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+Title: The Princess And The Jewel Doctor
+       1905
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+Author: Robert Hichens
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+Release Date: November 8, 2007 [EBook #23413]
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+THE PRINCESS AND THE JEWEL DOCTOR
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+By Robert Hichens
+
+Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers
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+Copyright, 1905
+
+
+In St. Petersburg society there may be met at the present time a certain
+Russian Princess, who is noted for her beauty, for an ugly defect--she
+has lost the forefinger of her left hand--and for her extraordinary
+attachment to the city of Tunis, where she has spent at least three
+months of each year since 1890--the year in which she suffered the
+accident that deprived her of a finger. What that accident was, and
+why she is so passionately attached to Tunis, nobody in Russia seems to
+know, not even her doting husband, who bows to all her caprices. But two
+persons could explain the matter--a Tunisian guide named Abdul, and a
+rather mysterious individual who follows a humble calling in the Rue
+Ben-Ziad, close to the Tunis bazaars. This latter is the Princess's
+personal attendant during her yearly visit to Tunis. He accompanies her
+everywhere, may be seen in the hall of her hotel when she is at home, on
+the box of her carriage when she drives out, close behind her when
+she is walking. He is her shadow in Africa. Only when she goes back to
+Russia does he return to his profession in the Rue Ben-Ziad.
+
+This is the exact history of the accident which befell the Princess in
+1890. In the spring of that year she arrived one night at Tunis. She
+had not long been married to an honourable man whom she adored. She was
+rich, pretty, and popular. Yet her life was clouded by a great fear
+that sometimes made the darkness of night almost intolerable to her. She
+dreaded lest the darkness of blindness should come upon her. Both her
+mother, now dead, and her grandfather had laboured under this defect.
+They had been born with sight, and had become totally blind ere they
+reached the age of forty. Princess Danischeff--as we may call her for
+the purpose of this story--trembled when she thought of their fate,
+and that it might be hers. Certain books that she read, certain
+conversations on the subject of heredity that she heard in Petersburg
+society fed her terror. Occasionally, too, when she stood under a strong
+light she felt a slight pain in her eyes. She never spoke of her fear,
+but she fell into a condition of nervous exhaustion that alarmed her
+husband and her physician. The latter recommended foreign travel as a
+tonic. The former, who was detained in the capital by political affairs,
+reluctantly agreed to a separation from his wife. And thus it came
+about, that, late one night of spring, the Princess and her companion,
+the elderly Countess de Rosnikoff, arrived in Tunis at the close of a
+tour in Algeria, and put up at the Hotel Royal.
+
+The bazaars of Tunis are among the best that exist in the world of
+bazaars, and, on the morning after her arrival, the Princess was anxious
+to explore them with her companion. But Madame de Rosnikoff was fatigued
+by her journey from Constantine. She begged the Princess to go without
+her, desiring earnestly to be left in her bedroom with a cup of weak
+tea and a French novel. The Princess, therefore, ordered a guide and set
+forth to the bazaars.
+
+The guide's name was Abdul. He was a talkative young Eastern, and as he
+turned with the Princess into the network of tiny alleys that spreads
+from the Bab-el-bahar to the bazaars, he poured forth a flood of
+information about the marvels of his native city. The Princess listened
+idly. That morning she was cruelly pre-occupied. As she stepped out
+of the hotel into the bright sunshine she had felt a sharp pain in her
+eyes, and now, though she held over her head a large green parasol, the
+pain continued. She looked at the light and thought of the darkness that
+might be coming upon her, and the chatter of Abdul sounded vague in her
+ears. Presently, however, she was forced to attend to him, for he asked
+her a direct question.
+
+"To-day they sell jewels by auction near the Mosquee Djama-ez-Zitouna,"
+he said. "Would the gracious Princess like to see the market of the
+jewels?"
+
+The Princess put her hand to her eyes and assented in a low voice. Abdul
+turned out of the sunshine into a narrow alley covered with a wooden
+roof. It was full of shadows and of squatting men, who held out brown
+hands to the Princess as she passed. But she was staring at the shadows
+and did not see the merchants of Goblin Market. Leaving this alley Abdul
+led her abruptly into a dense crowd of Arabs, who were all talking,
+gesticulating, and moving hither and thither, apparently under the
+influence of extreme excitement. Many of them held rings, bracelets, or
+brooches between their fingers, and some extended palms upon which lay
+quantities of uncut jewels--turquoises, sapphires, and emeralds. At a
+little distance a grave man was noting down something in a book. But
+the Princess scarcely observed the progress of the jewel auction. Her
+attention had been attracted by an extraordinary figure that stood near
+her. This was an immensely tall Arab, dressed in a dingy brown robe, and
+wearing upon his shaven head, which narrowed almost to a point at the
+back, a red fez with a large black tassel. His claw-like hands were
+covered with rings and his bony wrists with bracelets. But the attention
+of the Princess was riveted by his eyes. They were small and bright, and
+squinted horribly--so horribly, that it was impossible to tell at what
+he was looking. These eyes gave to his face an expression of diabolic
+and ruthless vigilance and cunning. He seemed at the same time to be
+seeing everything and to be gazing definitely at nothing.
+
+"That is Safti, the jewel doctor," murmured Abdul in the ear of the
+Princess.
+
+"A jewel doctor! What is that?" asked the Princess.
+
+"When you are sick he cures you with jewels."
+
+"And what can he cure?" said the Princess, still looking at Safti,
+who was now bargaining vociferously with a fat Arab for a piece of
+milk-white jade.
+
+"All things. I was sick of a fever that comes with the summer. He gave
+me a stone crushed to a powder, and I was well. He saved from death one
+of the Bey's sons, who was dying from hijada. And then, too, he has a
+stone in a ring which can preserve sight to him who is going blind."
+
+The Princess started violently.
+
+"Impossible!" she cried.
+
+"It is true," said Abdul. "It is a green stone--like that."
+
+He pointed to an emerald which an Arab was holding up to the light.
+
+The Princess put her hand to her eyes. They still ached, and her temples
+were throbbing furiously.
+
+"I cannot stay here," she said. "It is too hot. But---- tell the jewel
+doctor that I wish to visit him. Where does he live?"
+
+"In a little street, Rue Ben-Ziad, in a little house. But he is rich."
+Abdul spread his arms abroad. "When will the gracious Princess----?"
+
+"This afternoon. At--at four o'clock you will take me."
+
+Abdul spoke to Safti, who turned, squinted horribly at the Princess, and
+salaamed to her with a curious and contradictory dignity, turning his
+fingers, covered with jewels, towards the earth.
+
+That afternoon, at four, when the venerable Madame de Rosnikoff was
+still drinking her weak tea and reading her French novel, the Princess
+and Abdul stood before the low wooden door of the jewel doctor's house.
+Abdul struck upon it, and the terrible physician appeared in the dark
+aperture, looking all ways with his deformed eyes, which fascinated the
+Princess. Having ascertained that he could speak a little broken French,
+like many of the Tunisian Arabs, she bade Abdul wait outside, and
+entered the hovel of the jewel doctor, who shut close the door behind
+her.
+
+The room in which she found herself was dark and scented. Faint light
+from the street filtered in through an aperture in the wall, across
+which was partially drawn a wooden shutter. Round the room ran a
+divan covered with straw matting, and Safti now conducted the Princess
+ceremoniously to this, and handed her a cup of thick coffee, which he
+took from a brass tray that was placed upon a stand. As she sipped the
+coffee and looked at the pointed head and twisted gaze of Safti, the
+Princess heard some distant Arab at a street corner singing monotonously
+a tuneless song, and the scent, the darkness, the reiterated song, and
+the tall, strange creature standing silently before her gave to her, in
+their combination, the atmosphere of a dream. She found it difficult to
+speak, to explain her errand.
+
+At length she said: "You are a doctor? You can cure the sick?"
+
+Safti salaamed.
+
+"With jewels? Is that possible?"
+
+"Jewels are the only medicine," Safti replied, speaking with sudden
+volubility. "With the ruby I cure madness, with the white jade the
+disease of the hijada, and with the bloodstone haemorrhage. I have
+made a man who was ill of fever wear a topaz, and he arose from bed and
+walked happily in the street."
+
+"And with an emerald," interrupted the Princess; "have you not preserved
+sight with an emerald? They told me so."
+
+Safti's expression suddenly became grim and suspicious.
+
+"Who said that?" he asked sharply.
+
+"Abdul. Is it true? Can it be true?"
+
+Her cheeks were flushed. She spoke almost with violence, laying her hand
+upon his arm. Safti seemed to stare hard into the corners of the little
+room. Perhaps he was really looking at the Princess. At length he said:
+"It is true."
+
+"I will give any price you ask for it," said the Princess.
+
+"You!" said Safti. "But you--"
+
+Suddenly he lifted his lean hands, took the face of the Princess between
+them quite gently, and turned it towards the small window. She had
+begun to tremble. Holding her soft cheeks with his brown fingers, Safti
+remained motionless for a long time, during which it seemed to the
+Princess that he was looking away from her at some distant object. She
+watched his frightful and surreptitious eyes, that never told the truth,
+she heard the distant Arab's everlasting song, and her dream became a
+nightmare. At last Safti dropped his hands and said:
+
+"It may be that some day you will need my emerald."
+
+The Princess felt as if at that moment a bullet entered her heart.
+
+"Give it me--give it me!" she cried. "I am rich. I------"
+
+"I do not sell my medicines," Safti answered. "Those who use them must
+live near me, here in Tunis. When they are healed they give back to me
+the jewel that has saved them. But you--you live far off."
+
+With the swiftness of a woman the Princess saw that persuasion would be
+useless. Safti's face looked hard as brown wood. She seemed to recover
+from her emotion, and said quietly:
+
+"At least you will let me see the emerald?"
+
+Safti went to a small bureau that stood at the back of the room, opened
+one of its drawers with a key which he drew from beneath his dingy robe,
+lifted a small silver box carefully out, returned to the Princess, and
+put the box into her hand.
+
+"Open it," he said.
+
+She obeyed, and took out a very small and antique gold ring, in which
+was set a rather dull emerald. Safti drew it gently from her, and put it
+upon the forefinger of her left hand. It was so tiny that it would not
+pass beyond the joint of the finger, and it looked ugly and odd upon the
+Princess, who wore many beautiful rings. Now that she saw it she felt
+the superstition that had sprung from her terror dying within her.
+Safti, with his crooked eyes, must have read her thought in her face,
+for he said:
+
+"The Princess is wrong. That medicine could cure her. The one who wears
+it for three months in each year can never be blind."
+
+Taking the emerald from her finger, he touched her two eyes with it, and
+it seemed to the Princess that, as he did so, the pain she felt in them
+withdrew. Her desire for the jewel instantly returned.
+
+"Let me wear it," she said, putting forth all her charm to soften the
+jewel doctor. "Let me take it with me to Russia. I will make you rich."
+
+Safti shook his head.
+
+"The Princess may wear it here, in Tunis," he replied. "Not elsewhere."
+
+She began to temporise, hoping to conquer his resistance later.
+
+"I may take it with me now?" she asked.
+
+"At a fee."
+
+"I will pay it."
+
+The jewel doctor went to the door, and called in Abdul. Five minutes
+later the Princess passed the singing Arab at the corner of the street,
+Rue Ben-Ziad. She had signed a paper pledging herself to return the
+emerald to Safti at the end of forty-eight hours, and to pay 125 francs
+for her possession of it during that time. And she wore the emerald on
+the forefinger of her left hand.
+
+On the following morning Madame de Rosnikoff said to the Princess:
+
+"I hate Tunis. It has an evil climate. The tea here is too strong, and
+I feel sure the drains are bad. Last night I was feverish. I am always
+feverish when I am near bad drains."
+
+The Princess, who had slept well, and had waked with no pain in her
+eyes, answered these complaints cheerily, made the Countess some tea
+that was really weak, and drove her out in the sunshine to see Carthage.
+The Countess did not see it, because there is no longer a Carthage. She
+went to bed that night in a bad humour, and again complained of drains
+the next morning. This time the Princess did not heed her, for she was
+thinking of the hour when she must return the emerald to Safti.
+
+"What an ugly ring that is," said the old Countess. "Where did you get
+it? It is too small. Why do you wear it?"
+
+"I--I bought it in the bazaars," answered the Princess.
+
+"My dear, you wasted your money," said the companion; and she went to
+bed with another French novel.
+
+That afternoon the Princess implored Safti to sell her the emerald,
+and as he persistently declined she renewed her lease of it for another
+forty-eight hours. As she left the jewel doctor's home she did not
+notice that he spoke some words in a low and eager voice to Abdul,
+pointing towards her as he did so. Nor did she see the strange bustle of
+varied life in the street as she walked slowly under the great Moorish
+arch of the Porte de France. She was deeply thoughtful.
+
+Since she had worn the ugly ring of Safti she had suffered no pain from
+her eyes, and a strange certainty had gradually come upon her that,
+while the emerald was in her possession, she would be safe from the
+terrible disease of which she had so long lived in terror. Yet Safti
+would not let her have the ring. And she could not live for ever in
+Tunis. Already she had prolonged her stay abroad, and was due in Russia,
+where her anxious husband awaited her. She knew not what to do. Suddenly
+an idea occurred to her. It made her flush red and tingle with shame.
+She glanced up, and saw the lustrous eyes of Abdul fixed intently upon
+her. As he left her at the door of the hotel he said,
+
+"The Princess will stay long in Tunis?"
+
+"Another week at least, Abdul," she answered carelessly. "You can go
+home now. I shall not want you any more to-day."
+
+And she walked into the hotel without looking at him again. When she was
+in her room she sent for a list of the steamers sailing daily from Tunis
+for the different ports of Africa and Europe. Presently she came to the
+bedside of Madame de Rosnikoff.
+
+"Countess," she said, "you are no better?"
+
+"How can I be? The drains are bad, and the tea here is too strong."
+
+"There is a boat that leaves for Sicily at midnight--for Marsala. Shall
+we go in her?"
+
+The old lady bounded on her pillow.
+
+"Straight on by Italy to Russia?" she cried joyfully.
+
+The Princess nodded. A fierce excitement shone in her pretty eyes, and
+her little hands were trembling as she looked down at the dull emerald
+of Safti.
+
+*****
+
+At eleven o'clock that night the Princess and the Countess got into a
+carriage, drove to the edge of the huge salt lake by which Tunis lies
+and went on board the Stella d'Italia.
+
+The sky was starless. The winds were still, and it was very dark. As the
+ship glided out from the shore the old Countess hurried below. But the
+Princess remained on deck, leaning upon the bulwark, and gazing at the
+fading lights of the city where Safti dwelt. Two flames seemed burning
+in her heart, a fierce flame of joy, a fierce flame of contempt--of
+contempt for herself. For was she not a common thief? She looked at
+Safti's ring on her finger, and flushed scarlet in the darkness. Yet she
+was joyful, triumphant, as she heard the beating of the ship's heart,
+and saw the lights of Tunis growing fainter in the distance, and felt
+the onward movement of the _Stella d'Italia_ through the night. She
+felt herself nearer to Russia with each throb of the machinery. And from
+Russia she would expiate her sin. From Russia she would compensate Safti
+for his loss. The lights of Tunis grew fainter. She thought of the open
+sea.
+
+But suddenly she felt that the ship was slowing down. The engines beat
+more feebly, then ceased to beat. The ship glided on for a moment in
+silence, and stopped. A cold fear ran over the Princess. She called to a
+sailor.
+
+"Why," she said, "why do we stop? Is anything wrong?"
+
+He pointed to some lights on the port side.
+
+"We are off Hammam-Lif, madame," he said. "We are going to lie to for
+half-an-hour to take in cargo."
+
+To the Princess that half-hour seemed all eternity. She remained upon
+deck, and whenever she heard the splash of oars as a boat drew near, or
+the guttural sound of an Arab voice, she trembled, and, staring into the
+blackness, fancied that she saw the tall figure, the pointed head, and
+the deformed eyes of the jewel doctor. But the minutes passed. The
+cargo was all got on board. The boats drew off. And once again the ship
+shuddered as the heart of her began to beat, and the ebon water ran
+backward from her prow.
+
+Then the Princess was glad. She laid the hand on which shone Safti's
+emerald upon the bulwark, and gazed towards the sea, turning her back
+upon the lights of Hammam-Lif. She thought of safety, of Russia. She did
+not hear a soft step drawing near upon the deck behind her. She did not
+see the flash of steel descending to the bulwark on which her hand was
+laid.
+
+But suddenly the horrible cry of a woman in agony rang through the
+night. It was instantly succeeded by a splash in the water, as a tall
+figure dived over the vessel's side.
+
+When the sun rose on the following day over the minarets of Tunis the
+_Stella d'ltalia_, with the Princess on board, was far out at sea.
+
+The emerald of Safti was once more in the little house in the Rue
+Ben-Ziad.
+
+It was still upon the Princess's finger.
+
+
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