"What can I do for you, sir?"
"Follow me."
"To the end of the world, sir."
"We need not go as far as that," said Gregorics, smiling. And they only went as far as "The Cock," a small public-house, where they ordered some wine, after drinking which, the wily Gáspár began, smiling blandly:
"Can you speak, Prepelicza?"
The mason began to wonder what was going to happen, and looked long and attentively into the steely gray eyes of his new acquaintance, and then said guardedly:
"A jay can speak, sir."
"I am from Besztercebánya."
"Really? There are very decent people there. I seem to know your face too, sir."
"You probably mistake me for my half-brother," said Gáspár. "You know, the one who had the caldron put away so secretly."