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Millie had chafed at the interruption, and said it was horrid of people to come, and bring one down from the Black Mountain to listen to talk about weather and fashions. Janie bore the delay more philosophically, observing that she could not have turned the heel of her stocking so correctly while thinking of Nilo and his poor mother.
Why may I not go with Syama?" "Syama would be a wisp of straw in the hands of a ruffian. He could not even call for help." "Then why not with Nilo?" "Nilo is to attend me." "Oh, I see," she said, with a merry laugh. "It is the Greek, the Greek, my persecutor! Why, he has not recovered from his fright yet; he has deserted me."
Again the Wanderer cried, "Let the audience come!" and peace and confidence were possessing him when a loud report and continuous rumble in the room set the solid floor to quaking. He looked around in time to see the big drum quivering under a blow from Nilo.
"Yes a wonderful man an ally, not a servant. On the journey to Constantinople, the Prince turned aside into an African Kingdom called Kash-Cush. I cannot tell where it is. Nilo was the King, and a mighty hunter and warrior. His trappings hang in his room now shields, spears, knives, bows and arrows, and among them a net of linen threads.
Sergius replied: "I give thee thanks, Nilo and thou, noble Italian I am only a little less obliged to thee thou wast ready with thy sword." He paused, glanced at the grand stand, and went on: "It is plain to me, Count Corti, that thou thinkest my trial happily ended. The beast is dead truly; but yonder are some not less thirsty for blood. It is for them to say what I must further endure.
It is to be borne in mind additionally that they were both young; she a child in years; he a child in lack of worldly experience. Children cannot be other than natural. Approaching the sedan anxiously, he found the occupant pale and faint. Nilo being close at his side, she saw them both in the same glance, and reached her hand impulsively through the window.
"If you have instructions for him, see they are given in a good light, for in the dark he cannot comprehend." Nilo came, and kissed his master's hand. He understood the trouble which had befallen. "This," the Prince said to him, "is Sergius, the monk. He believes he knows where the little Princess is, and has asked that you may go with him. Are you willing?" The King looked assent.
Immediately the bolt inside was drawn, and the visitor passed in. Was it Demedes? The monk breathed again he believed it was anyhow the King would determine the question, and there was nothing to do meantime but bide the event. The sedan, it hardly requires saying, was a much more comfortable ambush than the recess of the door. Nilo merely felt the shaking the gale now and then gave the house.
Sergius' blue eyes were astare with wonder. "I only speak what I have heard recounted by my father, the Prince, to my other father, Uel.... What I intended saying was that directly the Prince established himself at home he began teaching Nilo to converse. The work was slow at first; but there is no end to the master's skill and patience; he and the King now talk without hindrance.
His next duty was to go to the relief of the little Princess. A dull fancy would have taught how trying the situation must have been to her; but with him the case was of a quick understanding quickened by solicitude. Taking Nilo with him, he made haste to the sedan. If we pause here, venturing on the briefest break in the narrative, it is for the reader's sake exclusively.
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