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Updated: June 21, 2025
Thord's brows were heavy and lowering, his eyes were wild and unrestful, and his attitude and expression were such as caused Leroy to watch him with a little more than his usual close attention. Seeing that his companions expected him to answer Lotys before them all, he spoke with evident effort.
"And the sponsors?" They were mentioned, and proved to be the best men and women of Thord's relations in the parish. "Is there anything else?" inquired the priest, and looked up. The peasant hesitated a little. "I should like very much to have him baptized by himself," said he, finally. "That is to say on a week-day?" "Next Saturday, at twelve o'clock noon."
I have just seen your name in this very paper which you caught me reading see! the next heading under that concerning the King and the Jesuits 'Thord's Rabble. Are not you that same Thord?"
Late in the afternoon just after sundown a small close brougham drove up to the corner of the street where stood the tenement house, divided into several separate flats, in which the attic where Lotys dwelt was one of the most solitary and removed portions. The King alighted from the carriage unobserved, and ascended the stairs on which Sergius Thord's steps had echoed but a few hours gone by.
All the members of Sergius Thord's Revolutionary Committee were present, but they came as stragglers, several and apart, and among them Paul Zouche the poet, was perhaps the most noticeable.
"Show him in.". "Yes, sir!" Another moment and Pasquin Leroy entered, but it was an altogether different Pasquin Leroy to the one that had recently enrolled himself as an associate of Sergius Thord's Revolutionary Committee.
The topic of 'The King versus the Jesuits' was one of the first they touched upon, Sergius Thord relating for the benefit of all his associates, how he had found Pasquin Leroy reading by lamplight the newspaper which reported his Majesty's refusal to grant any portion of Crown lands to the priests, and which also spoke of 'Thord's Rabble.
"Here is the paper!" said Leroy, as he heard the narration; "Whoever likes to keep it can do so, as a memento of my introduction to this Society!" And he tossed it lightly on the table. "Good!" exclaimed Paul Zouche; "Give it to me, and I will cherish it as a kind of birthday card! What a rag it is! 'Thord's Rabble' eh!
Others followed him, every man in going, shook hands with Lotys and Sergius Thord, the lamps were extinguished, and the landlord standing in the porch of his tavern watched them all file out, and bade them all a cordial farewell. Pequita's home was with her father in the house where Sergius Thord dwelt, and Lotys kissing her tenderly good-night, left her to Thord's care.
But a magnetic spell, stronger than any invocation of the Church, had fallen upon the crowd, and they all stood as though caught in the invisible web of some enchanter, their faces turned upwards to where Thord's tall figure towered above them.
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