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Updated: May 9, 2025
That's all I have to tell you, and quite enough too, for I don't think that the Khania has done with me, and, to say the truth, I am afraid of her." "Yes," I said, "quite enough. Now sit still, and don't start or talk loud, for that steersman is probably a spy, and I can feel old Simbri's eyes fixed upon our backs. Don't interrupt either, for our time alone may be short."
"So I stayed the great war and married the Khania and became the Khan; but better had it been for me if I had crept into her kitchen as a scullion, than into her chamber as a husband.
"Well, from that moment I was sure that whoever this Khania may be, she had nothing to do with Ayesha; they are so different that they never could have been the same like the hair. So I lay quiet and let her talk, and coax, and threaten on, until at length she drew herself up and marched from the room, and I heard her lock the door behind her.
She spoke some words to them, whereon they lifted Leo's heavy frame, apparently with ease, and carried him up the steps. We followed, and reached a room that seemed to be hewn from the rock above the gateway, where the woman called Khania left us.
It was this spirit that foresaw your danger and this hand which delivered you from death, and and would you refuse them now when I, the Khania of Kaloon, proffer them to you?" So she spoke, and leaned upon the table, looking up into his face with lips that trembled and with appealing eyes.
"Ungentle are thy words and mien," answered Ayesha, "yet I forgive them both, for I also can scorn to mock a rival in my hour of victory. When thou wast the fairer, thou didst proffer him these very lands, but say, who is the fairer now? Look at us, all of you, and judge," and she stood by Atene and smiled. The Khania was a lovely woman.
Yet he looked better thus than he had ever done, for now death had touched this insane and dissolute man with something of the dignity which he lacked in life. Thus then we met. At the sight of our guide's white form, the horse which the Khania rode reared up so violently that I thought it would have thrown her.
I heard the grating of a dagger in its sheath and the distant baying of the death-hounds." "And what have you seen, Shaman?" she asked again, "looking through the Gate you guard?" "Strange sight, Khania, my niece. But men awake from swoons." "Aye," she answered, "so while this one sleeps, bear him to another chamber, for he needs change, and the lord yonder needs more space and untainted air."
Now those upon the bank saw him, and a sweet voice spoke through the mist, saying "Lay down that weapon, my guest, for we are not come to harm you." It was the voice of the Khania Atene, and the man with her was the old Shaman Simbri. "What shall we do now, Horace?" asked Leo with something like a groan, for in the whole world there were no two people whom he less wished to see.
The shores of the Gulf of Khania, retaining their amphitheatric form, rose gradually from the water, a rich panorama of wheat-fields, vineyards and olive groves, crowded with sparkling villages, while Khania, in the center, grew into distinctness a picturesque jumble of mosques, old Venetian arches and walls, pink and yellow buildings, and palm trees.
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