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One so well known would not be wholly neglected. Kind friends watched her when Sam- uel was from home, prevented her from suffering, and when the cold weather pinched the warmly clad, a kind friend took them in, and thus pre- served them. At last Samuel's business became very engrossing, and after long desertion, news reached his family that he had become a victim of yellow fever, in New Orleans.
"On his departure, the questions about him are countless, and Uel holds nothing back. Indeed, it is more than likely he has put the whole mart and city in possession of the history of my adoption by the Prince." In front of the palace she broke off abruptly: "But see! The landing is covered with men and women. Let us hurry."
Their patron dealt very liberally with them, and for that reason had confidence in their honesty and faithfulness. That they should have pride in the service, he dressed them in a livery. On this occasion, however, they presented themselves in every-day costume a circumstance which would not have escaped the Prince, or Uel, or Syama.
Such incidents were crises to Uel. To this one and to that he would run with the question: "Where is she from?" If from the upper sea, he subsided; but if from the Marmora, he kept eager lookout upon her, hoping to recognize in every disembarkee the man he was expecting. That he had never seen the person was of little consequence.
Then a long, deep inhalation, and an uncertain fearful looking about; first at the circlet of the lamps, and next at the keeper, who, as became a pious Byzantine, burst into exclamation: "Oh Holy Mother! I owe you a candle!" Directly, having risen to a sitting posture, Lael found her tongue: "You are not my father Uel, or my father the Prince of India?" "No," he returned, plying the fan.
The last words at the head of the steps were these: "Now, dear, to-morrow I must go a journey on business which will keep me three days and nights possibly three weeks. Tell father Uel what I say. Tell him also that I have ordered you to stay indoors while I am absent, unless he can accompany you. Do you hear me?" "Three weeks!" she cried, protestingly. "Oh, it will be so lonesome!
I will have need of them again, for" he mused a moment "yes, if that I purpose must be, then, the worst betiding us, they shall not say I was hard and merciless, and cut their chances scant." Uel was at the door going, when the Prince called him back. "Wait I do not need rest. Thou dost. Is Syama there?" "Yes." "Send him to me."
Can as much be said of any other subject?" Uel did not answer; he was following the speech too intently, and the Prince, seeing it, drank again, and proceeded: "The divine study took me to Cipango. Fifty years thou mayst say to thyself was a long term in such a country. Not so, my son.
He was not long in getting to understand the awfulness of the calamity the city had suffered, and that, with thousands of others, the dwellings of Uel and the Prince of India were heaps of ashes on which the gale was expending its undiminished strength. What was to be done with Lael? This Sergius answered by leading the way to the town residence of the Princess Irene.
I believe she had a spirit to prefer death to dishonor but dead or dishonored, wilt thou merge thy interest in her into mine?" "Yes." "I alone am to decide then what best becomes us to do. Is it agreed?" "Yes such faith have I in you." "Oh, but understand thee, son of Jahdai! I speak not merely as a father, but as an Israelite." Uel looked at the speaker's face, and was startled.
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