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"Share and share alike," said Agathemer, "and you are welcome to whatever part of his rake-off Alopex turns over to you." "Asper," said Doris, "you are a dear. Play us a decent tune. Nebris's music makes me doleful." We spent the day eating, drinking, chatting, napping and listening to Agathemer's very lively music.
Agathemer's face cleared as I spoke. Tanno rounded on me. "You tell me, then!" he said. "I guess from their faces that I have advertised my ignorance of what is perfectly well known to everybody else here. Remove my disabilities." I hesitated and then went in with a rush. "It does not matter a particle," I said, "how often I lie down to dinner with Agathemer when we are alone.
And you must recall my uncle's queer habit of acting on intuitions and the way he expressed them, always saying: "'It has been revealed to me that.... And his intuitions always seemed to amount to prevision, he never seemed to have acted amiss, however eccentric his act, however baseless his premonition. I have a feeling that in Agathemer's case he acted on some such presentiment."
At that instant I felt a grip on my arm and Agathemer's voice whispered: "Come!" Together we slunk back into the crowd, and when the yell arose behind us, presumably at sight of Pulto slaughtered by Maternus, we were well clear of the press and in the act of darting into the shrubbery. In fact we got clear away unpursued, unmolested, unhindered.
He had joyfully accepted the ideas and suggestions which Chryseros put forward, as well as his proffers of assistance. Chryseros directed that the two copper cylinders and most of the spoils of Agathemer's pilferings should be left in our little grotto, hidden under the dead leaves. He would then smuggle them away and dispose of them.
My salutants disposed of without hurry and to the last man, in spite of Agathemer's protests, I ordered my litter. At the Vedian mansion I was refused admission. I climbed back into my litter. As my men shouldered it, the doorkeeper or some one of his helpers made the mistake of unchaining the watch-dog at me. He was a big, short-haired, black and white Aquitanian dog.
Nebris kept looking from Agathemer to me, her pale gray eyes wide; but Doris kept her snapping brown eyes on Agathemer's face from his first word to his last. "My!" she cried, "you have had adventures! Or you are the biggest liar and the cleverest story-teller I ever met.
As Ducconius had had to repay to my uncle the full amount of the rents paid since his family first gained possession of the property, that would have been a very moderate reward for Agathemer's service. I also conjectured that he might free Agathemer and will him a sum equivalent to the net proceeds of the repaid rents, less the costs of the suit.
Nothing could, for any length of time, dim or cloud the light of Agathemer's buoyancy of disposition.
That Agathemer's presumption should have spoiled the interview with Vedia which she and Nemestronia had manifestly arranged for us, that it should have exposed Vedia in her undignified disguise to recognition by the greatest ass and blatherskite in the senate, this infuriated me till I felt internally like Aetna or Vesuvius on the verge of eruption.
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