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It might induce me to save you." "Save me!" The pink-stained fingers toyed daintily with the lustrous pendant at the throat, and her voice was exceeding low and soft; only a tapping on the floor with her silken sandal admonished him to have a care. "There was a Jew, an escaped galley-slave, who killed a man in the Palace of Idernee," she began, slowly. Ben-Hur was startled.
She prays the good Sheik Ilderim to send word to the youth Ben-Hur that her father hath taken residence for a time in the palace of Idernee, where she will receive the youth after the fourth hour to-morrow. And if, with her congratulations, Sheik Ilderim will accept her gratitude for this other favor done, she will be ever so pleased."
The sheik looked at Ben-Hur, whose face was suffused with pleasure. "What will you?" he asked. "By your leave, O sheik, I will see the fair Egyptian." Ilderim laughed, and said, "Shall not a man enjoy his youth?" Then Ben-Hur answered the messenger. "Say to her who sent you that I, Ben-Hur, will see her at the palace of Idernee, wherever that may be, to-morrow at noon."
"I remember," he said to himself, "she had no word of indignation for the perfidious Roman at the Fountain of Castalia! I remember she extolled him at the boat-ride on the lake in the Orchard of Palms! And, ah!" he stopped, and beat his left hand violently with his right "ah! that mystery about the appointment she made with me at the Palace of Idernee is no mystery now!"
At night, in the house of Simonides, Ben-Hur told the good man all that had taken place in the palace of Idernee; and it was agreed that, after a few days, public inquiry should be set afloat for the discovery of the whereabouts of the son of Arrius.
Directly the Northman turned, and said something in the unknown tongue; then both looked at Ben-Hur. A few more words, and they advanced towards him. "Who are you?" he asked, in Latin. The Northman fetched a smile which did not relieve his face of its brutalism, and answered, "Barbarians." "This is the palace of Idernee. Whom seek you? Stand and answer." The words were spoken with earnestness.
She had sent for him the evening of the boat-ride on the lake in the Orchard of Palms; she had sent for him now; and he was going to her in the beautiful palace of Idernee. He was happy and dreamful rather than thoughtless.
The lad arose, and, with silent salute, departed. At midnight Ilderim took the road, having arranged to leave a horse and a guide for Ben-Hur, who was to follow him. Going next day to fill his appointment with Iras, Ben-Hur turned from the Omphalus, which was in the heart of the city, into the Colonnade of Herod, and came shortly to the palace of Idernee.
But the silence would obtrude itself: he listened even as he looked at the pretty object he listened, but there was not a sound; the palace was still as a tomb. There might be a mistake. No, the messenger had come from the Egyptian, and this was the palace of Idernee. Then he remembered how mysteriously the door had opened so soundlessly, so of itself. He would see! He went to the same door.
Who in Antioch had the motive to do him harm? Messala! And this palace of Idernee? He had seen Egypt in the vestibule, Athens in the snowy portico; but here, in the atrium, was Rome; everything about him betrayed Roman ownership.
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