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Janvier + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: A Romance Of Tompkins Square + 1891 + +Author: Thomas A. Janvier + +Illustrator: W. T. Smedley + +Release Date: December 10, 2007 [EBook #23808] +Last Updated: January 5, 2013 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A ROMANCE OF TOMPKINS SQUARE *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + <div style="height: 8em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h1> + A ROMANCE OF TOMPKINS SQUARE. + </h1> + <h2> + By Thomas A. Janvier <br /> Copyright, 1891, by Harper & Brothers + </h2> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <h2> + List of Illustrations + </h2> + <table summary="" style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto"> + <tr> + <td> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#linkimage-0001"> Sat Beside the Oven Smoking his Second + Pipe </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#linkimage-0002"> Pots Were Set Away in the Coolest Part of + The Cellar </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#linkimage-0003"> Almost Smothered in the Dough-trough </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#linkimage-0004"> Bakery Sign </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#linkimage-0005"> Thou Mayst Come, Hans </a> + </p> + </td> + </tr> + </table> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + Whether the honey shall be brought to the boiling-point slowly or rapidly; + whether it shall boil a long time or a short time; when and in what + quantities the flour shall be added; how long the kneading shall last; in + what size of earthen pot the dough shall be stored, and what manner of + cover upon these pots best preserves the dough against the assaults of + damp and mould; whether the pots shall be half-buried in the cool earth of + the cellar or ranged on shelves to be freely exposed to the cool cellar + air—all these several matters are enshrouded in a mystery that is + penetrated only by the elect few of Nürnberg bakers by whom perfect + lebkuchen is made. And the same is true of the Brunswick bakers, who call + this rare compound honigkuchen, and of the makers of pferfferkuchen, as it + is called by the bakers of Saxony. + </p> + <p> + Nor does the mystery end here. This first stage in the making of lebkuchen + is but means to an end, and for the compassing of that end—the + blending and the baking of the finished and perfect honey-cake—each + master-baker has his own especial recipe, that has come down to him from + some ancestral baker of rare parts, or that by his own inborn genius has + been directly inspired. And so, whether the toothsome result be Nürnberger + lebkuchen, or Brunsscheiger peppernotte, or Basler leckerly, the making of + it is a mystery from first to last. + </p> + <p> + It was because of this mystery that the life of Gottlieb Brekel had been + imbittered for nearly twenty years—ever since, in fact, his first + essay in the compounding of Nürnberger lebkuchen had been made. He was but + a young baker then: now he was an old one, and notwithstanding the guarded + praise of friends and the partial approval of the public (notably of that + portion of the public under the age of ten years that attended St. + Bridget's Parochial School) he full well knew that his efforts through all + these years to make, in New York, lebkuchen such as he himself had eaten + when he was a boy, at home in Nürnberg, had been neither more nor less + than a long series of failures. + </p> + <p> + In the hopeful days of his apprenticeship all had seemed so easy before + him. Let him but have a little shop, and then a little capital wherewith + to lay in his supply of honey, and the thing would be done! He had no + recipe, it is true; for he was a baker not by heredity, but by selection. + Yet from a wise old baker he had gleaned the knowledge of honey-cake + making, and he believed strongly that from the pure fount of his own + genius he could draw a formula for the making of lebkuchen so excellent + that compared with it all other lebkuchen would seem tasteless. But these + were the bright dreams of youth, which age had refused to realize. + </p> + <p> + In course of time the little shop became an accomplished fact; a very + little shop it was in East Fourth Street. Capital came more slowly, and + three several times, when a sum almost sufficient had been saved, was it + diverted from its destined purpose of buying the honey without which + Gottlieb could not make even a beginning in his triumphal lebkuchen + career. + </p> + <p> + His first accumulation was swept away through the conquest of Ambition by + Love. In this case Love was personified in one Minna Schaus—who was + not by any means a typical sturdy German lass, with laughing looks and + stalwart ways, but a daintily-finished, golden-haired maiden, with soft + blue eyes full of tenderness, and a gentleness of manner that Gottlieb + thought—and with more reason than lovers sometimes think things of + this sort—was very like the manner of an angel. And for love of her + Gottlieb forgot for a while his high resolves in regard to lebkuchen + making; and on the altar of his affections—in part to pay for his + modest wedding-feast, in part to pay for the modest outfit for their + housekeeping over the bakery—the money laid aside for the filling of + his honey-pots very willingly was offered up. + </p> + <p> + A second time were his honey-pots sacrificed, that the coming into the + world of the little Minna might be made smooth. This, also, was a willing + sacrifice; though in his heart of hearts Gottlieb felt a twinge of regret + that his first-born was not a son, to whom the fame and fortune incident + to the making of perfect lebkuchen might descend. But he was a philosopher + in his way, and did not suffer himself to be seriously disconcerted by an + accident that by no means was irreparable. As he smoked his long pipe that + night, while the bread was baking, he said to himself, cheerily: "It is a + girl. Yes, that is easy. Girls sprout everywhere; they are like grass. But + a boy, and a boy who is to grow up into such a baker as my boy will be—ah, + that is another matter. But patience, Gottlieb; all in good time." Then, + when his third pipe was finished—which was his measure of time for + the baking—he fetched out the sweet-smelling hot bread from the oven + with his long peel, and set forth upon his round of delivery. And he + whistled a mellow old Nürnberg air as he pushed his cart through the + streets before him that frosty morning, and in his heart he thanked the + good God who had sent him the blessings of a dear wife and a sweet little + daughter and a growing trade. + </p> + <p> + And yet once more were his honey-pots sacrificed, and this time the + sacrifice was sad indeed. From the day that the little Minna came into the + world his own Minna, as in a little while was but too plain to him, began + to make ready to leave it. As the weeks went by, the little strength that + at first had come to her was lost again; the faint color faded from her + cheeks, and left them so wan that through the fair skin the blue veins + showed in most delicate tracery; and as her dear eyes ever grew gentler + and more loving, the light slowly went out from them. So within the year + the end came. In that great sorrow Gottlieb forgot his ambition, and cared + not, when the bills were paid, that his honey-pots still remained + unfilled. For the care of his home and of little Minna his good sister + Hedwig came to him. Very drearily, for a long while, the work of the + bakery went on. + </p> + <p> + But a strong man, stirred by a strong purpose, does not relinquish that + purpose lightly; and the one redeeming feature of the life of many sorrows + which in this world we all are condemned to live is that even the + bitterest sorrow is softened by time. But for this partial relief our race + no doubt would have been extinguished ages ago in a madness wrought of + grief and rage. + </p> + <p> + Gottlieb's strong purpose was to make the best lebkuchen that baker ever + baked. After a fashion his sorrow healed, as the flesh heals about a + bullet that has gone too deep to be extracted by the surgeon's craft, and + while it was with him always, and not seldom sent through all his being + thrills of pain, he bore it hidden from the world, and went about his work + again. Working comforted him. The baking of bread is an employment that is + at once soothing and sustaining. As a man kneads the spongy dough he has + good exercise and wholesome time for thought. While the baking goes on he + may smoke and meditate. The smell of the newly-baked bread is a pleasant + smell, and brings with it pleasant thoughts of many people well nourished + in the eating of it. Moreover, there is no time in the whole twenty-four + hours when a city is so innocent, so like the quiet honest country-side, + as that time in the crisp morning when a baker goes his rounds. + </p> + <p> + As Gottlieb found himself refreshed and strengthened by these manifold + good influences of his gentle trade, his burden of sorrow was softened to + him and made easier to bear. Comforting thoughts of the little Minna—growing + to be a fine little lass now—stole in upon him, and within him the + hope arose that she would grow to be like the dear mother whom she never + had known. So the little fine roots of a new love struck down into his sad + heart; and presently the sweet plant of love began to grow for him again, + casting its delicate tendrils strongly about the child, who truly was a + part of the being about which his earlier and stronger love had clung. Yet + the love that thus was re-established in Gottlieb's breast was far from + filling it, and so for ambition there was ample room. + </p> + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0001" id="linkimage-0001"> + <!-- IMG --></a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:80%"> + <img src="images/204.jpg" + alt="Sat Beside the Oven Smoking his Second Pipe 204 " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + Somewhat to his surprise, one night, as he sat beside the oven smoking his + second pipe, he found himself thinking once more about his project for + making such lebkuchen as never yet had been known outside of Nürnberg—lebkuchen + that would make him at once the admiration and the despair of every German + baker in New York. Nor was there, as he perceived as he turned the matter + over in his mind, any reason now why he should not set about making this + project a reality; for he had money enough, and more than enough, in store + to buy the honey that he had so long desired. His eyes sparkled; he forgot + to smoke; and when he turned again, half unconsciously, to his pipe, it + had gone out. This roused him. The brightness faded from his eyes; he drew + a long sigh. Then he lighted his pipe again, and until the baking was + ended his thoughts no longer were busied with ambitious schemes for the + making of lebkuchen, but went back with a sad tenderness to the happy time + that had come so quickly to so cruel an end. + </p> + <p> + But the spark was kindled, and presently the fire burned. When he told the + good Hedwig that he had bought the honey at last, that excellent woman—albeit + not much given to display of the tender emotions—shed tears of joy. + She was a sturdy, thick-waisted, stout-ankled person, this Aunt Hedwig, + with a cheery red face, and prodigiously fine white teeth, and very bright + black eyes; and her taste in dress was such that when of a Sunday she went + to the Church of the Redemptorist Fathers, in Third Street, she was more + brilliant than ever King Solomon was in all his glory, in her startling + array of vivid reds and greens and blues. But beneath her violent exterior + of energetic color she had a warm and faithful heart, as little Minna knew + already, and as her brother Gottlieb had known for many a long good year. + Therefore was Gottlieb now gladdened by her hearty show of sympathy; and + he returned with a good will the sounding smack that she gave him with her + red lips, and the strong hug that she gave him with her stout arms. + </p> + <p> + It was at sight of this pleasing manifestation of affection that Herr + Sohnstein, the notary—who was present in the little room back of the + shop where it occurred—at once declared that he meant to buy some + honey too. And Aunt Hedwig, smiling so generously as to show every one of + her fine white teeth, promptly told him that he had better be off and buy + it, because perhaps he could buy at the same place some hugs and kisses + too: at which sally and quick repartee they all laughed. Herr Sohnstein + long had been the declared lover of Aunt Hedwig's, and long had been held + at arm's-length (quite literally occasionally) by that vigorous person; + who believed, because of her good heart, that her present duty was not to + consult her own happiness by becoming Frau Sohnstein, but to remain the + Fräulein Brekel, and care for her lonely brother and her brother's child. + </p> + <p> + Being thus encouraged, Gottlieb bought the honey forthwith; and with Aunt + Hedwig's zealous assistance set about boiling it and straining it and + kneading it into a sticky dough, all in accordance with the wise old + baker's directions which he so long had treasured in his mind. And when + the dough was packed in earthen pots, over which bladders were tied, all + the pots were set away in the coolest part of the cellar, as far from the + great oven as possible, that the precious honey-cake might undergo that + subtle change which only comes with time. + </p> + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0002" id="linkimage-0002"> + <!-- IMG --></a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:80%"> + <img src="images/208.jpg" + alt="Pots Were Set Away in the Coolest Part of The Cellar 208 " + width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + For at least a year must pass before the honey-cake really can be said to + be good at all; and the longer that it remains in the pots, even until + five-and-twenty years, the better does it become. Therefore it is that all + makers of lebkuchen who aspire to become famous professors of the craft + add each year to their stock of honey-cake, yet draw always from the + oldest pots a time-soaked dough that ever grows more precious in its sweet + excellence of age. Thus large sums—more hundreds of dollars than a + young baker, just starting upon his farinaceous career, would dare to + dream of—may be invested; and the old rich bakers who can dower + their daughters with many honey-pots know that in the matter of + sons-in-law they have but to pick and choose. + </p> + <p> + It was about Christmas-time—which is the proper time for this office—that + Gottlieb made his first honey-cake; and it was a little before the + Christmas following that his first lebkuchen was baked. For a whole week + before this portentous event occurred he was in a nervous tremor; by day + he scarcely slept; as he sat beside the oven at night his pipe so + frequently went out that twice, having thus lost track of time, his baking + of bread came near to being toast. And when at last the fateful night + arrived that saw his first batch of lebkuchen in the oven, he actually + forgot to smoke at all! + </p> + <p> + Gottlieb had but a sorry Christmas that year. The best that even Aunt + Hedwig could say of his lebkuchen was that it was not bad. Herr Sohnstein, + to be sure, brazenly declared that it was delicious; but Gottlieb + remembered that Herr Sohnstein, who conducted a flourishing practice in + the criminal courts, was trained in the art of romantic deviations from + the truth whenever it was necessary to put a good face on a bad cause; and + he observed sadly that the notary's teeth were at variance with his + tongue, for the piece of lebkuchen that Herr Sohnstein ate was + infinitessimally small. As for the regular German customers of the bakery, + they simply bit one single bite and then refused to buy. Indeed, but for + the children from St. Bridget's School—who, being for the most part + boys, and Irish boys at that, presumably could eat anything—it is + not impossible that that first baking of lebkuchen might have remained + uneaten even until this present day. And it was due mainly to the stout + stomachs of successive generations of these enterprising boys that the + series of experiments which Gottlieb then began in the making of lebkuchen + was brought, in the course of years, to something like a satisfactory + conclusion. But even at its best, never was this lebkuchen at all like + that of which in his hopeful youth he had dreamed. + </p> + <p> + Herr Sohnstein, to be sure, spoke highly of it, and even managed to eat of + it quite considerable quantities. Gottlieb did not imagine that Herr + Sohnstein could have in this matter any ulterior motives; but Aunt Hedwig + much more than half suspected that in order to please her by pleasing her + brother he was making a sacrifice of his stomach to his heart. If this + theory had any foundation in fact, it is certain that Herr Sohnstein did + not appreciably profit by his gallant risk of indigestion; for while Aunt + Hedwig by no means seemed disposed to shatter all his hopes by a sharp + refusal, she gave no indication whatever of any intention to permit her + ripe red lips to utter the longed-for word of assent. Aunt Hedwig, + unquestionably, was needlessly cruel in her treatment of Herr Sohnstein, + and he frequently told her so. Sometimes he would ask her, with a fine + irony, if she meant to keep him waiting for his answer until her brother + had made lebkuchen as good as the lebkuchen of Nürnberg? To which + invariably she would reply that, in the first place, she did not know of + any question that he ever had asked her that required an answer; and, in + the second place, that she did mean to keep him waiting just precisely + that long. And then she would add, with a delicate drollery that was all + her own, that whenever he got tired of waiting he might hire a whole + horse-car all to himself and ride right away. Ah, this Aunt Hedwig had a + funny way with her! + </p> + <p> + And so the years slipped by; and little Minna, who laughed at the passing + years as merrily as Aunt Hedwig laughed at Herr Sohnstein, grew up into a + blithe, trig, round maiden, and ceased to be little Minna at all. She was + her mother over again, Gottlieb said; but this was not by any means true. + She did have her mother's goodness and sweetness, but her sturdy body + bespoke her father's stronger strain. Aunt Hedwig, of this same strain, + undisguisedly was stocky. Minna was only comfortably stout, with good + broad shoulders, and an honest round waist that anybody with half an eye + for waists could see would be a satisfactory armful. And she had also Aunt + Hedwig's constant cheeriness. All day long her laugh sounded happily + through the house, or her voice went blithely in happy talk, or, failing + anybody to talk to, trilled out some scrap of a sweet old German song. The + two apprentices and the young man who drove the bread-wagon of course were + wildly and desperately in love with her—a tender passion that they + dared not disclose to its object, but that they frequently and boastingly + aired to each other. Naturally these interchanges of confidence were apt + to be somewhat tempestuous. As the result of one of them, when the elder + apprentice had declared that Minna's beautiful brown hair was finer than + any wig in the window of the hair-dresser on the west side of the square, + and that she had given him a lock of it; and when the young man who drove + the bread-wagon (he was a profane young man) had declared that it was a + verdammter sight finer than any wig, and that she hadn't—the elder + apprentice got a dreadful black eye, and the younger apprentice was almost + smothered in the dough-trough, and the young man who drove the bread-wagon + had his head broken with the peel that was broken over it. + </p> + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0003" id="linkimage-0003"> + <!-- IMG --></a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:80%"> + <img src="images/214.jpg" alt="Almost Smothered in the Dough-trough 214 " + width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + Aunt Hedwig did not need to be told, nor did Minna, the little jade, the + cause of this direful combat; and both of these amiable women thought + Gottlieb very hard-hearted because he charged the broken peel—it was + a new one—and the considerable amount of dough that was wasted by + sticking to the younger apprentice's person, against the wages of the + three combatants. + </p> + <p> + This reference to the apprentices and to the wagon shows that Gottlieb's + bakery no longer was a small bakery, but a large one. In the making of + lebkuchen, it is true, he had not prospered; but in all other ways he had + prospered amazingly. From Avenue A over to the East River, and from far + below Tompkins Square clear away to the upper regions of Lexington Avenue, + the young man who drove the bread-wagon rattled along every morning as + hard as ever he could go, and he vowed and declared, this young man did, + that nothing but his love for Minna kept him in a place where all the year + round he was compelled in every single day to do the work of two. + Meanwhile the little shop on East Fourth Street had been abandoned for a + bigger shop, and this, in turn, for one still bigger—quite a palace + of a shop, with plate-glass windows—on Avenue B. It was here, + beginning in a modest way with a couple of tables whereat chance-hungry + people might sit while they ate zwieback or a thick slice of hearty + pumpernickel and drank a glass of milk, that a restaurant was established + as a tender to the bakery. It did not set out to be a large restaurant, + and, in fact, never became one. In the back part of the shop were a dozen + tables, covered with oil-cloth and decorated with red napkins, and at + these tables, under the especial direction of Aunt Hedwig, who was a + culinary genius, was served a limited, but from a German stand-point most + toothsome, bill of fare. There was Hasenpfeffer mit Spätzle, and + Sauerbraten mit Kartoffelklösse, and Rindfleisch mit Meerrettig, and + Bratwurst mit Rothkraut; and Aunt Hedwig made delicious coffee, and the + bakery of course provided all manner of sweet cakes. In the summer-time + they did a famous business in ice-cream. + </p> + <p> + On the plate-glass windows beneath the sweeping curve of white letters in + which the name of the owner of the bakery was set forth was added in + smaller letters the words "Café Nürnberger." Gottlieb and Aunt Hedwig and + the man who made the sign (this last, however, for the venal reason that + more letters would be required) had stood out stoutly for the honest + German "Kaffehaus;" but Minna, whose tastes were refined, had insisted + upon the use of the French word: there was more style about it, she said. + And this was a case in which style was wedded to substantial excellence. + What with the good things which Gottlieb baked and the good things which + Aunt Hedwig cooked, the Café Nürnberger presently acquired a somewhat + enviable reputation. It became even a resort of the aristocracy, in this + case represented by the dwellers in the handsome houses on the eastern and + northern sides of Tompkins Square. Of winter evenings, when bright + gas-light and a big glowing stove made the restaurant a very cozy place + indeed, large parties of these aristocrats would drop in on their way home + from the Thalia Theatre, and would stuff themselves with Hasenpfeffer and + Sauerbraten and Kartoffelklösse, and would swig Aunt Hedwig's strong + coffee (out of cups big enough and thick enough to have served as shells + and been fired from a mortar), until it would seem as though they must + certainly crack their aristocratic skins. + </p> + <p> + Altogether, Gottlieb was in a flourishing line of business; and but for + the deep sorrow that time never wholly could heal, and but for the + continued failure of his attempts to make a really excellent lebkuchen, he + would have been a very happy man. By this time he had come to be a baker + of ease. The hard part of the work was done by the apprentices, and the + morning delivery of bread was attended to by the young man who drove the + bread-wagon. In the summer-time he would take Minna and Aunt Hedwig, + always accompanied by her faithful Herr Sohnstein, upon beer-drinking + expeditions to Guttenberg and other fashionable suburban resorts; and + through the cozy winter evenings he smoked his long pipe comfortably in + the little room at the back of the shop, where Minna and Aunt Hedwig sat + with him, and where Herr Sohnstein, also smoking a long pipe, usually sat + with him too. Sometimes Minna would sing sweet German songs to them, + accompanying herself very creditably upon a cabinet organ—for Minna + had received not only the substantial education that enabled her to keep + the bakery accounts, but also had been instructed in the polite + accomplishments of music and the dance. In summer, when expeditions were + not on foot, these smoking parties usually were held upon the roof; where + Gottlieb had made a garden and grew roses in pots, and even had raised + some rare and delicious cauliflowers. + </p> + <p> + It was a pleasant place, that roof, of a warm summer evening, especially + when the rising full-moon sent a shimmering path of glory across the + rippling waters of the East River, and cast over the bad-smelling region + of Hunter's Point a glamour of golden haze that made it seem, oil tanks + and all, a bit of fairy-land. At such times, as they sat among the + rose-bushes and cauliflowers, Herr Sohnstein not infrequently would stop + smoking his long pipe while he slyly squeezed Aunt Hedwig's plump hand. + And Gottlieb also would stop smoking, as his thoughts wandered away along + that glittering path across the waters, and so up to heaven where his + Minna was. And then his thoughts would return to earth, to his little + Minna—for to him she still was but a child—and he would find + his sorrow lessened in thankfulness that, while his greatest treasure was + lost to him, this good daughter and so many other good things still were + his. + </p> + <p> + But the lebkuchen dream of Gottlieb's youth remained unrealized; still + unattained was the goal that twenty years before had seemed so near. + However, being a stout-hearted baker of the solid Nürnberg strain, he did + not at all surrender hope. Each year he added to his stock of honey-cake; + and he knew that when fortune favored him at last, as he still believed + that fortune would favor him, he would have in store such honey-cake as + would enable him to make lebkuchen fit to be eaten by the Kaiser himself! + </p> + <p> + After the affair of the broken peel there was a coolness between Gottlieb + and the elder apprentice, which, increasing, led to a positive coldness, + and then to a separation. And then it was that Fate put a large spoke in + all the wheels which ran in the Café Nürnberg by bringing into Gottlieb's + employment a ruddy young Nürnberger, lately come out of that ancient city + to America, named Hans Kuhn. + </p> + <p> + It was not chance that led Hans to earn his living in a bakery when he + came to New York. He was a born baker: a baker by choice, by force of + natural genius, by hereditary right. Back in the dusk of the Middle Ages, + as far as ever the traditions of his family and the records of the Guild + of Bakers of Nürnberg ran, all the men of his race had been bakers, and + famous ones at that. A cumulative destiny to bake was upon him, and he + loved baking with all his heart. It was no desire to abandon his craft + that had led him to leave Nürnberg and cross the ocean; rather was he + moved by a noble ambition to build up on a broad and sure foundation the + noble art of baking in the New World. And it had chanced, moreover, that + in the conscription he had drawn an unlucky number. + </p> + <p> + When this young man entered the Café Nürnberg—being drawn thither by + its display of the name of his own native city—and asked for a job, + his air was so frank, his talk about baking so intelligent, that Gottlieb + took kindly to him at once; and Minna, sitting demurely at her accounts in + the little wire cage over which was a fine tin sign inscribed in golden + letters with the word "Cashier," was mightily well pleased, in a demure + and proper way, at sight of his ruddy cheeks and bushy shock of + light-brown hair and little yellow mustache and honest blue eyes. When he + told, in answer to Gottlieb's questions, that he was the grandson of the + very baker in Nürnberg whose delicious lebkuchen Gottlieb had eaten when + he was a boy, and that a part of his bakerly equipment was the lebkuchen + recipe that had come down in his family from the baker genius, his remote + ancestor, who had invented it—well, when he had told this much about + himself, it is not surprising that Gottlieb fairly jumped for joy, and + engaged him, not as his apprentice, but as his assistant, on the spot. + </p> + <p> + It was rather dashing to Gottlieb's enthusiasm, however, that his + assistant—thereby manifesting a shrewd worldly wisdom—declined + immediately to impart his secret. He would make all the lebkuchen that was + required, he said, but for the present he need not tell how it was made—possibly + the Herr Brekel might not be satisfied with it, after all. But the Herr + Brekel was satisfied with it, and so was all the neighborhood when the + first batch of lebkuchen was baked and placed on sale. Indeed, as the fame + of this delicious lebkuchen went abroad, the coming of the new baker was + accepted by all Germans with discriminating palates as one of the most + important events that ever had occurred on the East Side. The work of the + young man who drove the bread-wagon was so greatly increased that he + organized a strike, uniting in his own person the several functions of + strikers, walking delegates, district assembly, and executive committee. + And when the strike collapsed—that is to say, when the young man was + discharged summarily—Gottlieb really did find it necessary to hire + two new young men, and to buy an extra horse and wagon. Morally speaking, + therefore (although the original young man, who remained out of employment + for several weeks, and had a pretty hard time of it, did not think so), + the strike was a complete success. + </p> + <p> + As a matter of course no well-set-up, right-thinking young fellow of + three-and-twenty could go on baking lebkuchen in the same bakery with + Minna Brekel for any length of time without falling in love with her. Nor + was it reasonable to suppose that even Minna, who had treated casual + apprentices and wagon-driving young men with a seemly scorn, would + continue to sit in the seat of the scornful when siege in form was laid to + her heart by a properly ruddy-cheeked and blue-eyed assistant baker, whose + skill was such that he could make lebkuchen fit to be eaten by the German + portion of the saints in Paradise. At the end of three months the feelings + of these young people towards each other were quite clearly defined in + their own minds; at the end of six months, as they were sitting together + one afternoon in the little back room at a time when the shop happened to + be empty, things came to the pleasing crisis that they both for a + considerable period had foreseen. + </p> + <p> + But then, unfortunately, came a storm—that neither of them had + foreseen at all—that shook the Café Nürnberg to its very + foundations! + </p> + <p> + Gottlieb was the storm, and he moved over a wide area with great rapidity + and violence. He was central, naturally, over Hans and Minna: the first of + whom, after being denounced with great energy as a viper who had been + warmed to the biting point, was ordered to take himself off without a + single instant's delay, and never to darken the doors of the Café Nürnberg + again; and the second of whom was declared to be a baby fool, who must be + kept locked up in her own third-story back room, and fed on nothing more + appetizing than pumpernickel and water until she came to her senses. In + the outer edges of the storm the apprentices and the young men who drove + the wagons found themselves most hotly involved; and a very violent gust + swept down upon Aunt Hedwig and Herr Sohnstein, who surely were as + innocent in the premises as any two people quite satisfactorily engaged in + earnest but somewhat dilatory love-making of their own very well could be. + Indeed, this storm was an ill wind that blew a famous blast of luck to + Herr Sohnstein: for Aunt Hedwig, being dreadfully upset by her brother's + outbreak, went of her own accord to Herr Sohnstein for sympathy and + consolation—and found both in such liberal quantities, and with them + such tender pleadings to enter a matrimonial haven where storms should be + unknown, that presently, smiling through her tears, she uttered the words + of consent for which the excellent notary had waited loyally through more + than a dozen weary years. It was Herr Sohn-stein's turn to be upset then. + He couldn't believe, until he had soothed himself with a phenomenal number + of pipes, that happiness so perfect could be real. + </p> + <p> + Possibly one reason why Gottlieb's storm was so violent was that he could + not give any good reason for it. Hans really was a most estimable young + man; he came of a good family; as a baker he was nothing short of a + genius. All this Gottlieb knew, and all this he frequently had said to + Aunt Hedwig and to Herr Sohnstein, and, worst of all, to Minna. As each of + these persons now pointed out to him, in order to be consistent in his new + position he must eat a great many of his own words; and he would have + essayed this indigestible banquet willingly had he been convinced that + thus he really could have proved that Hans was a viper and all the other + unpleasant things which he had called him in his wrath. In truth, Gottlieb + was, and in the depths of his heart he knew that he was, neither more nor + less than a dog in the manger. His feeling simply was that Minna was his + Minna, and that neither Hans nor anybody else had any right to her. This + was not a position that admitted of logical defence; but it was one that + he could be ugly and stick to: which was precisely what he did. + </p> + <p> + Minna did not remain long a prisoner in her own room, feeding upon + pumpernickel and water and bitter thoughts. Aunt Hedwig and Herr Sohnstein + succeeded in putting a stop to that cruelty. And these elderly lovers, + whose fresh love had made them of a sudden as young as Minna herself, and + had filled thera with a warm sympathy for her, laid their heads together + and sought earnestly to circumvent in her interest her father's stern + decree. It was a joy to see this picture, in the little room back of the + shop, of middle-aged love-making; and it was a little startling to find + how the new youth that their love had given them had filled them with a + quite extravagantly youthful recklessness. Herr Sohnstein, who was well + known as a grave, sedate, and unusually cautious notary, seriously + suggested (though he did not explain exactly how this would do it) that + they should make an effort to bring Gottlieb to terms by burning down the + bakery. And Aunt Hedwig, whose prudent temperament was sufficiently + disclosed in the fact that she had hesitated in the matter of her own love + affair for upward of a dozen years, not less seriously advanced the + proposition that they all should elope from the Café Nürnberg and set up a + rival establishment! Herr Sohnstein did not make any audible comment upon + this violent proposal of Aunt Hedwig's, but it evidently put an idea into + his head. + </p> + <p> + As Gottlieb happened to be walking along the south side of Tompkins + Square, a fortnight or so after the tempest, he found his steps arrested + by a great sign that lay face downward on trestles across the sidewalk, in + readiness for hoisting in place upon the front of a smart new shop. Inside + the shop he saw painters and paper-hangers at work; and on the large + plate-glass window a man was gluing white letters with a dexterous + celerity. The letters already in place read "Nürnberger Lebku—" And + as to this legend he saw "chen" added, he rolled out a stout South German + oath and stamped upon the ground. But far stronger was the oath that he + uttered as the big sign was swung upward, and he read upon it, in golden + German letters: + </p> + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0004" id="linkimage-0004"> + <!-- IMG --></a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:80%"> + <img src="images/226.jpg" alt="Bakery Sign 226 " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + That the Recording Angel blotted out with his tears the fines which he was + compelled on this occasion to record against Gottlieb Brekel in Heaven's + high chancery is highly improbable. In the only known case of such + lachrymic erasure the provocation to profanity was a commendable moral + motive that was eminently unselfish. But when Gottlieb Brekel swore + roundly in his native German all the way from the south-west corner of + Tompkins Square to the corner of Third Street and the Bowery; and from + that point, when he had transacted his business there, all the way back to + the Café Nürnberg in Avenue B, his motives could not in any wise be + regarded as moral, and selfishness lay at their very root. + </p> + <p> + Gottlieb already found himself involved in serious difficulties with the + many customers who bought his lebkuchen; for with the departure of Hans he + had been compelled to fall back upon his own resources, and with the most + lamentable results. Great quantities of his first baking were returned to + him, with comments in both High German and Low German of a very + uncomplimentary sort. His second baking—saving the relatively + inconsiderable quantities consumed by the omnivorous children of St. + Bridget's School—simply remained upon his hands unsold. And now, to + make his humiliation the more complete, here was his discharged assistant + setting up as his rival; and with every probability that the attempted + rivalry would be crowned with success. Really there was something, + perhaps, to be said in palliation of Gottlieb's profanity after all. + </p> + <p> + When he told at home that evening of Hans Kuhn's upstart pretensions, his + statements were received with an ominous silence. Aunt Hedwig only coughed + slightly, and continued her knitting with more than usual energy. Herr + Sohnstein only moved a little in his chair and puffed a little harder than + usual at his pipe. Minna, who was in her wire cage in the shop settling + her cash, only bent more intently over her books. But when Gottlieb went a + step further and said, looking very keenly at Herr Sohnstein as he said + it, that some great rascal must have lent Hans the money to make his fine + start, Aunt Hedwig at once bristled up and said with emphasis that + rascals, neither great nor small, were in the habit of lending their money + to deserving young men; and Herr Sohnstein, a little sheepishly perhaps, + and mumbling a little in his gray mustache, ventured the statement that + this was a free country already, and people living in it were at liberty + to lend their money to whom they pleased; and Minna, looking up from her + books—Gottlieb's back was turned towards her—blew a most + unfilial kiss from the tips of her chubby fingers to Herr Sohnstein right + over her father's shoulder. All of which goes to show that something very + like open war had broken out in the Café Nürnberg, and that the once + united family dwelling therein was fairly divided into rival camps. + </p> + <p> + Gottlieb's dreary case was made a little less dreary when he found that + the lebkuchen which Hans produced in his fine new bakery was distinctly an + inferior article; not much better, in fact, than Gottlieb's own. To any + intelligent baker the reason for this was obvious: Hans was making his + lebkuchen with new honey-cake. Thus made, even by the best of recipes, it + could not be anything but a failure. Gottlieb gave a long sigh of relief + as he realized this comforting fact, and at the same time thought of his + own great store of honey-pots—there were hundreds of them now—all + ready and waiting to his hand. But his feeling of satisfaction passed + quickly to one of impotent rage as he recognized his own powerlessness, + for all his wealth of honey-pots, to make lebkuchen which would be eaten + by anybody but the tough-palated children from St. Bridget's School. He + was alone, smoking, in the little room back of the shop as this bitter + thought came to him; in his rage he struck the table beside him a blow so + sounding that the family cat, peacefully slumbering behind the stove, + sprang up with a yell of terror and made but two jumps to the open door. + Coming on top of all his other trials—the revolt of his own little + Minna, the defection of Aunt Hedwig, and the almost open enmity of Herr + Sohnstein—this compulsory surrender of all his hope of honest fame + was indeed a deadly blow. + </p> + <p> + Gottlieb smoked on in sullen anger; his heart torn and tortured, and his + mind filled with a confusion of bitter evil thoughts. And presently—for + the devil is at every man's elbow, ready to take advantage of any sudden + weakness, or turn to his own purposes any too great strength—these + thoughts grew more evil and more clear: until they fairly resolved + themselves into the determination to steal from Hans the recipe for making + lebkuchen, and so to crush completely his rival and at the same time to + make certain his own fortune and fame. + </p> + <p> + Of course the devil did not plant the notion of theft in Gottlieb's mind + in this bald fashion; for the devil is a most considerate person, and ever + shows a courteous disposition to spare the feelings of those whom he would + lead into sin. No: the temptation that he suggested was the subtle and + ingenious one that Gottlieb should proceed to recover his own stolen + property! His logic was admirable: Hans had been Gottlieb's assistant; and + as such Gottlieb had owned him and his recipe as well. When Hans went away + and took the recipe with him, he took that which still belonged to his + master. Therefore, triumphantly argued the devil, Gottlieb had a perfect + right to regain the recipe either by fair means or by foul. And finally, + as a bit of supplementary devil-logic, the thought was suggested that + inasmuch as Hans certainly must know the recipe by heart, the mere loss of + the paper on which it was written would not be any real loss to him at + all! It is only fair to Gottlieb's good angel to state that during this + able presentment of the wrong side of the case he did venture to hint once + or twice—in the feeble, perfunctory sort of way that unfortunately + seems to be characteristic of good angels when their services really are + most urgently required—that the whole matter might be compromised + satisfactorily to all the parties in interest by permitting Hans to marry + Minna, and by then taking him into partnership in the bakery. And it is + only just to Gottlieb to state that to these fainthearted suggestions of + his good angel he did not give one moment's heed. + </p> + <p> + Now the devil is a thorough-going sort of a person, and having planted the + evil wish in Gottlieb's soul he lost no time in opening to him an evil way + to its accomplishment. When Hans, a stranger in New York, had come to work + at the Cafe Nürnberg, Gottlieb had commended him to the good graces of a + friend of his, a highly respectable little round Brunswicker widow who let + lodgings, and in the comfortable quarters thus provided for him Hans ever + since had remained. In this same house lodged also one of Gottlieb's + apprentices—a loose young fellow, for whose proper regulation the + widow more than once had been compelled to seek his master's counsel and + aid. In this combination of circumstances, to which the devil now directed + his attention, Gottlieb saw his opportunity. It was easy to make the widow + believe that the loose young apprentice had taken the short step from + looseness to crime, and that a suspicion of theft rested upon him so + heavily as to justify the searching of his room; it was easy to make the + widow keep guard below while Gottlieb searched; and it was very easy then + to search, not for imaginary stolen goods in the chest of the apprentice, + but for that which he himself wanted to steal from the chest of Hans Kuhn. + As to opening the chest there was no difficulty at all. Gottlieb had half + a dozen Nürnberg locks in his house, and he had counted, as the event + proved correctly, upon making the key of one of these locks serve his + turn. And in the chest, without any trouble at all, he found a leather + wallet, and in the wallet the precious recipe—written on parchment + in old High German that he found very difficult to read, and dated in + Nürnberg in the year 1603. Gottlieb was pale as death as he went + down-stairs to the widow; and his teeth fairly chattered as he told her + that he had made a mistake. He tried to say that the apprentice was not a + thief—but the word <i>dieb</i> somehow stuck in his throat. Keen + chills penetrated him as he almost ran through the streets to his home. + For the devil, who heretofore had been in front of him and had only + beckoned, now was behind him and was driving him with a right goodwill. + </p> + <p> + When he entered the room at the back of the shop, where Minna was sewing, + and where Herr Sohnstein, with his arm comfortably around Aunt Hedwig's + waist, was smoking his long pipe, he created a stir of genuine alarm. As + Aunt Hedwig very truly said, he looked as though he had seen a ghost. Herr + Sohnstein, of a more practical turn of mind, asked him if he had been + knocked down and robbed; and the word <i>beraubt</i> grated most harshly + upon Gottlieb's ears. But what cut him most of all was the way in which + Minna—forgetting all his late unkind-ness at sight of his pale, + frightened face—sprang to him with open arms, and with all the old + love in her voice asked him to tell her what had gone wrong. Under these + favoring conditions, Gottlieb's good angel bestirred himself somewhat more + vigorously, and for a moment it seemed not impossible that right might + triumph over wrong. But the devil bustled promptly upon the scene, and of + course had things all his own way again in a moment. It certainly is most + unfortunate that good angels, as a rule, are so weak in their angelic + knees! + </p> + <p> + Gottlieb pushed Minna away from him roughly; addressed to Aunt Hedwig the + impolite remark that ghosts only were seen by women and fools; in a surly + tone informed Herr Sohnstein that policemen still were plentiful in the + vicinity of Tompkins Square; and then, having planted these barbed arrows + in the breasts of his daughter, his sister, and his friend, sought the + retirement of his own upper room. As he left them, Minna buried her face + in Aunt Hedwig's capacious bosom and cried bitterly, and Aunt Hedwig also + cried; and Herr Sohnstein, laying aside for the moment his pipe, put his + arms protectingly around them both. They all were very miserable. + </p> + <p> + In the upper room, where the air seemed so stifling that he had to open + the window wide in order to breathe, Gottlieb was very miserable too. He + was fleeing into Tarshish, this temporarily wicked baker; and just as fell + out in the case of that other one who fled to Tarshish, his flight was a + failure: for this little world of ours is far too small to give any one a + chance to run away from committed sin. + </p> + <p> + Gottlieb tried to divert his thoughts from his crime, and at the same time + tried to reap its reward by studying the stolen recipe; but his attempt + was not successful. The cramped letters, brown with age, on the brown + parchment, danced before his eyes; and the quaint, intricate High German + phraseology became more and more involved. He could make nothing of it at + all. And the thought occurred to him that perhaps he never would be able + to make anything of it—that, without losing any part of the penalty + justly attendant upon his crime, the crime itself might prove to be, so + far as the practical benefit that he sought was concerned, absolutely + futile. As this dreadful possibility arose before his mind a faintness and + giddiness came over him. The room seemed to be whirling around him; life + seemed to be slipping away from him; there was a strange, horrible ringing + in his ears. He leaned forward over the table at which he was sitting and + buried his face in his hands. + </p> + <p> + Then, possibly, Gottlieb fell asleep, though of this he never felt really + sure. What is quite certain is that he saw, as clearly as he ever saw her + in life, his dear dead Minna; but with a face so sad, so reproachful, so + full of piteous entreaty, that his blood seemed to stand still, while a + consuming coldness settled upon his heart. He struggled to speak with her, + to assure her that he would repair the evil that he had done, to plead for + forgiveness; but, for all his striving, no other words would come to his + lips save those which a little while before he had spoken so roughly to + poor Aunt Hedwig: "The only people who see ghosts are women and fools!" + </p> + <p> + And then, of a sudden, he found himself still seated at the table, the + brown parchment still spread out before him, and the faint light of early + morning breaking into the room. The window was wide open, as he had left + it, and he was chilled to the marrow; he had a shocking cold in the head; + there were rheumatic twinges in all his joints as he arose. What with the + physical misery arising from these causes, and the moral misery arising + from his sense of committed sin, he was in about as desperately bad a + humor with himself as a man could be. He was in no mood to make another + effort to read the difficult German of the recipe, the cause of all his + troubles. The sight of it pained him, and he thrust it hurriedly into an + old desk in which were stored (and these also were a source of pain to + him) several generations of uncollected bills—practical proofs that + the adage in regard to the impossibility of simultaneously possessing + cakes and pennies does not always hold good. + </p> + <p> + He locked the desk and put the key in his pocket; and then returned the + key to the lock and left it there, as the thought occurred to him that the + locking of this desk, that never in all the years that he had owned it had + been locked before, might arouse suspicion. It seemed most natural to + Gottlieb that his actions should be regarded with suspicion; he had a + feeling that already his crime must be known to half the world. + </p> + <p> + And before night it certainly is true that the one person most deeply + interested in the discovery and punishment of Gottlieb's crime—that + is to say, Hans Kuhn—did know all about it; which fact would seem + surprising, considering how skilfully Gottlieb had gone about his work, + were it not remembered that his unwitting accessory had been the little + round Brunswicker widow, and were it not known that little round widows—Brunswick + born or born elsewhere—as a class are incapable of keeping a secret. + </p> + <p> + This excellent woman, to do her justice, had followed Gottlieb's orders to + the letter. He had warned her not to tell the loose apprentice that his + chest had been searched; and, so far as that apprentice was concerned, + wild horses might have been employed to drag that little round widow to + pieces—at least she might have permitted the wild horses to be + hitched up to her—before ever an indiscreet word would have passed + her lips. But when Hans Kuhn, for whom she entertained a high respect, and + for whom she had also that warmly friendly feeling which trig middle-aged + widows not seldom manifest towards good-looking young men, came to her in + a fine state of wrath, and told her that his chest had been ransacked (he + did not tell her of his loss, for he had not himself observed it), she did + not consider that she violated any confidence in telling him everything + that had occurred. It was all a mistake, she said; the Herr Brekel had + gone into the wrong room; she must set the matter right at once; that bad + young man might be a thief, after all. Hans felt a cold thrill run through + him at the widow's words. But he controlled himself so well that she did + not suspect his inward perturbation; and she accepted in as good faith his + offer to inform the Herr Brekel of his error as she did, a day later, his + assurance that the matter had been satisfactorily adjusted, and that the + innocence of the apprentice had been proved. + </p> + <p> + And then Hans returned to his violated chest, and found that the dread + which had assailed his soul was founded in substantial truth—the + recipe was gone! In itself the loss of the recipe was no very great + matter, for he knew it by heart; but that Gottlieb—who had also a + cellar full of rich old honey-cake—should have gained possession of + it was a desperate matter indeed. Here instantly was an end to the hope of + successful rivalry that Hans had cherished; and with the wreck of his luck + in trade, as it seemed to him in the first shock of his misfortune, away + in fragments to the four winds of heaven was scattered every vestige of + probability that he would have luck in love. Being so suddenly confronted + with a compound catastrophe so overwhelming, even a bolder baker than Hans + Kuhn very well might have been for a time aghast. + </p> + <p> + But as his wits slowly came together again Hans perceived that the game + was not by any means lost, after all; on the contrary, it looked very much + as though he had it pretty well in his own hands. Gottlieb was a thief, + and all that was needed to complete the chain of evidence against him was + his first baking of lebkuchen; for that as clearly would prove him to be + in possession of the stolen recipe as what the widow could tell would + prove that he had created for himself an opportunity to steal it. The most + agreeable way of winning a father-in-law is not by force of threatening to + hale him to a police court, but it is better to win him that way than not + to win him at all, Hans thought; and he thought also that this was one of + the occasions when it was quite justifiable to fight the devil with fire. + So his spirits rose, and now he longed for, as eagerly as in the first + moments of his loss he had dreaded, the production of such lebkuchen at + the Café Nürnberg as would prove the proprietor of that highly respectable + establishment to be neither more nor less than a robber. + </p> + <p> + Hans was both annoyed and surprised as time passed on and the "cakes + succulent but damnatory" were not forthcoming from Gottlieb's oven. He + himself went on making unsatisfactory lebkuchen of bad materials by a good + formula, and Gottlieb continued to make unsatisfactory lebkuchen by a bad + formula of the best materials. Orthodox German palates found nothing to + commend and much to reprobate in both results. This was the situation for + several weeks. Hans could not understand it at all. The subject was a + delicate one to broach to Minna during their short but blissful interviews + about dusk in the central fastnesses of Tompkins Square, at which + interviews Aunt Hedwig winked and Herr Sohnstein openly connived by + keeping watch for them against Gottlieb's possible appearance; for Hans + had determined that until he had positive proof to go upon he would keep + secret, and most of all from Minna, the dreadful fact of her father's + crime. Therefore did he remain in a state of very harrowing uncertainty, + with his plan of campaign completely brought to a stand. + </p> + <p> + During this period a heavy cloud hung over the Café Nürnberg. Gottlieb + came fitfully to his meals; and when he did come, he ate almost nothing. + Each day he grew more and more morose; each night, when poor Aunt Hedwig + was not kept awake by her own sorrowful thoughts, her slumbers were, + broken by hearing her brother pacing heavily the floor of the adjoining + room. In some sort he made up for his loss of sleep at night by sleeping + of an evening in the little room back of the shop, falling into restless + naps (when he should have been restfully smoking his long pipe), from + which he would wake with a start and sometimes with a cry of alarm, and + would dart furtive horrified glances at Aunt Hedwig and Herr Sohnstein: + who were doing nothing of a horrifying nature, only sitting cozily close + together, more or less enfolded in each other's arms. It was a little + inconsiderate on the part of the lovers, and very-hard on Minna, this + extremely open love-making; for Minna's love-making necessarily was by + fitful snatches amid the bleak desolations of Tompkins Square. They would + try to comfort each other, she and Hans, as they stood cheerlessly under + the chill lee of the music stand; but their outlook was a dreary one, and + their efforts in this direction were not crowned with any great success. + Sometimes as Minna came home again along the west side of the square, and + saw in Spengler's window the wreaths of highly-artificial immortelles with + the word "Ruhe" upon them in vivid purple letters, she fairly would fall + to crying over the thought that until she should become a fit subject for + such a wreath there was small chance that any real rest would be hers. + </p> + <p> + However, all this is aside from Gottlieb's horrified looks as he waked + from his troubled slumbers—looks which would disappear as he became + thoroughly aroused, but only to return again after his next uneasy nap. + One day he startled Aunt Hedwig by asking her if she believed in ghosts. + Remembering his severe words in condemnation of her casual reference to + these supernatural beings, it was with some hesitation that she replied + that she did. Still more to her surprise, Gottlieb turned away from her + hurriedly, yet not so hurriedly but that she saw a strange, scared look + upon his face, and in a low and trembling voice replied: "And so do I!" + </p> + <p> + And now the fact may as well be admitted frankly that a ghost was the + disturbing element that was making Gottlieb's life go wrong; that, as + there seemed to be every reason to believe, was hurrying him towards the + grave: for a middle-aged German who refuses to eat, whose regular sleep + forsakes him, and who actually gives up smoking, naturally cannot be + expected to remain long in this world. + </p> + <p> + It was the ghost of his dead wife. At first she appeared to him only in + his dreams, standing beside the desk in which he had placed the stolen + recipe for making lebkuchen, and holding down the lid of that desk with a + firm but diaphanous white hand. Presently she appeared to him quite as + clearly in his waking hours. Her face still wore an expression at once + tender and reproachful; but every day the look of tenderness diminished, + while the look of reproach grew stronger and more stern. Each time that he + sought to open the desk that he might take thence the recipe and make his + crime a practical business success, the figure assumed an air so terribly + menacing that his heart failed him, and he gave over the attempt. + </p> + <p> + This, then, was the all-sufficient reason why the good lebkuchen that + would have proved Gottlieb a thief was not for sale at the Café Nürenburg; + and this was the reason why Gottlieb himself, broken down by loss of food + and sleep and by the nervous wear and tear incident to forced + companionship with an angry ghost, was drawing each day nearer and nearer + to that dark portal through which bakers and all other people pass hence + into the shadowy region whence there is no return. + </p> + <p> + Gottlieb Brekel never had been an especially pious man. As became a + reputable German citizen, he had paid regularly the rent of a pew in the + Church of the Redemptorist Fathers in Third Street; but, excepting on such + high feasts as Christmas and Easter, he usually had been content to occupy + it and to discharge his religious duties at large vicariously. Aunt + Hed-wig's bonnet invariably was the most brilliantly conspicuous feature + of the entire congregation, just as the prettiest face in the entire + congregation invariably was Minna's. But now that Gottlieb was confronted + with a spiritual difficulty, it occurred to him that he might + advantageously resort in his extremity to spiritual aid. He had no very + clear notion how the aid would be given; he was not even clear as to how + he ought to set about asking for it; and he was troubled by the conviction + that in order to obtain it he must not only repent of his sin, but must + make atonement by restitution—a possibility (for the devil still had + a good grip upon him) that made him hesitate a long while before he set + about purchasing ease for his conscience at so heavy a material cost. + However, his good angel at last managed to pluck up some courage—it + was high time—and, strengthened by this tardily given assistance, he + betook himself in search of consolation within church walls. + </p> + <p> + The Church of the Redemptorist Fathers is a very beautiful church, and at + all times—save through the watches of the night and through one + mid-day hour—its doors stand hospitably open, silently inviting poor + sinners, weary and heavy laden with their sins, to enter into the calm of + its quiet holiness and there find rest. Tall, slender pillars uphold its + vaulted roof, in the groinings of which lurk mysterious shadows. Below, a + warm, rich light comes through the stained-glass windows: whereon are + pictured the blessed St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, founder of the + Redemptorist Congregation, blessedly instructing the chubby-faced + choristers; and the Venerable Clement Hofbauer, "primus in Germania" of + the Redemptorists, all in his black gown, kneeling, praying no doubt for + the outcast German souls for the saving of which he worked so hard and so + well; and (a picture that Minna dearly loved) St. Joseph and the sweet + Virgin and the little Christ-child fleeing together through the desert + from the wrath of the Judean king. And ranged around the walls on perches + high aloft are statues of various minor saints and of the Twelve Apostles; + of which Minna's favorite was the Apostle Matthias, because this saint, + with his high forehead tending towards baldness, and his long gray beard + and gray hair, and his kindly face, and even the axe in his hand (that was + not unlike a baker's peel), made her think always of her dear father. The + pew that Gottlieb paid for so regularly, and so irregularly occupied, was + just beneath the statue of this saint; which, however, gave Minna less + pleasure than would have been hers had not the next saint in the row been + the Apostle Simon with his dreadful saw. It must have hurt so horribly to + be sawed in two, she thought. In the dusky depths of the great chancel + gleamed the white marble of the beautiful altar, guarded by St. Peter with + his keys and St. Paul with his naked two-edged sword; and above the altar + was the dead Christ on Calvary, with His desolate mother and the + despairing Magdalene and St. John the divine. + </p> + <p> + Into this beautiful church it was that Gottlieb, led thither by his good + angel, entered; and the devil—raging in the terrible but impotent + fashion that is habitual with devils when they see slipping away from + their snares the souls which they thought to win to wickedness—of + course was forced to remain outside. But what feelings of keen repentance + filled this poor sinning baker's heart within that holy place, what good + resolves came to him, what light and refreshment irradiated and cheered + his darkened, harried soul—all these are things which better may be + suggested here than written out in full. For these things are so real, so + sacred, and so beautiful with a heavenly beauty, that they may not lightly + be used for decorative purposes in mere romance. + </p> + <p> + Let it suffice, then, to tell—for so is our poor human stuff put + together that trivial commonplace facts often exhibit most searchingly the + changes for good or for evil which have come to pass in our inmost souls—that + Gottlieb, on returning to the Café Nürnberg, ate a prodigious dinner; and + after his dinner, for the first time in a fortnight, smoked a thoroughly + refreshing pipe. + </p> + <p> + Over his dinner and his pipe he was silent, manifesting, however, a sort + of sheepishness and constraint that were not less strange in the eyes of + Aunt Hedwig and Minna than was the sudden revival of his interest in + tobacco and food. As he smoked, a pleasant thought came to him. When he + had knocked the ashes from his pipe he ordered Minna, surlily, to bring + him his hat and coat; he must pay a visit to that rascal Sohnstein, he + said; and so went out. He left the two women lost in wonder; and Aunt + Hed-wig, because of his characterization of her dear Sohnstein as a + rascal, disposed to weep. And yet, somehow, they both felt that the storm + was breaking, and that clear weather was at hand. There was nobody in the + shop just then; and the two, standing behind the rampart of freshly-baked + cakes that was high heaped up upon the counter, embraced each other and + mingled tears, which they knew—by reason of the womanly instinct + that was in them—were tears of joy. + </p> + <p> + And that very evening the prophecy of happiness that was in their joyful + sorrow was happily fulfilled. + </p> + <p> + Gottlieb did not return to the Café Nürnberg until after nine o'clock. + With him came Herr Sohnstein. They both were very grave and silent, yet + both exhibited a most curious twinklesomeness in their eyes. Neither Aunt + Hedwig nor Minna could make anything of their strange mood; and Aunt + Hedwig was put to her trumps completely when she was sure that she saw her + brother—who was whispering to Herr Sohnstein behind the pie-counter—poke + the notary in the ribs. As to the joint chuckle at that moment of those + two mysterious men there could be no doubt; she heard it distinctly! 14 + </p> + <p> + Still further to Aunt Hedwig's surprise, for the Café Nürnberg never was + closed before ten o'clock, and usually remained open much later, Gottlieb + himself began to put up the shutters; and when this work was finished he + came back into the shop and locked behind him the double front door. + Almost as he turned the key there was a knock outside, as though somebody + actually had been waiting in the street for the signal that the closing of + the shutters gave. + </p> + <p> + "Another rascal would come in already, Sohn-stein," said Gottlieb, + gruffly. "Open for him, but lock the door again. I must go up-stairs." + </p> + <p> + Gottlieb, with a queer smile upon his face, left the little back room; and + a moment later Minna uttered a cry of surprise, as Herr Sohnstein unlocked + the door and her own Hans entered the shop. What, she thought, could all + these wonders mean? As for Aunt Hedwig, she had sunk down into her big + armchair and her bright black eyes seemed to be fairly starting from her + head. + </p> + <p> + Herr Sohnstein locked the door again, as he had been ordered to do, and + then brought Hans through the shop and into the little back room. Hans + evidently was not a party to the mystery, whatever the mystery might be. + He looked at Minna as wonderingly as she looked at him, and he was + distressingly ill at ease. But there was no time for either of them to ask + questions, for as Hans entered the room from the shop, Gottlieb returned + to it. In his hand Gottlieb held the brown old parchment on which the + lebkuchen recipe was written; the smile had left his face; he was very + pale. For a moment there was an awkward pause. Then Gottlieb, trembling a + little as he walked, crossed the room to where Hans stood and placed the + parchment in his hands. And it was in a trembling, broken voice that + Gottlieb said: + </p> + <p> + "Hans, a most wicked man have I been. But my dead Minna has helped me, and + here I give again to thee what I stole from thy chest—I who was a + robber." Then Gottlieb covered his face with his hands, and presently each + of his bony knuckles sparkled with a pendant tear. + </p> + <p> + "My own dear father!" said Minna; and her arms were around him, and her + head was pressed close upon his breast. + </p> + <p> + "My own good brother, thou couldst not be a thief!" said Aunt Hedwig; and, + so saying, clasped her stout arms around them both. + </p> + <p> + "My good old friend! all now is right again," said Herr Sohnstein; who + then affected to put his arms around the three, but really embraced only + Aunt Hedwig. However, there was quite enough of Aunt Hedwig to fill even + Herr Sohnstein's long arms; and he made the average of his one-third of an + embrace all right by bestowing it with a threefold energy. + </p> + <p> + The position of Hans as he regarded this affectionately writhing group + (that was not unsuggestive of the Laöcoon: with a new motive, a fourth + figure, a commendable addition of draperies, and a conspicuous lack of + serpents) would have been awkward under any circumstances; and as the + circumstances were sufficiently awkward to begin with, he was very much + embarrassed indeed. To Aunt Hed-wig's credit be it said that she was the + first (after Minna, of course; and Minna could not properly act in the + premises) to perceive his forsaken condition. + </p> + <p> + "Come, Hans," said the good Hedwig, her voice shaken by emotion and the + tightness of Herr Sohn-stein's grip about her waist. + </p> + <p> + "Thou hadst better come, Hans," added Herr Sohnstein, jollily. + </p> + <p> + "<i>Wilt</i> thou come, Hans—and forgive me?" Gottlieb asked. + </p> + <p> + But it was not until Minna said, very faintly, yet with a heavenly + sweetness in her voice: "Thou <i>mayst</i> come, Hans!" that Hans actually + came. + </p> + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0005" id="linkimage-0005"> + <!-- IMG --></a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:80%"> + <img src="images/248.jpg" alt="Thou Mayst Come, Hans 248 " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + And then for a while there was such hearty embracing of as much of the + other four as each of them could grasp that the like of it all for + good-will and lovingness never had been seen in a bakery before. And + Gottlieb's good angel exulted greatly; and the devil, who had lingered + about the premises in the hope that even at the eleventh hour the powers + of evil might get the better of the powers of good, acknowledged his + defeat with a howl of baffled rage: and then fled away in a blue flame and + a flash of lightning that made the waters of the East River (which stream + he was compelled to wade, thanks to General Newton, who took away his + stepping-stones) fairly hiss and bubble. And never did he dare to show so + much as the end of his wicked nose in the Café Nürnberg again! + </p> + <p> + "But thou wilt not take from me this little one, my daughter, Hans?" + Gottlieb asked, when they had somewhat disentangled themselves. "Thou wilt + come and live with us, and be my partner, and together we will make the + good lebkuchen once more. Is it not so?" + </p> + <p> + Hans found this a trying question. He looked at Herr Sohnstein, + doubtfully. "Ah," said Herr Sohnstein, "thou meanest that a very + hard-hearted, money-lending man has hired a shop for thee and has made it + the most splendid bakery and the finest restaurant on all the East Side, + eh? And thou art afraid that this man, this old miser man, will keep thee + to thy bargainings, already?" + </p> + <p> + Hans gave a deprecating nod of assent. + </p> + <p> + "Well, my boy Hans," Herr Sohnstein continued, with great good-humor, and + sliding his arm well around Aunt Hedwig's generous waist again as he spoke—"well, + my boy Hans, let me tell thee that that bad old miser man is not one-half + so bad as thou wouldst think. Dost thou remember that when he had a garden + made upon the roof of that fine bakery, and thou toldst to him that to + make a garden there was to waste his money, what he said? Did he not say + that if he made the garden God would send the flowers? And when that fine + sign was made with 'Nürnberger Bäkerei' upon it, and thou toldst to him + that to take that name of Nürnberg was not fair to his old friend, did he + not tell thee that with his old friend he would settle that matter so that + there should be no broken bones? For did he not know already that for + these five years past it has been the wish of Gottlieb's heart to leave + this old bakery—where his lease ends this very coming May—and + to have just such a new fine bakery upon the Square as now you two + together will have? Ah, this bad old miser man is not afraid but that his + miser money will come back to him again; and he is not such a fool but + that he had faith in his good friend Gottlieb, and knew that all would end + well. And now, truly, all will be happiness: for Gottlieb, who has gained + a good son, can spare to me this dear Hed-wig, his sister, and he will + come to church with us and see us all married in one bright day." + </p> + <p> + Aunt Hedwig looked up into Herr Sohnstein's face as he ended this long + speech—not so fine, perhaps, as some of the speeches which he had + delivered in the criminal courts, but much more moving and a great deal + more genuine than the very best of them—and, with her eyes filling + with happy tears, said to him: "And it is to thee that we owe it, this + happiness!" + </p> + <p> + But Herr Sohnstein's face grew grave and his voice grew reverent as he + answered: "It is not so, my Hedwig. We owe our happiness to the good God + who has taken away the evil that was in our dear Gottlieb's heart." They + all were very quiet for a little space, and upon the silence broke the + sweet sound of the clock bell in the near-by church-tower. + </p> + <p> + When the last stroke had sounded Herr Sohnstein spoke again, and in his + customary jolly tone: "As for these young ones here, we will unlock the + door and let them walk out and look for a little at the music-stand that + they love so well in the Square. And Hedwig shall sit beside me while we + smoke our pipes, Gottlieb, eh? It is a long time already, old friend, + since thou and I have sat together and smoked our pipes." + </p> + <div style="height: 6em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's A Romance Of Tompkins Square, by Thomas A. 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