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Updated: May 23, 2025
It is no use to try to deceive you, Atam-or: I wish to fall behind." "Why?" "To save you." "To save me?" "Yes. I can take you to the land of the Orin. Now is the time to escape from death. If you go back you must surely die; but now, if you will be guided by me, I can take you to the land of the Orin. There they all hate death, they love life, they live in the light.
I have already arranged that you shall be separated from Atam-or; and that, surely, is a high privilege. I might consent to bind you hand and foot, after the manner of the more distinguished Asirin; you may also be blindfolded if you wish it.
It seemed, I confess, rather unfair to Layelah to find out her plans and use them for another purpose; but then that other purpose was Almah, and to me at that time every device which was for her safety seemed fair and honorable. "Here," said Layelah "here, Atam-or, you see the way of escape.
"I have everything that heart can wish," said the Chief Pauper to me once. "Look at me, Atam-or, and see me as I stand here: I have poverty, squalor, cold, perpetual darkness, the privilege of killing others, the near prospect of death, and the certainty of the Mista Kosek all these I have, and yet, Atam-or, after all, I am not happy." To this strange speech I had nothing to say.
Common people who love one another may marry if they choose, and take the punishment which the law assigns but illustrious victims who love cannot marry, and so, my Atam-or, you have only me." I need not say that all this was excessively embarrassing I was certainly fond of Layelah, and liked her too much to hurt her feelings.
I turned away in despair. At length one jom the Chief Pauper came to me with a smile and said, "Atam-or, let me congratulate you on this joyous occasion." "What do you mean?" I asked. "You are to have your ceremony of separation." "Separation!" I repeated. "Yes," said he. "Almah has given notice to us. She has announced her intention of giving you up, and separating from you.
"You," said he, "are particularly dear to me, and I should rather give to you the blessing of death than to any other human being. I love you, Atam-or, and I long to kill you at this moment." "You had better not try it," said I, grimly. He shook his head despondingly. "Oh no," said he; "it is against the law. I must not do it till the time comes." "Do you kill many?" I asked.
Layelah was the first to break the awkward silence. "You love Almah, Atam-or; but say, do you not love me? You smile at me, you meet me always when I come with warm greetings, and you seem to enjoy yourself in my society. Say, Atam-or, do you not love me?" This was a perilous and a tremendous moment.
Oh, Atam-or! life is better than death, and we can live here, and we can be happy. This shall be better to us than the lands of the Orin, for we shall be alone, and we shall be all in all to one another." I could not help laughing, and I said: "Layelah, this is not the language of the Kosekin. You should at once go to the other side of this island, and sit down and wait for death."
"Why, that's downright bigamy!" exclaimed Layelah with fresh laughter. "Why, Atam-or, you're mad!" and so she went off again in fresh peals of laughter. It was evident that my proposal was not at all shocking, but simply comical, ridiculous, and inconceivable in its absurdity.
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