As he did so with a sudden motion Kari shook the cloak back from his
body and for the first time I saw that thrust through his leathern belt
was a long weapon, half sword and half dagger, also that its sharpened
steel was bare.
"Oh!" exclaimed Deleroy, "now I understand that I am trapped and that
when you told me, Blanche, that this man would not return to-night and
that therefore we were safe together, you lied. Well, my Lady Blanche,
you shall pay for this trick later."
Whilst he spoke thus, slowly, as though to gain time, he was looking
about him, and as the last word left his lips, knowing that the door was
locked, he dashed for the window, hoping, I suppose, to leap through the
casement, or if that failed, to shout for help. But Kari, who had set
the candles he bore on a side table, that where the writing lay, read
his mind. With a movement more swift than that of a polecat leaping on
its prey, the swiftest indeed that ever I saw, he sprang between him and
the casement, so that Deleroy scarce escaped pinning himself upon the
steel that he held in his long, outstretched arm.
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