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Go not further no, not a word!" Sergius exclaimed. "Dost thou account the crown the Saint at last won nothing?" Demedes did not seem in the least put out by the demonstration; possibly he expected it, and was satisfied with the hearing continued him. "I yield to you," he said, with a smile, "and willingly since you convince me I was not mistaken in your perception.... My father is a good man.
He had the great advantage, moreover, of exact knowledge of the objects of the order. Godless itself, it had been organized to promote godlessness. He had given much thought to it since Demedes unfolded the scheme to him, and found it impossible to believe persons of sound sense could undertake a sin so elaborate.
A pleasant time to you, and a quick awakening, O Sergius!" Demedes proceeded up the passage, but turned about, and said: "Patience, Courage, Judgment. When thou art witness to all there is in the motto. O Sergius, it may be thou wilt be more placable. I shall see to it that the doors of the Academy are kept open for thee."
The fisherman took hold of it, and with a triumphant smile, drew the corpse out, and laid it face up for better viewing. The garments were still bright, the gilded mail sparkled bravely. One stooped with the light, and said immediately: "It is he Demedes!"
The Hegumen and his attendant were aroused. Both gazed at Demedes looking the same question. "I hesitate to tell you, my dear father, of the affair, it is so shocking. The chill of the first hearing has not left me. I am excited body and mind, and you know how faithfully I have tried to school myself against excitement it is unbecoming only the weak suffer it.
Of course his role was to waste the energy of the mass. In every pack of beagles it is said there is one particularly gifted in the discovery of false scents. Such was Demedes that first day, until about two o'clock. The results of the quest were then in, and of the theories to which he listened, nothing pleased him like the absence of a suggestion of the second sedan.
"It does relieve me," Demedes said, with a taking air; "and I am encouraged to go on." He paused, and surveyed Sergius deliberately from head to foot, and the admiration he permitted to be seen, taken as a second to his continuing words, could not have been improved by a professed actor. "Are not flesh and blood of the same significance in all of us?
Now Sergius would have freely given the best of his earthly possessions to have known at that moment the subject of the communication delivered by a route so extraordinary; but leaving him to his conjectures, there is no reason why the reader should not be more confidentially treated. "Sir," the messenger had whispered to Demedes, "she has left her father's, and is coming this way."
The exclamation wrung from the monk was not merely because of his finding the man; in sober truth, it was an unconventional expression provoked by finding him in the place he occupied, and a quick jump to the logical conclusion that the foremost person in the march was also the chief priest if such were the title in the Academy. Thenceforward Sergius beheld little else of the show than Demedes.
To the left of the Princess, a little removed, Lael half reclined against a heap of cushions, pale, languid, and not wholly recovered from the effects of the abduction by Demedes, the terrible doom which had overtaken her father, and the disappearance of the Prince of India, the latter unaccountable except upon the hypothesis of death in the great fire.
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