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But if you would rather rest here to-day " "Let us go on at once," interrupted Desiree hastily. Barlasch, crouching against the stove, glanced from one to the other beneath his heavy brows, wondering, perhaps, why they avoided looking at each other. "You will wait here," said D'Arragon, turning towards him, "until until I return." "Yes," was the answer. "I will lie on the floor here and sleep.
There is such a ship, I know. But how can I say which she is? See, they lie right across the river like a bridge. Besides, it is late, and sailors are rough men." Desiree hurried on. Louis d'Arragon had said that the ship was lying near to the Krahn-Thor, of which the great hooded roof loomed darkly against the stars above her.
Sometimes D'Arragon and Barlasch found the remains of a fire, where, amid the ashes, the chains and rings showed that a gun-carriage had been burnt. The trees were cut and scored where, as a forlorn hope, some poor imbecile had stripped the bark with the thought that it might burn.
We quitted Kowno together, and parted on the heights above the town. He would not trust me monsieur le marquis he was afraid that I should get at the brandy. And he was right. I only wanted the opportunity. He is a strong one that!" And Barlasch held up a warning hand, as if to make known to all and sundry that it would be inadvisable to trifle with Louis d'Arragon.
"This way," said the sailor, leading her towards the deckhouse where a light burned dimly behind red curtains. He knocked at the door and opened it without awaiting a reply. In the little cabin two men sat at a table, and one of them was Louis d'Arragon dressed in the rough clothes of a merchant seaman.
On his route he was everywhere received with the utmost respect by the Princes of Germany and Italy; and when he arrived in Sicily, not only did Don Pedro d'Arragon house him in his own palace, but the whole city of Messina turned out to meet him, acknowledging his high position as a member of the noble house of Cigala, from which it seems the island had received many great benefits.
D'Arragon, besides having acquired the seamen's habit of adapting himself unconsciously and unobtrusively to his surroundings, was of a direct mind, lacking self-consciousness, and simplified by the pressure of a strong and steady purpose. For men's minds are like the atmosphere, which is always cleared by a steady breeze, while a changing wind generates vapours, mist, uncertainty.
"I want your friends to pass on a letter for me I am willing to pay," he said in a whisper. "A letter to Captain Louis d'Arragon it concerns the happiness of Mademoiselle Desiree. Do not shake your head. Think before you refuse.
"Not entirely," answered d'Arragon, "though my mother was indeed English and died in a French prison. But it was from a sense of gratitude that my father placed me in the English service and I have never regretted it, monsieur." "Your father received kindnesses at English hands, after his escape, like many others." "Yes, and he was too old to repay them by doing the country any service himself.
I, on the other hand, desired to go to France; and there place my sword once more at the Emperor's service. What more simple than to change places?" "And names," suggested D'Arragon, without falling into De Casimir's easy and friendly manner. "For greater security in passing through Poland and across the frontier," explained De Casimir readily.
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