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Updated: June 12, 2025
Our union is strong because it depends on mutual distrust. In a word, we are the Everlasting Unreality! Have you understood me? 'Not in the least, replied Yellow-cap. ''Tis well. No one of us understands either himself or his brother. He who understands or is understood is anathema. 'Dear me! ejaculated Yellow-cap. 'You have heard of the cap of invisibility? 'I believe so.
Yellow-cap, who had by this time almost ceased feeling surprised at anything, did not find it especially wonderful that the donkey which was in waiting was the same on which he had ridden the evening before, and that its driver was the same half-witted youth who had given him such useful information about the passwords.
Faster and wilder moved the dance, thicker and yellower whirled the smoke-wreaths, and the six faces sped dizzily round the table, until it seemed to Yellow-cap as if he were encircled by a great ring of face, with one broad nose, one endless grinning mouth, and a single leering eye in the forehead. By and by the room began to spin round also such, at least, was Yellow-cap's impression.
At this a couple of halberdiers approached and laid their hands on the culprit's shoulders. Yellow-cap had at first thought that to lose his head would serve the Chancellor only right; but, as he was averse to bloodshed, and as his own affairs seemed to be going on so prosperously, he resolved to be merciful. 'Allow me a word, he said.
'You don't know him? spoke the voice of Ruba. 'He knows you, said Dubb. 'He is an old friend of yours, remarked Dubsix. 'And a very dear one, added Menin. 'And a very false one, observed Atub. 'What does it all mean? inquired Yellow-cap. 'If you will give yourself the trouble to lay your left finger beside your nose it might inform you, said Gyp courteously.
This having been duly performed, Gyp, with an air of great respect, took Yellow-cap by the arm and led him out to the street, the other five Brethren following behind.
'La! as if I couldn't see that your Worship was one of them himself! 'It must be the same Seven Brethren of which the dwarf spoke, thought Raymond; and he said aloud, 'They meet to-night at five o'clock, I think? 'Right, your Worship. And your Worship may trust me. "Yellow-cap" is the password, "seven" the number, and "five" the time. Isn't it, your Worship?
At this moment they all arose and solemnly emptied their tankards; then they piled the tankards together in the centre of the table; and Dubsix and Atub, taking each an arm of Yellow-cap, raised him from the floor and seated him upon the pile as upon a throne. The six Brethren now joined hands and began to dance round and round the table, puffing volumes of smoke from their pipes as they went.
Yellow-cap, who was fast becoming wise, and who knew more about this matter than he cared to admit, could not help wondering at his queer position the Head of a Secret Society hostile to the very monarch who had offered him his kingdom that same afternoon.
At this question the Home Doggerel and the other members of the Cabinet made a movement as if they wished to step behind the scenes; but King Yellow-cap noticed it, and in an awful voice he cried out 'Headsman! 'Ready, your Majesty, said that officer, poising his axe to strike. 'One step more, said the King, turning to the six courtiers, 'and your heads fly into the pit.
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