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pyx
1. It was as well that Pyx had arranged a side bet with the Barnabus Groat, for at least he would be able to derive a little pleasure from gaining a march on the his rival and extracting some of the moneylender’s vast wealth
2. Gaspar’s appointed meeting with Master Pyx, the Chief-Merchant’s secretary, was in the alley at the back of the Bag O’Silver Inn where they had first met
3. Firstly, Gaspar had paid a street-boy to ask questions concerning the identity of the Chief-Merchant’s secretary and had learned that he was called Pyx
4. The assassin was approaching the mouth of the alley where Gaspar had been instructed to meet Pyx
5. Gaspar still planned to hand over the stolen castle, but he did not intend to show himself until he knew the whereabouts of all three, including Pyx and Stoat
6. “Where’s Pyx?” demanded Gaspar, reckoning that a bold show on his part might yield better results than snivelling subservience, though, if circumstances required it, he was quite prepared to adopt the latter
7. Then he thought of something, and called out after them, “Did Pyx invent the Thief-Master’s part in this? Has Thieves’ House any knowledge of this business at all?”
8. It was Pyx who had casually confirmed Amilla’s safe return from her shopping expedition
9. Pyx, it appeared, was the only person who could vouch for Amilla’s return on the previous day
10. It had seemed a casual remark at the time, but now he wondered if Pyx had been waiting for him on purpose
11. The first was his discovery that Amilla’s jewellery was missing from her dresser; the second was the realisation that if Pyx had lied about Amilla’s return he had probably lied about other matters too, such as the funds needed for the magical hat, the wager with Barnabus Groat, and the bribe paid to the moneylender’s secretary
12. Hubris had seen no sign of the fellow Gaspar had identified as Pyx, the Chief-Merchant’s secretary, and had assumed that he would show up only at the appointed time
13. Hubris’s appointed rendezvous with Reave, the Chief-Moneylender’s secretary, was at the spellbroker’s own shop, exactly one hour after Gaspar’s abortive meeting with Pyx
14. It seems that both Pyx and Reave have fled the city with large sums of stolen cash
15. “It fits with what we know already, namely that Pyx and Reave have both done a runner
16. “It also explains why Pyx and Reave didn’t hang about to meet with us, “said Gaspar, thinking out loud
17. “It appears that Pyx has run off with Amilla, Taromh’s headstrong, young wife! Some say the pair were seen on the High Road, heading for Zymar, while others say they were spotted boarding a ship bound for Kyrnia
18. “If Pyx has been spotted fleeing in the company of Taromh’s wife, what’s happened to Reave?”
19. “If he and Pyx were co-conspirators from the start, why didn’t they stick to their plan and run off with both wives?”
20. Also, Hubris never met Pyx
21. “Pyx and Reave are one and the same! Pyx is Reave, and Reave is Pyx!”
22. The fingers of his right hand enclosed the cold brass of the pyx,
23. The bedclothes were sprinkled with holy water, the priest drew from the holy pyx the white wafer; and it was fainting with a celestial joy that she put out her lips to accept the body of the Saviour presented to her
24. The beadle, who was just then standing on the threshold in the middle of the left doorway, under the "Dancing Marianne," with feather cap, and rapier dangling against his calves, came in, more majestic than a cardinal, and as shining as a saint on a holy pyx
25. The bed-clothes were sprinkled with holy water, the priest drew from the holy pyx the white wafer; and it was fainting with a celestial joy that she put out her lips to accept the body of the Saviour presented to her
26. Before leaving Saumur Madame de Bonfons had the gold of certain jewels, once so precious to her, melted up, and put, together with the eight thousand francs paid back by her cousin, into a golden pyx, which she gave to the parish church where she had so long prayed for him
