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Updated: July 12, 2025
How the wooden houses trembled while the cavalcade went galloping by! What thousands of bright eyes peered down upon the cavaliers, attracted by the shouting and laughter! Now and then some person would be a little late in attempting to cross before him; then with what grace Demedes would spur after him, his bow and bowstring for whip!
Thus in the saddle, Demedes could not have been accused of diminutiveness; he appeared tall, even burly; indeed, Sergius would never have recognized him had he not been going with raised visor, and at the instant of passing turned his face up, permitting it to be distinctly seen.
His gaze stopped short of the object which had inspired his hostess with such interest, and dropped to the figured carpet at the guest's feet; for the feeling the recognition awakened was clouded with the taunt Demedes had flung at him in the hall of the monastery, and he questioned the rightfulness of this appearance.
Or is there in virtue a signal to its enemies Lo, here! A light to be blown out, lest it disperse our darkness!".... Reenter Demedes.... "Abduct her! How? When? To that end is it thou keepest her always under eye? The Princess Irene gives a Fisherman's Fete the child will be there thou wilt be there. Is this the day of the attempt?
I ask you to permit him to go with me." "Nay," said the Hegumen, "I will urge him to go." Sergius answered simply: "Not now. I am under penance, and to-day bound to the third breviary prayers. When they are finished, I will gladly go." "I am disappointed," Demedes rejoined. "But I must make haste."
An interval of quiet ensued; then came a trial of the lock at first, gentle another, with energy a third one rattled the strong leaf in its frame. "The villain! I will teach him No, it cannot be he would not dare and besides I have the boat." As Demedes thus acquitted the keeper, he cast a serious glance around him, evidently in thought of defence.
From the hour of his installation as High Priest, Demedes was consumed by an ambition to illustrate the motto in its entirety, by doing something which should develop the three virtues in connection with unheard of daring and originality. It is to be added here that to his own fortune, he had now the treasury of the Academy to draw upon, and it was full.
The conclusion of the speech must be left to the reader, for with the last word some weighty solid crashed against the raft until it trembled throughout. Demedes stopped. Involuntarily his hand sought the dagger; and the action was a confession of surprise.
If Demedes were exposed through his endeavor, what of the father? If, in the conflict certain of precipitation, the latter sided with his son and what could be more natural? would not the Brotherhood follow him? How then could he, Sergius, a foreigner, young, and without influence, combat a fraternity powerful in the city and most powerful up at Blacherne?
And what a bold ready transition from bear tender to captain in the boat race! Demedes writhing in the grip of Nilo over the edge of the wall, death in the swish of waves beneath, had been an object of pity tinged with contempt Demedes winner of the prize at Therapia was a very different person. This feeling for the Greek, it is to be said next, was dashed with a lurking dread of him.
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