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The happiness she had anticipated an hour earlier, when she had descried the distant carriage that brought Greif to her, had been strangely interrupted, and yet she was not altogether unhappy now, though she was very sad and silent. For all the world she would not have unlived that hour, nor unsaid the words that had passed her lips.
Something in the tone of his voice struck Greif and affected him disagreeably. He held up the light to Rex's face, and saw that he was pale, and that his strange eyes looked weary and lifeless. 'What is the matter, Rex? he asked earnestly. 'Are you in any trouble? Can I do anything for you? 'Nothing, thank you, answered the other quietly.
It is for Greif he stopped, as though he were choking with anger, but excepting by the pallor of his stern features, his face expressed nothing of what he felt. 'Greif will live here and will never see him either, said Frau von Sigmundskron. 'Besides, he does not know 'He knows. Some student told him and got a sabre cut for his pains. He knows, for he told me so only yesterday.
His name was strange, his conversation was unusual, his eyes were most disagreeable, and yet oddly fascinating. Greif thought about him and was not satisfied with his short interview. The man's remark about the future was either that of a visionary, or of an absent-minded person who did not always know what he was saying.
She had always loved Greif, ever since she could remember anything. Why should he not love her? And if they loved each other, they would of course be married in due time. It was but the fulfilment of her life, after all. There was surely nothing in the idea to cause her any emotion.
'Ad exercitium Salamandri! Eins! Zwei! Drei! Greif brought his glass down upon the table as he spoke the last words, and the long roll began, like rattling musketry, again and again, to the due number of times. Greif sat down amidst thunders of applause.
'The prime cause, mused Greif. 'And who made the vortex? 'God, answered Rex laconically. 'But then, objected the younger student in some surprise, 'you believe in a future life, in the importance of this life, in duty, in all the rest of it. 'I believe in the vortex, replied the other, 'in its unity, individuality and eternity.
Greif himself could hardly understand how he had been led, in a first meeting with one who was altogether a stranger, to speak so plainly of what disturbed him. It was not his custom to make acquaintances at a venture, or to refer to his own affairs with people he did not know.
To see her, and then what then? The future was a blank, of which the monotony was broken only by the figure of Greif. The idea of devoting himself to his brother, and of expending all his strength and intelligence in the attempt to make him outlive the dreadful memory of this day, presented itself to Rex's mind. He smiled faintly, for the thought was unlike most of his thoughts.
'Have I gained any advantage from our acquaintance, excepting your society and that of your Korps? Think well before you answer. 'Certainly not, replied Greif. 'I am quite sure that you have not. What a foolish question! 'It seems so to you, no doubt. But it is far from foolish. You say that you remember that evening well. Then you recollect that I told you I knew nothing of you or your family.
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