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Updated: June 9, 2025
In front of the altar the bier was set down and the priests fell back, leaving Atene and her uncle standing alone before the corpse. "What seeks my vassal, the Khania of Kaloon?" asked the Hesea in a cold voice. Now Atene advanced and bent the knee, but with little graciousness.
Knowledge and vision belong to the wise, O Hes." "Thou art quick of wit and tongue, Holly, as " and she checked herself, then of a sudden, said, "Tell me, did my servant the Khania of Kaloon entertain both of you hospitably in her city, and speed you on your journey hither, as I commanded her?" "We knew not that she was thy servant," I replied.
Say, how came he to his end, who has no wound upon him?" "By these," answered Leo, stretching out his hands. "I knew it," she answered, "and I blame you not, for fate decreed that death for him, and now it is fulfilled. Still, there are those to whom you must answer for his blood, and I only can protect you from them." "Or betray me to them," said Leo. "Khania, what do you seek?"
After that old prophet, Simbri, had brought me my supper, just as I was thinking of going to sleep, the Khania came in alone, dressed like a queen. I can tell you she looked really royal, like a princess in a fairy book, with a crown on, and her chestnut black hair flowing round her.
"Good-bye," I answered rather faintly, understanding what the Khania and the old Shaman had meant when they said that we should be killed before we ascended the first slope of the Mountain.
"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.
Why, in the old days the Khania would have been dead and forgotten in an hour you remember Ustane?" "Perhaps she may have grown more gentle, Leo, who, like ourselves, has learned hard lessons." "Yes," he answered, "I hope that is so. At any rate she has grown more divine only, Horace, what kind of a husband shall I be for that bright being, if ever I get so far?" "Why should you not get so far?"
It was evident to me that they were much perturbed. In a few minutes the horse was saddled and Leo assisted me to mount it. Then he said "We go to accomplish our fate, whatever it may be, but before we part, Khania, I thank you for the kindness you have shown us, and pray you to be wise and forget that we have ever been.
Passing through the large Turkish cemetery, which was covered with an early crop of blue anemones, we came upon the rich plain of Khania, lying broad and fair, like a superb garden, at the foot of the White Mountains, whose vast masses of shining snow filled up the entire southern heaven.
The old man seemed very weary in body and oppressed in mind, but the Khania was strong and beautiful as ever, nor had passion and fatigue left any trace upon her inscrutable face. It was she who broke the silence, saying "You have ridden fast and far since last we met, my guests, and left an evil token to mark the path you took. Yonder among the rocks one lies dead.
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