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Never again be officer of mine, Miss Martin. 'But how did all end happily? asked Logan. 'Why, you may call it happily and so may the lovers, but I call it very disappointing, said Miss Martin. 'Tell us all about it! cried Logan. 'Well, I went down, simple as you see me. 'Simplex munditiis! said Merton. 'And was met at the station by young Mr. Warren.
Simplex stood by his side, so as to be at hand in case his friend was taken ill. The great square was filled with a gaping crowd. At the windows stood or sat gayly dressed women, just as if a Corpus Christi procession were about to pass. The very roofs of the houses were covered with human heads.
It was no will-o'-the-wisp, no perambulating spirit, but Simplex, who, to scare the watchers and guide Valentine, had ignited lycopodium powder from time to time. "Hush!" said he to his approaching friend, "they are on the watch." "Let them watch!" murmured Valentine; "I have a sword with me. Though I should die on the spot for it, I mean to speak to my beloved." "You shall speak to her.
So hearken to me, my children! You go out, Annie! We don't want you prying here. You, Simplex, can stay where you are, for you know how to hold your tongue." So Annie went away, and as soon as she was out of hearing, Pirka, in a low whisper, began to expound her crafty scheme. "Listen now! Not far from here is a town called Bártfa. Every town, as you know, has its peculiar laws and customs.
Her father had often spoken to her about an out-at-elbow vagrant student, whom the scholars derisively nicknamed Simplex, and who had wrought much mischief there with his music by enticing the sons of the Muses away from their studies thereby. Kalondai, in particular, had to thank this fellow for the corruption of his morals, in fact they were hand and glove.
"It is not your mortal foe who sleeps here," returned Simplex, "but pretty Michal. The night after they had buried your mortal foe, I came to the churchyard with the faithful Ali.
Then Simplex also crept close to the extreme edge of the wood, and there saw with his own eyes, at the foot of the old tower rising above the steep precipices, forty men armed with muskets and axes lying on the grass round a fire, on which a substantial breakfast was broiling.
They were dressed precisely like their comrades, yet each had his distinguishing marks, so that Simplex, who had often heard them described by the country people, was able to identify them at a glance. The first of the robber chieftains was Hafran, whose love of pomp was notorious.
"We are shut out," growled the wagoner, scratching his head. "Now we shall have to sleep under some haystack. I only wish we had not taken that vagabond student's bundle into the sledge, that was what made us creep along so slowly." But if Simplex had not helped to shove on the sledge they would not have got so far as this. "Pray let us go on a little further," said the clergyman.
The language of the vulgar is a sort of Tarpeia. We have therefore relieved it of as many gems as we were able, and in the foregoing scene presented it to the gaze of our readers simplex munditiis.
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