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Updated: June 9, 2025
"Nobly said, lord, nobly said, though here they do not trouble much about such things. But how if the matter could be managed without scandal? If, for instance, the Khania chose to take another husband the whole land would rejoice, for she is the last of her royal race." "How can she take another husband when she has one living?"
Whilst I wondered the door opened, and the sardonic, inscrutable-old-faced man, whom this Khania had called Magician, and who called the Khania, niece, entered and stood before me. The shaman advanced to my side and asked me courteously how I fared. I answered, "Better. Far better, oh, my host but how are you named?"
Know, O Ayesha, that I and my uncle, the great seer, have searched the heavenly books to learn what is written there of the issue of this war. "This is written: For me, death, whereat I rejoice. For thee a spear cast by thine own hand. For the land of Kaloon blood and ruin bred of thee! "Atene, "Khania of Kaloon." Ayesha listened in silence, but her lips did not tremble, nor her cheek pale.
I crept round it only to retreat hastily enough, as well I might, for at the door of Leo's room, which she was in the act of locking on the outside, as I could see by the light of the lamp that she held in her hand, stood the Khania herself. My first thought was to fly back to my own chamber, but I abandoned it, feeling sure that I should be seen.
Whatever this Khania may have been to me in the past if she was anything at all that story is done with. I seek Ayesha, and Ayesha alone, and Venus herself shall not tempt me from her."
At any rate there was the beautiful woman the Khania for I saw her plenty of times afterwards, and talked to her in my best modern Greek by the way, Ayesha knew the old Greek; that's curious." "She knew several of the ancient tongues, and so did other people. Go on."
"Oros," said the Mother, "tell thou the tale of the death of that priestess of whom the Khania speaks."
Now I wondered how we should pass the gate, for there a guard was stationed, which had of late been doubled by order of the Khania. But this gate we left upon our right, taking a path that led into the great walled garden, where Rassen brought us to a door hidden behind a clump of shrubs, which he unlocked with a key he carried.
Then the Khania motioned to Leo to take a seat beside her, placing me upon her other hand, between herself and her uncle, the Guardian, while the Khan shuffled to a chair a little way down the table, where he called two of the prettiest ladies to keep him company. Such was our introduction to the court of Kaloon.
That evening and many others which followed it we never dined in the central hall again passed pleasantly enough, for the Khania made Leo tell her of England where he was born, and of the lands that he had visited, their peoples and customs.
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