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"Yes, he asked to see his companion, the other officer." Antinea tapped the little tray still more rapidly. "Did he say nothing else?" "No, mistress," said the man. A pallor overspread the Atlantide's little forehead. "Go get him," she said brusquely. Bowing, the Targa left the room. I listened to this dialogue with great anxiety. Was this Morhange? Had he been faithful to me, after all?
With a wrench, I pulled myself free and sent a chance blow at my assailant. The cry, this time of pain and rage, broke out again. It was echoed by a long peal of laughter. Furious, I turned to look for the insolent onlooker, thinking to speak my mind. And then my glance stood still. Antinea was before me.
At my feet, now red, I saw the rock which Antinea had pointed out to me the day of our first interview, huge, steep, overhanging the reddish brown garden. "That is my horizon," she had said. M. Le Mesge's excitement had passed all bounds. "It is worse than shameful; it is infamous." I almost wanted to strangle him into silence. He seized my arm.
At first, he made mistakes. That is how, on his first trips, he brought back old Le Mesge and marabout Spardek. "'What did Antinea say when she saw them? "'Antinea? She laughed so hard that she spared them. Ceghéir-ben-Cheikh was vexed to see her laugh so. Since then, he has never made a mistake. "'He has never made a mistake? "'No.
On the contrary, it was stimulated by my desire for the event which would be the signal of my downfall, the summons from Antinea. But this summons was not speedy in coming. And from this delay, arose my unhealthy exasperation. "Did I have any lucid moments in the course of these hours? I do not think so. I do not recall having even said to myself, 'What, aren't you ashamed?
"Near the wells of Asiou, the Moors were attacked by a party of Tuareg of Kel-Tazeholet, serfs of the great tribe of Kel-Rhelâ, which rules over Ahaggar. They, in their turn, were massacred to the last man. That is how I was brought here, and offered as homage to Antinea, who was pleased with me and ever since has been kind to me.
If he had not realized that you were his murderer, the affair would not have interested me," she finished with a scornful little smile. Four steps, I said, separated me from Antinea. I sprang forward. But, before I reached her, I was struck to the floor. King Hiram had leapt at my throat. At the same moment I heard the calm, haughty voice of Antinea: "Call the men," she commanded.
Beside him, there is a little table of Kairouan, blue and gold. On that table I see the gong with which Antinea summons the slaves. I see the hammer with which she struck it just now, a hammer with a long ebony handle, a heavy silver head ... the hammer with which little Lieutenant Kaine dealt death.... I see nothing more.... I awakened in my room.
"I will not keep you longer in suspense," said M. Le Mesge. "The word, Antinea, is composed as follows: ti is nothing but a Tifinar addition to an essentially Greek name. Ti is the Berber feminine article. We have several examples of this combination. Take Tipasa, the North African town. "And the prefix, an?" queried Morhang.
Low steps sounded in the corridor. Antinea immediately fell back into the nonchalant pose in which I had first seen her. One had to see such a transformation to believe it possible. Morhange entered the room, preceded by a white Targa. He, too, seemed rather pale. But I was most struck by the expression of serene peace on that face which I thought I knew so well.
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