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"'Antinea, precisely. We find ourselves before a Greek vocable reproduced in Tifinar. And I think that now you will agree with me that my find has a certain interest." That day we had no more conferences upon texts. A loud cry, anguished, terrifying, rang out. We rushed out to find a strange spectacle awaiting us.
And, like all the rest, he bent before the gaze of his sovereign. "Do not speak until you have seen her. A university training hardly fits one to discourse upon matters of passion, and I feel scarcely qualified, myself, to tell you what Antinea is. I only affirm this, that when you have seen her, you will remember nothing else. Family, country, honor, you will renounce everything for her."
"'Family, honor, country, said old Le Mesge, 'you will forget all for her. Old Le Mesge is a stupid man, but he speaks from experience. He knows, he who has seen broken before Antinea the wills of the fifty ghosts in the red marble hall. "And now, will you, in your turn, ask me 'What is this woman? Do I know myself? And besides, what difference does it make?
I recognized it as the door through which the white Targa had led me the day after my arrival, when I had been set upon by King Hiram, when I had found myself in the presence of Antinea. "We are much better friends to-day," I said, flattering him so that he would not give a dangerously loud growl. I tried to open the door. The light, coming through the window, fell upon the floor, green and red.
This is how Mantabal received this priceless heritage; it was transmitted to his son and grandson, Hiempsal, Juba I, Juba II, the husband of the admirable Cleopatra Selene, the daughter of the great Cleopatra and Mark Antony. Cleopatra Selene had a daughter who married an Atlantide king. This is how Antinea, the daughter of Neptune, counts among her ancestors the immortal queen of Egypt.
I recognized the sound of a rebaza, the violin with a single string, played by the Tuareg women. It was Aguida playing, squatting as usual at the feet of her mistress. The three other women were also squatted about her. Tanit-Zerga was not there. Oh! Since that was the last time I saw her, let, oh, let me tell you of Antinea, how she looked in that supreme moment.
The Sahara lays its impassable barrier about Antinea; that is why the most unreasonable requirements of this woman are, in reality, more modest and chaste than your marriage will be, with its vulgar public show, the bans, the invitations, the announcements telling an evil-minded and joking people that after such and such an hour, on such and such a day, you will have the right to violate your little tupenny virgin.
"Toward Idelès, to retake the route where you met the Captain and me," I said. Ceghéir-ben-Cheikh shook his head. "I thought as much," he murmured. Then he added coldly: "Before sunset to-morrow, you and the little one would have been caught and massacred." "Toward the north is Ahaggar," he continued, "and all Ahaggar is under the control of Antinea. You must go south." "Then we shall go south."
"Now you know," he repeated. "You know, but you do not yet understand." Then, very slowly, he said: "You are, as they have been, the prisoners of Antinea. And vengeance is due Antinea." "Vengeance?" said Morhange, who had regained his self-possession. "For what, I beg to ask? What have the lieutenant and I done to Atlantis? How have we incurred her hatred?"
Ceghéir-ben-Cheikh is turning this permission to the advantage of one who saved his life." "And you are not afraid," I asked, "that I will disclose the secret of Antinea if I return among Frenchmen?" He shook his head. "I am not afraid of that," he said, and his voice was full of irony. "It is not to your interest that Frenchmen should know how the Captain met his death."
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