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Chapter 2 Prince Crucho
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AGARIC resolved to proceed without delay to Prince Crucho, who honoured him with his familiarity. In the dusk of the evening he went out of his school by the side door, disguised as a cattle merchant and took passage on board the St. Mael.
The next day he landed in Porpoisea, for it was at Chitterlings Castle on this hospitable1 soil that Crucho ate the bitter bread of exile.
Agaric met the Prince on the road driving in a motor-car with two young ladies at the rate of a hundred miles an hour. When the monk2 saw him he shook his red umbrella and the prince stopped his car.
“Is it you, Agaric? Get in! There are already three of us, but we can make room for you. You can take one of these young ladies on your knee.”
The pious3 Agaric got in.
“What news, worthy4 father?” asked the young prince.
“Great news,” answered Agaric. “Can I speak?”
“You can. I have nothing secret from these two ladies.”
“Sire, Penguinia claims you. You will not be deaf to her call.”
Agaric described the state of feeling and outlined a vast plot.
“On my first signal,” said he, “all your partisans5 will rise at once. With cross in hand and habits girded up, your venerable clergy6 will lead the armed crowd into Formose’s palace. We shall carry terror and death among your enemies. For a reward of our efforts we only ask of you, Sire, that you will not render them useless. We entreat7 you to come and seat yourself on the throne that we shall prepare.”
The prince returned a simple answer:
“I shall enter Alca on a green horse.”
Agaric declared that he accepted this manly8 response. Although, contrary to his custom, he had a lady on his knee, he
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