"Why do they swing the censers at the Mass?" interjected Pierre. "Man has signs for memories, and one man seeing another's sign will remember his own."
"You stay because you like it—at King's House?" asked Lawless of
Adderley.
The other stretched himself lazily to the fire and, "I am at home," he said. "I have no cares. I had all there was of that other world; I've not had enough of this. You'll come with me to King's House to-morrow?" he added.
To their quick assent he rejoined: "You'll never want to leave. You'll stay on."
To this Lawless replied, shaking his head: "I have a wife and child in
England."
But Pierre did not reply. He lifted the bugle, mutely asking a question of Adderley, who as mutely replied, and then, with it in his hand, left the other two beside the fire.
A few minutes later they heard, with three calls of the bugle from the point afterwards, Pierre's voice: "John York, John York, where art thou gone, John York?"
Then came the reply:
"King of my heart, king of my heart, I am out on the trail of thy bugles."