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And when he read the Prince's proclamation, and saw the rewards offered, in amounts undreamt of, he shivered; not, as he told the Hegumen, from horror at the crime; still less from fear that the multitude might blunder on discovery; and least of all from apprehension of betrayal from his assistants, for, with exception of the cistern-keeper, they were all in flight, and a night's journey gone.
Suddenly he was struck with the impolicy of presenting himself to the cistern-keeper in his present costume it would be such a help to identification by Demedes. So he continued on to the monastery, and resumed the black gown and tall hat. The Hegumen's door, which he had to pass in going out again, served him with another admonition.
It is not necessary to give the conversation between the man of fruits and the young Russian. The former was endeavoring to sell. Presently they reached a point from which the cistern-keeper was visible, seated, as usual, just within the door pommelling the pavement. Sergius stopped there, and affected to examine his companion's stock; then, as if of a mind, he said: "Oh, well!
The cistern-keeper for he it was went to the curbing slowly, for the advance airs of the gale were threatening his lamp, and dropped dextrously through the aperture to the upper landing. In ambush the King never admitted anything like curiosity. Presently he felt the pavement again jar. Nobody appeared at the passage.
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