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Doubtless he has already joined his comrades." Sobieska groaned. "He'll give the alarm. We will be cut off." "If we want to save Her Grace," said Carter, "we will have no time to lose. We do not wish to be mewed up here. We'd better make a dash for the forest and trust to God to reach the frontier.
A gray-haired sergeant entered. "A corporal and file," was Sobieska's command. Carter straightened himself haughtily. Were they going to arrest him for this forgery? "Count Sobieska," he began indignantly, while Johann's dull eyes brightened. "Wait, please," was the Minister's only comment. Carter turned to Her Grace to remonstrate against such an indignity, but her head was turned from him.
'I know, neighbour, said old Sobieska, blinking her eyes; 'they are boring because they have heard that there are toads inside those big stones. 'And what if there are? 'You see, they want to know if it's true. 'But what's that to them? 'I'll be hanged if I know! retorted Sobieska in such a decided tone that Slimakowa considered the matter as settled.
He had to go to the hill from early dawn till late at night, and cut, bind, and shock the sheaves single-handed. But in spite of his industry the work took longer than usual, and Slimak hired old Sobieska to help him.
Punctuality outdone, Josef entered and handed Sobieska a note. Without even glancing at it, the latter tossed it on the table. Picking up the sheet on which were the pasted fragments, he handed it to the Servitor, watching him closely with narrowing eyes. Without a tremor the paper was received, examined, read, and handed back to Sobieska with a smile. "Well, Excellency?"
Trusia held out her hands to them with sweet impulsiveness. In turn they took them and carried them to their lips. Sobieska turned to Carter for a parting word. "The charcoal burner is loyal. He can hide you by day and guide you by night. None knows better all the byways and secret paths in the forests. By to-morrow evening you should be safe in Austria.
There were footsteps, rhythmic, orderly, at the door. It opened to admit the corporal and his men. Vividly it recalled to Carter another such scene when he was a judge and "Put Johann under arrest," came the curt interruption to his thoughts from the lips of Sobieska. "If you permit any one to communicate with him, it will mean a court martial for all of you," said the Minister.
These Sobieska pounced upon eagerly. Further search bore no fuller fruit, so with their meagre harvest the pair descended to the office again. Here the Krovitzer, piecing the fragments together, and pasting them on a sheet of paper, laid them before Carter. "There," said the Minister, "are the experiments in your handwriting. Now wait until he comes back."
Two or three months later, James, returning from Spain, married the fair and hapless Princess Clementina Sobieska, whom Charles Wogan, in an enterprise truly romantic, had rescued from prison at Innspruck and conveyed across the Alps.
Their eldest daughter, Eléonore Eugénie, married Charles de Rohan, Prince de Montauban, younger brother of the Duc de Montbazon, whose wife was the daughter of the Duc de Bouillon and Princess Caroline Sobieska, and so first cousin to the sons of James III. That branch of Oglethorpes thus became connected with the royal family, which would go far towards rousing their hereditary Jacobitism when the Forty-Five cast its shadow before.
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