water to wholesomeness81, impossible, in the belief of consumers, except by solemn exorcism.... Heed82 now, my friend--I am about to tap the heart of my story. A plague struck the city--a plague of crime. A woman disappeared. There was search for her, but without success. The affair would have been dismissed within the three days usually allotted83 wonders of the kind, had not another like it occurred--and then another. The victims, it was noticed, were young and beautiful, and as the last one was of noble family the sensation was universal. The whole capital organized for rescue. While the hunt was at its height, a fourth unfortunate went the way of the others. Sympathy and curiosity had been succeeded by anxiety; now the public was aroused to anger, and the parents of handsome girls were sore with fear. Schemes for discovery multiplied; ingenuity was exhausted84; the government took part in the chase--all in vain. And there being then a remission in the disappearance85, the theory of suicide was generally accepted. Quiet and confidence were returning, when, lo! the plague broke out afresh! Five times in five weeks Sta. Sophia was given to funeral services. The ugly women, and the halt, and those long hopeless of husbands shared the common terror. The theory of suicide was discarded. It was the doing of the Turks, everybody said. The Turks were systematically86 foraging87 Constantinople to supply their harems with Christian beauty; or if the Turks were innocent, the devil was the guilty party. On the latter presumption88, the Church authorities invented a prayer of special application. Could anything better signify the despair of the community? A year passed--two years--three--and though every one resolved himself into a watchman and hunter; though heralds89 cried rewards in the Emperor's name three times each day on the street corners, and in every place of common resort; though the fame of the havoc90, rapine, spoliation, or whatsoever91 it may please thee to call the visitation, was carried abroad until everybody here and there knew every particular come to light concerning it, with the pursuit, and the dragging and fishing in the sea, never a clew was found. One--two--three years, during which at intervals92, some long, some short, the ancient Christian centre kept on sealing its doors, and praying. Finally the disappearances93 were about to be accepted as incidents liable to happen at any time to any young and pretty woman. They were placed in the category with death. There was mourning by friends--that was about all. How much longer the mystery would have continued may not be said.... Now accidents may not have brought the world about, yet the world could not get along without accidents. To illustrate94. A woman one day, wanting water for her household, let a bucket down one of the wells of the cistern, and drew up a sandal slippery and decaying. A sliver95 buckle96 adhered to it. Upon inspecting the prize, a name was observed graven on its underside. The curious came to see--there was discussion--at length an examiner blessed with a good memory coupled the inscription97 with one of the lost women. It was indeed her name! A clew to the great mystery was at last obtained. The city was thrown into tumult98, and an exploration of the cistern demanded. The authorities at first laughed. 'What!' they said. 'The Royal reservoir turned into a den of murder and crime unutterable by Christians99!' But they yielded. A boat was launched on the darkened waters--But hold!"
The voice of the speaker changed. Something was occurring to stop the story. Sergius had succumbed100 to interest in it; he was listening with excited sense, yet kept his semblance101 of sleep.
"Hold!" the narrator repeated, in an emphatic102 undertone. "See what there is in knowing to choose faithful allies! My watchman was right. She comes--she is here!"
"Who is here?"
"She--the daughter of the old Indian. In the sedan to my left--look!"
Sergius, catching103 the reply, longed to take the direction to himself, and look, for he was comprehending vaguely104. A blindfolded105 man can understand quite well, if he is first informed of the business in progress, or if it be something with which he is familiar; imagination seems then to take the place of eyes. A detective, having overheard the conversation between the two men, had not required sight of them; but the young monk75 was too recently from the cloisters106 of Bielo-Osero to be quick in the discernment of villanies. He knew the world abounded107 in crime, but he had never dealt with it personally; as yet it was a destroying wolf howling in the distance. He yearned108 to see if what he dimly surmised109 were true--if the object at the moment so attractive to his dangerous neighbors were indeed the daughter of the strange Indian he had met at the White Castle. His recollection of her was wonderfully distinct. Her face and demeanor110 when he assisted her from the boat had often reverted111 to his thought. They spoke112 to him so plainly of simplicity and dependence113, and she seemed so pure and beautiful! And making the acknowledgment to himself, his heart took to beating quick and drum-like. He heard the shuffle114 and slide of the chairmen going; when they ceased a new and strange feeling came and possessed itself of his spirit, and led it out after her. Still he managed to keep his head upon his arm.
"By the saintly patron of thy father's Brotherhood, she is more than lovely! I am almost persuaded."
"Ah, I am not so mad as I was!" the conspirator replied, laughing; then he changed to seriousness, and added, like one speaking between clinched115 teeth--"I am resolved to go on. I will have her--come what may, I will have her! I am neither a coward nor a bungler. Thou mayst stay behind, but I have gone too far to retreat. Let us follow, and see her again--my pretty Princess!"
"Stay--a moment."
Perception was breaking in on Sergius. He scarcely breathed.
"Well?" was the answer.
"You were saying that a boat was launched in the cistern. Then what?"
"Of discovery? Oh, yes--the very point of my argument! A raft was found moored116 between four of the great pillars in the cistern, and there was a structure on it with furnished rooms. A small boat was used for going and coming."
"Wonderful!"
"Come--or we will lose the sight of her."
"But what else?"
"Hooks, such as fishermen use in hunting lobsters117 were brought, and by dragging and fishing the missing women were brought to light--that is, their bones were brought to light. More I will tell as we go. I will not stay longer."
Sergius heard them depart, and presently he raised his head. His blood was cold with horror. He was having the awful revelation which sooner or later bursts upon every man who pursues a walk far in life.
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sliver
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