Part 27 (2/2)
”Say no , maybe”
”You carry two cloaks, Captain How is that?”
”Oneto leave it with the landlord to be returned”
”Wear it until we are free of the city Iteyes I warrant you are well looked for to-night”
”Have we far to travel to this exit of yours?”
”So eyes we must close them quickly We want no shouts to raise a rabble Is it not tiates have been closed for half an hour”
”Coh the court?”
”There is no other way,” Anton answered
”Then Captain, will you perosie ”Follow close upon our heels; but should we stop, do not you; overtake us and push us roughly aside, and ill overtake you again in a moment Your pardon that I seem to lead in this matter, but I know the road we ruff assent to the arrangement He had looked into the boy's eyes and seen honesty there, but he was not going to walk carelessly, for all that
The inn was empty, so was the court, and there were few people abroad in the Bergenstrasse Grigosie and Anton, leading the way by scarce a dozen paces, turned alhfare into a side street, and had soon turned to left and right so often that Ellerey would hardly have found his way back to the Toison d'Or Not once did they stop, and if they looked back to see that their co them, Ellerey was not aware of the fact He kept close upon their heels, ready to stand on the defensive at the first sign of treachery, but he took little notice of where they led him
Suddenly a street corner struck him as familiar, and the next moment the truth flashed upon hiht At the bottoht was di in the upperas it had been then
Grigosie and Anton stopped, but when Ellerey reached them he did not push them aside; he stopped, too ”And nohich way?” he asked
”Toward the light yonder,” Grigosie answered
”My lad, there is a point beyond which I trust no one,” said Ellerey
”I know that light”
”It marks our point of safety”
”Yours, perhaps; not mine”
”I do not understand, Captain”
”If you are innocent, how should you? If you are false, why should you? Last night I had an appointment beneath that dim lamp With difficulty I escaped with ht there will be no duel We shall go direct to that door in the wall”
Who was this youngster that he knew so much?
”It see it,” said Ellerey ”Look you, lad, I give you warning My life I aive, but if by treachery it is taken, I'll see that you bear me company on that journey, even as you have sworn to follow me to the death on the other”