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Sometimes the Sultan would come and sit by her side, but he found that the wound he had given was not one to heal so quickly as he had supposed, and that the Circassian cherished the memory of Aphiz as tenderly as ever.
All this while, the half-witted boy lay coiled up in one corner of the cabin unseen, but himself noticing every movement that transpired, until as they all settled more quietly to a realizing sense of their relative positions, when Komel seeking him brought him to Aphiz, and told him how much she owed the poor boy for kindness rendered to her, and even that he had saved her life once, if not a second time, by his mastering the guard.
The visiter could not suppress his impatience at these remarks, but telling Aphiz that if he repeated his answer to the Sultan he feared that it would seal his fate forever, he left him once more alone.
"Then shall good come out of evil, dear Aphiz, inasmuch as we shall now live content." "Have you seen Captain Selim this morning, Komel?" he asked. "Yes, and I fear he is ill, some heavy weight seems to be upon his heart." "Let us seek him then, for we owe all to his manliness and courage."
The bows of the caique were instantly turned towards the city, and the men gave way as carelessly as though nothing uncommon had transpired. Aphiz had thus been made to suffer the penalty usually inflicted upon certain crimes, and especially to the wives of such of the Turks as suspected them of inconstancy, a punishment that is even to this day common in Constantinople.
Indeed, he felt the fleet craft under his feet tremble beneath the force with which she was driven through the water even now. As the morning advanced, the frigate gained fast upon them, until at the suggestion of Aphiz, the foresail, close reefed, was put upon the schooner, but quickly taken in again.
This, we say, was generally the case, but there was one exception, in the person of a young man but little older than Aphiz, whose name was Krometz.
"You were pretty close upon drowning, and must have been under water for some time, I should say." "I had indeed, and was very nearly exhausted," answered Aphiz. "But how came you in such a pitiable plight, what led you so far from the shore without a boat?" "I that is to say " "O, I see, some matter that you wish to keep a secret.
"Come in and partake of our morning meal; that will refresh you," said the mountaineer. "Thanks; yes, I will join you at once," he replied, but turned away thoughtfully. With the earliest morning, Aphiz was again at the cottage and by Komel's side. O, how beautiful did she look to him now, once more attired in her simple dress of a mountaineer's daughter.
But no sooner did Aphiz find himself immersed in the water than he commenced to cut the bag with his dagger, which he had concealed in his bosom, and as he sank deeper and deeper towards the bottom, quickly to release himself from the restraint of the heavy canvas bag and shot that bore him still down, down, to the fearful depth of the river's bed.
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