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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Princess And The Jewel Doctor + 1905 + +Author: Robert Hichens + +Release Date: November 8, 2007 [EBook #23413] +Last Updated: December 17, 2012 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PRINCESS AND THE JEWEL DOCTOR *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + <div style="height: 8em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h1> + THE PRINCESS AND THE JEWEL DOCTOR + </h1> + <h2> + By Robert Hichens + </h2> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <h3> + Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers + </h3> + <h4> + Copyright, 1905 + </h4> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + “To-day they sell jewels by auction near the Mosquée Djama-ez-Zitouna,” he + said. “Would the gracious Princess like to see the market of the jewels?” + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + “That is Safti, the jewel doctor,” murmured Abdul in the ear of the + Princess. + </p> + <p> + “A jewel doctor! What is that?” asked the Princess. + </p> + <p> + “When you are sick he cures you with jewels.” + </p> + <p> + “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. + </p> + <p> + “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.” + </p> + <p> + The Princess started violently. + </p> + <p> + “Impossible!” she cried. + </p> + <p> + “It is true,” said Abdul. “It is a green stone—like that.” + </p> + <p> + He pointed to an emerald which an Arab was holding up to the light. + </p> + <p> + The Princess put her hand to her eyes. They still ached, and her temples + were throbbing furiously. + </p> + <p> + “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?” + </p> + <p> + “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——?” + </p> + <p> + “This afternoon. At—at four o’clock you will take me.” + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + At length she said: “You are a doctor? You can cure the sick?” + </p> + <p> + Safti salaamed. + </p> + <p> + “With jewels? Is that possible?” + </p> + <p> + “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.” + </p> + <p> + “And with an emerald,” interrupted the Princess; “have you not preserved + sight with an emerald? They told me so.” + </p> + <p> + Safti’s expression suddenly became grim and suspicious. + </p> + <p> + “Who said that?” he asked sharply. + </p> + <p> + “Abdul. Is it true? Can it be true?” + </p> + <p> + 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.” + </p> + <p> + “I will give any price you ask for it,” said the Princess. + </p> + <p> + “You!” said Safti. “But you—” + </p> + <p> + 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: + </p> + <p> + “It may be that some day you will need my emerald.” + </p> + <p> + The Princess felt as if at that moment a bullet entered her heart. + </p> + <p> + “Give it me—give it me!” she cried. “I am rich. I———” + </p> + <p> + “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.” + </p> + <p> + 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: + </p> + <p> + “At least you will let me see the emerald?” + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + “Open it,” he said. + </p> + <p> + 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: + </p> + <p> + “The Princess is wrong. That medicine could cure her. The one who wears it + for three months in each year can never be blind.” + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + “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.” + </p> + <p> + Safti shook his head. + </p> + <p> + “The Princess may wear it here, in Tunis,” he replied. “Not elsewhere.” + </p> + <p> + She began to temporise, hoping to conquer his resistance later. + </p> + <p> + “I may take it with me now?” she asked. + </p> + <p> + “At a fee.” + </p> + <p> + “I will pay it.” + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + On the following morning Madame de Rosnikoff said to the Princess: + </p> + <p> + “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.” + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + “What an ugly ring that is,” said the old Countess. “Where did you get it? + It is too small. Why do you wear it?” + </p> + <p> + “I—I bought it in the bazaars,” answered the Princess. + </p> + <p> + “My dear, you wasted your money,” said the companion; and she went to bed + with another French novel. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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, + </p> + <p> + “The Princess will stay long in Tunis?” + </p> + <p> + “Another week at least, Abdul,” she answered carelessly. “You can go home + now. I shall not want you any more to-day.” + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + “Countess,” she said, “you are no better?” + </p> + <p> + “How can I be? The drains are bad, and the tea here is too strong.” + </p> + <p> + “There is a boat that leaves for Sicily at midnight—for Marsala. + Shall we go in her?” + </p> + <p> + The old lady bounded on her pillow. + </p> + <p> + “Straight on by Italy to Russia?” she cried joyfully. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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 <i>Stella d’Italia</i> 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + “Why,” she said, “why do we stop? Is anything wrong?” + </p> + <p> + He pointed to some lights on the port side. + </p> + <p> + “We are off Hammam-Lif, madame,” he said. “We are going to lie to for + half-an-hour to take in cargo.” + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + When the sun rose on the following day over the minarets of Tunis the <i>Stella + d’ltalia</i>, with the Princess on board, was far out at sea. + </p> + <p> + The emerald of Safti was once more in the little house in the Rue + Ben-Ziad. + </p> + <p> + It was still upon the Princess’s finger. + </p> + <div style="height: 6em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Princess And The Jewel Doctor, by +Robert Hichens + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PRINCESS AND THE JEWEL DOCTOR *** + +***** This file should be named 23413-h.htm or 23413-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/4/1/23413/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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