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As Sobieska was known to the majestic butler, the travelers had no difficulty in immediately establishing themselves in the quarters intended for them. As night drew on, the others came trooping in, ready to do justice to anything eatable the chef could purvey. "We had an unexpected rencontre just as we alighted from the train," said Trusia.
"Is all this important, Excellency?" the Gray Man asked deprecatingly, intimating that the issue had been forgotten. With a quiet drawl, containing both a reproof and a demurrer, Sobieska corrected him. "Interesting," he said as he shot a covert glance at Josef which also held a challenge. Then as though in tacit compliance with the suggestion he turned not discourteously to Carter.
"Once gain the shelter of the woods, however, and we can hide by day and travel at night until we reach the frontier." "How many have we in the garrison?" inquired Trusia, who had instinctively placed herself at Carter's side. "Half a platoon of cavalry," replied Sobieska gravely, thinking of the meagreness of their force for the occasion. "One more," said Muhlen-Sarkey entering the room.
"Ever see that before, Josef?" "I think so, Excellency. Did you find them in my room?" he inquired with quiet effrontery. "They were found there. I found them," replied Sobieska coolly, not yet despairing of breaking down the impassive wall with which Josef had surrounded his thoughts. "Then I have seen them before," the Servitor answered as though courteously acknowledging an irrefutable logic.
The barrenness of the place seemed to be sufficient guarantee for the honesty of its usual occupant. A table without a drawer, no closet and some burned-out logs in the large fireplace afforded but scant hiding places. Sobieska carefully tapped each board separately to ascertain if a secret receptacle had been formed in such a fashion, but the floor was perfectly solid.
He therefore ordered a Mass one Sunday, on the advice of his wife, and went to confession with her and Jendrek; but this did not improve matters, for the villagers discussed over their beer in the evening what deadly sin he might have been guilty of to go to confession and pray so fervently. Even old Sobieska rarely appeared and came furtively to ask for her vodka.
Satisfied that she had not, he swept a triumphant look at Carter, who was dumbfounded at the turn affairs had taken. The American stretched out his hand to the Krovitzer. "Paul Zulka's friends are to be trusted," said Sobieska. "You have already made a personally vindictive enemy," he continued; "have you any idea who it is?"
It was decided that Carter and Sobieska should proceed to Vienna; Muhlen-Sarkey and Trusia with their two attendants were to cross into Germany at the nearest point, thence travel by rail, while Josef and the rest should embark boldly from Schallberg.
With commendable alacrity he left the room on his mission, watched by Sobieska in the doorway. Returning, with hardly concealed impatience, the Minister begged of Her Grace to be excused for the time being and requested the assistance of Carter. "Yes, Sobieska, go," she said. "I am as anxious as you can be to reach the bottom of this mystery.
'Now I don't care if I go to the devil, he said, raked some straw into a corner and was asleep within a few minutes. It was afternoon when he was at last awakened by old Sobieska. 'Get up, Slimak! your wife is dead! God's faith! dead as a stone. 'How can I help it? said the peasant, turning over and drawing his sheepskin over his head. 'But you must buy a coffin and notify the parish.
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