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Updated: May 29, 2025
"Pardon, Cain was the true Progressivist and Reformer," put in Graub; "Some fine sentiment of the garden of Eden was in his blood, which impelled him to offer up a vegetable sacrifice to the Deity, whereas Abel had already committed murder by slaying lambs.
"What do you seek from me?" she demanded; "Why do you clamour like babes for something you cannot get, my obedience?" They looked shamefacedly at one another, then at Sergius Thord and Pasquin Leroy, who sat side by side at the lower end of the table. Max Graub and Axel Regor, Leroy's two comrades, were for once absent; but they had sent suitable and satisfactory excuses.
But you must recollect, my friend, that a statement in the papers is never true nowadays!" said Max Graub, with a laugh; "Whenever I read anything in the newspaper, unless it is an official telegram, I know it is a lie; and even official telegrams have been known to emanate from unofficial sources!"
But Axel Regor and Max Graub were seemingly not disposed to levity, and they offered no response to their lighter minded comrade beyond vague hasty side-looks of alarm, which appeared to amuse him to an extent that threatened to go beyond the limits of caution. Sergius Thord, however, saw nothing of their interchange of glances for the moment, he had other business to settle.
Max Graub had drawn a blank, so had Axel Regor, so had Louis Valdor and many others. At last it came to Leroy's turn, and as he walked up to the platform and ascended it, there was a look on his face which attracted the instant attention of all present.
"You are all satisfied?" he then asked; "You, Sergius Thord, my chief and commander, you, and all here present are satisfied?" "Satisfied? Yes!" replied Thord; "But sorry that your personality resembles that of a fool and a knave!" A strange grimace distorted the countenance of Max Graub, but he quickly buried his nose and his expression together in a foaming glass of beer.
"There is nothing remarkable in that, my friend!" he interposed "We all carry arms, there is not one of us at this table who has not a loaded pistol, even Lotys is no exception to this rule." "Now by my word!" said Graub, "I have no loaded pistol, and I will swear Leroy is equally unarmed!" "Entirely so!" said Leroy quietly "I never suspect any man of evil intentions towards me."
The rest of the room was in darkness, and with the gathering groups of men, who moved silently and spoke in whispers, it presented a solemn and eerie spectacle. "Ah! You have now arrived," said Max Graub, in a cautious sotto voce to Leroy, "at the end of your adventures! Behold the number Thirteen!
Therefore, we may be satisfied that he has been warned; but it would seem that the warning is of no avail; and whosoever to-night draws the name of the King must be swift and sure in his business!" There was a deep pause. Suddenly Max Graub rose, his bulky form and great height giving him an almost Titanesque appearance in the gloom of the chamber.
I am what is called a free-born subject of the realm. I do what I like, though not always how I like, or when I like!" "And you, Max Graub?" "German!" said that individual firmly; "German to the backbone Socialist to the soul! and an enemy of all ruling sovereigns, particularly the one that rules me!" Thord smiled darkly.
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