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The words between Demedes and his courier may have the effect of additionally exciting the reader's curiosity; for better understanding, therefore, we will take the liberty of carrying him from the Hippodrome to the house of Uel the merchant. Much has been said about the Prince of India's affection for Lael; so much indeed that there is danger of its being thought one sided.
The demand of the reader for a sight of the paper which could produce such an effect upon a person who was not more than an ordinary dealer in an Eastern market may by this time have become imperious; wherefore it is at once submitted in free translation. Only the date is modernized. "Uel, Son of Jahdai. "Peace to thee and all thine!
At this she raised her veil entirely, and in turn asked: "Which father do you mean?" "Which father," he repeated, stopping. "Oh, I have the advantage of everybody else! I have two fathers." He could do no more than repeat after her: "Two fathers!" "Yes; Uel the merchant is one of them, and the Prince of India is the other. I suppose you mean the Prince, since you know him.
Get me a cup of the Cipango leaves no bread, the cup alone." While waiting, the Prince continued his silent walk; but when the tea was brought, he said: "Good! It shall go after the meat of the poppies" adding to Syama "While I drink, do thou seek Uel, and bring him to me." When the son of Jahdai entered, the Prince looked at him a moment, and asked: "Hast thou word of her?"
"From the brave to the fair!" Thus to the gate of Blacherne. There they drew up, and saluted the officer of the guard, and cheered: "Live Constantine! To the good Emperor, long life!" All the way Demedes rode with lifted visor. Returning through the twilight, earlier in the close streets than in the open, he led his company by the houses of Uel and the Prince of India.
Thence, to a familiar, the heavens in the absence of the sun would be an unrolled map. When the last touch of the preparation had been given, and Syama said to himself, "He may come now," one point was especially noticeable nowhere in the house was there provision for a woman. The morning of the last day Syama accompanied Uel to the port reluctantly.
The messenger smiled and bowed, and took seat; thereupon Uel drew his turban down to his ears, and, letter in hand, started home. His going was rapid; sometimes he almost ran. Acquaintances met him on the street, but he did not see them; if they spoke to him, he did not hear. Arrived at his own door, he plunged into the house as if a mob were at his heels. Now he was before the cupboard!
"Last evening the daughter of Uel the merchant, a child of sixteen, small in stature, with dark hair and eyes, and fair to see, was set upon in the garden of the Bucoleon, and stolen out of her sedan chair. Neither she, nor the Bulgarians carrying her have been heard of since. "Out of love of the child, whose name was Lael, I will pay him who returns her to me living or dead
Was it still a part of the Judgment that every human being who had to do with him in love, friendship or business, every one on whom he looked in favor, must be overtaken soon or late with a doom of some kind? From that moment, moved by an inscrutable prompting of spirit, he began a list of those thus unfortunate Lael first, then Uel. Who next?
His first move was to send the Prince all the clerks he could find in the market, and shortly afterwards the city was re-blazoned with bills. "Fathers and mothers of Byzantium! "Lael, the daughter of Uel the merchant, has not been found.
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