“That is true,” declared the valet, “and your lordship has surely hit the right clew.  For”—­he glanced cautiously around him and lowered his voice—­“whenever I put on my master’s armour I always feel how he is trembling—­yes, trembling, your lordship.  His face is livid, and the drops of perspiration on his brow are not due solely to the heat.”

“And then,” cried Quijada, his black eyes sparkling with a fiery light—­ “then in his agitation he scarcely knows what he is doing as I hold the stirrup for him.  But when, once in his saddle, his divine companion descends to him, he dashes upon the foe like a whirlwind and, wherever he strikes, how the chips fly!  The strongest succumb to his blows.  ‘Victory! victory!’ men shout exultingly wherever he goes.  Even in the last accursed Algerian defeat his helper was at his side; for, Adrian” —­here he, too, lowered his voice—­“without him and his wonderful power every living soul of us, down to the last boat and camp follower, would have been destroyed.”

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