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Updated: June 24, 2025
"Nevertheless, they and their yellow metal are the raw material, which Genius may as well use to pave its way through life," said Zegota. "Lotys, you are too much of an idealist!" "Idealist! And you call yourself a realist, poor child!" said Lotys with a laugh; "I tell you I would sooner starve than accept favour or assistance from the merely rich!"
Where is there such a marksman to-day as Zegota, who with a pistol shot could hit a rabbit on the run? I knew Terajewicz, who, when he went out for wild boars, took no other arms than a pike, and Budrewicz, who used to fight singly against a bear! Such men did our forests once behold! If it came to a dispute, how did they settle the dispute. Why, they chose judges and set up stakes.
Leroy nodded, and appeared in no wise dismayed at the ominous suggestion implied. "How if our friend Zouche were to draw the fatal sign," he said; "Would he perform his allotted task, think you?" "Most thoroughly!" replied Zegota, still smiling. And with that, they separated.
Not I!" protested Graub "But, gentlemen, think a moment! You speak of putting us myself and my friends through an examination! Why should you examine us? We are three poor adventurers what can we have to tell?" "Much, I should imagine!" retorted Zegota "Adventurers are not such without adventures! Your white hairs testify to some experience of life."
"We have!" replied Leroy. "We will enrol ourselves as your associates at once." Whereupon Johan Zegota rose from his place, and unlocking an iron safe which stood in one corner of the room, took out a roll of parchment and handed it to Thord, who, unfolding it, read in a clear though low voice the following:
If he fortunately draws a blank then he is free for a year at least, in spite of the fatal sign, from the unpleasant duty of despatching a fellow mortal to the next world" and here Zegota smiled quite cheerfully; "But if he draws a Name, and at the same time sees the red cross against it, then he is bound by his oath to us to do his duty!"
For one instant, on the first step of the great porch, Sergius Thord and his companion, Johan Zegota, met, but making a rapid sign to each other with the left hand, they as quickly separated, Zegota to enter the Cathedral, Thord to walk rapidly down one of the narrowest and most unfrequented streets to the lower precincts of the city.
And while they were singing, Thord, glancing rapidly about him, saw Johan Zegota close at hand, and to his still greater satisfaction, Pasquin Leroy; and beckoning them both to his side whispered his brief orders, which were at once comprehended. The day was breaking; and in the purple east a line of crimson showed where the sun would presently rise.
Adam was discontented with the garden of Eden, and found a whole world outside its gates!" "He took Eve with him to keep up the sickness of dissatisfaction," said Zegota; "There would certainly have been no progress without her!"
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