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"I trust you!" he then said curtly to Leroy, "and I think you will not betray my trust. If you do, it will be the worse for you!" His lips parted in a slight sinister smile, and the two who were respectively called Axel Regor and Max Graub, exchanged anxious glances. But Leroy showed no sign of hesitation or alarm.
Sholto, the hunchback, was below, and he let them out without a word, closing and barring the door carefully behind them. Once in the street and under the misty moonlight, Pasquin Leroy nodded a careless dismissal to his companions. "You will return alone?" enquired Max Graub. "Quite alone!" was the reply. "May I not follow you at a distance?" asked Axel Regor. Leroy smiled. "You forget!
Here interrupting himself with a bright smile, he said: "Will someone restrain my two friends, Max Graub and Axel Regor from springing out of their seats? They are both extremely envious of the task which has been allotted to me! both are disappointed that it did not fall to them to perform, but I am not in the humour for arguing so nice a point of honour with them just now!"
His companions, Max Graub and Axel Regor, were separated from him, and from each other, at different sides of the table, and Paul Zouche the poet, was almost immediately opposite to him.
Max Graub, or, to give him his right name, Heinrich von Glauben, has a high reputation in this country for his learning, apart from his position as Household Physician to our Court; Axel Regor is my very good friend Sir Roger de Launay, who is amiable enough to support the monotony of his duty as one of my equerries in waiting. Now you know us as we are!
The thunder of our footsteps shall roll through the world, In the March of the Men of Labour!" "Yes!" said Max Graub, pausing to listen ere re-entering the tavern "If and it is a great 'if' if every man will stand by his neighbour, the thunder will be very loud, and by all the deities that ever lived in the Heaven blue, it is a thunder that is likely to last some time!
"By favours bestowed, or favours to come?" queried Thord, smiling, "However, without any argument, Axel Regor, I am inclined to think you are right!" "Then a weapon is permissible here?" asked Graub. "Not only permissible, but necessary," replied Thord. "As members of this Brotherhood we live always prepared for some disaster, always on our guard against treachery.
He was followed by his comrades, Max Graub and Axel Regor, and Thord felt a warm glow of contentment in the consciousness that these lately enrolled members of the Revolutionary Committee were so far faithful to their bond.
They should not play with edge-tools such as I am, though I suppose, being a German, you think little or nothing of women?" "Madame!" protested Graub, "I think so much of women that I have never married! Behold me, an unhappy bachelor! I have spared any one of your beautiful sex from the cruel martyrdom of having to endure my life-long company!"
"True! my genius is of an absorbing quality! Silence, gentlemen! Silence for our new comrade! 'Pasquin' stands for the beginning of a jest so we may hope he will be amusing, 'Leroy' stands for the king, and so we may expect him to be non-political!" As Leroy rose to speak, there was a little commotion. Max Graub upset his glass, and seemed to be having a struggle under the table with Axel Regor.
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