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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Ruinous Face, by Maurice Hewlett
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+Title: The Ruinous Face
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+Author: Maurice Hewlett
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+Release Date: June 21, 2007 [EBook #21885]
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+[Illustration: HELEN AND EUTYCHES]
+
+                  THE
+              RUINOUS FACE
+
+                   BY
+            MAURICE HEWLETT
+
+              ILLUSTRATED
+
+
+
+      HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
+
+          NEW YORK AND LONDON
+                 MCMIX
+
+
+ Copyright, 1909, by HARPER & BROTHERS.
+
+         _All rights reserved._
+
+        Published October, 1909.
+
+
+
+
+      "Hence there is in Rhodes a sanctuary
+      of Helen of the Tree."
+
+      --_Pausanias_, iii., 19, 9.
+
+
+
+
+ILLUSTRATIONS
+
+
+HELEN AND EUTYCHES                                        _Frontispiece_
+
+THE ABDUCTION OF HELEN                                    _Facing p.  8_
+From the painting by Rudolph von Deutsch.
+
+HELEN OF TROY                                                "      _20_
+From the painting by Sir Frederick Leighton.
+
+PARIS AND HELEN                                              "      _30_
+From the painting by Jacques Louis David in the Louvre.
+
+
+
+
+THE RUINOUS FACE
+
+
+When the siege of Troy had been ten years doing, and most of the
+chieftains were dead, both of those afield and those who held the walls;
+and some had departed in their ships, and all who remained were
+leaden-hearted; there was one who felt the rage of war insatiate in his
+bowels: Menelaus, yellow-haired King of the Argives. He, indeed, rested
+not day or night, but knew the fever fretting at his members, and the
+burning in his heart. And when he scanned the windy plain about the
+city, and the desolation of it; and when he saw the huts of the Achæans,
+and the furrows where the chariots ploughed along the lines, and the
+charred places of camp-fires, smoke-blackened trees, and puddled waters
+of Scamander, and corn-lands and pastures which for ten years had known
+neither plough nor deep-breathed cattle, nor querulous sheep; even then
+in the heart of Menelaus was no pity for Dardan nor Greek, but only for
+himself and what he had lost--white-bosomed Helen, darling of Gods and
+men, and golden treasure of the house.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The vision of her glowing face and veiled eyes came to him in the
+night-season to make him mad, and in dreams he saw her, as once and many
+times he had seen her, lie supine. There as she lay in his dream, all
+white and gold, thinner than the mist-wreath upon a mountain, he would
+cry aloud for his loss, and throw his arms out over the empty bed, and
+feel his eye-sockets smart for lack of tears; for tears came not to
+him, but his fever made his skin quite dry, and so were his eyes dry.
+Therefore, when the chiefs of the Achæans in Council, seeing how their
+strength was wearing down like a snowbank under the sun, looked
+reproachfully upon him, and thought of Hector slain, and of dead
+Achilles who slew him, of Priam, and of Diomede, and of tall Patroclus,
+he, Menelaus, took no heed at all, but sat in his place, and said,
+"There is no mercy for robbers of the house. Starve whom we cannot put
+to the sword. Lay closer leaguer. So shall I win my wife again and have
+honor among the Kings, my fellows." So he spake, for it was so he
+thought day and night; and Agamemnon, King of Men, bore with him, and
+carried the voices of all the Achæans. For since the death of Achilles
+there was no man stout enough to gainsay him, or deny him anything.
+
+In those days there was little war, since every man outside the walls
+was sick of strife, and consumed with longing for his home, and wife and
+children there. And one told another, "My son will be a grown man in his
+first beard," and one, "My daughter will be a wife." As for the men of
+Troy, it was well for them that their foes were spent; for Hector was
+dead, and Agenor, and Troilus; and King Priam, the old, was fallen into
+dotage, which deprived him of counsel. He loved Alexandros only, whom
+men called Paris. On which account Æneas, the wise prince, stood apart,
+and kept himself within the walls of his house. There remained only that
+beauteous Paris, the ravisher. Him Helen held fast enchained by her
+white arms and slow, sweet smile, and by the shafts of light from her
+kind eyes. All the compliance of a fair woman made for love lay in her;
+she could refuse nothing that was asked of her by him who had her. And
+she was gentle and very modest, and never dejected or low of heart; but
+when comfort was asked of her she gave it, and when solace, solace; and
+when he cried, "Oh for a deep draught of thee!" she gave him his desire.
+In these days he seldom left his hall, where she sat at the loom with
+her maids, or had them comb and braid her long hair. But of other women,
+wives and widows of heroes, Andromache mourned Hector dead and outraged,
+and Cassandra the wrath to come. Through the halls of the King's house
+came little sound but of women weeping loss; therefore, if love made
+Helen laugh sometimes, she laughed low and softly, lest some other
+should be offended. The streets were all silent, and the dogs ate one
+another. In the temples of the Gods they neglected the sacrifice, and
+what little might be offered was eaten by clouds of birds.
+Anniversaries and feasts were like common days. If the Gods were
+offended with Troy, there was no help for it. Men must live first,
+before they can serve God.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Now the tenth year was come to the Spring, when young men and virgins
+worship Artemis the Bright; and abroad on the plains the crocus was
+aflower, and the anemone; and the blades of the iris were like swords
+stuck hilt downward in the earth. A green veil spread lightly over the
+land, and men might see a tree scorched black upon one side and budded
+with gold upon the other. Melted snow brimmed Simois and Scamander;
+cranes and storks built their nests, and one stood sentinel while his
+mate sat close, watchful in the reeds. On the mild, westerly airs came
+tenderness to bedew the hearts of men war-weary. They stepped carefully
+lest they should crush young flowers, thinking in their minds, "God's
+pity must restrain me. If so fair a thing can thrive in place so foul,
+who am I to mar it?" But upon Menelaus, the King, the season worked like
+a ferment, so that he could never stay long in one place. All night long
+he turned and stretched himself out; but in the gray of the morning he
+would rise, and walk abroad by himself over the silent land, and about
+the sleeping walls of the city. So found he balm for his ache, and so he
+did every day.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The house of Paris stood by the wall, and the garden upon the roof of
+the women's side was there upon it, and stretched far along the ramparts
+of Troy. King Menelaus knew it very well, for he had often seen Helen
+there with her maids when, with a veil to cover her face up to the eyes,
+she had stood there to watch the fighting, or the games about the pyre
+of some chieftain dead, or the manège of the ships lying off Tenedos.
+Indeed, when he had been there in his chariot, urging an attack upon the
+gate, he had seen Paris come out of the house to Helen where she stood
+in the garden; and he saw that deceiver take the lovely woman in his
+arm, and with his hand withdraw the veil from her mouth that he might
+look at it. The maids were all about her, and below raged a battle among
+men; but he cared nothing for these. No, but he lifted up her face by
+the chin, and stooped his head, and kissed her twice; and would have
+kissed her a third time, but that by chance he saw King Menelaus below
+him, who stood up in his chariot and watched. Then he turned lightly and
+left her, and went in, and so presently she too, with her veil in her
+hand, not yet over her mouth, looked down from the wall and saw the
+King, her husband. Long and deeply looked she; and he looked up at
+her; and so they stood, gazing each at the other. Then came women from
+the house and veiled her mouth, and took her away. Other times, too, he
+had seen her there, but she not him; and now, at this turn of the year,
+the memory of her came bright and hard before him; and he walked under
+the wall of the house in the gray of the morning. And as he walked there
+fiercely on a day, behold she stood above him on the wall, veiled, and
+in a brown robe, looking down at him. And they looked at each other for
+a space of time. And nobody was by.
+
+[Illustration: THE ABDUCTION OF HELEN
+FROM THE PAINTING BY RUDOLPH VON DEUTSCH]
+
+Shaking, he said, "O Ruinous Face, art thou so early from the wicked
+bed?"
+
+She said low, "Yea, my lord, I am so early."
+
+"These ten long years," he said then, "I have walked here at this hour,
+but never yet saw I thee."
+
+She answered, "But I have seen my lord, for at this hour my lord
+Alexandros is accustomed to sleep and I to wake. And so I take the air,
+and am by myself."
+
+"O God!" he said, "would that I could come at thee, lady." She replied
+him nothing. So, after a little while of looking, he spoke to her again,
+saying, "Is this true which thou makest me to think, that thou walkest
+here in order that thou mayst be by thyself? Is it true, O thou
+God-begotten?"
+
+She said, smiling a little, "Is it so wonderful a thing that I should
+desire to be alone?"
+
+"By my fathers," he said, "I think it wonderful. And more wonderful is
+it to me that it should be allowed thee." And then he looked earnestly
+at her, and asked her this: "Dost thou, therefore, desire that I should
+leave thee?"
+
+"Nay," said she slowly, "I said not so."
+
+"Ask me to stay, and I stay," he said. But she made no answer to that;
+but looked down to the earth at her feet. "Behold," said the King
+presently, "ten years and more since I have known my wife. Now if I were
+to cast my spear at thee and rive open thy golden side, what wonder were
+it? Answer me that."
+
+She looked long at him, that he saw the deep gray of her eyes. And he
+heard the low voice answer him, "I know that my lord would never do it."
+And he knew it better than she, and the reason as well as she.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A little while more they talked together, alone in the sunless light;
+and she was in a gentle mood, as indeed she always was, and calmed the
+fret in him, so that he could keep still and take long breaths, and look
+at her without burning in his heart. She asked him of their child, and
+when he told her it was well, stood thoughtful and silent. "Here," said
+she, presently, "I have no child," and it seemed to him that she
+sighed.
+
+"O Lady," he said, "dost thou regret nothing of all these ten long
+years?"
+
+Her answer was to look long at him without speech. And then again she
+veiled her eyes with her eyelids and hung her head. He dared say
+nothing.
+
+Paris came out of the house, fresh from the bath, rosy and beautiful,
+and whistled a low clear note, like the call of a bird at evening. Then
+he called upon Helen.
+
+"Where is my love? Where is the Desire of the World?"
+
+She looked up quickly at King Menelaus, and smiled half, and moved her
+hand; and she went to Paris. Then the King groaned, and rent himself.
+But he would not stay, nor look up, lest he should see what he dared not
+see.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Next day, very early, and every day after, those two, long-severed, kept
+a tryst: so in time she came to be there first, and a strife grew
+between them which should watch for the other. And after a little she
+would sit upon the wall and speak happily to him without disguise. So
+happiness came to him, too, and he ceased to reproach her. For she
+reasoned very gently with him of her own case, urging him not to be
+angry with her. Defending herself, she said, "Thou shouldst not reproach
+me, husband, nor wouldst thou in thy heart if thou knewst what is in
+mine, or what my portion has been since with fair words in
+many-mansioned Sparta he did beguile me. With words smoother than honey,
+and sweeter than the comb of it he did beguile me, and with false words
+made me believe that I was forsaken and betrayed; and urged me to take
+ship with him in search of thee. Nor ever once did he reveal himself
+until we touched Cranæ in the ship. Then he showed me all his power, and
+declared his purpose with me. And I could do nothing against him; and
+so he brought me to Troy and kept me there. All these years he has
+loved, and still loves me in his fashion: and art thou angry with me, my
+lord, that I do not for ever reproach him, or spend myself in tears, and
+fast, and go like one distraught, holding myself aloof from all his
+house? Nay, but of what avail would that be, or what reward to many that
+treat me well here in Troy? For King Priam, the old king, is good to me,
+and the Queen also; and my lord Hector was above all men good to me, and
+defended me always against scorn and evil report. True it is that I have
+been the reproach of men, both Trojans and Achæans; and all the woes of
+the years have been laid to me who am most guiltless of offence. For all
+my sin has been that I have been gentle with those who hold me here; and
+have not denied them that which cannot be denied, but have given what I
+must with fair-seeming."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+And another time she said, "What mercy have men for a woman whom they
+desire and cannot have? And what face have women for her who is more
+sought than them? And what of such a woman, O lord Menelaus, what of her
+in her misery? Is it true, thinkest thou, because she is good to look
+upon and is desired by men, that she should have no desires of her own?
+And must she have pleasure only in that which men seek of her, and none
+in her house and child overseas? Is my face then, and are these my
+breasts all that I have? And is my mind nothing at all, nor the kindness
+in my heart, nor the joy I have in the busy world? My face has been ruin
+unto many, and many have sought my breasts; but to me it has been misery
+and shame, and my milk a bitter gall."
+
+Thus spake Helen of the fair girdle; and he saw her eyes filled with
+tears, and pure sorrow upon her face; and he held up his arms to her,
+crying, "O my dear one, wilt thou not come back to me?" She could not
+speak for crying; but nodded her head often between her covering hands.
+
+Then he, seeing how her thoughts lay, gently toward home, and desiring
+to please her now more than anything in the world, spake of the child,
+swearing by the Gods of Lacedæmon that she was not forgotten. "Nay," he
+said, "but still she talks of her mother, and every day would know of
+her return. And those about her in our house, faithful ones, say, 'The
+King thy father has gone to bring our lady back; and all will be happy
+again.' And so," said he, "it shall be, beloved, if thou wilt but come."
+Then Helen lifted up her face from her covering hands, and showed him
+her eyes. And he said, "O Wonder of the World, shall I come for thee?"
+
+And her words were sped down the wall, soft as dropping rose-leaves:
+"Come soon." And King Menelaus returned to his quarters, glorying in his
+strength.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+This day he took counsel with King Agamemnon his brother, and with
+Odysseus, wisest of the Achæans, and told them all. And while they
+pondered what the news might mean he declared his purpose, which was to
+have Helen again by all means, and to enter Troy disguised by night, and
+in the morning to drop with her in his arms over the wall, from the
+garden of Paris' house. But Odysseus dissuaded him, and so did the King
+his brother; for they knew very well that Troy must be sacked, and the
+Achæans satisfied with plunder, and death, and women. For after ten
+years of strife men raven for such things, and will not give over until
+they have them. Also it was written in the heart of Hera that the walls
+of Troy must be cast down, and the pride thereof made a byword. So it
+was that the counsel of King Menelaus was overpassed, and that of
+Odysseus prevailed. And with him lay the word that he should make his
+plan, and tell it over to Menelaus, that he might tell it again to Helen
+when he saw her on the wall.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+At this time a great heart was in Helen, and strong purpose. And it was
+so that while Paris marvelled to see her beauty wax ever the clearer,
+and while he loved her more than ever he had, and found her compliance
+the sweeter, he guessed nothing of what spirit it was that possessed
+her, nor of what she did when she was by herself. Nor could he guess,
+since she refused him never what he asked of her, how she weighed him
+lightly beside Menelaus her husband; nor, while she let herself be
+loved, what soft desires were astir in her heart to be cherished as a
+wife, sharer of a man's hearth, partaker of his counsels, comforter in
+his troubles, and mother of his sons. But it came to pass that the only
+joy of her life was in the seeing King Menelaus in the morning, and in
+the reading in his gaze the assurance of that peace which she longed
+for. And, again, her pride lay in fitting herself for it when it should
+come. Now, therefore, she forsook the religion of Aphrodite, to whom all
+her duty had been before, and in a grove of olive-trees in the garden of
+the house had built an altar to Artemis Aristoboulé. There offered she
+incense daily, and paid tribute of wheaten cakes kneaded with honey, and
+little figures of bears such as virgins offer to the Pure in Heart in
+Athens. And she would have whipped herself as they do in Sparta had she
+not feared discovery by him who still had her. So every day after
+speech with Menelaus the King about companionship and the sanctities of
+the wedded hearth, she prayed to the Goddess, saying, "O Chaste and
+Fair, by that pure face of thine and by thy untouched zone; by thy proud
+eyes and curving lip, and thy bow and scornful bitter arrows, aid thou
+me unhappy. Lo, now, Maid and Huntress, I make a vow. I will lay up in
+thy temple a fair wreath of box-leaves made of beaten gold on that day
+when my lord brings me home to my hearth and child, to be his friend and
+faithful companion, sharer of his joys and sorrows, and when he loves my
+proved and constant mind better than the bounty of my body. Hear me and
+fail me not, Lady of Grace." So prayed Helen, and then went back to the
+house, and suffered her lot, and cherished in her heart her high hope.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+When all was in order in the plans of the Achæans, King Menelaus told
+everything to Helen his wife; and how Odysseus was to come disguised
+into the city and seek speech with her. To the which she listened,
+marking every word; and bowed her head in sign of agreement; and at the
+end was silent, looking down at her lap and deeply blushing. And at last
+she lifted her eyes and showed them to the King, her husband, who marked
+them and her burning color, and knew that she had given him her heart
+again. So he returned that day to his quarters, glorifying and praising
+God. Immediately he went over to the tents of Odysseus, and sought out
+the prince, and said, "Go in, thou, this night, and the gray-eyed
+Goddess, the Maiden, befriend thee! This I know, Helen my wife shall be
+mine again before the moon have waned."
+
+[Illustration: HELEN OF TROY
+FROM THE PAINTING BY SIR FREDERICK LEIGHTON]
+
+Odysseus nodded his head. "Enough said, Son of Atreus," said he. "I go
+in this night."
+
+Now, in these days of weariness of strife, when the leaguer was not
+strict, the gates of Troy were often opened, now this one, now that, to
+let in fugitives from the hill-country. Odysseus, therefore, disguised
+himself as one of these, in sheepskin coat and swathes of rushes round
+his legs; and he stood with wounded feet, leaning upon a holly staff, as
+one of a throng. White dust was upon his beard, and sweat had made seams
+in the dust of his face and neck. Then, when they asked him at the gate,
+"Whence and what art thou, friend?" he answered, "I am a shepherd of the
+hills, named Glykon, whose store of sheep the Achæans have reived, whose
+wife stolen away, whose little ones put to the sword and fire. Me only
+have they left alive; and where should I come if not here?" So they let
+him in, and he came and stood in the hall of Paris with many other
+wretches. Then presently came Helen of the starry eyes and sweet pale
+face, she and her women to minister. And she knelt down with ewer and
+basin and a napkin to wash the feet of the poor. To whom, as she knelt
+at the feet of Odysseus, and rinsed his wounds and wiped away the dry
+blood, spake that crafty one in her ear, saying: "There are other wounds
+than mine for thy washing, lady, and deeper. For they are in the heart
+of King Menelaus, and in thy daughter's heart."
+
+She kept her face hidden from him, bending to his feet; but he saw that
+she trembled and moved her shoulders. So then he said again, "I know
+that thou art pitiful. I know that thou wilt wash his wounds."
+
+She answered him, whispering, "Yes; oh, yes."
+
+He said, "Let me have speech with thee, lady, when may be."
+
+And she, "It shall be when my lord sleepeth toward morning. Watch thou
+for me here, before the sun rise." And he was satisfied with what she
+said.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Now, it was toward morning; and Odysseus watched in the hall of Paris.
+Then came Helen in, and stepped lightly over the bodies of sleeping men,
+and touched him on the shoulder where he sat by the wall with his chin
+upon his knees. Over her head was the hood of a dark blue cloak; and the
+cloak fell to her feet. Her face was covered, not so but that he could
+see the good intention of her eyes. And he arose and stood beside her,
+and she beckoned him to follow after. Then she took him to the grove of
+olive-trees in the garden, and burned incense upon the altar she had set
+up, and laid her hand upon the altar of Artemis the Bright. "So do that
+quick Avenger to me," she said, "as she did to Amphion's wife, whenas
+her nostrils were filled with the wind of her rage, if I play false to
+thee, Odysseus." And Odysseus praised her. Then stooping, with her
+finger she traced the lines of Troy in the sand, and all the gates of
+it; and told over the number of the guard at each; and revealed the
+houses of the chiefs, where they stood, and the watches set.
+
+Odysseus marked all in his heart. But he asked, "And which is the golden
+house of King Priam?"
+
+She said, "Nay, but that I will not tell thee. For he has been always
+kind to me from the very first; and even when Hector, his beloved, was
+slain, he had no ill words for me, though all Troy hissed me in the
+shrines of the Gods, and women spat upon the doors of Paris' house as
+they passed by. Him, an old man, thou shalt spare for my sake who am
+about to betray him."
+
+Odysseus said, "Be it so. One marvel I have, lady, and it is this: If
+now, in these last days, thou wilt help thy people, why didst thou not
+before?"
+
+She was silent for a while. Then she said, "I knew not then what now I
+know, that my lord, the King, loves me."
+
+Odysseus marvelled. "Why," said he, "when all the hosts of the Achæans
+were gathered at his need, and out of all the nations of Hellas arose
+the cry of women bereaved and children fatherless, so that he might have
+thee again! And thou sayest, 'He loved thee not!'"
+
+"Nay," said she quickly, "not so. But I knew very well that he desired
+me for his solace and delight, as other men have done and still do: but
+to be craved is one thing and to be loved is another thing. I am not all
+fair flesh, Odysseus: I am wife and mother and I would be companion and
+comforter of a man. Now I know of a truth that my husband loveth me
+dearly; and I sicken of Paris, who maketh me his delight. Hateful to me
+are the ways of men with women. Have I not cause enough to hate them,
+these long years a plaything for his arms, and a fruit to allay the
+drouth of his eyes? Am I less a woman in that I am fair, or less woman
+grown because I can never be old? Now I loathe the sweet lore of
+Aphrodite, which she taught me too well; and all my hope is in that
+Blessed One whom men call Of Good Counsel. For, behold, love is a cruel
+thing of unending strife and wasting thought; but the ways of Artemis
+are ways of peace and they shall be my ways."
+
+A little longer he reasoned with her, and appointed a day when the entry
+should be made; but then afterward, when light filled the earth and the
+coming of the sun was beaconed upon the tops of the mountains, she arose
+and said:
+
+"My husband awaits me. I must go to him;" and left Odysseus, and went to
+the wall to talk with Menelaus below it. In her hand was a yellow
+crocus, sacred to Artemis the Bright. And Helen put it to her lips, and
+touched her eyes with it, and dropped it down the wall to Menelaus her
+husband.
+
+Then the Greeks fashioned a great horse out of wood, and set the images
+of two young kings upon it, with spears of gold, and stars upon their
+foreheads made of gold. And they caused it to be drawn to the Skæan Gate
+in the nighttime, and left it there for the Trojans to see. Dolon made
+it; but Odysseus devised the images of the two kings. And his craft was
+justified of itself. For the Trojans hailed in the images the
+twin-brothers of Helen, even Castor and Polydeuces, come to save the
+state for their sister's sake; and opened wide their gates, and drew in
+the horse, and set it upon the porch of the temple of Zeus the Thunder.
+There it stood for all to see. And King Priam was carried down in his
+litter to behold it; and with him came Hecabe the Queen, and Paris, and
+Æneas, and Helen, with Cassandra the King's daughter.
+
+Then King Priam lifted up his hands and blessed the horse and the riders
+thereof. And he said, "Hail to ye, great pair of brothers! Be favorable
+to us now, and speedy in your mercy."
+
+But Cassandra wailed and tore at the covering of her breast, and cried
+out, "Ah, and they shall be speedy! Here is a woe come upon us which
+shall be mercy indeed to some of you. But for me there is no mercy."
+
+Now was Helen, with softly shining eyes, close to the horse; and she
+laid her hand upon its belly and stroked it. And Cassandra saw her and
+reviled her, saying, "Thou shame to Ilium, and thou curse! The Ruinous
+Face, the Ruinous Face! Cried I not so in the beginning when they
+praised thy low voice and soft beguiling ways? But thou too, thou shalt
+rue this night!"
+
+But Helen laughed softly to herself, and stroked the smooth belly of the
+horse where her promise lay hidden. And they led Cassandra away, blind
+with weeping. And Helen returned to Paris' house and sought out
+Eutyches, a slave of the door, who loved her. Of him by gentle words and
+her slow sweet smile she besought arms: a sword, breastplate, shield and
+helmet. And when he gave them her, unable to deny her anything, she hid
+them under the hangings of the bed.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+That night Paris came to her where she lay bathed and anointed, and
+sought her in love; and she denied him nothing. Him thought such joy had
+never been his since first he held her in his arms in Cranæ. Deeply and
+long he loved; and in the middle of the night a great horn blew afar
+off, and there came the sound of men in the streets, running. That was
+the horn which they kept in the temple of Showery Zeus, to summon all
+Troy when needs were. Paris, at the sound thereof, lifted up his head
+from Helen's fair breast, listening. And again the great horn blew a
+long blast, and he said, "O bride, I must leave thee. Behold, they call
+from the temple of the God." But she took his face in her two hands and
+turned it about to look at her; and he saw love in her eyes and the dew
+of it upon her mouth, and kissed her, and stayed. So by and by the horn
+blew a third time, and there arose a great shout; and he started away
+from her, and stepped down from the bed, and stood beside it,
+unresolved. Then Helen put her arms about his body and urged herself
+toward him till her face touched his flank. And she clung to him, and
+looked up at him, and he stayed.
+
+[Illustration: PARIS AND HELEN
+FROM THE PAINTING BY JACQUES LOUIS DAVID IN THE LOUVRE]
+
+Now did rumor break out all at once, about the house and in the city
+afar off. Men cried, "The fire, the fire!" and "Save yourselves!" and
+"Oh, the Achæans!" and Paris tore himself away, and made haste to arm
+himself by the light of the fire in the city, which made the room as
+bright as day. And he put on all his harness, and took his sword and
+buckler, and ran out of the chamber and down the stairs, crying, "Arm
+ye, arm ye, and follow me!" Then Helen arose and swiftly withdrew the
+arms from below the bed, and called Eutyches to her from the gallery,
+and made him fasten the breastplate about her, and gird the thongs of
+the shield to her white arm, and fix the helmet of bronze upon her head.
+So he did, and trembled as he touched her; for he loved her out of
+measure and without hope. Then said she to Eutyches, "Arm thyself and
+follow me." And together, armed, they went down the stair.
+
+There was a great press of men fighting about the doors of Paris' house,
+and loud rumor. But beyond in the city the Achæans in a multitude
+carried fire and sword from house to house. And there was the noise of
+women crying mercy, and calling their children's names. And the flames
+leaped roaring to Heaven; and the Gods turned away their faces; and Troy
+was down.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Now Paris, fighting, came backwards into the hall where Helen was; and
+Menelaus came fiercely after him, and in the doorway drove a spear at
+him that went through the leather of his shield, through all the folds
+of it and ran deep into the flesh of his throat where it fastens to the
+shoulder. Then Paris groaned and bent his knees, and fell, calling Helen
+by her name. Then came she in her bright harness, with a burning face,
+and stood over the body of Paris, and held out her arms to the King,
+saying, "Husband, lord, behold, here am I, by your side!" Eutyches came
+after her, armed also.
+
+Then Menelaus, with the bloody spear in his hand newly plucked from the
+neck of Paris, gazed at his wife, not knowing her. So presently he said,
+weak-voiced, "What is this, O loveliest in the world?" But he knew
+Eutyches again, who had been with him and her in Sparta, and said to
+him, "Disarm her, but with care, lest the bronze bruise her fair flesh."
+So Eutyches, trembling, disarmed her, that she stood a lovely woman
+before the King. And Menelaus, with a shout, took her in his arms and
+cried out above the fire and dust and shrieking in the street, "Come,
+come, my treasure and desire! Love me now or I die!"
+
+But she clung to him, imploring. "Not here," she said, "not here,
+Menelaus. Take me hence; let me fare by thy side this night."
+
+But he pressed her the closer, saying, "Come, thou must love me now,"
+and lifted her in his arms and ran up the stair and through the gallery
+of the house to the great chamber where of late she had lain. And he
+called her women to disrobe her; and Helen fell to crying bitterly, and
+said, "Oh, I am a slave, I am a slave: I am bought and sold and handed
+about." And she could not be comforted or stayed from weeping. But
+nothing recked King Menelaus for that.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+When the walls of wide-wayed Troy were cast down, and of the towers and
+houses of the chiefs nothing stood but staring walls and rafters charred
+by fire; and when the temples of the Dardan Gods had been sacked, and
+scorn done to the body of Priam the Old; and Cassandra in the tent of
+King Agamemnon shuddered and rocked herself about; and when dogs had
+eaten the fair body of Paris, then the Achæans turned their eyes with
+longing to their homesteads. So there was a great ship-building and
+launching of keels; and at last King Menelaus embarked for peopled
+Lacedæmon, and took his lovely wife with him in the ship, and stayed his
+course at Rhodes for certain days, resting there with Helen. There he
+set a close guard about her all day; and as Paris had loved her, so
+loved he. But she was wretched, and spent her days in weeping; and grew
+pale and thin, and was for ever scheming shifts how she might be
+delivered from such a life as she led. Ever by the door of the chamber
+stood Eutyches, and watched her closely, marking her distress. And she
+knew that he knew it; for what woman does not know the secret mind of a
+man with regard to her?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+So, on a day, sat Helen by the window with her needlework in her lap,
+and looked out over the sea. Eutyches came into the room where she was,
+silently, through the hangings of the door, and kneeling to her, kissed
+her knee. She turned to him her sad face, saying, "What wouldst thou of
+me, Eutyches?"
+
+"Lady," he said, "thy pardon first of all."
+
+She smiled upon him. "Thou hast it," she said; "what then?"
+
+He said to her, "Lady, I have served thee these many years, and no man
+knows thy mind better than I do, who know it only from thy face. For I
+have been but a house-dog in thy sight. But I have never read it
+wrongly; and now I know that thou art unhappy...."
+
+"Yes," she said, "it is true. I am very unhappy, and with reason."
+
+Eutyches drew from his bosom a sharp sword and laid it upon her knee.
+"Take this sovereign remedy from thy servant," he said. "No ills can
+withstand it, so sharp it is." And he left her with the bare sword upon
+her knees. She hid it in the coverings of the bed.
+
+Now, when King Menelaus had feasted in the hall, he came immediately
+after into the Queen's chamber. And he said to her, "Hail, loveliest of
+women born!" and again, "Hail, thou Rose of the World!"
+
+She answered him nothing, but went to her women and suffered herself to
+be made ready. Then came the King in to her and began to woo her; but
+she, looking strangely upon him by the light of the torch in the wall,
+sat up and held him off with her hand. "Touch me not, Menelaus," she
+said, "touch me no more until I know whether thou art true or false."
+
+He was astonished at her, saying, "What is this, dear love? Dost thou
+call me false who for ten bitter years have striven to have thee again;
+and have forsworn all other women for thy sake?"
+
+But her eyes were hard upon him, glittering. "Ay," she said, "and I do.
+For to thee, through those bitter years, I was faithful in heart, and
+utterly; and that which thou lovest is the bounty of my body, the which
+if I should mar it, thou wouldst spurn me as horrible. And now I will
+prove thee and my words together." So, while he gazed at her in wonder,
+she drew out the sword. "With this sword," she said, "I will do one of
+two things. Choose thou."
+
+The King said, hollow-voiced, "What wilt thou do?"
+
+She said, "With the sword I will lay open this poisonous face of mine;"
+and she touched her right cheek; "or with it I will cut off this my
+wicked breast;" and she put her hand upon her left breast, and said
+again, "Choose thou."
+
+But Menelaus with a loud cry threw himself upon her, and took each of
+her wrists in a hand, and held her down on the bed. The sword dropped
+out and fell to the floor; but he let it lie. Now his love waxed the
+greater for the danger she had been in. And in the morning, when as she
+lay as one dead, he picked up the sword and brake it, and threw it out
+of the window. Also before he left her he gave straight order that she
+should be watched throughout the day. But he gave the order to Eutyches,
+believing him to be faithful for his former and latter service.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+By and by came Eutyches and spoke again with her, saying, "Lady, I fear
+me thou didst not use my remedy aright."
+
+She heard him in a stare, and answered in a dry voice, "I fear so too."
+
+Then said Eutyches, "There is but one way to use it. So shalt thou be
+free from pain and sorrow of heart." She would not look at him, but he
+knew that she understood his thought. "If thou wilt swear to me by
+Artemis the Bright," he said, "that thou wilt never use it against
+thyself, I will put another remedy on thy knees, lady."
+
+She swore it; and he fetched her a sword, and put it on her knees. That
+night, in the dark, she slew her husband Menelaus, as he lay asleep by
+her side; and she knew that he was dead because, after groaning once, he
+neither moved nor stirred, and because his foot which was upon her ankle
+was heavy as lead.
+
+Then came Eutyches in with a torch, and asked her if all was well. She
+told him what she had done; and Eutyches came close with the torch and
+saw that the King was dead. Then he said, "Before dawn we must depart,
+thou and I."
+
+She said, "Where can I go? What will become of me?"
+
+He gazed upon her, saying, "I will love thee for ever, as I have these
+twelve years and more."
+
+She said to him, "I will go now if thou wilt help me, Eutyches."
+
+He said, "I will help thee when I can."
+
+Then Helen looked at him, and saw his eyes, and was horribly afraid. She
+said, "I know not whether I can trust thee;" but he answered her:
+
+"Have I not proved that to thee? Did I not give thee the sword with
+which to free thyself?"
+
+"Yea," she said, "but have I freed myself indeed?"
+
+He stretched out his arms to her, saying, "Free? Yes, thou art free,
+most glorious one. And now I too am free to love thee."
+
+But she used craft in her fear, saying, "I am soiled with wicked blood.
+Stay thou here, Eutyches, and I will purify myself, and be as thou
+wouldst have me."
+
+And he let her go with a kiss, saying, "Be quick. Have I not waited
+twelve years?"
+
+Then Helen arose and went out of the chamber, and out of the house into
+the garden. And she stood before the altar of Artemis Eileithyia, and
+prayed before it, saying, "O Holy One, I give thee thanks indeed that
+now I know the way of peace." And then she went farther into the grove
+of ilex-trees where the altar and the image stood, and took off her
+girdle and bound it straightly round her neck. And she clomb the tree,
+and tied the end of the girdle about the branch thereof; and afterward
+cast herself down, and hung there quite still. And the cord which she
+used was of silk, and had girt her raiment about her, below her fair
+breasts.
+
+
+THE END
+
+
+
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+<div class="figcenter mt1 mb" style="width: 387px;"><a name="Frontispiece" id="Frontispiece"></a>
+<img class="figborder" src="images/helen_and_eutyches.jpg" width="387" height="600" alt="HELEN AND EUTYCHES" title="" />
+<span class="caption">HELEN AND EUTYCHES</span>
+</div>
+
+<h2>THE</h2>
+<h1>RUINOUS FACE</h1>
+
+<h3 class="mt1 mb1">BY<br/>
+MAURICE HEWLETT</h3>
+
+<p class="center">ILLUSTRATED</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter mt1 mb1" style="width: 119px;">
+<img src="images/decoration.png" width="119" height="150" alt="Publisher&#39;s Colophon" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>HARPER &amp; BROTHERS PUBLISHERS</h3>
+
+<p class="center mb">NEW YORK AND LONDON<br/>
+MCMIX</p>
+
+
+<p class="center">Copyright, 1909, by <span class="smcap">Harper &amp; Brothers</span>.</p>
+
+<p class="center"><i>All rights reserved.</i></p>
+
+<p class="center">Published October, 1909.
+</p>
+
+
+
+<p class="mt mb" style="width: 250px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">
+"Hence there is in Rhodes a sanctuary<br />
+of Helen of the Tree."<br />
+<br />
+&mdash;<i>Pausanias</i>, iii., 19, 9.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2>ILLUSTRATIONS</h2>
+
+
+<pre>
+<span class="smcap">Helen and Eutyches</span>                                        <em><a href="#Frontispiece">Frontispiece</a></em>
+
+<span class="smcap">The Abduction of Helen</span>                                    <em>Facing p.  <a href="#Page_viii">8</a></em>
+From the painting by Rudolph von Deutsch.
+
+<span class="smcap">Helen of Troy</span>                                                "      <em><a href="#Page_xx">20</a></em>
+From the painting by Sir Frederick Leighton.
+
+<span class="smcap">Paris and Helen</span>                                              "      <em><a href="#Page_xxx">30</a></em>
+From the painting by Jacques Louis David in the Louvre.
+</pre>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_i" id="Page_i">[i]</a></span></p>
+<h2>THE RUINOUS FACE</h2>
+
+
+<p>When the siege of Troy had been
+ten years doing, and most of the
+chieftains were dead, both of those afield
+and those who held the walls; and some
+had departed in their ships, and all who
+remained were leaden-hearted; there
+was one who felt the rage of war insatiate
+in his bowels: Menelaus, yellow-haired
+King of the Argives. He, indeed, rested
+not day or night, but knew the fever
+fretting at his members, and the burning
+in his heart. And when he scanned
+the windy plain about the city, and the
+desolation of it; and when he saw the
+huts of the Ach&aelig;ans, and the furrows<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_ii" id="Page_ii">[ii]</a></span>
+where the chariots ploughed along the
+lines, and the charred places of camp-fires,
+smoke-blackened trees, and puddled
+waters of Scamander, and corn-lands
+and pastures which for ten years had
+known neither plough nor deep-breathed
+cattle, nor querulous sheep; even then
+in the heart of Menelaus was no pity for
+Dardan nor Greek, but only for himself
+and what he had lost&mdash;white-bosomed
+Helen, darling of Gods and men, and
+golden treasure of the house.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>The vision of her glowing face and
+veiled eyes came to him in the night-season
+to make him mad, and in dreams
+he saw her, as once and many times he
+had seen her, lie supine. There as she
+lay in his dream, all white and gold,
+thinner than the mist-wreath upon a
+mountain, he would cry aloud for his
+loss, and throw his arms out over the
+empty bed, and feel his eye-sockets<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_iii" id="Page_iii">[iii]</a></span>
+smart for lack of tears; for tears came
+not to him, but his fever made his skin
+quite dry, and so were his eyes dry.
+Therefore, when the chiefs of the Ach&aelig;ans
+in Council, seeing how their strength
+was wearing down like a snowbank under
+the sun, looked reproachfully upon him,
+and thought of Hector slain, and of dead
+Achilles who slew him, of Priam, and of
+Diomede, and of tall Patroclus, he,
+Menelaus, took no heed at all, but sat
+in his place, and said, "There is no mercy
+for robbers of the house. Starve whom
+we cannot put to the sword. Lay closer
+leaguer. So shall I win my wife again
+and have honor among the Kings, my
+fellows." So he spake, for it was so he
+thought day and night; and Agamemnon,
+King of Men, bore with him, and carried
+the voices of all the Ach&aelig;ans. For since
+the death of Achilles there was no man
+stout enough to gainsay him, or deny
+him anything.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_iv" id="Page_iv">[iv]</a></span>
+In those days there was little war,
+since every man outside the walls was
+sick of strife, and consumed with longing
+for his home, and wife and children
+there. And one told another, "My son
+will be a grown man in his first beard,"
+and one, "My daughter will be a wife."
+As for the men of Troy, it was well for
+them that their foes were spent; for
+Hector was dead, and Agenor, and Troilus;
+and King Priam, the old, was fallen
+into dotage, which deprived him of
+counsel. He loved Alexandros only,
+whom men called Paris. On which account
+&AElig;neas, the wise prince, stood
+apart, and kept himself within the walls
+of his house. There remained only that
+beauteous Paris, the ravisher. Him Helen
+held fast enchained by her white arms
+and slow, sweet smile, and by the shafts
+of light from her kind eyes. All the
+compliance of a fair woman made for
+love lay in her; she could refuse nothing<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_v" id="Page_v">[v]</a></span>
+that was asked of her by him who had
+her. And she was gentle and very
+modest, and never dejected or low of
+heart; but when comfort was asked of
+her she gave it, and when solace, solace;
+and when he cried, "Oh for a deep draught
+of thee!" she gave him his desire. In
+these days he seldom left his hall, where
+she sat at the loom with her maids, or
+had them comb and braid her long hair.
+But of other women, wives and widows of
+heroes, Andromache mourned Hector
+dead and outraged, and Cassandra the
+wrath to come. Through the halls of
+the King's house came little sound but
+of women weeping loss; therefore, if
+love made Helen laugh sometimes, she
+laughed low and softly, lest some other
+should be offended. The streets were all
+silent, and the dogs ate one another. In
+the temples of the Gods they neglected
+the sacrifice, and what little might be
+offered was eaten by clouds of birds.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_vi" id="Page_vi">[vi]</a></span>
+Anniversaries and feasts were like common
+days. If the Gods were offended
+with Troy, there was no help for it.
+Men must live first, before they can
+serve God.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>Now the tenth year was come to the
+Spring, when young men and virgins
+worship Artemis the Bright; and abroad
+on the plains the crocus was aflower,
+and the anemone; and the blades of the
+iris were like swords stuck hilt downward
+in the earth. A green veil spread
+lightly over the land, and men might see
+a tree scorched black upon one side and
+budded with gold upon the other. Melted
+snow brimmed Simois and Scamander;
+cranes and storks built their nests, and
+one stood sentinel while his mate sat
+close, watchful in the reeds. On the
+mild, westerly airs came tenderness to
+bedew the hearts of men war-weary.
+They stepped carefully lest they should<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_vii" id="Page_vii">[vii]</a></span>
+crush young flowers, thinking in their
+minds, "God's pity must restrain me. If
+so fair a thing can thrive in place so foul,
+who am I to mar it?" But upon Menelaus,
+the King, the season worked like
+a ferment, so that he could never stay
+long in one place. All night long he
+turned and stretched himself out; but
+in the gray of the morning he would rise,
+and walk abroad by himself over the
+silent land, and about the sleeping walls
+of the city. So found he balm for his
+ache, and so he did every day.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>The house of Paris stood by the wall,
+and the garden upon the roof of the
+women's side was there upon it, and
+stretched far along the ramparts of Troy.
+King Menelaus knew it very well, for
+he had often seen Helen there with her
+maids when, with a veil to cover her face
+up to the eyes, she had stood there to
+watch the fighting, or the games about<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_viii" id="Page_viii">[viii]</a></span>
+the pyre of some chieftain dead, or the
+man&egrave;ge of the ships lying off Tenedos.
+Indeed, when he had been there in his
+chariot, urging an attack upon the gate,
+he had seen Paris come out of the house
+to Helen where she stood in the garden;
+and he saw that deceiver take the lovely
+woman in his arm, and with his hand
+withdraw the veil from her mouth that
+he might look at it. The maids were all
+about her, and below raged a battle
+among men; but he cared nothing for
+these. No, but he lifted up her face by
+the chin, and stooped his head, and
+kissed her twice; and would have kissed
+her a third time, but that by chance he
+saw King Menelaus below him, who
+stood up in his chariot and watched.
+Then he turned lightly and left her, and
+went in, and so presently she too, with
+her veil in her hand, not yet over her
+mouth, looked down from the wall and
+saw the King, her husband. Long<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_ix" id="Page_ix">[ix]</a></span>
+and deeply looked she; and he looked
+up at her; and so they stood, gazing
+each at the other. Then came women
+from the house and veiled her mouth,
+and took her away. Other times, too,
+he had seen her there, but she not
+him; and now, at this turn of the year,
+the memory of her came bright and hard
+before him; and he walked under the wall
+of the house in the gray of the morning.
+And as he walked there fiercely on a
+day, behold she stood above him on the
+wall, veiled, and in a brown robe, looking
+down at him. And they looked at
+each other for a space of time. And
+nobody was by.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter mt mb" style="width: 366px;">
+<img class="figborder" src="images/abduction_of_helen.jpg" width="366" height="600" alt="THE ABDUCTION OF HELEN. FROM THE PAINTING BY RUDOLPH VON DEUTSCH" title="" />
+<span class="caption">THE ABDUCTION OF HELEN<br/>FROM THE PAINTING BY RUDOLPH VON DEUTSCH</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Shaking, he said, "O Ruinous Face,
+art thou so early from the wicked bed?"</p>
+
+<p>She said low, "Yea, my lord, I am so
+early."</p>
+
+<p>"These ten long years," he said then,
+"I have walked here at this hour, but
+never yet saw I thee."</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_x" id="Page_x">[x]</a></span>
+She answered, "But I have seen my
+lord, for at this hour my lord Alexandros
+is accustomed to sleep and I to wake.
+And so I take the air, and am by myself."</p>
+
+<p>"O God!" he said, "would that I could
+come at thee, lady." She replied him
+nothing. So, after a little while of looking,
+he spoke to her again, saying, "Is
+this true which thou makest me to think,
+that thou walkest here in order that thou
+mayst be by thyself? Is it true, O thou
+God-begotten?"</p>
+
+<p>She said, smiling a little, "Is it so wonderful
+a thing that I should desire to be
+alone?"</p>
+
+<p>"By my fathers," he said, "I think
+it wonderful. And more wonderful is
+it to me that it should be allowed thee."
+And then he looked earnestly at her, and
+asked her this: "Dost thou, therefore,
+desire that I should leave thee?"</p>
+
+<p>"Nay," said she slowly, "I said not so."</p>
+
+<p>"Ask me to stay, and I stay," he said.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xi" id="Page_xi">[xi]</a></span>
+But she made no answer to that; but
+looked down to the earth at her feet.
+"Behold," said the King presently, "ten
+years and more since I have known my
+wife. Now if I were to cast my spear at
+thee and rive open thy golden side,
+what wonder were it? Answer me that."</p>
+
+<p>She looked long at him, that he saw
+the deep gray of her eyes. And he heard
+the low voice answer him, "I know that
+my lord would never do it." And he
+knew it better than she, and the reason as
+well as she.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>A little while more they talked together,
+alone in the sunless light; and she was in
+a gentle mood, as indeed she always was,
+and calmed the fret in him, so that he
+could keep still and take long breaths,
+and look at her without burning in his
+heart. She asked him of their child, and
+when he told her it was well, stood
+thoughtful and silent. "Here," said she,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xii" id="Page_xii">[xii]</a></span>
+presently, "I have no child," and it seemed
+to him that she sighed.</p>
+
+<p>"O Lady," he said, "dost thou regret
+nothing of all these ten long years?"</p>
+
+<p>Her answer was to look long at him
+without speech. And then again she
+veiled her eyes with her eyelids and hung
+her head. He dared say nothing.</p>
+
+<p>Paris came out of the house, fresh from
+the bath, rosy and beautiful, and whistled
+a low clear note, like the call of a bird at
+evening. Then he called upon Helen.</p>
+
+<p>"Where is my love? Where is the
+Desire of the World?"</p>
+
+<p>She looked up quickly at King Menelaus,
+and smiled half, and moved her
+hand; and she went to Paris. Then the
+King groaned, and rent himself. But
+he would not stay, nor look up, lest he
+should see what he dared not see.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>Next day, very early, and every day
+after, those two, long-severed, kept a tryst:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xiii" id="Page_xiii">[xiii]</a></span>
+so in time she came to be there first, and
+a strife grew between them which should
+watch for the other. And after a little
+she would sit upon the wall and speak
+happily to him without disguise. So
+happiness came to him, too, and he ceased
+to reproach her. For she reasoned very
+gently with him of her own case, urging
+him not to be angry with her. Defending
+herself, she said, "Thou shouldst not reproach
+me, husband, nor wouldst thou
+in thy heart if thou knewst what is in mine,
+or what my portion has been since with
+fair words in many-mansioned Sparta he
+did beguile me. With words smoother
+than honey, and sweeter than the comb
+of it he did beguile me, and with false
+words made me believe that I was forsaken
+and betrayed; and urged me to
+take ship with him in search of thee.
+Nor ever once did he reveal himself until
+we touched Cran&aelig; in the ship. Then he
+showed me all his power, and declared<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xiv" id="Page_xiv">[xiv]</a></span>
+his purpose with me. And I could do
+nothing against him; and so he brought
+me to Troy and kept me there. All these
+years he has loved, and still loves me in
+his fashion: and art thou angry with me,
+my lord, that I do not for ever reproach
+him, or spend myself in tears, and fast,
+and go like one distraught, holding myself
+aloof from all his house? Nay, but
+of what avail would that be, or what
+reward to many that treat me well here
+in Troy? For King Priam, the old king,
+is good to me, and the Queen also; and
+my lord Hector was above all men good
+to me, and defended me always against
+scorn and evil report. True it is that I
+have been the reproach of men, both
+Trojans and Ach&aelig;ans; and all the woes of
+the years have been laid to me who am
+most guiltless of offence. For all my sin
+has been that I have been gentle with
+those who hold me here; and have not
+denied them that which cannot be denied,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xv" id="Page_xv">[xv]</a></span>
+but have given what I must with fair-seeming."</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>And another time she said, "What
+mercy have men for a woman whom they
+desire and cannot have? And what face
+have women for her who is more sought
+than them? And what of such a woman,
+O lord Menelaus, what of her in her
+misery? Is it true, thinkest thou, because
+she is good to look upon and is
+desired by men, that she should have no
+desires of her own? And must she have
+pleasure only in that which men seek of
+her, and none in her house and child
+overseas? Is my face then, and are these
+my breasts all that I have? And is my
+mind nothing at all, nor the kindness in
+my heart, nor the joy I have in the busy
+world? My face has been ruin unto
+many, and many have sought my breasts;
+but to me it has been misery and shame,
+and my milk a bitter gall."</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xvi" id="Page_xvi">[xvi]</a></span>
+Thus spake Helen of the fair girdle;
+and he saw her eyes filled with tears, and
+pure sorrow upon her face; and he held
+up his arms to her, crying, "O my dear
+one, wilt thou not come back to me?"
+She could not speak for crying; but nodded
+her head often between her covering
+hands.</p>
+
+<p>Then he, seeing how her thoughts lay,
+gently toward home, and desiring to
+please her now more than anything in the
+world, spake of the child, swearing by the
+Gods of Laced&aelig;mon that she was not forgotten.
+"Nay," he said, "but still she
+talks of her mother, and every day would
+know of her return. And those about
+her in our house, faithful ones, say, 'The
+King thy father has gone to bring our
+lady back; and all will be happy again.'
+And so," said he, "it shall be, beloved,
+if thou wilt but come." Then Helen
+lifted up her face from her covering hands,
+and showed him her eyes. And he said,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xvii" id="Page_xvii">[xvii]</a></span>
+"O Wonder of the World, shall I come
+for thee?"</p>
+
+<p>And her words were sped down the
+wall, soft as dropping rose-leaves: "Come
+soon." And King Menelaus returned to
+his quarters, glorying in his strength.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>This day he took counsel with King
+Agamemnon his brother, and with Odysseus,
+wisest of the Ach&aelig;ans, and told
+them all. And while they pondered what
+the news might mean he declared his
+purpose, which was to have Helen again
+by all means, and to enter Troy disguised
+by night, and in the morning to drop with
+her in his arms over the wall, from the
+garden of Paris' house. But Odysseus
+dissuaded him, and so did the King his
+brother; for they knew very well that Troy
+must be sacked, and the Ach&aelig;ans satisfied
+with plunder, and death, and women.
+For after ten years of strife men raven for
+such things, and will not give over until<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xviii" id="Page_xviii">[xviii]</a></span>
+they have them. Also it was written in
+the heart of Hera that the walls of Troy
+must be cast down, and the pride thereof
+made a byword. So it was that the
+counsel of King Menelaus was overpassed,
+and that of Odysseus prevailed. And
+with him lay the word that he should
+make his plan, and tell it over to Menelaus,
+that he might tell it again to Helen
+when he saw her on the wall.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>At this time a great heart was in Helen,
+and strong purpose. And it was so that
+while Paris marvelled to see her beauty
+wax ever the clearer, and while he loved
+her more than ever he had, and found her
+compliance the sweeter, he guessed nothing
+of what spirit it was that possessed her,
+nor of what she did when she was by herself.
+Nor could he guess, since she refused
+him never what he asked of her,
+how she weighed him lightly beside Menelaus
+her husband; nor, while she let herself<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xix" id="Page_xix">[xix]</a></span>
+be loved, what soft desires were astir
+in her heart to be cherished as a wife,
+sharer of a man's hearth, partaker of his
+counsels, comforter in his troubles, and
+mother of his sons. But it came to pass
+that the only joy of her life was in the
+seeing King Menelaus in the morning,
+and in the reading in his gaze the assurance
+of that peace which she longed
+for. And, again, her pride lay in fitting
+herself for it when it should come. Now,
+therefore, she forsook the religion of
+Aphrodite, to whom all her duty had been
+before, and in a grove of olive-trees in the
+garden of the house had built an altar to
+Artemis Aristoboul&eacute;. There offered she
+incense daily, and paid tribute of wheaten
+cakes kneaded with honey, and little
+figures of bears such as virgins offer to
+the Pure in Heart in Athens. And she
+would have whipped herself as they do
+in Sparta had she not feared discovery
+by him who still had her. So every day<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xx" id="Page_xx">[xx]</a></span>
+after speech with Menelaus the King
+about companionship and the sanctities of
+the wedded hearth, she prayed to the
+Goddess, saying, "O Chaste and Fair, by
+that pure face of thine and by thy untouched
+zone; by thy proud eyes and curving
+lip, and thy bow and scornful bitter
+arrows, aid thou me unhappy. Lo, now,
+Maid and Huntress, I make a vow. I
+will lay up in thy temple a fair wreath of
+box-leaves made of beaten gold on that
+day when my lord brings me home to
+my hearth and child, to be his friend and
+faithful companion, sharer of his joys and
+sorrows, and when he loves my proved and
+constant mind better than the bounty of my
+body. Hear me and fail me not, Lady of
+Grace." So prayed Helen, and then went
+back to the house, and suffered her lot,
+and cherished in her heart her high hope.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>When all was in order in the plans of
+the Ach&aelig;ans, King Menelaus told everything<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xxi" id="Page_xxi">[xxi]</a></span>
+to Helen his wife; and how Odysseus
+was to come disguised into the city
+and seek speech with her. To the which
+she listened, marking every word; and
+bowed her head in sign of agreement;
+and at the end was silent, looking down
+at her lap and deeply blushing. And at
+last she lifted her eyes and showed them
+to the King, her husband, who marked
+them and her burning color, and knew
+that she had given him her heart again.
+So he returned that day to his quarters,
+glorifying and praising God. Immediately
+he went over to the tents of Odysseus,
+and sought out the prince, and said,
+"Go in, thou, this night, and the gray-eyed
+Goddess, the Maiden, befriend
+thee! This I know, Helen my wife shall
+be mine again before the moon have
+waned."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter mt mb" style="width: 365px;">
+<img class="figborder" src="images/helen_of_troy.jpg" width="365" height="600" alt="HELEN OF TROY. FROM THE PAINTING BY SIR FREDERICK LEIGHTON" title="" />
+<span class="caption">HELEN OF TROY<br/>FROM THE PAINTING BY SIR FREDERICK LEIGHTON</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Odysseus nodded his head. "Enough
+said, Son of Atreus," said he. "I go in
+this night."</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xxii" id="Page_xxii">[xxii]</a></span>
+Now, in these days of weariness of
+strife, when the leaguer was not strict,
+the gates of Troy were often opened, now
+this one, now that, to let in fugitives from
+the hill-country. Odysseus, therefore,
+disguised himself as one of these, in sheepskin
+coat and swathes of rushes round his
+legs; and he stood with wounded feet,
+leaning upon a holly staff, as one of a
+throng. White dust was upon his beard,
+and sweat had made seams in the dust of
+his face and neck. Then, when they
+asked him at the gate, "Whence and what
+art thou, friend?" he answered, "I am a
+shepherd of the hills, named Glykon,
+whose store of sheep the Ach&aelig;ans have
+reived, whose wife stolen away, whose
+little ones put to the sword and fire. Me
+only have they left alive; and where should
+I come if not here?" So they let him in,
+and he came and stood in the hall of
+Paris with many other wretches. Then
+presently came Helen of the starry eyes<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xxiii" id="Page_xxiii">[xxiii]</a></span>
+and sweet pale face, she and her women
+to minister. And she knelt down with
+ewer and basin and a napkin to wash the
+feet of the poor. To whom, as she knelt
+at the feet of Odysseus, and rinsed his
+wounds and wiped away the dry blood,
+spake that crafty one in her ear, saying:
+"There are other wounds than mine for
+thy washing, lady, and deeper. For they
+are in the heart of King Menelaus, and in
+thy daughter's heart."</p>
+
+<p>She kept her face hidden from him,
+bending to his feet; but he saw that she
+trembled and moved her shoulders. So
+then he said again, "I know that thou art
+pitiful. I know that thou wilt wash his
+wounds."</p>
+
+<p>She answered him, whispering, "Yes;
+oh, yes."</p>
+
+<p>He said, "Let me have speech with
+thee, lady, when may be."</p>
+
+<p>And she, "It shall be when my lord
+sleepeth toward morning. Watch thou<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xxiv" id="Page_xxiv">[xxiv]</a></span>
+for me here, before the sun rise." And
+he was satisfied with what she said.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>Now, it was toward morning; and
+Odysseus watched in the hall of Paris.
+Then came Helen in, and stepped lightly
+over the bodies of sleeping men, and
+touched him on the shoulder where he
+sat by the wall with his chin upon his
+knees. Over her head was the hood of
+a dark blue cloak; and the cloak fell to her
+feet. Her face was covered, not so
+but that he could see the good intention
+of her eyes. And he arose and stood beside
+her, and she beckoned him to follow
+after. Then she took him to the grove
+of olive-trees in the garden, and burned
+incense upon the altar she had set up,
+and laid her hand upon the altar of
+Artemis the Bright. "So do that quick
+Avenger to me," she said, "as she did to
+Amphion's wife, whenas her nostrils were
+filled with the wind of her rage, if I play<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xxv" id="Page_xxv">[xxv]</a></span>
+false to thee, Odysseus." And Odysseus
+praised her. Then stooping, with her
+finger she traced the lines of Troy in the
+sand, and all the gates of it; and told
+over the number of the guard at each;
+and revealed the houses of the chiefs,
+where they stood, and the watches
+set.</p>
+
+<p>Odysseus marked all in his heart. But
+he asked, "And which is the golden house
+of King Priam?"</p>
+
+<p>She said, "Nay, but that I will not tell
+thee. For he has been always kind to me
+from the very first; and even when
+Hector, his beloved, was slain, he had
+no ill words for me, though all Troy
+hissed me in the shrines of the Gods, and
+women spat upon the doors of Paris'
+house as they passed by. Him, an old
+man, thou shalt spare for my sake who
+am about to betray him."</p>
+
+<p>Odysseus said, "Be it so. One marvel
+I have, lady, and it is this: If now, in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xxvi" id="Page_xxvi">[xxvi]</a></span>
+these last days, thou wilt help thy people,
+why didst thou not before?"</p>
+
+<p>She was silent for a while. Then she
+said, "I knew not then what now I know,
+that my lord, the King, loves me."</p>
+
+<p>Odysseus marvelled. "Why," said he,
+"when all the hosts of the Ach&aelig;ans were
+gathered at his need, and out of all the
+nations of Hellas arose the cry of women
+bereaved and children fatherless, so that
+he might have thee again! And thou
+sayest, 'He loved thee not!'"</p>
+
+<p>"Nay," said she quickly, "not so. But
+I knew very well that he desired me for his
+solace and delight, as other men have
+done and still do: but to be craved is one
+thing and to be loved is another thing. I
+am not all fair flesh, Odysseus: I am wife
+and mother and I would be companion
+and comforter of a man. Now I know of
+a truth that my husband loveth me dearly;
+and I sicken of Paris, who maketh me his
+delight. Hateful to me are the ways of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xxvii" id="Page_xxvii">[xxvii]</a></span>
+men with women. Have I not cause
+enough to hate them, these long years a
+plaything for his arms, and a fruit to allay
+the drouth of his eyes? Am I less a
+woman in that I am fair, or less woman
+grown because I can never be old? Now
+I loathe the sweet lore of Aphrodite,
+which she taught me too well; and all my
+hope is in that Blessed One whom men
+call Of Good Counsel. For, behold, love
+is a cruel thing of unending strife and
+wasting thought; but the ways of Artemis
+are ways of peace and they shall be my
+ways."</p>
+
+<p>A little longer he reasoned with her, and
+appointed a day when the entry should
+be made; but then afterward, when light
+filled the earth and the coming of the sun
+was beaconed upon the tops of the mountains,
+she arose and said:</p>
+
+<p>"My husband awaits me. I must go
+to him;" and left Odysseus, and went to
+the wall to talk with Menelaus below it.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xxviii" id="Page_xxviii">[xxviii]</a></span>
+In her hand was a yellow crocus, sacred
+to Artemis the Bright. And Helen put
+it to her lips, and touched her eyes with it,
+and dropped it down the wall to Menelaus
+her husband.</p>
+
+<p>Then the Greeks fashioned a great
+horse out of wood, and set the images of
+two young kings upon it, with spears
+of gold, and stars upon their foreheads
+made of gold. And they caused it to be
+drawn to the Sk&aelig;an Gate in the nighttime,
+and left it there for the Trojans to
+see. Dolon made it; but Odysseus devised
+the images of the two kings. And his craft
+was justified of itself. For the Trojans
+hailed in the images the twin-brothers
+of Helen, even Castor and Polydeuces,
+come to save the state for their sister's
+sake; and opened wide their gates, and
+drew in the horse, and set it upon the
+porch of the temple of Zeus the Thunder.
+There it stood for all to see. And King
+Priam was carried down in his litter to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xxix" id="Page_xxix">[xxix]</a></span>
+behold it; and with him came Hecabe
+the Queen, and Paris, and &AElig;neas, and
+Helen, with Cassandra the King's daughter.</p>
+
+<p>Then King Priam lifted up his hands
+and blessed the horse and the riders thereof.
+And he said, "Hail to ye, great pair
+of brothers! Be favorable to us now, and
+speedy in your mercy."</p>
+
+<p>But Cassandra wailed and tore at the
+covering of her breast, and cried out,
+"Ah, and they shall be speedy! Here is
+a woe come upon us which shall be mercy
+indeed to some of you. But for me there
+is no mercy."</p>
+
+<p>Now was Helen, with softly shining
+eyes, close to the horse; and she laid her
+hand upon its belly and stroked it. And
+Cassandra saw her and reviled her, saying,
+"Thou shame to Ilium, and thou
+curse! The Ruinous Face, the Ruinous
+Face! Cried I not so in the beginning
+when they praised thy low voice and soft<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xxx" id="Page_xxx">[xxx]</a></span>
+beguiling ways? But thou too, thou
+shalt rue this night!"</p>
+
+<p>But Helen laughed softly to herself,
+and stroked the smooth belly of the horse
+where her promise lay hidden. And
+they led Cassandra away, blind with
+weeping. And Helen returned to Paris'
+house and sought out Eutyches, a slave
+of the door, who loved her. Of him by
+gentle words and her slow sweet smile she
+besought arms: a sword, breastplate,
+shield and helmet. And when he gave
+them her, unable to deny her anything,
+she hid them under the hangings of the
+bed.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>That night Paris came to her where she
+lay bathed and anointed, and sought her
+in love; and she denied him nothing.
+Him thought such joy had never been his
+since first he held her in his arms in
+Cran&aelig;. Deeply and long he loved; and
+in the middle of the night a great horn<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xxxi" id="Page_xxxi">[xxxi]</a></span>
+blew afar off, and there came the sound
+of men in the streets, running. That was
+the horn which they kept in the temple of
+Showery Zeus, to summon all Troy when
+needs were. Paris, at the sound thereof,
+lifted up his head from Helen's fair breast,
+listening. And again the great horn blew
+a long blast, and he said, "O bride, I must
+leave thee. Behold, they call from the
+temple of the God." But she took his face
+in her two hands and turned it about to
+look at her; and he saw love in her eyes
+and the dew of it upon her mouth, and
+kissed her, and stayed. So by and by
+the horn blew a third time, and there
+arose a great shout; and he started away
+from her, and stepped down from the bed,
+and stood beside it, unresolved. Then
+Helen put her arms about his body and
+urged herself toward him till her face
+touched his flank. And she clung to
+him, and looked up at him, and he
+stayed.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter mt mb" style="width: 370px;">
+<img class="figborder" src="images/paris_and_helen.jpg" width="370" height="600" alt="PARIS AND HELEN. FROM THE PAINTING BY JACQUES LOUIS DAVID IN THE LOUVRE" title="" />
+<span class="caption">PARIS AND HELEN<br/>FROM THE PAINTING BY JACQUES LOUIS DAVID IN THE LOUVRE</span>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xxxii" id="Page_xxxii">[xxxii]</a></span>
+Now did rumor break out all at once,
+about the house and in the city afar off.
+Men cried, "The fire, the fire!" and "Save
+yourselves!" and "Oh, the Ach&aelig;ans!"
+and Paris tore himself away, and made
+haste to arm himself by the light of the fire
+in the city, which made the room as bright
+as day. And he put on all his harness,
+and took his sword and buckler, and ran
+out of the chamber and down the stairs,
+crying, "Arm ye, arm ye, and follow me!"
+Then Helen arose and swiftly withdrew
+the arms from below the bed, and called
+Eutyches to her from the gallery, and
+made him fasten the breastplate about
+her, and gird the thongs of the shield to
+her white arm, and fix the helmet of
+bronze upon her head. So he did, and
+trembled as he touched her; for he loved
+her out of measure and without hope.
+Then said she to Eutyches, "Arm thyself
+and follow me." And together, armed,
+they went down the stair.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xxxiii" id="Page_xxxiii">[xxxiii]</a></span>There was a great press of men fighting
+about the doors of Paris' house, and loud
+rumor. But beyond in the city the Ach&aelig;ans
+in a multitude carried fire and sword from
+house to house. And there was the noise
+of women crying mercy, and calling their
+children's names. And the flames leaped
+roaring to Heaven; and the Gods turned
+away their faces; and Troy was down.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>Now Paris, fighting, came backwards
+into the hall where Helen was; and Menelaus
+came fiercely after him, and in the
+doorway drove a spear at him that
+went through the leather of his shield,
+through all the folds of it and ran deep
+into the flesh of his throat where it fastens
+to the shoulder. Then Paris groaned and
+bent his knees, and fell, calling Helen by
+her name. Then came she in her bright
+harness, with a burning face, and stood
+over the body of Paris, and held out her
+arms to the King, saying, "Husband, lord,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xxxiv" id="Page_xxxiv">[xxxiv]</a></span>
+behold, here am I, by your side!"
+Eutyches came after her, armed also.</p>
+
+<p>Then Menelaus, with the bloody spear
+in his hand newly plucked from the neck
+of Paris, gazed at his wife, not knowing
+her. So presently he said, weak-voiced,
+"What is this, O loveliest in the world?"
+But he knew Eutyches again, who had
+been with him and her in Sparta, and said
+to him, "Disarm her, but with care, lest
+the bronze bruise her fair flesh." So
+Eutyches, trembling, disarmed her, that
+she stood a lovely woman before the King.
+And Menelaus, with a shout, took her in
+his arms and cried out above the fire and
+dust and shrieking in the street, "Come,
+come, my treasure and desire! Love me
+now or I die!"</p>
+
+<p>But she clung to him, imploring. "Not
+here," she said, "not here, Menelaus.
+Take me hence; let me fare by thy side
+this night."</p>
+
+<p>But he pressed her the closer, saying,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xxxv" id="Page_xxxv">[xxxv]</a></span>
+"Come, thou must love me now," and
+lifted her in his arms and ran up the stair
+and through the gallery of the house to the
+great chamber where of late she had lain.
+And he called her women to disrobe her;
+and Helen fell to crying bitterly, and said,
+"Oh, I am a slave, I am a slave: I am
+bought and sold and handed about."
+And she could not be comforted or stayed
+from weeping. But nothing recked King
+Menelaus for that.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>When the walls of wide-wayed Troy
+were cast down, and of the towers and
+houses of the chiefs nothing stood but
+staring walls and rafters charred by fire;
+and when the temples of the Dardan Gods
+had been sacked, and scorn done to the
+body of Priam the Old; and Cassandra
+in the tent of King Agamemnon shuddered
+and rocked herself about; and when
+dogs had eaten the fair body of Paris, then
+the Ach&aelig;ans turned their eyes with longing<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xxxvi" id="Page_xxxvi">[xxxvi]</a></span>
+to their homesteads. So there was a
+great ship-building and launching of
+keels; and at last King Menelaus embarked
+for peopled Laced&aelig;mon, and took
+his lovely wife with him in the ship, and
+stayed his course at Rhodes for certain
+days, resting there with Helen. There
+he set a close guard about her all day; and
+as Paris had loved her, so loved he. But
+she was wretched, and spent her days in
+weeping; and grew pale and thin, and was
+for ever scheming shifts how she might
+be delivered from such a life as she led.
+Ever by the door of the chamber stood
+Eutyches, and watched her closely, marking
+her distress. And she knew that he
+knew it; for what woman does not know
+the secret mind of a man with regard to
+her?</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>So, on a day, sat Helen by the window
+with her needlework in her lap, and looked
+out over the sea. Eutyches came into the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xxxvii" id="Page_xxxvii">[xxxvii]</a></span>
+room where she was, silently, through the
+hangings of the door, and kneeling to her,
+kissed her knee. She turned to him her
+sad face, saying, "What wouldst thou of
+me, Eutyches?"</p>
+
+<p>"Lady," he said, "thy pardon first of
+all."</p>
+
+<p>She smiled upon him. "Thou hast it,"
+she said; "what then?"</p>
+
+<p>He said to her, "Lady, I have served
+thee these many years, and no man knows
+thy mind better than I do, who know it
+only from thy face. For I have been but
+a house-dog in thy sight. But I have
+never read it wrongly; and now I know
+that thou art unhappy...."</p>
+
+<p>"Yes," she said, "it is true. I am very
+unhappy, and with reason."</p>
+
+<p>Eutyches drew from his bosom a sharp
+sword and laid it upon her knee. "Take
+this sovereign remedy from thy servant,"
+he said. "No ills can withstand it, so
+sharp it is." And he left her with the bare<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xxxviii" id="Page_xxxviii">[xxxviii]</a></span>
+sword upon her knees. She hid it in the
+coverings of the bed.</p>
+
+<p>Now, when King Menelaus had feasted
+in the hall, he came immediately after
+into the Queen's chamber. And he said
+to her, "Hail, loveliest of women born!"
+and again, "Hail, thou Rose of the
+World!"</p>
+
+<p>She answered him nothing, but went to
+her women and suffered herself to be made
+ready. Then came the King in to her
+and began to woo her; but she, looking
+strangely upon him by the light of the
+torch in the wall, sat up and held him
+off with her hand. "Touch me not,
+Menelaus," she said, "touch me no more
+until I know whether thou art true or
+false."</p>
+
+<p>He was astonished at her, saying,
+"What is this, dear love? Dost thou call
+me false who for ten bitter years have
+striven to have thee again; and have forsworn
+all other women for thy sake?"</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xxxix" id="Page_xxxix">[xxxix]</a></span>
+But her eyes were hard upon him,
+glittering. "Ay," she said, "and I do.
+For to thee, through those bitter years, I
+was faithful in heart, and utterly; and that
+which thou lovest is the bounty of my
+body, the which if I should mar it, thou
+wouldst spurn me as horrible. And now
+I will prove thee and my words together."
+So, while he gazed at her in wonder, she
+drew out the sword. "With this sword,"
+she said, "I will do one of two things.
+Choose thou."</p>
+
+<p>The King said, hollow-voiced, "What
+wilt thou do?"</p>
+
+<p>She said, "With the sword I will lay
+open this poisonous face of mine;" and
+she touched her right cheek; "or with it I
+will cut off this my wicked breast;" and
+she put her hand upon her left breast, and
+said again, "Choose thou."</p>
+
+<p>But Menelaus with a loud cry threw
+himself upon her, and took each of her
+wrists in a hand, and held her down on the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xl" id="Page_xl">[xl]</a></span>
+bed. The sword dropped out and fell
+to the floor; but he let it lie. Now his
+love waxed the greater for the danger she
+had been in. And in the morning, when
+as she lay as one dead, he picked up the
+sword and brake it, and threw it out of the
+window. Also before he left her he gave
+straight order that she should be watched
+throughout the day. But he gave the
+order to Eutyches, believing him to be
+faithful for his former and latter service.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>By and by came Eutyches and spoke
+again with her, saying, "Lady, I fear me
+thou didst not use my remedy aright."</p>
+
+<p>She heard him in a stare, and answered
+in a dry voice, "I fear so too."</p>
+
+<p>Then said Eutyches, "There is but one
+way to use it. So shalt thou be free
+from pain and sorrow of heart." She
+would not look at him, but he knew that
+she understood his thought. "If thou
+wilt swear to me by Artemis the Bright,"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xli" id="Page_xli">[xli]</a></span>
+he said, "that thou wilt never use it
+against thyself, I will put another remedy
+on thy knees, lady."</p>
+
+<p>She swore it; and he fetched her a
+sword, and put it on her knees. That
+night, in the dark, she slew her husband
+Menelaus, as he lay asleep by her side;
+and she knew that he was dead because,
+after groaning once, he neither moved
+nor stirred, and because his foot which
+was upon her ankle was heavy as lead.</p>
+
+<p>Then came Eutyches in with a torch,
+and asked her if all was well. She told
+him what she had done; and Eutyches
+came close with the torch and saw that
+the King was dead. Then he said,
+"Before dawn we must depart, thou
+and I."</p>
+
+<p>She said, "Where can I go? What
+will become of me?"</p>
+
+<p>He gazed upon her, saying, "I will love
+thee for ever, as I have these twelve years
+and more."</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xlii" id="Page_xlii">[xlii]</a></span>
+She said to him, "I will go now if thou
+wilt help me, Eutyches."</p>
+
+<p>He said, "I will help thee when I can."</p>
+
+<p>Then Helen looked at him, and saw his
+eyes, and was horribly afraid. She said,
+"I know not whether I can trust thee;"
+but he answered her:</p>
+
+<p>"Have I not proved that to thee? Did
+I not give thee the sword with which to
+free thyself?"</p>
+
+<p>"Yea," she said, "but have I freed
+myself indeed?"</p>
+
+<p>He stretched out his arms to her, saying,
+"Free? Yes, thou art free, most glorious
+one. And now I too am free to love
+thee."</p>
+
+<p>But she used craft in her fear, saying,
+"I am soiled with wicked blood. Stay
+thou here, Eutyches, and I will purify
+myself, and be as thou wouldst have me."</p>
+
+<p>And he let her go with a kiss, saying,
+"Be quick. Have I not waited twelve
+years?"</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xliii" id="Page_xliii">[xliii]</a></span>Then Helen arose and went out of the
+chamber, and out of the house into the
+garden. And she stood before the altar
+of Artemis Eileithyia, and prayed before
+it, saying, "O Holy One, I give thee thanks
+indeed that now I know the way of peace."
+And then she went farther into the grove
+of ilex-trees where the altar and the image
+stood, and took off her girdle and bound
+it straightly round her neck. And she
+clomb the tree, and tied the end of the
+girdle about the branch thereof; and afterward
+cast herself down, and hung there
+quite still. And the cord which she used
+was of silk, and had girt her raiment
+about her, below her fair breasts.</p>
+
+
+<p class="center mt mb1">THE END</p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Ruinous Face, by Maurice Hewlett
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+[Illustration: HELEN AND EUTYCHES]
+
+                  THE
+              RUINOUS FACE
+
+                   BY
+            MAURICE HEWLETT
+
+              ILLUSTRATED
+
+
+
+      HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
+
+          NEW YORK AND LONDON
+                 MCMIX
+
+
+ Copyright, 1909, by HARPER & BROTHERS.
+
+         _All rights reserved._
+
+        Published October, 1909.
+
+
+
+
+      "Hence there is in Rhodes a sanctuary
+      of Helen of the Tree."
+
+      --_Pausanias_, iii., 19, 9.
+
+
+
+
+ILLUSTRATIONS
+
+
+HELEN AND EUTYCHES                                        _Frontispiece_
+
+THE ABDUCTION OF HELEN                                    _Facing p.  8_
+From the painting by Rudolph von Deutsch.
+
+HELEN OF TROY                                                "      _20_
+From the painting by Sir Frederick Leighton.
+
+PARIS AND HELEN                                              "      _30_
+From the painting by Jacques Louis David in the Louvre.
+
+
+
+
+THE RUINOUS FACE
+
+
+When the siege of Troy had been ten years doing, and most of the
+chieftains were dead, both of those afield and those who held the walls;
+and some had departed in their ships, and all who remained were
+leaden-hearted; there was one who felt the rage of war insatiate in his
+bowels: Menelaus, yellow-haired King of the Argives. He, indeed, rested
+not day or night, but knew the fever fretting at his members, and the
+burning in his heart. And when he scanned the windy plain about the
+city, and the desolation of it; and when he saw the huts of the Achaeans,
+and the furrows where the chariots ploughed along the lines, and the
+charred places of camp-fires, smoke-blackened trees, and puddled waters
+of Scamander, and corn-lands and pastures which for ten years had known
+neither plough nor deep-breathed cattle, nor querulous sheep; even then
+in the heart of Menelaus was no pity for Dardan nor Greek, but only for
+himself and what he had lost--white-bosomed Helen, darling of Gods and
+men, and golden treasure of the house.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The vision of her glowing face and veiled eyes came to him in the
+night-season to make him mad, and in dreams he saw her, as once and many
+times he had seen her, lie supine. There as she lay in his dream, all
+white and gold, thinner than the mist-wreath upon a mountain, he would
+cry aloud for his loss, and throw his arms out over the empty bed, and
+feel his eye-sockets smart for lack of tears; for tears came not to
+him, but his fever made his skin quite dry, and so were his eyes dry.
+Therefore, when the chiefs of the Achaeans in Council, seeing how their
+strength was wearing down like a snowbank under the sun, looked
+reproachfully upon him, and thought of Hector slain, and of dead
+Achilles who slew him, of Priam, and of Diomede, and of tall Patroclus,
+he, Menelaus, took no heed at all, but sat in his place, and said,
+"There is no mercy for robbers of the house. Starve whom we cannot put
+to the sword. Lay closer leaguer. So shall I win my wife again and have
+honor among the Kings, my fellows." So he spake, for it was so he
+thought day and night; and Agamemnon, King of Men, bore with him, and
+carried the voices of all the Achaeans. For since the death of Achilles
+there was no man stout enough to gainsay him, or deny him anything.
+
+In those days there was little war, since every man outside the walls
+was sick of strife, and consumed with longing for his home, and wife and
+children there. And one told another, "My son will be a grown man in his
+first beard," and one, "My daughter will be a wife." As for the men of
+Troy, it was well for them that their foes were spent; for Hector was
+dead, and Agenor, and Troilus; and King Priam, the old, was fallen into
+dotage, which deprived him of counsel. He loved Alexandros only, whom
+men called Paris. On which account AEneas, the wise prince, stood apart,
+and kept himself within the walls of his house. There remained only that
+beauteous Paris, the ravisher. Him Helen held fast enchained by her
+white arms and slow, sweet smile, and by the shafts of light from her
+kind eyes. All the compliance of a fair woman made for love lay in her;
+she could refuse nothing that was asked of her by him who had her. And
+she was gentle and very modest, and never dejected or low of heart; but
+when comfort was asked of her she gave it, and when solace, solace; and
+when he cried, "Oh for a deep draught of thee!" she gave him his desire.
+In these days he seldom left his hall, where she sat at the loom with
+her maids, or had them comb and braid her long hair. But of other women,
+wives and widows of heroes, Andromache mourned Hector dead and outraged,
+and Cassandra the wrath to come. Through the halls of the King's house
+came little sound but of women weeping loss; therefore, if love made
+Helen laugh sometimes, she laughed low and softly, lest some other
+should be offended. The streets were all silent, and the dogs ate one
+another. In the temples of the Gods they neglected the sacrifice, and
+what little might be offered was eaten by clouds of birds.
+Anniversaries and feasts were like common days. If the Gods were
+offended with Troy, there was no help for it. Men must live first,
+before they can serve God.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Now the tenth year was come to the Spring, when young men and virgins
+worship Artemis the Bright; and abroad on the plains the crocus was
+aflower, and the anemone; and the blades of the iris were like swords
+stuck hilt downward in the earth. A green veil spread lightly over the
+land, and men might see a tree scorched black upon one side and budded
+with gold upon the other. Melted snow brimmed Simois and Scamander;
+cranes and storks built their nests, and one stood sentinel while his
+mate sat close, watchful in the reeds. On the mild, westerly airs came
+tenderness to bedew the hearts of men war-weary. They stepped carefully
+lest they should crush young flowers, thinking in their minds, "God's
+pity must restrain me. If so fair a thing can thrive in place so foul,
+who am I to mar it?" But upon Menelaus, the King, the season worked like
+a ferment, so that he could never stay long in one place. All night long
+he turned and stretched himself out; but in the gray of the morning he
+would rise, and walk abroad by himself over the silent land, and about
+the sleeping walls of the city. So found he balm for his ache, and so he
+did every day.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The house of Paris stood by the wall, and the garden upon the roof of
+the women's side was there upon it, and stretched far along the ramparts
+of Troy. King Menelaus knew it very well, for he had often seen Helen
+there with her maids when, with a veil to cover her face up to the eyes,
+she had stood there to watch the fighting, or the games about the pyre
+of some chieftain dead, or the manege of the ships lying off Tenedos.
+Indeed, when he had been there in his chariot, urging an attack upon the
+gate, he had seen Paris come out of the house to Helen where she stood
+in the garden; and he saw that deceiver take the lovely woman in his
+arm, and with his hand withdraw the veil from her mouth that he might
+look at it. The maids were all about her, and below raged a battle among
+men; but he cared nothing for these. No, but he lifted up her face by
+the chin, and stooped his head, and kissed her twice; and would have
+kissed her a third time, but that by chance he saw King Menelaus below
+him, who stood up in his chariot and watched. Then he turned lightly and
+left her, and went in, and so presently she too, with her veil in her
+hand, not yet over her mouth, looked down from the wall and saw the
+King, her husband. Long and deeply looked she; and he looked up at
+her; and so they stood, gazing each at the other. Then came women from
+the house and veiled her mouth, and took her away. Other times, too, he
+had seen her there, but she not him; and now, at this turn of the year,
+the memory of her came bright and hard before him; and he walked under
+the wall of the house in the gray of the morning. And as he walked there
+fiercely on a day, behold she stood above him on the wall, veiled, and
+in a brown robe, looking down at him. And they looked at each other for
+a space of time. And nobody was by.
+
+[Illustration: THE ABDUCTION OF HELEN
+FROM THE PAINTING BY RUDOLPH VON DEUTSCH]
+
+Shaking, he said, "O Ruinous Face, art thou so early from the wicked
+bed?"
+
+She said low, "Yea, my lord, I am so early."
+
+"These ten long years," he said then, "I have walked here at this hour,
+but never yet saw I thee."
+
+She answered, "But I have seen my lord, for at this hour my lord
+Alexandros is accustomed to sleep and I to wake. And so I take the air,
+and am by myself."
+
+"O God!" he said, "would that I could come at thee, lady." She replied
+him nothing. So, after a little while of looking, he spoke to her again,
+saying, "Is this true which thou makest me to think, that thou walkest
+here in order that thou mayst be by thyself? Is it true, O thou
+God-begotten?"
+
+She said, smiling a little, "Is it so wonderful a thing that I should
+desire to be alone?"
+
+"By my fathers," he said, "I think it wonderful. And more wonderful is
+it to me that it should be allowed thee." And then he looked earnestly
+at her, and asked her this: "Dost thou, therefore, desire that I should
+leave thee?"
+
+"Nay," said she slowly, "I said not so."
+
+"Ask me to stay, and I stay," he said. But she made no answer to that;
+but looked down to the earth at her feet. "Behold," said the King
+presently, "ten years and more since I have known my wife. Now if I were
+to cast my spear at thee and rive open thy golden side, what wonder were
+it? Answer me that."
+
+She looked long at him, that he saw the deep gray of her eyes. And he
+heard the low voice answer him, "I know that my lord would never do it."
+And he knew it better than she, and the reason as well as she.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A little while more they talked together, alone in the sunless light;
+and she was in a gentle mood, as indeed she always was, and calmed the
+fret in him, so that he could keep still and take long breaths, and look
+at her without burning in his heart. She asked him of their child, and
+when he told her it was well, stood thoughtful and silent. "Here," said
+she, presently, "I have no child," and it seemed to him that she
+sighed.
+
+"O Lady," he said, "dost thou regret nothing of all these ten long
+years?"
+
+Her answer was to look long at him without speech. And then again she
+veiled her eyes with her eyelids and hung her head. He dared say
+nothing.
+
+Paris came out of the house, fresh from the bath, rosy and beautiful,
+and whistled a low clear note, like the call of a bird at evening. Then
+he called upon Helen.
+
+"Where is my love? Where is the Desire of the World?"
+
+She looked up quickly at King Menelaus, and smiled half, and moved her
+hand; and she went to Paris. Then the King groaned, and rent himself.
+But he would not stay, nor look up, lest he should see what he dared not
+see.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Next day, very early, and every day after, those two, long-severed, kept
+a tryst: so in time she came to be there first, and a strife grew
+between them which should watch for the other. And after a little she
+would sit upon the wall and speak happily to him without disguise. So
+happiness came to him, too, and he ceased to reproach her. For she
+reasoned very gently with him of her own case, urging him not to be
+angry with her. Defending herself, she said, "Thou shouldst not reproach
+me, husband, nor wouldst thou in thy heart if thou knewst what is in
+mine, or what my portion has been since with fair words in
+many-mansioned Sparta he did beguile me. With words smoother than honey,
+and sweeter than the comb of it he did beguile me, and with false words
+made me believe that I was forsaken and betrayed; and urged me to take
+ship with him in search of thee. Nor ever once did he reveal himself
+until we touched Cranae in the ship. Then he showed me all his power, and
+declared his purpose with me. And I could do nothing against him; and
+so he brought me to Troy and kept me there. All these years he has
+loved, and still loves me in his fashion: and art thou angry with me, my
+lord, that I do not for ever reproach him, or spend myself in tears, and
+fast, and go like one distraught, holding myself aloof from all his
+house? Nay, but of what avail would that be, or what reward to many that
+treat me well here in Troy? For King Priam, the old king, is good to me,
+and the Queen also; and my lord Hector was above all men good to me, and
+defended me always against scorn and evil report. True it is that I have
+been the reproach of men, both Trojans and Achaeans; and all the woes of
+the years have been laid to me who am most guiltless of offence. For all
+my sin has been that I have been gentle with those who hold me here; and
+have not denied them that which cannot be denied, but have given what I
+must with fair-seeming."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+And another time she said, "What mercy have men for a woman whom they
+desire and cannot have? And what face have women for her who is more
+sought than them? And what of such a woman, O lord Menelaus, what of her
+in her misery? Is it true, thinkest thou, because she is good to look
+upon and is desired by men, that she should have no desires of her own?
+And must she have pleasure only in that which men seek of her, and none
+in her house and child overseas? Is my face then, and are these my
+breasts all that I have? And is my mind nothing at all, nor the kindness
+in my heart, nor the joy I have in the busy world? My face has been ruin
+unto many, and many have sought my breasts; but to me it has been misery
+and shame, and my milk a bitter gall."
+
+Thus spake Helen of the fair girdle; and he saw her eyes filled with
+tears, and pure sorrow upon her face; and he held up his arms to her,
+crying, "O my dear one, wilt thou not come back to me?" She could not
+speak for crying; but nodded her head often between her covering hands.
+
+Then he, seeing how her thoughts lay, gently toward home, and desiring
+to please her now more than anything in the world, spake of the child,
+swearing by the Gods of Lacedaemon that she was not forgotten. "Nay," he
+said, "but still she talks of her mother, and every day would know of
+her return. And those about her in our house, faithful ones, say, 'The
+King thy father has gone to bring our lady back; and all will be happy
+again.' And so," said he, "it shall be, beloved, if thou wilt but come."
+Then Helen lifted up her face from her covering hands, and showed him
+her eyes. And he said, "O Wonder of the World, shall I come for thee?"
+
+And her words were sped down the wall, soft as dropping rose-leaves:
+"Come soon." And King Menelaus returned to his quarters, glorying in his
+strength.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+This day he took counsel with King Agamemnon his brother, and with
+Odysseus, wisest of the Achaeans, and told them all. And while they
+pondered what the news might mean he declared his purpose, which was to
+have Helen again by all means, and to enter Troy disguised by night, and
+in the morning to drop with her in his arms over the wall, from the
+garden of Paris' house. But Odysseus dissuaded him, and so did the King
+his brother; for they knew very well that Troy must be sacked, and the
+Achaeans satisfied with plunder, and death, and women. For after ten
+years of strife men raven for such things, and will not give over until
+they have them. Also it was written in the heart of Hera that the walls
+of Troy must be cast down, and the pride thereof made a byword. So it
+was that the counsel of King Menelaus was overpassed, and that of
+Odysseus prevailed. And with him lay the word that he should make his
+plan, and tell it over to Menelaus, that he might tell it again to Helen
+when he saw her on the wall.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+At this time a great heart was in Helen, and strong purpose. And it was
+so that while Paris marvelled to see her beauty wax ever the clearer,
+and while he loved her more than ever he had, and found her compliance
+the sweeter, he guessed nothing of what spirit it was that possessed
+her, nor of what she did when she was by herself. Nor could he guess,
+since she refused him never what he asked of her, how she weighed him
+lightly beside Menelaus her husband; nor, while she let herself be
+loved, what soft desires were astir in her heart to be cherished as a
+wife, sharer of a man's hearth, partaker of his counsels, comforter in
+his troubles, and mother of his sons. But it came to pass that the only
+joy of her life was in the seeing King Menelaus in the morning, and in
+the reading in his gaze the assurance of that peace which she longed
+for. And, again, her pride lay in fitting herself for it when it should
+come. Now, therefore, she forsook the religion of Aphrodite, to whom all
+her duty had been before, and in a grove of olive-trees in the garden of
+the house had built an altar to Artemis Aristoboule. There offered she
+incense daily, and paid tribute of wheaten cakes kneaded with honey, and
+little figures of bears such as virgins offer to the Pure in Heart in
+Athens. And she would have whipped herself as they do in Sparta had she
+not feared discovery by him who still had her. So every day after
+speech with Menelaus the King about companionship and the sanctities of
+the wedded hearth, she prayed to the Goddess, saying, "O Chaste and
+Fair, by that pure face of thine and by thy untouched zone; by thy proud
+eyes and curving lip, and thy bow and scornful bitter arrows, aid thou
+me unhappy. Lo, now, Maid and Huntress, I make a vow. I will lay up in
+thy temple a fair wreath of box-leaves made of beaten gold on that day
+when my lord brings me home to my hearth and child, to be his friend and
+faithful companion, sharer of his joys and sorrows, and when he loves my
+proved and constant mind better than the bounty of my body. Hear me and
+fail me not, Lady of Grace." So prayed Helen, and then went back to the
+house, and suffered her lot, and cherished in her heart her high hope.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+When all was in order in the plans of the Achaeans, King Menelaus told
+everything to Helen his wife; and how Odysseus was to come disguised
+into the city and seek speech with her. To the which she listened,
+marking every word; and bowed her head in sign of agreement; and at the
+end was silent, looking down at her lap and deeply blushing. And at last
+she lifted her eyes and showed them to the King, her husband, who marked
+them and her burning color, and knew that she had given him her heart
+again. So he returned that day to his quarters, glorifying and praising
+God. Immediately he went over to the tents of Odysseus, and sought out
+the prince, and said, "Go in, thou, this night, and the gray-eyed
+Goddess, the Maiden, befriend thee! This I know, Helen my wife shall be
+mine again before the moon have waned."
+
+[Illustration: HELEN OF TROY
+FROM THE PAINTING BY SIR FREDERICK LEIGHTON]
+
+Odysseus nodded his head. "Enough said, Son of Atreus," said he. "I go
+in this night."
+
+Now, in these days of weariness of strife, when the leaguer was not
+strict, the gates of Troy were often opened, now this one, now that, to
+let in fugitives from the hill-country. Odysseus, therefore, disguised
+himself as one of these, in sheepskin coat and swathes of rushes round
+his legs; and he stood with wounded feet, leaning upon a holly staff, as
+one of a throng. White dust was upon his beard, and sweat had made seams
+in the dust of his face and neck. Then, when they asked him at the gate,
+"Whence and what art thou, friend?" he answered, "I am a shepherd of the
+hills, named Glykon, whose store of sheep the Achaeans have reived, whose
+wife stolen away, whose little ones put to the sword and fire. Me only
+have they left alive; and where should I come if not here?" So they let
+him in, and he came and stood in the hall of Paris with many other
+wretches. Then presently came Helen of the starry eyes and sweet pale
+face, she and her women to minister. And she knelt down with ewer and
+basin and a napkin to wash the feet of the poor. To whom, as she knelt
+at the feet of Odysseus, and rinsed his wounds and wiped away the dry
+blood, spake that crafty one in her ear, saying: "There are other wounds
+than mine for thy washing, lady, and deeper. For they are in the heart
+of King Menelaus, and in thy daughter's heart."
+
+She kept her face hidden from him, bending to his feet; but he saw that
+she trembled and moved her shoulders. So then he said again, "I know
+that thou art pitiful. I know that thou wilt wash his wounds."
+
+She answered him, whispering, "Yes; oh, yes."
+
+He said, "Let me have speech with thee, lady, when may be."
+
+And she, "It shall be when my lord sleepeth toward morning. Watch thou
+for me here, before the sun rise." And he was satisfied with what she
+said.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Now, it was toward morning; and Odysseus watched in the hall of Paris.
+Then came Helen in, and stepped lightly over the bodies of sleeping men,
+and touched him on the shoulder where he sat by the wall with his chin
+upon his knees. Over her head was the hood of a dark blue cloak; and the
+cloak fell to her feet. Her face was covered, not so but that he could
+see the good intention of her eyes. And he arose and stood beside her,
+and she beckoned him to follow after. Then she took him to the grove of
+olive-trees in the garden, and burned incense upon the altar she had set
+up, and laid her hand upon the altar of Artemis the Bright. "So do that
+quick Avenger to me," she said, "as she did to Amphion's wife, whenas
+her nostrils were filled with the wind of her rage, if I play false to
+thee, Odysseus." And Odysseus praised her. Then stooping, with her
+finger she traced the lines of Troy in the sand, and all the gates of
+it; and told over the number of the guard at each; and revealed the
+houses of the chiefs, where they stood, and the watches set.
+
+Odysseus marked all in his heart. But he asked, "And which is the golden
+house of King Priam?"
+
+She said, "Nay, but that I will not tell thee. For he has been always
+kind to me from the very first; and even when Hector, his beloved, was
+slain, he had no ill words for me, though all Troy hissed me in the
+shrines of the Gods, and women spat upon the doors of Paris' house as
+they passed by. Him, an old man, thou shalt spare for my sake who am
+about to betray him."
+
+Odysseus said, "Be it so. One marvel I have, lady, and it is this: If
+now, in these last days, thou wilt help thy people, why didst thou not
+before?"
+
+She was silent for a while. Then she said, "I knew not then what now I
+know, that my lord, the King, loves me."
+
+Odysseus marvelled. "Why," said he, "when all the hosts of the Achaeans
+were gathered at his need, and out of all the nations of Hellas arose
+the cry of women bereaved and children fatherless, so that he might have
+thee again! And thou sayest, 'He loved thee not!'"
+
+"Nay," said she quickly, "not so. But I knew very well that he desired
+me for his solace and delight, as other men have done and still do: but
+to be craved is one thing and to be loved is another thing. I am not all
+fair flesh, Odysseus: I am wife and mother and I would be companion and
+comforter of a man. Now I know of a truth that my husband loveth me
+dearly; and I sicken of Paris, who maketh me his delight. Hateful to me
+are the ways of men with women. Have I not cause enough to hate them,
+these long years a plaything for his arms, and a fruit to allay the
+drouth of his eyes? Am I less a woman in that I am fair, or less woman
+grown because I can never be old? Now I loathe the sweet lore of
+Aphrodite, which she taught me too well; and all my hope is in that
+Blessed One whom men call Of Good Counsel. For, behold, love is a cruel
+thing of unending strife and wasting thought; but the ways of Artemis
+are ways of peace and they shall be my ways."
+
+A little longer he reasoned with her, and appointed a day when the entry
+should be made; but then afterward, when light filled the earth and the
+coming of the sun was beaconed upon the tops of the mountains, she arose
+and said:
+
+"My husband awaits me. I must go to him;" and left Odysseus, and went to
+the wall to talk with Menelaus below it. In her hand was a yellow
+crocus, sacred to Artemis the Bright. And Helen put it to her lips, and
+touched her eyes with it, and dropped it down the wall to Menelaus her
+husband.
+
+Then the Greeks fashioned a great horse out of wood, and set the images
+of two young kings upon it, with spears of gold, and stars upon their
+foreheads made of gold. And they caused it to be drawn to the Skaean Gate
+in the nighttime, and left it there for the Trojans to see. Dolon made
+it; but Odysseus devised the images of the two kings. And his craft was
+justified of itself. For the Trojans hailed in the images the
+twin-brothers of Helen, even Castor and Polydeuces, come to save the
+state for their sister's sake; and opened wide their gates, and drew in
+the horse, and set it upon the porch of the temple of Zeus the Thunder.
+There it stood for all to see. And King Priam was carried down in his
+litter to behold it; and with him came Hecabe the Queen, and Paris, and
+AEneas, and Helen, with Cassandra the King's daughter.
+
+Then King Priam lifted up his hands and blessed the horse and the riders
+thereof. And he said, "Hail to ye, great pair of brothers! Be favorable
+to us now, and speedy in your mercy."
+
+But Cassandra wailed and tore at the covering of her breast, and cried
+out, "Ah, and they shall be speedy! Here is a woe come upon us which
+shall be mercy indeed to some of you. But for me there is no mercy."
+
+Now was Helen, with softly shining eyes, close to the horse; and she
+laid her hand upon its belly and stroked it. And Cassandra saw her and
+reviled her, saying, "Thou shame to Ilium, and thou curse! The Ruinous
+Face, the Ruinous Face! Cried I not so in the beginning when they
+praised thy low voice and soft beguiling ways? But thou too, thou shalt
+rue this night!"
+
+But Helen laughed softly to herself, and stroked the smooth belly of the
+horse where her promise lay hidden. And they led Cassandra away, blind
+with weeping. And Helen returned to Paris' house and sought out
+Eutyches, a slave of the door, who loved her. Of him by gentle words and
+her slow sweet smile she besought arms: a sword, breastplate, shield and
+helmet. And when he gave them her, unable to deny her anything, she hid
+them under the hangings of the bed.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+That night Paris came to her where she lay bathed and anointed, and
+sought her in love; and she denied him nothing. Him thought such joy had
+never been his since first he held her in his arms in Cranae. Deeply and
+long he loved; and in the middle of the night a great horn blew afar
+off, and there came the sound of men in the streets, running. That was
+the horn which they kept in the temple of Showery Zeus, to summon all
+Troy when needs were. Paris, at the sound thereof, lifted up his head
+from Helen's fair breast, listening. And again the great horn blew a
+long blast, and he said, "O bride, I must leave thee. Behold, they call
+from the temple of the God." But she took his face in her two hands and
+turned it about to look at her; and he saw love in her eyes and the dew
+of it upon her mouth, and kissed her, and stayed. So by and by the horn
+blew a third time, and there arose a great shout; and he started away
+from her, and stepped down from the bed, and stood beside it,
+unresolved. Then Helen put her arms about his body and urged herself
+toward him till her face touched his flank. And she clung to him, and
+looked up at him, and he stayed.
+
+[Illustration: PARIS AND HELEN
+FROM THE PAINTING BY JACQUES LOUIS DAVID IN THE LOUVRE]
+
+Now did rumor break out all at once, about the house and in the city
+afar off. Men cried, "The fire, the fire!" and "Save yourselves!" and
+"Oh, the Achaeans!" and Paris tore himself away, and made haste to arm
+himself by the light of the fire in the city, which made the room as
+bright as day. And he put on all his harness, and took his sword and
+buckler, and ran out of the chamber and down the stairs, crying, "Arm
+ye, arm ye, and follow me!" Then Helen arose and swiftly withdrew the
+arms from below the bed, and called Eutyches to her from the gallery,
+and made him fasten the breastplate about her, and gird the thongs of
+the shield to her white arm, and fix the helmet of bronze upon her head.
+So he did, and trembled as he touched her; for he loved her out of
+measure and without hope. Then said she to Eutyches, "Arm thyself and
+follow me." And together, armed, they went down the stair.
+
+There was a great press of men fighting about the doors of Paris' house,
+and loud rumor. But beyond in the city the Achaeans in a multitude
+carried fire and sword from house to house. And there was the noise of
+women crying mercy, and calling their children's names. And the flames
+leaped roaring to Heaven; and the Gods turned away their faces; and Troy
+was down.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Now Paris, fighting, came backwards into the hall where Helen was; and
+Menelaus came fiercely after him, and in the doorway drove a spear at
+him that went through the leather of his shield, through all the folds
+of it and ran deep into the flesh of his throat where it fastens to the
+shoulder. Then Paris groaned and bent his knees, and fell, calling Helen
+by her name. Then came she in her bright harness, with a burning face,
+and stood over the body of Paris, and held out her arms to the King,
+saying, "Husband, lord, behold, here am I, by your side!" Eutyches came
+after her, armed also.
+
+Then Menelaus, with the bloody spear in his hand newly plucked from the
+neck of Paris, gazed at his wife, not knowing her. So presently he said,
+weak-voiced, "What is this, O loveliest in the world?" But he knew
+Eutyches again, who had been with him and her in Sparta, and said to
+him, "Disarm her, but with care, lest the bronze bruise her fair flesh."
+So Eutyches, trembling, disarmed her, that she stood a lovely woman
+before the King. And Menelaus, with a shout, took her in his arms and
+cried out above the fire and dust and shrieking in the street, "Come,
+come, my treasure and desire! Love me now or I die!"
+
+But she clung to him, imploring. "Not here," she said, "not here,
+Menelaus. Take me hence; let me fare by thy side this night."
+
+But he pressed her the closer, saying, "Come, thou must love me now,"
+and lifted her in his arms and ran up the stair and through the gallery
+of the house to the great chamber where of late she had lain. And he
+called her women to disrobe her; and Helen fell to crying bitterly, and
+said, "Oh, I am a slave, I am a slave: I am bought and sold and handed
+about." And she could not be comforted or stayed from weeping. But
+nothing recked King Menelaus for that.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+When the walls of wide-wayed Troy were cast down, and of the towers and
+houses of the chiefs nothing stood but staring walls and rafters charred
+by fire; and when the temples of the Dardan Gods had been sacked, and
+scorn done to the body of Priam the Old; and Cassandra in the tent of
+King Agamemnon shuddered and rocked herself about; and when dogs had
+eaten the fair body of Paris, then the Achaeans turned their eyes with
+longing to their homesteads. So there was a great ship-building and
+launching of keels; and at last King Menelaus embarked for peopled
+Lacedaemon, and took his lovely wife with him in the ship, and stayed his
+course at Rhodes for certain days, resting there with Helen. There he
+set a close guard about her all day; and as Paris had loved her, so
+loved he. But she was wretched, and spent her days in weeping; and grew
+pale and thin, and was for ever scheming shifts how she might be
+delivered from such a life as she led. Ever by the door of the chamber
+stood Eutyches, and watched her closely, marking her distress. And she
+knew that he knew it; for what woman does not know the secret mind of a
+man with regard to her?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+So, on a day, sat Helen by the window with her needlework in her lap,
+and looked out over the sea. Eutyches came into the room where she was,
+silently, through the hangings of the door, and kneeling to her, kissed
+her knee. She turned to him her sad face, saying, "What wouldst thou of
+me, Eutyches?"
+
+"Lady," he said, "thy pardon first of all."
+
+She smiled upon him. "Thou hast it," she said; "what then?"
+
+He said to her, "Lady, I have served thee these many years, and no man
+knows thy mind better than I do, who know it only from thy face. For I
+have been but a house-dog in thy sight. But I have never read it
+wrongly; and now I know that thou art unhappy...."
+
+"Yes," she said, "it is true. I am very unhappy, and with reason."
+
+Eutyches drew from his bosom a sharp sword and laid it upon her knee.
+"Take this sovereign remedy from thy servant," he said. "No ills can
+withstand it, so sharp it is." And he left her with the bare sword upon
+her knees. She hid it in the coverings of the bed.
+
+Now, when King Menelaus had feasted in the hall, he came immediately
+after into the Queen's chamber. And he said to her, "Hail, loveliest of
+women born!" and again, "Hail, thou Rose of the World!"
+
+She answered him nothing, but went to her women and suffered herself to
+be made ready. Then came the King in to her and began to woo her; but
+she, looking strangely upon him by the light of the torch in the wall,
+sat up and held him off with her hand. "Touch me not, Menelaus," she
+said, "touch me no more until I know whether thou art true or false."
+
+He was astonished at her, saying, "What is this, dear love? Dost thou
+call me false who for ten bitter years have striven to have thee again;
+and have forsworn all other women for thy sake?"
+
+But her eyes were hard upon him, glittering. "Ay," she said, "and I do.
+For to thee, through those bitter years, I was faithful in heart, and
+utterly; and that which thou lovest is the bounty of my body, the which
+if I should mar it, thou wouldst spurn me as horrible. And now I will
+prove thee and my words together." So, while he gazed at her in wonder,
+she drew out the sword. "With this sword," she said, "I will do one of
+two things. Choose thou."
+
+The King said, hollow-voiced, "What wilt thou do?"
+
+She said, "With the sword I will lay open this poisonous face of mine;"
+and she touched her right cheek; "or with it I will cut off this my
+wicked breast;" and she put her hand upon her left breast, and said
+again, "Choose thou."
+
+But Menelaus with a loud cry threw himself upon her, and took each of
+her wrists in a hand, and held her down on the bed. The sword dropped
+out and fell to the floor; but he let it lie. Now his love waxed the
+greater for the danger she had been in. And in the morning, when as she
+lay as one dead, he picked up the sword and brake it, and threw it out
+of the window. Also before he left her he gave straight order that she
+should be watched throughout the day. But he gave the order to Eutyches,
+believing him to be faithful for his former and latter service.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+By and by came Eutyches and spoke again with her, saying, "Lady, I fear
+me thou didst not use my remedy aright."
+
+She heard him in a stare, and answered in a dry voice, "I fear so too."
+
+Then said Eutyches, "There is but one way to use it. So shalt thou be
+free from pain and sorrow of heart." She would not look at him, but he
+knew that she understood his thought. "If thou wilt swear to me by
+Artemis the Bright," he said, "that thou wilt never use it against
+thyself, I will put another remedy on thy knees, lady."
+
+She swore it; and he fetched her a sword, and put it on her knees. That
+night, in the dark, she slew her husband Menelaus, as he lay asleep by
+her side; and she knew that he was dead because, after groaning once, he
+neither moved nor stirred, and because his foot which was upon her ankle
+was heavy as lead.
+
+Then came Eutyches in with a torch, and asked her if all was well. She
+told him what she had done; and Eutyches came close with the torch and
+saw that the King was dead. Then he said, "Before dawn we must depart,
+thou and I."
+
+She said, "Where can I go? What will become of me?"
+
+He gazed upon her, saying, "I will love thee for ever, as I have these
+twelve years and more."
+
+She said to him, "I will go now if thou wilt help me, Eutyches."
+
+He said, "I will help thee when I can."
+
+Then Helen looked at him, and saw his eyes, and was horribly afraid. She
+said, "I know not whether I can trust thee;" but he answered her:
+
+"Have I not proved that to thee? Did I not give thee the sword with
+which to free thyself?"
+
+"Yea," she said, "but have I freed myself indeed?"
+
+He stretched out his arms to her, saying, "Free? Yes, thou art free,
+most glorious one. And now I too am free to love thee."
+
+But she used craft in her fear, saying, "I am soiled with wicked blood.
+Stay thou here, Eutyches, and I will purify myself, and be as thou
+wouldst have me."
+
+And he let her go with a kiss, saying, "Be quick. Have I not waited
+twelve years?"
+
+Then Helen arose and went out of the chamber, and out of the house into
+the garden. And she stood before the altar of Artemis Eileithyia, and
+prayed before it, saying, "O Holy One, I give thee thanks indeed that
+now I know the way of peace." And then she went farther into the grove
+of ilex-trees where the altar and the image stood, and took off her
+girdle and bound it straightly round her neck. And she clomb the tree,
+and tied the end of the girdle about the branch thereof; and afterward
+cast herself down, and hung there quite still. And the cord which she
+used was of silk, and had girt her raiment about her, below her fair
+breasts.
+
+
+THE END
+
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