"From accidents," added Krzycki; "and we shall insure with my personal friend and 'accomplice' Laskowicz."
To this Dolhanski replied:
"That accomplice gave you a payment on account. In the future you will receive yet more."
To Gronski's mind came thoughts of the personal enmity of the young medical student to Krzycki and the letter of Laskowicz to Marynia, of which he among the men in Jastrzeb alone knew.
It was quite probable that Laskowicz saw in Ladislaus a rival and future aspirant for the hand of Panna Marynia who, besides, had nipped in the bud his work in Rzeslewo and that he might have thought that he actually could gratify his hatred from personal consideration, and in the name of the "cause."
Laskowicz, himself, in his own way, might have been an honest man, but the party ethics were, in relation to the antiquated morality, revolutionary, and sanctioned such things.
But at present there was not much time to ponder over that; so after a while Gronski waved his hand and said:
"Whether or not the hand of Laskowicz is imbrued in this the future will show. Now we must think of something else. I assert positively that I will take away my ladies from here, but I wish that the entire Jastrzeb family would follow my example."
After which, he addressed the doctor.
"Would it be safe for Ladislaus to travel to-morrow?"