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"Eat, gentle youth," said the Eremite. "Will not thy brother join us? What may be his name?" "Nicæus, holy father." "And thine?" Iduna blushed and hesitated. At length, in her confusion, she replied, "Iskander." "Nicæus," called out the Eremite, "Iskander and myself await thee!" Iduna trembled.
After the battle of the bridge, Iskander had hurried to Croia without delay. In his progress, he had made many fruitless inquiries after Iduna and Nicæus, but he consoled himself for the unsatisfactory answers he received by the opinion that they had taken a different course, and the conviction that all must now be safe.
They feasted, they listened to sweet music, they talked over their late adventures, and, animated by their own enjoyment, they became more sanguine as to the fate of Iskander. "In two or three days we shall know more," said Nicæus. "In the meantime, rest is absolutely necessary to you. It is only now that you will begin to be sensible of the exertion you have made.
The guards of Mahomed poured forth from the side of the grove whence the prince had issued. "And dost thou indeed think, Mahomed," said Iskander, "that I have been educated in the Seraglio to be duped by Moslemin craft. I offer thee single combat if thou desirest it, but combat as we may, the struggle shall be equal."
"We conquered Anatolia, and never opened our mouths," rejoined his companion. "I never offered an opinion till I was sixty," said the old Turk; "and then it was one which had been in our family for a century." "No wonder Hunniades carries everything before him," said his companion. "And that accursed Iskander," said the old man. The chief eunuch, finishing his vase of sherbet, moved away.
Now Iskander was very anxious to effect the removal of these garrisons without loss of time, in order that if Amurath sent a great power against him, as he expected, the invading army might have nothing to rely upon but its own force, and that his attention might not in any way be diverted from effecting their overthrow.
The Esquire seized the Shoulders of the prisoner, who would have spoken had he not been terrified by the threats of Iskander, who, carrying the legs of the sentinel, allowed the Polish gentleman to lead the way to the pavilion of Hunniades.
The perfection of his genius is to be sought, as a matter of fact, in his romantic eastern work, such as The Ballad of Iskander, A Miracle of Bethlehem, Gates of Damascus, and Bryan of Brittany. The false, fair tale of the East had, as it were, released; him from mere flirtation with the senses into the world of the imagination. Of human passions he sang little.
Amid them, Iskander, unhurt, swam like a river god, and stabbed to the heart the only strong swimmer that was making his way in the direction of Epirus. Drenched and exhausted, Iskander at length stood upon the opposite margin, and wrung his garments, while he watched the scene of strange destruction.
The beauty, talents, and valour of the youngest son, saved him, however, from the fate of his poisoned brothers. Iskander was educated at Adrianople, in the Moslemin faith, and as he, at a very early age, exceeded in feats of arms all the Moslemin warriors, he became a prime favourite of the Sultan, and speedily rose in his service to the highest rank.
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