Alone in his house, the Prince of India was unhappy, but not, as the reader may hurriedly conclude, on account of the rejection1 by the Christians2 of his proposal looking to brotherhood3 in the bonds of religion. He was a trifle sore over the failure, but not disappointed. A reasonable man, and, what times his temper left him liberty to think, a philosopher, he could not hope after the observations he brought from Mecca to find the followers5 of the Nazarene more relaxed in their faith than the adherents6 of Mahomet. In short, he had gone to the palace warned of what would happen.
It was not an easy thing for him to fold up his grand design preparatory to putting it away forever; still there was no choice left him; and now he would move for vengeance7. Away with hesitation8.
Descending10 the heights of Blacherne, he had felt pity for Constantine who, though severely11 tried in the day's affair, had borne himself with dignity throughout; but it was Mahommed's hour. Welcome Mahommed!
Between the two, the Prince's predilections12 were all for the Turk, and they had been from the meeting at the White Castle. Besides personal accomplishments13 and military prestige, besides youth, itself a mighty14 preponderant, there was the other argument--separating Mahommed from the strongest power in the world, there stood only an ancient whose death was a daily expectation. "What opportunities the young man will have to offer me! I have but to make the most of his ambition--to loan myself to it--to direct it."
Thus the Seer reasoned, returning from Blacherne to his house.
At the door, however, he made a discovery. There the first time during the day he thought of her in all things the image of the Lael whom he had buried under the great stone in front of the Golden Gate at Jerusalem. We drop a grain in the ground, and asking nothing of us but to be let alone, it grows, and flowers, and at length amazes us with fruit. Such had been the outcome of his adoption15 of the daughter of the son of Jahdai.
The Prince called Syama.
"Make ready the chair and table on the roof," he said.
While waiting, he ate some bread dipped in wine: then walked the room rubbing his hands as if washing them.
He sighed frequently. Even the servants could see he was in trouble.
At length he went to the roof. Evening was approaching. On the table were the lamp, the clock, the customary writing materials, a fresh map of the heavens, and a perfect diagram of a nativity to be cast.
He took the map in his hand, and smiled--it was Lael's work. "How she has improved!--and how rapidly!" he said aloud, ending a retrospect16 which began with the hour Uel consented to her becoming his daughter. She was unlettered then, but how helpful now. He felt an artist's pride in her growth in knowledge. There were tedious calculations which she took off his hands; his geometrical drawings of the planets in their Houses were frequently done in haste; she perfected them next day. She had numberless daughterly ways which none but those unused to them like him would have observed. What delight she took in watching the sky for the first appearance of the stars. In this work she lent him her young eyes, and there was such enthusiasm in the exclamations17 with which she greeted the earliest wink18 of splendor19 from the far-off orbs20. And he had ailing21 days; then she would open the great Eusebian Scriptures22 at the page he asked for, and read--sometimes from Job, sometimes from Isaiah, but generally from Exodus23, for in his view there was never man like Moses. The contest with Pharaoh--how prodigious24! The battles in magic--what glory in the triumphs won! The luring25 the haughty26 King into the Red Sea, and bringing him under the walls of water suddenly let loose! What majestic27 vengeance!
Of the idle dreams of aged28 persons the possibility of attaching the young to them in sentimental29 bonds of strength to insure resistance to every other attachment30 is the idlest. Positive, practical, experienced though he was, the childless man had permitted this fantasy to get possession of him. He actually brought himself to believe Lael's love of him was of that enduring kind. With no impure31 purpose, yet selfishly, and to bring her under his influence until of preference she could devote her life to him, with its riches of affection, admiration32, and dutiful service, he had surrendered himself to her; therefore the boundless33 pains taken by him personally in her education, the surrounding her with priceless luxuries which he alone could afford--in brief, the attempt to fasten himself upon her youthful fancy as a titled sage34 and master of many mysteries. So at length it came to pass, while he was happy in his affection for her, he was even happier in her affection for himself; indeed he cultivated the latter sentiment and encouraged it in winding35 about his being until, in utter unconsciousness, he belonged to it, and, in repetition of experiences common to others, instead of Lael's sacrificing herself for him, he was ready to sacrifice everything for her. This was the discovery he made at the door of his house.
The reader should try to fancy him in the chair by the table on the roof. Evening has passed into night. The city gives out no sound, and the stars have the heavens to themselves. He is lost in thought--or rather, accepting the poetic36 fancy of a division of the heart into chambers37, in that apartment of the palpitating organ of the Prince of India supposed to be the abode38 of the passions, a very noisy parliament was in full session. The speaker--that is, the Prince himself--submitted the question: Shall I remain here, or go to Mahommed?
Awhile he listened to Revenge, whose speech in favor of the latter alternative may be imagined; and not often had its appeals been more effective. Ambition spoke39 on the same side. It pointed4 out the opportunities offered, and dwelt upon them until the chairman nodded like one both convinced and determined40. These had an assistant not exactly a passion but a kinsman41 collaterally--Love of Mischief--and when the others ceased, it insisted upon being heard.
On the other side, Lael led the opposition42. She stood by the president's chair while her opponents were arguing, her arms round his neck; when they were most urgent, she would nurse his hand, and make use of some trifling43 endearment44; upon their conclusion, she would gaze at him mutely, and with tears. Not once did she say anything.
In the midst of this debate, Lael herself appeared, and kissed him on the forehead.
"Thou here!" he said.
"Why not?" she asked.
"Nothing--only"--
She did not give him time to finish, but caught up the map, and seeing it fresh and unmarked, exclaimed:
"You did so greatly to-day, you ought to rest."
He was surprised.
"Did so greatly?"
"At the palace."
"Put the paper down. Now, O my Gul Bahar"--and he took her hand, and carried it to his cheek, and pressed it softly there--"deal me no riddle45. What is it you say? One may do well, yet come out badly."
"I was at the market in my father Uel's this afternoon," she began, "when Sergius came in."
A face wonderfully like the face of the man he helped lead out to Golgotha flashed before the Prince, a briefest passing gleam.
"He heard you discourse46 before the Emperor. How wickedly that disgusting Gennadius behaved!"
"Yes," the Prince responded darkly, "a sovereign beset47 with such spirits is to be pitied. But what did the young man think of my proposal to the Emperor?"
"But for one verse in the Testament48 of Christ"--
"Nay49, dear, say Jesus of Nazareth,"
"Well, of Jesus--but for one verse he could have accepted your argument of many Sons of God in the Spirit"
"What is the verse?"
"It is where a disciple50 speaks of Jesus as the only begotten51. Son."
The Wanderer smiled.
"The young man is too literal. He forgets that the Only Begotten Son may have had many Incarnations."
"The Princess Irene was also present," Lael went on. "Sergius said she too could accept your argument did you alter it"--
"Alter it!"--A bitter look wrung52 the Prince's countenance--"Sergius, a monk53 not yet come to orders, and Irene, a Princess without a husband. Oh, a small return for my surrender! ... I am tired--very tired," he said impatiently--"and I have so much, so much to think of. Come, good night."
"Can I do nothing for you?"
"Yes, tell Syama to bring me some water."
"And wine?"
"Yes, some wine."
"Very well. Good night."
He drew her to his breast.
"Good night. O my Gul Bahar!"
She went lightly away, never dreaming of the parliament to which she left him.
When she was gone, he sat motionless for near an hour, seeing nothing in the time, although Syama set water and wine on the table. And it may be questioned if he heard anything, except the fierce debate going on in his heart. Finally he aroused, looked at the sky, arose, and walked around the table; and his expression of face, his actions, were those of a man who had been treading difficult ground, but was safely come out of it. Filling a small crystal cup, and holding the red liquor, rich with garnet sparkles, between his eyes and the lamp, he said:
"It is over. She has won. If there were for me but the years of one life, the threescore and ten of the Psalmist, it had been different. The centuries will bring me a Mahommed gallant54 as this one, and opportunities great as he offers; but never another Lael. Farewell Ambition! Farewell Revenge! The world may take care of itself. I will turn looker-on, and be amused, and sleep.... To hold her, I will live for her, but in redoubled state. So will I hurry her from splendor to splendor, and so fill her days with moving incidents, she shall not have leisure to think of another love. I will be powerful and famous for her sake. Here in this old centre of civilization there shall be two themes for constant talk, Constantine and myself. Against his rank and patronage55, I will set my wealth. Ay, for her sake! And I will begin to-morrow."
The next day he spent in making drawings and specifications56 for a palace. The second day he traversed the city looking for a building site. The third day he bought the site most to his fancy. The fourth day he completed a design for a galley57 of a hundred oars58, that it might be sea-going far as the Pillars of Hercules. Nothing ever launched from the imperial docks should surpass it in magnificence. When he went sailing on the Bosphorus, Byzantium should assemble to witness his going, and with equal eagerness wait the day through to behold59 him return. And for the four days, Lael was present and consulted in every particular. They talked like two children.
The schemes filled him with a delight which would have been remarkable60 in a boy. He packed his books and put away his whole paraphernalia61 of study--through Lael's days he would be an actor in the social world, not a student.
Of course he recurred62 frequently to the engagements with Mahommed. They did not disturb him. The Turk might clamor--no matter, there was the ever ready answer about the unready stars. The veteran intriguer63 even laughed, thinking how cunningly he had provided against contingencies64. But there was a present practical requirement begotten of these schemes--he must have money--soldans by the bag full.
Very early in the morning of the fifth day, having studied the weather signs from his housetop, he went with Nilo to the harbor gate of Blacherne, seeking a galley suitable for an outing of a few days on the Marmora. He found one, and by noon she was fitted out, and with him and Nilo aboard, flying swiftly around Point Serail.
Under an awning65 over the rudder-deck, he sat observing the brown-faced wall of the city, and the pillars and cornices of the noble structures towering above it. As the vessel66 was about passing the Seven Towers, now a ruin with a most melancholy67 history, but in that day a well-garrisoned fortress68, he conversed69 with the master of the galley.
"I have no business in the strict meaning of the term," he said, in good humor. "The city has become tiresome70 to me, and I have fancied a run on the water would be bracing71 to body and restful to mind. So keep on down the sea. When I desire a change of direction, I will tell you." The mariner72 was retiring. "Stay," the Prince continued, his attention apparently73 caught by two immense gray rocks rising bluffly75 out of the blue rippling76 in which the Isles78 of the Princes seemed afloat--"What are those yonder? Islands, of course, but their names?"
"Oxia and Plati--the one nearest us is Oxia."
"Are they inhabited?"
"Yes and no," the captain replied, smiling. "Oxia used to have a convent, but it is abandoned now. There may be some hermits80 in the caves on the other side, but I doubt if the poor wretches81 have noumias to keep their altars in candles. It was so hard to coax82 visitors into believing God had ever anything to do with the dreary83 place that patrons concluded to give it over to the bad. Plati is a trifle more cheerful. Three or four monks84 keep what used to be the prison there; but they are strays from unknown orders, and live by herding85 a few starving goats and cultivating snails86 for the market."
"Have you been on either of them recently?"
"Yes, on Plati."
"When?"
"Within the year."
"Well, you excite my curiosity. It is incredible that there can be two such desolations in such close vicinity to yon famous capital. Turn and row me around them."
The captain was pleased to gratify his passenger, and stood by him while the galley encircled Oxia, telling legends, and pointing out the caves to which celebrated88 anchorites had lent their names. He gave in full the story of Basil and Prusien, who quarrelled, and fought a duel89 to the scandal of the Church; whereupon Constantine VIII., then emperor, exiled them, the former to Oxia, the latter to Plati, where their sole consolation90 the remainder of their lives was gazing at each other from the mouths of their respective caverns91. For some reason, Plati, to which he next crossed, was of more interest to the Prince than its sister isle77. What a cruel exterior92 the prison at the north end had! Wolves and bats might live in it, but men--impossible! He drew back horrified93 when told circumstantially of the underground cells.
While yet on the eastern side, the passenger said he would like to go up to the summit.
"There," he exclaimed, pointing to a part of the bluff74 which appeared to offer a climb, "put me on that shelving rock. I think I can go up by it."
The small boat was lowered, and directly he set foot on the identical spot which received him when, in the night fifty-six years before, he made the ascent94 with the treasures of Hiram King of Tyre.
Almost any other man would have given at least a thought to that adventure; the slice out of some lives would have justified95 a tear; but he was too intent thinking about the jewels and the sword of Solomon.
His affected96 awkwardness in climbing amused the captain, watching him from the deck, but at last he gained the top of the bluff.
The plain there was the same field of sickly weeds and perishing vines, with here and there a shrub97, and yonder a stunted98 olive tree, covered trunk and branches with edible87 snails. If it brought anything in the market, the crop, singular only to the Western mind, was plenteous enough to be profitable to its farmers. There too was the debris99 of the tower. With some anxiety he went to the stone which the reader will probably remember as having to be rolled away from the mouth of the hiding-place. It had not been disturbed. These observations taken, he descended100 the bluff, and was received aboard the galley.
A very cautious man was the Prince of India. In commercial parlance101, he was out to cash a draft on the Plati branch of his quadruple bank. He was not down to assist the captain of the galley to partnership102 with him in the business. So, after completing the circuit of Plati, the vessel bore away for Prinkipo and Halki, which Greek wealth and taste had converted into dreamful Paradises. There it lay the night and next day, while the easy-going passenger, out for air and rest, amused himself making excursions to the convents and neighboring hills.
The second night, a perfect calm prevailing103, he took the small boat, and went out on the sea drifting, having provided himself with wine and water, the latter in a new gurglet bought for the trip. The captain need not be uneasy if he were late returning, he said on departing. Nilo was an excellent sailor, and had muscle and spirit to contend against a blow.
The tranquil104 environments of Prinkipo were enlivened by other parties also drifting. Their singing was borne far along the starlit sea. Once beyond sight and hearing, Nilo plied79 the oars diligently105, bringing up an hour or two after midnight at the shelving rock under the eastern bluff of Plati. The way to the ruined tower was then clear.
Precisely106 as at the first visit when burial was the object, the concealing107 stone was pushed aside; after which the Prince entered the narrow passage crawling on his hands and knees. He was anxious. If the precious stones had been discovered and carried away, he would have to extend the voyage to Jaffa in order to draw from the Jerusalem branch of his bank. But the sword of Solomon--that was not in the power of man to duplicate--its loss would be irreparable.
The stones were mouldy, the passage dark, the progress slow. He had literally108 to feel every inch in front of him, using his hands as a caterpillar109 uses its antennae110; but he did not complain--the difficulties were the inducements which led him to choose the hiding-place in the first instance. At length he went down a broken step, and, rising to his knees, slipped his left hand along the face of the wall until his fingers dropped into a crack between rocks. It was the spot he sought; he knew it, and breathed easily. In murky111 lamplight, with mallet112 and chisel--ah, how long ago!--he had worked a shelf there, finishing it with an oblong pocket in the bottom. To mask the hole was simple. Three or four easy-fitting blocks were removed, and thrusting a hand in, he drew forth113 the sheepskin mantle114 of the elder Nilo.
In spite of the darkness, he could not refrain from unrolling the mildewed115 cover. The sword was safe! He drew the blade and shot it sharply back into the scabbard, then kissed the ruby116 handle, thinking again of the purchasing power there was in the relic117 which was yet more than a relic. The leather of the water-gurglet, stiff as wood, responded to a touch. The jewels were also safe, the great emerald with the rest. He touched the bags, counting from one to nine inclusively. Then remembering the ten times he had crawled into the passage to put the treasures away, he began their removal, and kept at it until every article was safely deposited in the boat.
On the way back to the galley he made new packages, using his mantle as a wrap for the sword, and the new gurglet for the bags of jewels.
"I have had enough," he exclaimed to the captain, dropping wearily on the deck about noon. "Take me to the city." After a moment of reflection, he added: "Land me after nightfall."
"We will reach the harbor before sundown."
"Oh, well! There is the Bosphorus--go to Buyukdere, and come back."
"But, my Lord, the captain of the gate may decline to allow you to pass."
The Prince smiled, and rejoined, with a thought of the bags in the gurglet thrown carelessly down by him: "Up with the anchor."
The sailor's surmise118 was groundless. Disembarking about midnight, he whispered his name to the captain at the gate of Blacherne, and, leaving a soldan in the official palm, was admitted without examination. On the street there was nothing curious in an old man carrying a mantle under his arm, followed by a porter with a half-filled gurglet on his shoulder. Finally, the adventure safely accomplished119, the Prince of India was home again, and in excellent humor.
One doubt assailed120 him--one only. He had just seen the height of Candilli, an aerial wonder in a burst of moonlight, and straightway his fancy had crowned it with a structure Indian in style, and of material to shine afar delicate as snow against the black bosomed121 mountain behind it. He was not a Greek to fear the Turks. Nay, in Turkish protection there was for him a guaranty of peaceable ownership which he could not see under Constantine. And as he was bringing now the wherewith to realize his latest dream, he gave his imagination a loosened rein122.
He built the house; he heard the tinkling123 of fountains in its courts, and the echoes in the pillared recession of its halls; free of care, happy once more, with Lael he walked in gardens where roses of Persia exchanged perfumes with roses of Araby, and the daylong singing of birds extended into noon of night; yet, after all, to the worn, weary, droughted heart nothing was so soothing124 as the fancy which had been his chief attendant from the gate of Blacherne--that he heard strangers speaking to each other: "Have you seen the Palace of Lael?" "No, where is it?" "On the crest125 of Candilli." The Palace of Lael! The name confirmed itself sweeter and sweeter by repetition. And the doubt grew. Should he build in the city or amidst the grove126 of Judas trees on the crest of Candilli?
Just as he arrived before his door, he glanced casually127 across the street, and was surprised by observing light in Uel's house. It was very unusual. He would put the treasure away, and go over and inquire into the matter. Hardly was he past his own lintel when Syama met him. The face of the faithful servant showed unwonted excitement, and, casting himself at his master's feet, he embraced his knees, uttering the hoarse129 unintelligible130 cries with which the dumb are wont128 to make their suffering known. The Master felt a chill of fear--something had happened--something terrible--but to whom? He pushed the poor man's head back until he caught the eyes.
"What is it?" he asked.
Syama arose, took the Prince's hand, and led him out of the door, across the street, and into Uel's house. The merchant, at sight of them, rushed forward and hid his face in the master's breast, crying:
"She is gone--lost!--The God of our fathers be with her!"
"Who is gone? Who lost?"
"Lael, Lael--our child--our Gul Bahar."
The blood of the elder Jew flew to his heart, leaving him pale as a dead man; yet such was his acquired control of himself, he asked steadily131: "Gone!--Where?"
"We do not know. She has been snatched from us--that is all we know."
"Tell me of it--and quickly."
The tone was imperious, and he pushed Uel from him.
"Oh! my friend--and my father's friend--I will tell you all. You are powerful, and love her, and may help where I am helpless." Then by piecemeal132 he dealt out the explanation. "This afternoon she took her chair and went to the wall in front of the Bucoleon--sunset, and she was not back. I saw Syama--she was not in your house. He and I set out in search of her. She was seen on the wall--later she was seen to descend9 the steps as if starting home--she was seen in the garden going about on the terrace--she was seen coming out of the front gate of the old palace. We traced her down the street--then she returned to the garden, through the Hippodrome, and there she was last seen. I called my friends in the market to my aid--hundreds are now looking for her."
"She went out in her chair, did you say?"
The steady voice of the Prince was in singular contrast with his bloodless face.
"Yes."
"Who carried it?"
"The men we have long had."
"Where are they?"
"We sought for them--they cannot be found."
The Prince kept his eyes on Uel's face. They were intensely, fiercely bright. He was not in a rage, but thinking, if a man can be said to think when his mind projects itself in a shower. Lael's disappearance133 was not voluntary; she was in detention134 somewhere in the city. If the purpose of the abduction were money, she would be held in scrupulous135 safety, and a day or two would bring the demand; but if--he did not finish the idea--it overpowered him. Pure steel in utmost flexion breaks into pieces without warning; so with this man now. He threw both hands up, and cried hoarsely136: "Lend me, O God, of thy vengeance!" and staggering blindly, he would have fallen but for Syama.
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