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Updated: June 14, 2025
First, by his rejection of the royal and beautiful, if undisciplined, Atene. Secondly, by clinging to Ayesha when she seemed to be repulsive to every natural sense.
For two great burdens lay upon our souls. The burden of desire to continue our search and to meet with its reward which we were sure that we should pluck amid the snows of yonder peak, if we could but come there; and the burden of approaching catastrophe at the hands of the Khania Atene.
Can I never be rid of thee for an hour?" "O Hes, a writing from the Khania Atene," the priest said with his deprecating bow. "Break the seal and read," she answered carelessly. "Perchance she has repented of her folly and makes submission." So he read
It is the privilege of the rulers of Kaloon; also, I think, that the Khania has questions to ask of its Oracle." "Who is its Oracle?" I asked with eagerness. "The Oracle," he replied darkly, "is a Voice. It was ever so, was it not?" "Yes; I have heard that from Atene, but a voice implies a speaker. Is this speaker she whom you name Mother?" "Perhaps, friend Holly." "And is this Mother a spirit?"
There Atene stood, a glass in her hand see, it lies beside her. "'Defeated, yet I win, she cried, 'for I do but pass before thee to prepare the path that thou shalt tread, and to make ready thy place in the Under-world. Till we meet again I pledge thee, for I am destroyed. Ayesha's horsemen are in my streets, and, clothed in lightnings at their head, rides Ayesha's avenging self.
But I know, for my wisdom tells it me, ere ever we could reach the shores of Libya, the ill work would be done, and thou dead of thine own longing, thou dead and I widowed who never was a wife. "Therefore see! like lost Atene I take the dice and cast them, not knowing how they shall fall.
"Atene," replied the measured Voice, "did I desire it, I could destroy thee where thou art. Yet thou art right, I shall not harm thee, thou faithless servant. Did not my writ bid thee through yonder searcher of the stars, thy uncle, to meet these guests of mine and bring them straight to my shrine? Tell me, for I seek to know, how comes it that thou didst disobey me?"
Oros, my priest, summon thou the Accuser and him who makes defence, and let the books be opened that I may pass my judgment on the dead, and call his soul to live again, or pray that from it the breath of life may be withheld. "Priest, I say the Court of Death is open." Oros bowed and left the place, whereon the Hesea signed to us to stand upon her right and to Atene to stand upon her left.
"I have heard also but that I always knew that I am mad; for, strangers, I was made mad by a hate-philtre which that old Rat," and he pointed to Simbri, "gave me in my drink yes, at my marriage feast. It worked well, for truly there is no one whom I hate more than the Khania Atene. Why, I cannot bear her touch, it makes me sick.
Now I observed lines of priests wrapped in great capes, kneeling upon the face of the rock and engaged apparently in prayer, but of Hes the Mother, or of Atene, or of the corpse of the dead Khan I could see nothing.
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