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The singing and the gala air of the party put Sergius in his wonted spirits; and as here and there other boats fell into the line, similarly decorated, their occupants adding to the volume of the singing, by the time Therapia was sighted the good-natured, happy fishermen had given him of their floral abundance, and adopted him. What a scene the Therapian bay presented!
And taking them he signed the instructions, and the signature was the same as that on the safeguard on the gate at Therapia. "There keep it well; for when thou gettest to Constantinople, thou wilt become a Christian." He laughed again. "Mirza the Mirza Mahommed swore by, and appointed keeper of his heart's secret he a Christian! This will shift the sin of the apostasy to me."
His brave career was, however, drawing to a close; rejoining the squadron off Sebastopol, at the end of a fortnight, he was shortly afterwards struck by a shell, while running into harbour at night to annoy the enemy, and in a few days breathed his last at the hospital at Therapia, to which he had been removed.
Past the stream-riven gorge of Balta-Liman he went; past Emirghian; past the haven of Stenia, and the long shore-town of Yenikeui; then, half turning the Keuibachi bend, lo! Therapia, draggling down the stony steep, like a heap of bangles on a brown-red cheek. And there, in the soft embracement of the bay, a bird with folded wings asleep the trireme! The sight startled the Prince.
The hand on the stony arm trembled. "I fear, O Princess," Sergius continued, with downcast look, "that my words are giving you pain." "But they are not yours. Go on." "Then the Father came to what was much more serious." Sergius again hesitated. "I am listening," she said. "He termed it your persistence in keeping up the establishment here at Therapia." The Princess grew red and white by turns.
The Levant Herald contented itself with an authorised contradiction to the report that Sir Joseph Atlee the Sir was an ingenious blunder had conformed to Islamism, and was in treaty for the palace of Tashkir Bey at Therapia.
She was suddenly transported back into regions where nobody seemed to care a straw whether she could sing or not, where nobody flattered her, and no one suggested that it would be amusing and instructive to make a trip to Spain together, or that a charming little kiosk at Therapia was at her disposal whenever she chose to visit the Bosphorus.
Everybody either keeps a horse or keeps a sail-boat, and many people do both; for the Belgrade forest stretches five-and-twenty miles inland from Buyukdere and Therapia, and the broad Bosphorus lies before, widening into a deep bay between the two.
They were married in her chapel at Therapia, Father Hilarion officiating. Thence, when the city was cleansed of its stains of war, she went thither with Mahommed, and he proclaimed her his Sultana at a feast lasting through many days. And in due time he built for her the palace behind Point Demetrius, yet known as the Seraglio.
And what a bold ready transition from bear tender to captain in the boat race! Demedes writhing in the grip of Nilo over the edge of the wall, death in the swish of waves beneath, had been an object of pity tinged with contempt Demedes winner of the prize at Therapia was a very different person. This feeling for the Greek, it is to be said next, was dashed with a lurking dread of him.
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