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"He walks the streets of Med," Balator had told him at the banquet, "saying 'Melek, Melek, which is to say 'king, and so he is seeking the king. But he is mad, and he weeps; and therefore they pretend to believe that he says, 'Malakh, which is to say 'salt, and they call him that, for his tears." Could old Malakh possibly know something of the king? The hope returned to St.
Balator himself not only refrained from stoning the barbarians with commonplaces, but he did not so much as mention America to them or treat them otherwise than as companions, as if his was not only the cosmopolitanism that knows no municipal or continental aliens of its own class, but a kind of inter-dimensional cosmopolitanism as well. "Which," said Amory afterward, "was enviable.
He was, they subsequently learned, an authority upon insect life in Yaque, for he had never had the smallest opportunity to go to war. As Balator led his guests to their seats near the throne every one looked on them, as they passed, with the serenest fellowship, and no regard persisted longer than a glance, friendly and fugitive.
Ecnibal, the son of Baslach, the first judge, held the position for no more than two months; Chelbes, the son of Abdaeus, who followed him, ruled for ten months; Abbarus, a high priest, probably of Melkarth, for three months. But the partisans of monarchy were now recovering strength; and the reign of a king, Balator, was intruded at some point in the course of the six years' judgeship.
Ah well, she could not possibly be angry, he thought; but with all this in his mind it was hardly reasonable of Amory to expect him to speculate on where Miss Frothingham might have been seen before. If it weren't for this Balator now, St. George said to himself restlessly, and suddenly observed that Balator was expecting them to follow him.
"It is well," he said simply, "Malakh has come." While St. George was marveling but not that the old man spoke the English, for in Yaque it was not surprising to find the very madmen speaking one's own tongue Balator explained the man. "He is a poor mad creature," Balator said. "He walks the streets of Med saying 'Melek, Melek, which is to say, 'king, and so he is seeking the king.
George and Balator in the place appointed. A guard came to conduct him, and he crossed to his seat and sank down with the look that could be made to mean whatever Amory meant. "I expect to be served," murmured the journalist in him, "by beautiful tame megatheriums, in sashes. And is that glyptodon salad?" St. George's eyes were upon the guests, so tranquilly seated, aware of the hour.
Immediately there presented himself to them a little man who proved to be Balator, lord-chief-commander of the Royal Golden Guard, and now especially directed by the prince, he pleasantly told them, to be responsible for their entertainment and comfort during the ceremony to follow. They were, in fact, his guests for the evening, but St.
"I fancy," he said in half-voice, "that presently we shall see little flames issuing from their hair, as there used from the hair of the ladies in Werner's ballets." Then as Balator leaned toward him in his splendid leisure, fostering his charm, there came an amazing interruption.
George listened to what Balator said, and he heard with utmost understanding, and with the frequent pleasure of wonder, and was now and then exquisitely amused as one is amused in dreams.
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