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+Title: The Lady, or the Tiger?
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+Author: Frank R. Stockton
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+THE LADY, OR THE TIGER?
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+by
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+Frank R. Stockton
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+In the very olden time there lived a semi-barbaric king, whose ideas,
+though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness of
+distant Latin neighbors, were still large, florid, and untrammeled, as
+became the half of him which was barbaric. He was a man of exuberant
+fancy, and, withal, of an authority so irresistible that, at his will,
+he turned his varied fancies into facts. He was greatly given to
+self-communing, and, when he and himself agreed upon anything, the
+thing was done.  When every member of his domestic and political
+systems moved smoothly in its appointed course, his nature was bland
+and genial; but, whenever there was a little hitch, and some of his
+orbs got out of their orbits, he was blander and more genial still, for
+nothing pleased him so much as to make the crooked straight and crush
+down uneven places.
+
+Among the borrowed notions by which his barbarism had become semified
+was that of the public arena, in which, by exhibitions of manly and
+beastly valor, the minds of his subjects were refined and cultured.
+
+But even here the exuberant and barbaric fancy asserted itself. The
+arena of the king was built, not to give the people an opportunity of
+hearing the rhapsodies of dying gladiators, nor to enable them to view
+the inevitable conclusion of a conflict between religious opinions and
+hungry jaws, but for purposes far better adapted to widen and develop
+the mental energies of the people. This vast amphitheater, with its
+encircling galleries, its mysterious vaults, and its unseen passages,
+was an agent of poetic justice, in which crime was punished, or virtue
+rewarded, by the decrees of an impartial and incorruptible chance.
+
+When a subject was accused of a crime of sufficient importance to
+interest the king, public notice was given that on an appointed day the
+fate of the accused person would be decided in the king's arena, a
+structure which well deserved its name, for, although its form and plan
+were borrowed from afar, its purpose emanated solely from the brain of
+this man, who, every barleycorn a king, knew no tradition to which he
+owed more allegiance than pleased his fancy, and who ingrafted on every
+adopted form of human thought and action the rich growth of his
+barbaric idealism.
+
+When all the people had assembled in the galleries, and the king,
+surrounded by his court, sat high up on his throne of royal state on
+one side of the arena, he gave a signal, a door beneath him opened, and
+the accused subject stepped out into the amphitheater. Directly
+opposite him, on the other side of the inclosed space, were two doors,
+exactly alike and side by side. It was the duty and the privilege of
+the person on trial to walk directly to these doors and open one of
+them. He could open either door he pleased; he was subject to no
+guidance or influence but that of the aforementioned impartial and
+incorruptible chance. If he opened the one, there came out of it a
+hungry tiger, the fiercest and most cruel that could be procured, which
+immediately sprang upon him and tore him to pieces as a punishment for
+his guilt. The moment that the case of the criminal was thus decided,
+doleful iron bells were clanged, great wails went up from the hired
+mourners posted on the outer rim of the arena, and the vast audience,
+with bowed heads and downcast hearts, wended slowly their homeward way,
+mourning greatly that one so young and fair, or so old and respected,
+should have merited so dire a fate.
+
+But, if the accused person opened the other door, there came forth from
+it a lady, the most suitable to his years and station that his majesty
+could select among his fair subjects, and to this lady he was
+immediately married, as a reward of his innocence. It mattered not that
+he might already possess a wife and family, or that his affections
+might be engaged upon an object of his own selection; the king allowed
+no such subordinate arrangements to interfere with his great scheme of
+retribution and reward. The exercises, as in the other instance, took
+place immediately, and in the arena. Another door opened beneath the
+king, and a priest, followed by a band of choristers, and dancing
+maidens blowing joyous airs on golden horns and treading an epithalamic
+measure, advanced to where the pair stood, side by side, and the
+wedding was promptly and cheerily solemnized. Then the gay brass bells
+rang forth their merry peals, the people shouted glad hurrahs, and the
+innocent man, preceded by children strewing flowers on his path, led
+his bride to his home.
+
+This was the king's semi-barbaric method of administering justice. Its
+perfect fairness is obvious. The criminal could not know out of which
+door would come the lady; he opened either he pleased, without having
+the slightest idea whether, in the next instant, he was to be devoured
+or married. On some occasions the tiger came out of one door, and on
+some out of the other. The decisions of this tribunal were not only
+fair, they were positively determinate: the accused person was
+instantly punished if he found himself guilty, and, if innocent, he was
+rewarded on the spot, whether he liked it or not. There was no escape
+from the judgments of the king's arena.
+
+The institution was a very popular one. When the people gathered
+together on one of the great trial days, they never knew whether they
+were to witness a bloody slaughter or a hilarious wedding.  This
+element of uncertainty lent an interest to the occasion which it could
+not otherwise have attained. Thus, the masses were entertained and
+pleased, and the thinking part of the community could bring no charge
+of unfairness against this plan, for did not the accused person have
+the whole matter in his own hands?
+
+This semi-barbaric king had a daughter as blooming as his most florid
+fancies, and with a soul as fervent and imperious as his own. As is
+usual in such cases, she was the apple of his eye, and was loved by him
+above all humanity. Among his courtiers was a young man of that
+fineness of blood and lowness of station common to the conventional
+heroes of romance who love royal maidens. This royal maiden was well
+satisfied with her lover, for he was handsome and brave to a degree
+unsurpassed in all this kingdom, and she loved him with an ardor that
+had enough of barbarism in it to make it exceedingly warm and strong.
+This love affair moved on happily for many months, until one day the
+king happened to discover its existence. He did not hesitate nor waver
+in regard to his duty in the premises. The youth was immediately cast
+into prison, and a day was appointed for his trial in the king's arena.
+This, of course, was an especially important occasion, and his majesty,
+as well as all the people, was greatly interested in the workings and
+development of this trial. Never before had such a case occurred; never
+before had a subject dared to love the daughter of the king. In after
+years such things became commonplace enough, but then they were in no
+slight degree novel and startling.
+
+The tiger-cages of the kingdom were searched for the most savage and
+relentless beasts, from which the fiercest monster might be selected
+for the arena; and the ranks of maiden youth and beauty throughout the
+land were carefully surveyed by competent judges in order that the
+young man might have a fitting bride in case fate did not determine for
+him a different destiny. Of course, everybody knew that the deed with
+which the accused was charged had been done. He had loved the princess,
+and neither he, she, nor any one else, thought of denying the fact; but
+the king would not think of allowing any fact of this kind to interfere
+with the workings of the tribunal, in which he took such great delight
+and satisfaction. No matter how the affair turned out, the youth would
+be disposed of, and the king would take an aesthetic pleasure in
+watching the course of events, which would determine whether or not the
+young man had done wrong in allowing himself to love the princess.
+
+The appointed day arrived. From far and near the people gathered, and
+thronged the great galleries of the arena, and crowds, unable to gain
+admittance, massed themselves against its outside walls.  The king and
+his court were in their places, opposite the twin doors, those fateful
+portals, so terrible in their similarity.
+
+All was ready. The signal was given. A door beneath the royal party
+opened, and the lover of the princess walked into the arena.  Tall,
+beautiful, fair, his appearance was greeted with a low hum of
+admiration and anxiety. Half the audience had not known so grand a
+youth had lived among them. No wonder the princess loved him! What a
+terrible thing for him to be there!
+
+As the youth advanced into the arena he turned, as the custom was, to
+bow to the king, but he did not think at all of that royal personage.
+His eyes were fixed upon the princess, who sat to the right of her
+father. Had it not been for the moiety of barbarism in her nature it is
+probable that lady would not have been there, but her intense and
+fervid soul would not allow her to be absent on an occasion in which
+she was so terribly interested. From the moment that the decree had
+gone forth that her lover should decide his fate in the king's arena,
+she had thought of nothing, night or day, but this great event and the
+various subjects connected with it. Possessed of more power, influence,
+and force of character than any one who had ever before been interested
+in such a case, she had done what no other person had done,--she had
+possessed herself of the secret of the doors. She knew in which of the
+two rooms, that lay behind those doors, stood the cage of the tiger,
+with its open front, and in which waited the lady.  Through these thick
+doors, heavily curtained with skins on the inside, it was impossible
+that any noise or suggestion should come from within to the person who
+should approach to raise the latch of one of them. But gold, and the
+power of a woman's will, had brought the secret to the princess.
+
+And not only did she know in which room stood the lady ready to emerge,
+all blushing and radiant, should her door be opened, but she knew who
+the lady was. It was one of the fairest and loveliest of the damsels of
+the court who had been selected as the reward of the accused youth,
+should he be proved innocent of the crime of aspiring to one so far
+above him; and the princess hated her. Often had she seen, or imagined
+that she had seen, this fair creature throwing glances of admiration
+upon the person of her lover, and sometimes she thought these glances
+were perceived, and even returned. Now and then she had seen them
+talking together; it was but for a moment or two, but much can be said
+in a brief space; it may have been on most unimportant topics, but how
+could she know that? The girl was lovely, but she had dared to raise
+her eyes to the loved one of the princess; and, with all the intensity
+of the savage blood transmitted to her through long lines of wholly
+barbaric ancestors, she hated the woman who blushed and trembled behind
+that silent door.
+
+When her lover turned and looked at her, and his eye met hers as she
+sat there, paler and whiter than any one in the vast ocean of anxious
+faces about her, he saw, by that power of quick perception which is
+given to those whose souls are one, that she knew behind which door
+crouched the tiger, and behind which stood the lady. He had expected
+her to know it. He understood her nature, and his soul was assured that
+she would never rest until she had made plain to herself this thing,
+hidden to all other lookers-on, even to the king. The only hope for the
+youth in which there was any element of certainty was based upon the
+success of the princess in discovering this mystery; and the moment he
+looked upon her, he saw she had succeeded, as in his soul he knew she
+would succeed.
+
+Then it was that his quick and anxious glance asked the question:
+"Which?" It was as plain to her as if he shouted it from where he
+stood. There was not an instant to be lost. The question was asked in a
+flash; it must be answered in another.
+
+Her right arm lay on the cushioned parapet before her. She raised her
+hand, and made a slight, quick movement toward the right. No one but
+her lover saw her. Every eye but his was fixed on the man in the arena.
+
+He turned, and with a firm and rapid step he walked across the empty
+space. Every heart stopped beating, every breath was held, every eye
+was fixed immovably upon that man. Without the slightest hesitation, he
+went to the door on the right, and opened it.
+
+Now, the point of the story is this: Did the tiger come out of that
+door, or did the lady?
+
+The more we reflect upon this question, the harder it is to answer. It
+involves a study of the human heart which leads us through devious
+mazes of passion, out of which it is difficult to find our way. Think
+of it, fair reader, not as if the decision of the question depended
+upon yourself, but upon that hot-blooded, semi-barbaric princess, her
+soul at a white heat beneath the combined fires of despair and
+jealousy. She had lost him, but who should have him?
+
+How often, in her waking hours and in her dreams, had she started in
+wild horror, and covered her face with her hands as she thought of her
+lover opening the door on the other side of which waited the cruel
+fangs of the tiger!
+
+But how much oftener had she seen him at the other door! How in her
+grievous reveries had she gnashed her teeth, and torn her hair, when
+she saw his start of rapturous delight as he opened the door of the
+lady! How her soul had burned in agony when she had seen him rush to
+meet that woman, with her flushing cheek and sparkling eye of triumph;
+when she had seen him lead her forth, his whole frame kindled with the
+joy of recovered life; when she had heard the glad shouts from the
+multitude, and the wild ringing of the happy bells; when she had seen
+the priest, with his joyous followers, advance to the couple, and make
+them man and wife before her very eyes; and when she had seen them walk
+away together upon their path of flowers, followed by the tremendous
+shouts of the hilarious multitude, in which her one despairing shriek
+was lost and drowned!
+
+Would it not be better for him to die at once, and go to wait for her
+in the blessed regions of semi-barbaric futurity?
+
+And yet, that awful tiger, those shrieks, that blood!
+
+Her decision had been indicated in an instant, but it had been made
+after days and nights of anguished deliberation. She had known she
+would be asked, she had decided what she would answer, and, without the
+slightest hesitation, she had moved her hand to the right.
+
+The question of her decision is one not to be lightly considered, and
+it is not for me to presume to set myself up as the one person able to
+answer it. And so I leave it with all of you: Which came out of the
+opened door,--the lady, or the tiger?
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