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Count Corti, we may well believe, did not spare his own steed, or those of his Berbers; and there was a need of haste of which he was not aware upon setting out from St. Romain. The Turks had broken through the resistance of the Christian fleet in the harbor, and were surging into the city by the gate St. Already the spoil-seekers were making sure of their hire.
Now he neared the brazen railing of the chancel now he was at the gate his countenance changed his eyes brightened he had discovered Count Corti. Swinging lightly from his saddle, he passed with steps of glad impatience through the gateway. Then to Count Corti came the most consuming trial of his adventurous life. The light was still strong enough to enable him to see across the Church.
The Countess, it is understood, has a will executed; if the boy does not return before her death, the Church is to be her legatee." There was more of the conversation, covering a history of the Corti family, honorable as it was old the men famous warriors, the women famous beauties.
It were to be wished that the elaborate and very interesting researches of the Marquis Corti, which have revealed such singular complexity of structure in the cochlea of the ear, had done more to clear up its doubtful physiology; but I am afraid we have nothing but hypotheses for the special part it plays in the act of hearing, and that we must say the same respecting the office of the semicircular canals.
A few minutes, and she was comfortably housed in the cell. "Now, go to thy place; I will send for a chair, and rejoin thee." At the tunnel gate, the Count was met by a number of the St. James', and he forgot his errand. "We have come," said one of them to Sergius, "to renew thy arrest." "Be it so," Sergius replied; "lead on." But Count Corti strode forward.
When you set out for Italy, preparatory to the mission at Constantinople, you owed me duty, and there was no shame in the performance; but now so have the changes wrought that which was honorable to Mirza the Emir is scandalous to Count Corti. After four o'clock you will owe me no duty; neither will you be in my service. From that hour Mirza, my falcon, will cease to be. He will have vanished.
He will fill the hull with stones, and defend from its deck; and it must be on the ground by break of day. Precisely as Count Corti was bringing the galley around the turn of the thoroughfare, Constantine was at the altar in Sancta Sophia where preparations for mass were making; that is, the priests were changing their vestments, and the acolytes lighting the tall candles.
He flushed deeply, and bowed while answering: "My mother is a Christian." That night Count Corti searched the book, and found that the strength of faith underlying his mother's prayers for his return to her, and the Princess' determination to die with the monk, were but Christian lights.
Count Corti was wonder struck he could not speak and so the Wandering Jew vanished from his sight as he now vanishes from our story. The selection among the other refugees in the chancel proceeded until there was left of them only such as were considered not worth the having. A long time passed, during which the Princess Irene sat with veil drawn close, trying to shut out the horror of the scene.
We cannot get to him.... I came in haste to to see what his guns have done or why should I not say it? Princess, I galloped here fearing thou wert in need of protection and help. I remembered that I was thy accepted knight." She understood him perfectly, and, withdrawing her hand, returned: "Rise, Count Corti, thou art in the way of these bearing the dead."
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