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With my talisman it can be done. I have thought over every tittle of the means through patient years of waiting, and I am confident that I, and I alone, can uproot all existing institutions when once I have this trivial lever." Taltavull was stalking up and down the room like a long black spectre. He had forgotten my presence. His fanatical schemes enwrapped his mind completely.
"My dear fellow, you can't expect me to indulge in fisticuffs with a lady especially one with such a catholic taste in Majolica lustreware." Taltavull stamped and swore afresh. "And this insult will your cold northern blood permit you to swallow that unresented?" "My swallowing power has its limits, Mr. Taltavull; so slow down.
We went out of the general hall into a smaller room, where we sat and smoked. Taltavull, my new acquaintance, was simply charming. Till that night I had thought that an anarchist could only attain to his peculiar creed through the most comprehensive ignorance; but this man had arrived at the result through the diametrically opposite path.
Under ordinary circumstances, I should have barred jumping on the chest of a man who is afflicted with blindness; but as this particular individual has seen fit to humbug me to the top of his bent, I shall waive that scruple. Señor Taltavull, I'm with you in this to anything short of justifiable manslaughter. And Cospatric "
Taltavull exchanged three small diamonds for cash, which enabled us to settle outstanding accounts; Haigh procured a basket of bread, hard-boiled eggs, and vermouth bottles; I made two or three chandlery purchases, and gave the rigging a bit of an overhaul.
Sadi also made a movement, apparently for the same purpose. But Pether waved them both back. He slipped a hand into his breast-pocket, and brought out the little mahogany case. "Here it is, Señor Taltavull. You'll share the contents with your two friends?" "Yes," exclaimed the old man, stretching out his bony hands; "I have promised." "Then there you are, Señor Taltavull," said the other quietly.
"I do not know that I am indebted to M. Taltavull for any matter, but I should be sorry to leave unrequited the interest he appears to take in my welfare. If he will send his address to 'Poste Restante, Cannes, Monte Carlo, or Hyères, I shall be proud to send him a delicate wedge of our wedding cake.
We might call ourselves the Raymond Lully Exploitation Company, Limited." I went out there and then about the errand, and found Taltavull at his own house, sitting in a huge stuffed armchair. He was reading L'Intransigeant, and marking in blue pencil the points where he considered its racy blackguardisms were not sufficiently pungent.
I shrugged my shoulders. "You are not in sympathy with us?" "Not in the very least," I told him frankly. "Your principles are far too explosive for my taste." Taltavull waved a bony hand deprecatingly. "The universal complaint, monsieur. It is the one great drawback to our Cause that we have as yet discovered no means of propagating it save only by the theory of devastation.
I suspect that they will go to the Fonda de Mallorca, and await us there to treat for terms." Taltavull started wringing his hands. "What now? what now?" moaned he. "The Lord knows," said I. "Where's the nearest hack-stand? Say, quick." "At the bottom of the street." "Well, here's a tram going down. Up you jump."
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