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Then he put her from him gently, and swore in his soul that Hugues must die, so that this woman might be Adhelmar's. "You will save him?" Melite asked, and raised her face to his. There was that in her eyes which caused Adhelmar to muse for a little on the nature of women's love, and, subsequently, to laugh harshly and make vehement utterance. "Yes!" said Adhelmar.
This temple he placed close to his own house in Melite, at the place where at the present day the public executioner casts out the bodies of executed criminals, and the clothes and ropes of men who have hanged themselves.
Afterward he went to the White Turret, leaving Reinault smiling over his wine. Folly Diversely Attested He found Melite alone. She had robed herself in black, and had gathered her gold hair about her face like a heavy veil, and sat weeping into it for the plight of Hugues d'Arques. "Melite!" cried Adhelmar; "Melite!"
"Holy Ouen!" said Adhelmar; "since I needs must die, I will die in France, not in the cold land of England." "Die!" cried Melite. "Are you hurt so sorely, then?" He grinned like a death's-head. "My injuries are not incurable," said he, "yet must I die very quickly, for all that.
Therefore even now this tripod is hidden in that land near the pleasant city of Hyllus, far beneath the earth, that it may ever be unseen by mortals. Yet they found not King Hyllus still alive in the land, whom fair Melite bare to Heracles in the land of the Phaeacians.
By reason of this, when he had ended his reading about the lady of the hollow hill, Sir Adhelmar sighed again, and stared at his companion with hungry eyes, wherein desire strained like a hound at the leash. Said Melite, "Was this Lady Venus, then, exceedingly beautiful?" Adhelmar swore an oath of sufficient magnitude that she was.
Again Melite laughed, but she forbore discreetly enough to question him concerning the lady who was of equal beauty with Dame Venus. It was an April morning, and they set in the hedged garden of Puysange.
"Swift to her wish came swimming on the waves His lovely ocean nymphs, her guides to be, The Nereids all, who live among the caves And valleys of the deep, Cymodoce, Agave, blue-eyed Hallia and Nesaea, Speio, and Thoe, Glauce and Actaea, Iaira, Melite and Amphinome, Apseudes and Nemertes, Callianassa, Cymothoe, Thaleia, Limnorrhea, Clymene, Ianeira and Ianassa, Doris and Panope and Galatea, Dynamene, Dexamene and Maira, Ferusa, Doto, Proto, Callianeira, Amphithoe, Oreithuia and Amathea."
He was celebrated for his works in bronze, the chief of which were a statue of Jupiter, in the citadel of Ithone, and one of Hercules, placed in the Temple at Melite, in Attica, after the great plague. Pausanias mentions several other works by him, which were highly esteemed. He was also celebrated as the instructor of Myron, Phidias, and Polycletus.
Adhelmar rode again to Puysange, and as he went he sang. They Kiss at Parting When he had come to Puysange, Adhelmar climbed the stairs of the White Turret, slowly, for he was growing very feeble now, and so came again to Melite crouching among the burned-out candles in the slate-colored twilight which heralded dawn. "He is safe," said Adhelmar.
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