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When they had crossed the Bure, they had come into the open country, a great plain, gray in the moonlight, that descended, hillock by hillock, toward the shores of the North Sea.
A dozen pages and lackeys were attending them on foot, and the sound of their jests and laughter came to us over the heads of the crowd. While I was gazing at them, some movement of the throng drove back Bure's horse against mine. Bure himself uttered a savage oath; uncalled for so far as I could see.
When we presently, at a signal from Bure, took to the road again, I asked no permission, but thrusting my horse forward, rode to his side as he passed through the gateway. "Louis! Louis!" He turned with a start at the sound of my voice, joy and bewilderment and no wonder in his countenance. He had not supposed us to be within a hundred leagues of him.
They were the best mounted of the party: all men of light weight too. One or other of them was constantly looking back. As night fell they closed in upon us with their usual care. When Bure joined us there was a gleam of intelligence in his bold eyes, a flash of conscious trickery. He knew that we had found him out, and cared nothing for it. And the others cared nothing.
"Very good," returned Jack; "then I'll go alone, for I cannot condemn their doings till I have seen them." Jack arose, and we, having determined to go also, followed him through the banana groves to a rising ground immediately behind the village, on the top of which stood the Bure, or temple, under the dark shade of a group of iron-wood trees.
'There is enough glean water in the tay's rainfall to wash it off, Darco answered. 'Did you efer read "The Orichinal"? 'No, said Paul. 'The man who wrote it vos so healthy that he nefer hat need to wash himself. His skin was too bure to hold dirt. 'Filthy beggar! said Paul. 'I make it a baraple, Darco declared. 'Id is true of the immordal soul.
He glanced round, his forbidding face, which was somewhat flushed as if by haste, wearing a scowl. Then he saw us, and, nodding haughtily, strode up the floor, his spurs clanking heavily on the boards. We gave us no greeting, but by a short word dismissed Bure and the soldiers to the lower end of the room.
Horses were brought out to fill the places of those lost or left behind, and Bure had food served to us. We were famished and exhausted, and ate it ravenously, as if we could never have enough. The Vidame sat his horse apart, served by his page, I stole a glance at him, and it struck me that even on his iron nature the events of the night had made some impression.
In order to reach the town they had to proceed up a long, serpentine, narrow river, each bank of which was so thickly covered with mangrove trees that they overshadowed it completely rendering it exceedingly dark and dismal. In the middle of the town stood the king's house, and directly opposite was the "bure," or temple. The whole town contained about one hundred and fifty houses.
They threw down the books with contempt showing thereby their sense of true religion; and trooped off roaring, "TUES! TUES! Aux Huguenots!" at the top of their voices. The newcomer thus left with us was Bure Blaise Bure the same who only yesterday, though it seemed months and months back, had lured us into Bezers' power. Since that moment we had not seen him.
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