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"They will do what I do," replied Leroy "They share my fortunes likewise my opinions; and here they come, so they can speak for themselves," this, as two men emerged from a dark street on the left, and came full into the lamplight's flare "Axel Regor, Max Graub come hither! Fortune has singularly favoured us to-night! Let me present to you my friend " and he emphasized the word, "Sergius Thord!"
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.
I saw Tom Kinlay looking absently towards the window where I stood, and fearing that he would notice me, I moved a step nearer the door. Then I heard Mr. Drever speak. "Kinlay," said he, "finish the subjunctive mood, where Jessie Grey left off." Tom's trembling voice betrayed his ignorance of the-lesson. "Regor, I am ruled; regeris, thou " "No, no," interrupted the master.
Vain were their alarmed looks of remonstrance; and in another moment all the party had separated, and only Max Graub and Axel Regor remained on the pavement outside the tavern, disconsolately watching two figures disappearing in the semi-shadowed moonlight Pasquin Leroy and Lotys walking closely side by side.
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.
He had fallen into a heavy, brooding silence, his head sunk on his breast, his wild hair falling forward like a mane, and his right hand clenched and resting on the table. "Sergius!" called Lotys. He did not answer. "He is in one of his far-away moods," said one of the men next to Axel Regor, "It is best not to disturb him." Paul Zouche, however, had no such scruples.
"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.
Whereupon she pressed an invisible spring under the table, which set a bell ringing in some lower quarter of the house. "Pasquin Leroy, Axel Regor, Max Graub!" she said "Take your places for to-night beside me newcomers are always thus distinguished! And all of you sit down! You are grouped at present like hungry wolves waiting to spring.
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!
At its conclusion, however, a sudden thought flashed through his brain which brought a wonderful smile to his lips, and a rare light in his eyes, and touching the arm of Axel Regor, he whispered. "Could anything be more protective to me, as you know me, than this Vow of Fealty? By my faith, a right loyal vow!" The man he so questioned looked at him doubtfully. He did not understand.
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