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"Don't you see how his back is laden?" "Yes, yes!" "Don't you see your lad talking with the postilion?" "Yes, yes, yes!" "Well, you know the name of that lad, because he is your own. Call him." "Abdon! Abdon!" vociferated Planchet, from the window. "Bring the horse!" shouted D'Artagnan. "Bring the horse!" screamed Planchet.
Nevertheless, whether or not I earned it, I must return, and succeed where for want of insistence I had failed awhile ago. Of a certainty I should have acted thus, but that at the very moment upon which I formed the resolution Abdon drew my attention to a dark shadow by the roadside not twenty paces in front of us. This proved to be the motionless figure of a horseman.
Then, with Michelot and Abdon following a short distance behind me, I made my way back to the troopers, and, feigning to stumble as I approached, I hurtled so violently against two of them that I knocked the pair headlong into the stream.
Garnache followed, but the clumsy chair was defensive rather than offensive, and Marius's sword meanwhile darted above it and below it, forcing him to keep a certain distance. And now Marius raised his voice and shouted with all the power of his lungs: "To me! To me! Fortunio! Abdon! To me, you dogs! I am beset."
"Padrieu," swore one of his companions, "I'll wager it is our man." And then, just as I was noticing that Master Abdon, who had also overheard the conversation, was eyeing me curiously, the sergeant stepped up to me, and "What is your name, monsieur?" quoth he. I vouchsafed him a stare of surprise before asking in my turn "How may that concern you?"
And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying,
Bidding Michelot carry my valise to the hostelry of the Vigne d'Or, and there await my coming, I called to Abdon to attend me, and rode on, jaded and travel-stained though I was, to Canaples, realising fully that there was no time to lose.
As for the high priest, the holy spirit departed from him, and he had to give up his priestly dignity. As it had been Jephthah's task to ward off the Ammonites, so his successor Abdon was occupied with protecting Israel against the Moabites. The king of Moab sent messengers to Abdon, and they spoke thus: "Thou well knowest that Israel took possession of cities that belonged to me. Return them."
Bidding Abdon and Michelot lead the horses, and still speaking in my assumed voice, I desired Mademoiselle and the Chevalier who had not yet sufficiently recovered from his bewilderment to have found his tongue to follow me. I led the way up the gentle slope to the spot where our first victims were pinioned.
He owned the euphonious name of Abdon. I spent twenty pistoles in suitable raiment and a horse for him, and as we left Meung next day the knave cut a brave enough figure that added not a little to my importance to have at my heels. This, however, so retarded our departure, that night had fallen by the time we reached Blois. Still our journey had been a passing swift one.
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