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Updated: May 19, 2025
"From a friend, if we make no mistake, one whom you are sent to seek near the Drekner pass. Are you from Queen Elena?" "I am the bearer of a message to Vasilici." "You are welcome, then. We will bring you to him." "Is he far from here?" The man turned and pointed up the pass: "An hour's journey." "We will come.
The brigands lay in the mountains near the Drekner pass, in exactly the opposite direction to Breslen, and a wide detour round Sturatzberg would have to be accomplished when the united band set out in earnest upon its expedition. The token was at last in his possession, his comrades awaited him, and Ellerey was anxious to be gone. But he was not the man to fail by being too precipitate.
"The Drekner pass. Do you know it?" "I was quite a youngster when I last crossed it," was the answer. "There used to be a castle there, perched on the hill-side like an eagle's eyrie." "So many years cannot have passed since then that the castle should have crumbled away," said Ellerey, with a smile. "I expect it is still there." "You do not know the pass, then?" "No."
It is an inn of no repute in the Bergenstrasse, which runs toward the Southern Gate. This same messenger who came to you to-night shall bring it, sealed as I have said. Then make all speed to Vasilici, who lies in the neighborhood of the Drekner Pass. Now go. Quickly. He will show you the way." It was by a different way they returned.
At the same time Stefan, looking across the open country, pointed out a cloud of dust on the horizon. "That means a moving body of men," he said. "In the pass lies our greatest security until we are prepared to meet the enemy," Ellerey answered. "If that castle of yours has not crumbled to dust, Grigosie, it will make excellent quarters for us." The Drekner pass had long ago ceased to be used.
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