by Mór Jókai
CHAPTER XXXIII.
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL.
Richard lost no time in sending to his mother from Vienna a fullaccount of his varied experiences. Her reply was supplemented by thearrival of her steward and his wife, who informed him fully of allthat had occurred at home during his absence. The good wife had comewith her husband to be of such service as she could to Edith inpreparing for the young girl's wedding. Edith had been placed byRichard in a hotel until the marriage should take place.
The riddle of the blond hair was now explained, and Richard's griefand love for his martyr-brother made him prize the little lock of hairmore than all other earthly possessions. He was also told that hismother had wished to attend his wedding, but on applying for apassport,--which was now necessary even for the shortestjourneys,--she had been refused, and had received instructions not toleave Nemesdomb until farther notice. Then the young baroness hadplanned to come, but was detained by her baby's illness. As for hisbrother A-dA?n, he had the best of reasons for not showing himself inVienna at present. So the steward and his wife had come to representthe family.
Finally, the good man announced that the Baradlay property had beentaken possession of by the government,--not permanently, as only theinheritance of two of the brothers, at most, could be confiscated,while the third brother's share must be restored in the end; but suchmatters were settled only after long delay. Meanwhile the total incomeof the property went into the state treasury, and a mere pittance wasreturned to the widow, in monthly payments, for the support of herfamily. Therefore Richard's expenses were to be regulated with extremeeconomy. The young man found all this only what was to have beenexpected. He had been granted his life and liberty, and was notdisposed to grumble at losing his property. What engrossed histhoughts just then was his approaching marriage with Edith, which wasto make him the happiest man in all the world.
When in due time he had attained to that longed for bliss, he foundhimself confronted by a situation that demanded earnest consultationwith the partner of his happiness.
"Do you know, little wife," said he, "that we are very poor?"
But Edith only laughed at him. "How can we be poor when we have eachother?" she demanded, triumphantly.
"That makes two millions, I know," admitted Richard; "but it yields nointerest in cash. We must economise. Do you know what our monthlyincome actually amounts to? One hundred florins. More than that mymother cannot spare me, as she is much straitened herself."
"But I don't see how we can spend even that amount," declared Edith."It is a great sum of money."
"I must confess one thing more to you," pursued the young husband;"even this small income is not all mine. I have a number of littledebts here in the city, dating back one and two years, ormore,--trifling sums that I owe to honest shopkeepers and workingpeople. These debts were mere bagatelles to me then, but they press meheavily now. Yet I can't allow these poor people who have trusted meto suffer loss. I shall pay them every penny, and for that purpose Ipropose to set aside one-half my monthly allowance."
"Very well," assented the other cheerfully; "we can live royally onfifty florins a month. I will be cook, and we will get along with onlytwo courses for dinner. You shall see what a good cook I am. I willhave a little servant girl to wash the dishes, and I am sure we shallmanage famously."
Richard kissed his wife's hand and delivered into her keeping fiftyflorins for household expenses.
He then asked leave to absent himself for a few hours on business, andEdith told him he might stay out until one o'clock, when she shouldhave dinner ready for him.
Richard appeared punctually at the hour set, like a model husband. Andhow good the little dinner tasted! He ate like a wolf, and declaredthat not even the emperor himself fared better. Really it was asplendid meal for fifty-five kreutzers.
"Such a dinner was more than I often got when I was a captain ofhussars," declared the gratified husband, "especially when old Paulwas cook--Heaven bless him!"
The dinner had been well earned, too. Richard had secured a place asworkman in a machine-shop, at fifty florins a month, a splendidsalary! He had also transacted other business in the course of themorning. He had called on the old shopkeeper in Porcelain Street, andasked him to take charge of his finances and arrange a settlement withhis creditors, to whom he owed perhaps two thousand florins. He wishedto pay it off in instalments until the last penny of indebtedness wasdischarged. Old Solomon had promised to call on him between one andtwo o'clock, when his shop was always closed.
At half-past one the old man's shuffling steps were heard in thepassageway. Edith was still busy with her dish-washing, and the windowwas open to let fresh air into the single room that served as kitchen,dining-room, and parlour in one.
"Ah, my dear madam," began the visitor, bowing low, "I kiss your fairhand; I am ever glad to kiss the hand that works--rather than the handthat knows only how to hold a fan. You have a very pleasant homehere,--a little cramped for room, perhaps, but that brings you so muchthe nearer each other. Now then, Captain Baradlay, let us proceed tobusiness," said he, turning to Richard. "The lady of the house willnot be inconvenienced, I trust, by our transacting a little businessin her parlour. It is here a case of two hearts that beat as one, I amsure." The old Jew took a bit of chalk from his pocket. "Have thegoodness, please, to give me a list of all your debts."
Richard's memory in such matters was good, and he named the items, oneafter another, while old Solomon wrote them down on the table.
"Heavens and earth!" cried the aged Hebrew, raising his eyebrows andcausing his round cap to move backward and forward on his bald skull;"a large sum, a big pile of money that makes. H'm, h'm!" He took apinch of snuff from his black snuff-box, and then resumed hisreckoning. "It appears, if I mistake not, that Captain Baradlay wasstill under age when these debts were contracted."
"But my honour was not under age," said Richard.
"Ah, well said! That should be posted up in large letters,--'My honourwas never under age!' Do you see, madam, what sort of a man you havemarried? A spendthrift who values his honour at more than two thousandflorins.
"But look here, Captain, there's a way we have of settling debts likethese, by agreeing with the creditors to pay a certain per cent. Theyare generally glad enough to get even a small fraction of what theysupposed was dead loss. It's a very sensible arrangement all around."
"But it doesn't suit me," returned Richard emphatically. "Florin forflorin, it shall all be paid as fast as I get the money. I can't cheatthe poor people out of their just dues, even if I have to go hungry topay them."
"Incorrigible!" exclaimed the other. "Remember, you are no longer abachelor; you must think of your changed circumstances. Well, well,don't heat yourself. We'll say no more about it, but pass on toconsider how all these debts are to be paid."
So saying, he marked off two parallel columns on the table, over oneof which he wrote, "Debit," and over the other, "Credit."
"In the first place," began Richard, "I receive a hundred florinsmonthly from my mother, half of which is to go to my creditors."
"Half of it? and does your wife agree to that?"
"Oh, yes," Edith hastened to reply.
Solomon made an entry in the second column.
"Fifty florins more will come to me monthly as wages for my work inthe machine-shop," continued Richard. "Half of it I shall use towardpaying my debts, and the other half is for my wife's wardrobe."
"But how can I ever spend so much?" interposed Edith. "Your dear, goodmother sent me so many dresses for wedding presents that I never canwear them out. Let it all go to your creditors." She would give thetwo no peace until Solomon had written down the whole amount.
Then the old man pushed up the sleeves of his caftan, like one whoprepares to execute a masterstroke. "To that must next be added," saidhe, "the three hundred thousand florins that Miss Edith Liedenwallbrought to Captain Baradlay as her dowry." Therewith he wrote "300,000fl." as the next entry.
Th
e two young people looked at him to see what he meant by such ajoke; but he merely rose from his chair, took each of them by thehand, and addressed them as follows:
"I wish you all happiness in your married life. You are worthy of eachother. What I just said, and what I wrote, were both in earnest; andnow I will explain."
The three resumed their seats, and the old man proceeded to explain tothem the mystery of the three hundred thousand florins.
"You had, my dear madam, a great-uncle, Alfred Plankenhorst, who was arich man and an old bachelor. He had great family pride, as I havereason to know, having been well acquainted with him and acted as hisbanker and business agent. I thus came to know a good deal about hisfamily affairs. The old gentleman made a will by which he left all hisproperty--his house in Vienna and his invested funds--to his niece,Baroness Plankenhorst, and her daughter. The old uncle waslong-lived,--it is a way with some people, especially when they arerich,--and before he died the young lady had a love affair whichresulted unfortunately for her good name. Well, there was no help forit; but the old gentleman had very strong prejudices in such matters,and he made a new will. Hunting up the orphan daughter of a distantrelative,--Edith Liedenwall was the young lady's name,--he left her inthe care of the Plankenhorst ladies for her education. The substanceof the second will I can give you in a few words.
"Should Alfonsine Plankenhorst ever marry and make good her false stepby a union with a man of birth equal to her own, she was to receivethe bulk of the property as her dowry; but if she failed to retrieveherself before Edith Liedenwall grew up and married, the latter was toreceive this dowry, provided her marriage was a suitable andhonourable one, and provided she had committed no act such as had ledthe testator to destroy his first will. Failing this disposition ofthe property, as dowry either of Alfonsine Plankenhorst or of EdithLiedenwall, it was to go, after a certain number of years, to the St.Bridget Convent, though the house was in any case to remain in thepossession of the Plankenhorst ladies. I was made executor of thiswill, the contents of which were to be kept secret. But the secretarywho wrote it communicated its items to the baroness and her daughter,so that they have long known all about it. If you will now review theevents of your courtship and engagement, in the light of what I havejust told you, you will find everything explained that has beenhitherto mysterious to you. Meanwhile, I was watching the course ofevents and knew all that was going on. Oh, we quiet old people havesharp eyes; we can see into houses, into pockets, and even intohearts.
"The Plankenhorst mansion will remain in the possession of its presentoccupants. It is a pretty bit of property by itself, but they'll gothrough it within ten years. Yet these are not times when one thinksabout what is to be ten years hence. He who clothes the lilies of thefield and the girls in the ballet will also provide for AlfonsinePlankenhorst.
"And now, Captain and Mrs. Baradlay, are you satisfied with whatfortune has brought you?"
THE END.
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"The writer of the greatest promise to-day in Italy, and perhaps one of the most unique figures in contemporary literature, is Gab
riel d'Annunzio, the poet-novelist."--_The Bookman._
"This book is realistic. Some say that it is brutally so. But the realism is that of Flaubert and not of Zola. There is no plain speaking for the sake of plain speaking. Every detail is justified in the fact that it illuminates either the motives or the actions of the man and woman who here stand revealed. It is deadly true. The author holds the mirror up to nature, and the reader, as he sees his own experiences duplicated in passage after passage, has something of the same sensation as all of us know on the first reading of George Meredith's 'Egoist.' Reading these pages is like being out in the country on a dark night in a storm. Suddenly a flash of lightning comes and every detail of your surroundings is revealed."--_Review of the Triumph of Death, in the New York Evening Sun._
=Mademoiselle de Berny.=
A Story of Valley Forge. By PAULINE BRADFORD MACKIE. With five full-page photogravures from drawings by Frank T. Merrill.
Printed on deckle-edged paper, with gilt top, and bound in cloth. 272 pages =$1.50=
"The charm of 'Mademoiselle de Berny' lies in its singular sweetness."--_Boston Herald._
"One of the very few choice American historical stories."--_Boston Transcript._
"Real romance ... admirably written."--_Washington Post._
"A stirring romance, full of life and action from start to finish."--_Toledo Daily Blade._
"Of the many romances in which Washington is made to figure, this is one of the most fascinating, one of the best."--_Boston Courier._
=Ye Lyttle Salem Maide.=
A Story of Witchcraft. By PAULINE BRADFORD MACKIE, with four full-page photogravures from drawings by E.A W.A D. Hamilton.
Printed on deckle-edged paper, with gilt top, and bound in cloth. 321 pages =$1.50=
A tale of the days of the reign of superstition in New England, and of a brave "lyttle maide," of Salem Town, whose faith and hope and unyielding adherence to her word of honor form the basis of a most attractive story. Several historical characters are introduced, including the Rev. Cotton Mather and Governor and Lady Phipps, and a very convincing picture is drawn of Puritan life during the latter part of the seventeenth century. An especial interest is added to the book by the illustrations, reproduced by the photogravure process from originals by E.A W.A D. Hamilton.
=In Guiana Wilds.=
A Study of Two Women. By JAMES RODWAY, author of "In the Guiana Forest," etc. Illustrated.
1 vol., library 12mo, cloth, decorative cover, 250 pages =$1.25=
"In Guiana Wilds" may be described as an ethnological romance. A typical young Scotchman becomes, by the force of circumstances, decivilized, and mates with a native woman.
It is a psychological study of great power and ability.
=Vivian of Virginia.=
Being the Memoirs of Our First Rebellion, by John Vivian, Esq., of Middle Plantation, Virginia. By HULBERT FULLER. With ten full-page illustrations by Frank T. Merrill.
1 vol., library 12mo, cloth, gilt top, deckle-edge paper =$1.50=
"A stirring and accurate account of the famous Bacon rebellion."--_Los Angeles Sunday Times._
"We shall have to search far to find a better colonial story than this."--_Denver Republican._
"A well-conceived, well-plotted romance, full of life and adventure."--_Chicago Inter-Ocean._
"A story abounding in exciting incidents and well-told conversations."--_Boston Journal._
"Mr. Fuller will find a large circle of readers for his romance who will not be disappointed in their pleasant expectations."--_Boston Transcript._
"Instead of using history as a background for the exploits of the hero, the author used the hero to bring out history and the interesting events of those early days in Virginia. The author has preserved the language and customs of the times admirably."--_Philadelphia Telegram._
=The Gray House of the Quarries.=
By MARY HARRIOTT NORRIS. With a frontispiece etching by Edmund H. Garrett.
1 vol., 8vo, cloth, 500 pages =$1.50=
"The peculiar genre, for which, in a literary sense, all must acknowledge obligation to the author of a new type, is the Dutch-American species. The church-goings, the courtings, the pleasures and sorrows of a primitive people, their lives and deaths, weddings, suicides, births and burials, are Rembrandt and Rubens pictures on a fresh canvas."--_Boston Transcript._
"The fine ideal of womanhood in a person never once physically described will gratify the highest tone of the period, and is an ennobling conception."--_Time and The Hour, Boston._
=A Hypocritical Romance= and Other Stories.
By CAROLINE TICKNOR. Illustrated by J.A W. Kennedy.
1 vol., large 16mo, cloth =$1.00=
Miss Ticknor, well known as one of the most promising of the younger school of American writers, has never done better work than in the majority of these clever stories, written in a delightful comedy vein.
=A Man-at-Arms.=
A Romance of the days of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the Great Viper. By CLINTON SCOLLARD, author of "Skenandoa," etc. With six full-page illustrations and title-page by E.A W.A D. Hamilton.
1 vol., library 12mo, cloth, gilt top, deckle-edge paper =$1.50=
The scene of the story is laid in Italy, in the latter part of the fourteenth century. The hero, Luigi della Verria, unable to bear the restrictions of home or to reconcile himself to the profession of law, as desired by his father, leaves his family and, as the result of chance, becomes a man-at-arms in the service of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the cunning and unscrupulous Lord of Pavia, known as the Great Viper. Thenceforward the vicissitudes and adventures, both in love and war, of Della Verria, are told in a way to incite the interest to the highest point; and a strong picture is drawn of Italian life at this period, with its petty vendettas, family broils, and the unprincipled methods employed by the heads of noble families to gain their personal ends.
An individual value is added to the book by the illustrations and title-page, drawn by Mr. E.A W.A D. Hamilton.
"The style is admirable, simple, direct, fluent, and sometimes eloquent; and the story moves with rapidity from start to finish."--_The Bookman._
"A good story."--_N.A Y. Commercial Advertiser._
"It is a triumph in style."--_Utica Herald._
=Cyrano de Bergerac=
A Heroic Comedy from the French of Edward Rosstand, as accepted and played by Richard Mansfield. Translated by HOWARD THAYER KINGSBURY.
1 vol., cloth decorative, with a photogravure frontispiece =$1.00= 1 vol., paper boards =.50=
The immediate and prolonged success of "Cyrano de Bergerac," in Paris, has been paralleled by Mr. Mansfield's success with an English version, dating from its first night at the Garden Theatre, New York, October 3, 1898.
As a literary work, the original form of Rostand took high rank and the preference of Mr. Mansfield for Mr. Kingsbury's new translation implies its superior merit.
=A Mad Madonna= and Other Stories.
By L. CLARKSON WHITELOCK. With eight half-tone illustrations.
1 vol., large 16mo, cloth =$1.00=
A half dozen remarkable psychological stories, delicate in color and conception. Each of the si
x has a touch of the supernatural, a quick suggestion, a vivid intensity, and a dreamy realism that is matchless in its forceful execution.
=On the Point.=
A Summer Idyl. By NATHAN HASKELL DOLE, author of "Not Angels Quite," with dainty half-tone illustrations as chapter headings.
1 vol., large 16mo, cloth =$1.00=
A bright and clever story of a summer on the coast of Maine, fresh, breezy, and readable from the first to the last page. The narrative describes the summer outing of a Mr. Merrithew and his family. The characters are all honest, pleasant people, whom we are glad to know. We part from them with the same regret with which we leave a congenial party of friends.
Transcriber's Note: The following typographical errors present in theoriginal edition have been corrected.
In Chapter VIII, "for the hundreth time" was changed to "for thehundredth time".
In Chapter XV, "certains death" was changed to "certain death".
In Chapter XX, a comma was added after "take him under my care".
In Chapter XXII, a quotation mark was added before "we shall seeourselves revenged".
In Chapter XXVII, "he scried" was changed to "she cried", and "'OdA?n'had been rendered" was changed to "'A-dA?n' had been rendered".
In Chapter XVIII, a quotation mark was added after "get the oxen back".
In Chapter XXXI, "government is not reponsible" was changed to"government is not responsible".
In the advertisement for "In Guiana Wilds", two missing periods wereadded, and a missing quotation mark was added in the advertisement for"A Man-at-Arms".