While they talked and lingered, Sobrenski was descending the rickety
ladder that served as a staircase.
He had noticed Vardri's exit from the room, as he noticed everything
else. All the other men had been too excited to care whether one more
or less was there or not. In the hot argument that raged in the upper
room, the absence of one of the members of the Brotherhood was
apparently forgotten.
Their leader, however, did not lose his head or his powers of
observation even when matters of life or death were in the balance.
Whatever he did was always done deliberately and in cold blood.
All the time he had been apparently presiding over the discussion he
had also been thinking rapidly.
It would be to his ultimate advantage not to interfere with Arithelli
and Vardri just now, but to let them be together, to see as much of
each other as possible. It was as well that Vardri should become
thoroughly infatuated, as then he would be certain to take some step
that would bring things to a crisis. They would be sure to try to
escape out of the country and hide themselves somewhere.
Pages:
235
236
237
238
239
240
241
242
243
244
245
246
247
248
249
250
251
252
253
254
255
256
257
258
259