"
Aziel thought awhile and said:--
"Go fetch him here." So Metem went, to return presently with the Levite,
to whom, without further ado, the prince told all, hiding nothing.
Issachar listened in silence. When both Aziel and Metem had done
speaking, he said:--
"At least, I thank you, Prince, for being open with me; and now without
more words I pray you to abandon this rash plan, which can end only in
pain, and perhaps in death."
"Abandon it not, Prince," interrupted Metem, "seeing that if you do it
will certainly end in my death, for the girl is mad, and will have her
way. Or if she does not, then I must pay the price."
"Have no fear," answered Aziel smiling. "Issachar, this must be done
or----"
"Or what, Prince?"
"I will not leave the city. It is true that Sakon may thrust me from it,
but it shall be as a dead man. Nay, waste no words, since she desires
it; I must and will meet the Lady Elissa for the last time, not as lover
meets lover, but as those meet who part for ever in the world."
"You say so, Prince; then have I your permission to accompany you?"
"Yes, if you wish it, Issachar; but there is danger."
"Danger! What care I for danger? The will of Heaven be done to me. So be
it, we will go together, but the end of it is not with us."
CHAPTER XII
THE TRYST
Two days had gone by, and at the appointed hour three figures, wrapped
in dark cloaks, might have been seen walking swiftly towards the little
entrance of the temple fortress.
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