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Loew∴ + +[Illustration] + +Cleveland Ohio: Printed at The +Clerk's Private Press - mcmx + + + + +[Illustration] + +_Introductory Note._ + + +Through the kindness of William N. Loew, Esq., of the New York Bar, who +has generously placed the manuscript at our disposal, we are able to +offer a translation of one of the shorter stories by a living Hungarian +writer. + +The Magyar literature offers a mine of gold to the translator, but on +account of the difficulties of the language very few have explored it. +With the exception of the great novelist, Maurus Jókai, the works of the +majority of the first class authors are unknown to the average American +reader. + +The difficulties of the Magyar tongue have been referred to. It is the +one great literary language of Europe that is of non-Aryan origin. It is +syllabic agglutinative, that is, the word inflections are made up by +adding syllables to the root word that is never lost. The verb is +particularly flexible and many of the tenses cannot be rendered +adequately in English because they are constructed after a different +system. The fine distinctions possible for the Magyar verb can only be +felt, and not translated. This will explain the seeming inconsistency +of the tenses in our story, where presents, futures, and perfects appear +to be used indiscriminately, and yet the whole action has taken place in +the more or less remote past. In this way the translator has endeavored +to convey the vivid action of the original so far as the English verb +system would allow him. + +The author, Kálmán Mikszáth, is a follower of Jókai, but without the +great master's originality. He has been called the "Mark Twain" of +Magyar literature, and is looked upon by his compatriots as their +leading humorist. He is a prolific writer of the _feuilliton_, that +peculiar institution of the continental newspaper, and several +collections of these have been published. Some of his works have been +translated into English, but so far as could be learned, not this story +of "Heathen Master Filcsik." His subjects are drawn generally from +scenes relating to North Hungarian peasant life, and are told with a +directness that makes the action move along rapidly. He also uses the +folk lore in his works, the present tale being founded upon older +material current in the country districts. Many of the details of his +stories are left to the reader's imagination; he touches only the high +lights, the shadows must be given form by the reader himself. His humor +manifests itself in the most unexpected ways, even in this grim story of +the unforgiving cobbler, there are touches of a sly, suggestive humor +that brighten the otherwise sombre narrative. + + Cleveland, Ohio, + March 17th, 1910. + + + + + +[Illustration] + +Heathen Master Filcsik. + + +There is a foolish rumor current all over Csolt, Majornok and Bodok, +that the famous fur cloak of old Filcsik is only a figment of his +imagination. He speaks constantly of it; he boasts about it; he claims +to wear it somewhere, but, as a matter of fact (so it is said) he has no +fur cloak, and in all likelihood never had one. + +Yet he did have one. The people of Gozon (he moved into our midst from +beyond the Bágy) and especially the older ones recollect it well. + +It was a long yellow cloak, with a wide collar of black lambskin from +the two ends of which two lamb's feet were hung, hoofs and all, in their +natural state. It was buckled in front by two beautiful silver clasps +and in the corners below each clasp were embroidered two large green +tulips. In addition it was ornamented by the needle worker's art with +many kinds of birds in bright colors, while on the back you discovered +the city of Miskolcz with its rows of houses and many churches. You +could even see plainly a Calvinistic chanticleer on one of the church +towers! It was perfect--a masterpiece of furrier's work, on which its +maker had spared no labor or material. + +True, it was not Master Mocsik, the furrier of Gozon, who made it, but +it was the most famous furrier in the city of Miskolcz who had been +entrusted with its construction. + +Even if Filcsik picked up half a yard of it in buttoning it, the train +of this ninth wonder of the world still swept the ground, and all who +saw it said that, compared to this fur cloak, that of the muscovite Czar +was but a swaddling garment. + +Nonetheless, wonderful though the fur cloak was and however much Stephen +Filcsik prided himself upon its possession, the iron teeth of time had +no respect for it. They dealt it the same scant consideration that they +accorded the winter-coat of the poor young law student, the son of the +village notary. Its brightly colored embroideries faded and its +needlework grew ragged, while its yellow background became soiled and +greasy. Moths ate their share of it and caused dire destruction, +especially in the lining and the collar. + +But Filcsik, like the lover-husband who never notices how the rosy bloom +fades from his wife's face, never took notice of its sad transformation; +he only saw his good old fur cloak when he looked at its remnants; and +when he said, "I will put my fur cloak on," he said it without the loss +of a particle of his characteristic old pride. + +It hung on a big bright nail all the year round, just opposite his +working stool, so that, even while at his work, he could look up and +admire it. + +But it is true that he sat very little on his stool, and he was called +for that reason "the bootmaker to God" because he had practically no +customers at all. The old fellow was lazy. If he occasionally did make a +pair of boots for someone, he acted as though he were doing an act of +charity. "What dost thou wish to walk in boots for?" he would ask his +customers. "Thou art a peasant and to walk bare-footed is good for +thee." + +A callous man, he loved nobody, and nothing in this world except that +fur cloak. + + ¶ ¶ ¶ + +No cruelty ever cried louder to heaven than his, and he directed it +mainly upon his only child, his daughter Therese. + +And yet, what was it that she had done? She had refused to marry the +lame miller of Csoltó when her father commanded. He had wanted to plant +in one jar the rezeda flower and the thistle! + +Is it any wonder that the melancholy Therese, embittered and bewildered +by her father's treatment, escaped at the first opportunity and eloped +with the young County Justice? It was an almost unheard of indiscretion, +but youth is often guilty of much folly. Yet, though all the world +condemned her, her father should have been the first to forgive her. + +Old Filcsik became ruder and more austere, and when Therese came home to +see him and tearfully begged his forgiveness, he turned away and said he +did not know the hussy; took his fur cloak from its big nail and left +the house and returned only when Therese was gone. + +Therese never ventured near him again. She saw him only on one other +occasion, while driving through the village with the County Justice. +They saw old Filcsik on his way to the tavern of "The Linen Shirt." "Oh, +father, father, dear!" the girl cried passionately. + +Old Filcsik looked up, ceremoniously tipped his hat, and silently turned +and entered the tavern. Surely, there must have been a stone in the +place of the heart of this old man! + +Those of the people of Majornok who had an occasion to go to the home of +the Judge could not but envy the lot in life that had fallen to Therese +Filcsik. "Why," they would all exclaim, "she is a gracious lady. She has +learned all the manners of the nobility. And how the neighborhood has +improved since she became the Judge's wife!" + +The administration of Justice of Majornok is far better than that in all +the surrounding villages. + +Old Filcsik was informed by his neighbors of the messages she had +indirectly sent to him: her father should call on her; she would send a +wagon for him; she would place downy, silk cushions on the seat of the +wagon; that whenever he desired, day and night, he could have honeyed +whiskey, and that he would be honored--the Judge himself would first bow +to him, but only that he should come to her and forgive her because she +was afraid herself to go to him. + +But all this seemed to produce no impression on old Filcsik. Yet had he +been but just to her, he could have helped not only his own lot, but he +could have secured forever the prosperity of the noble village itself. + +Because (and this is written to you in strict confidence) Majornok is +the most impoverished village of the entire country thereabout. Her +people are poor and the village itself is neglected. It has not a single +paved street--not a bridge, nor a Town Hall to give it dignity. + +This is, it is true, in no wise remarkable. None of the county officers +had chanced upon a sweetheart in Majornok, and they therefore built the +country roads and paved the village streets only in that portion of the +county where they frequently went. + +There is, for instance, the county road of Csoltó. It is as smooth as a +polished floor and the people of Bágy have pretty Eliza Bitro to thank +for it, while the paved roads of Karancsalja call for blessings upon the +beautiful head of Mistress John Vér. + +Well, such is the way of the world. The face of a beautiful woman +glorifies the appearance of an entire neighborhood. But it did not +beautify Majornok. There it was commonly said that the deputy county +engineer, who prepared the maps for the road commissioners from those at +the county seat, had intentionally left the place out, and even that the +honorable representatives and the electors of the county had offered one +hundred and eighty paper gulden to the neighboring county of Hont, if it +would claim Majornok as its own, but Hont county would not have the +place even for money. Why should they have her, that all the fun poked +at, and all disgrace coming from Majornok should revert upon the +honorable county? + +But if Filcsik had wanted it, there would have been a country road +leading to and from Majornok, if need be, one constructed of red marble. +All of them would be happy now. But he repelled the good intentions of +his Honor the Squire, though he needed some kind of help badly enough, +for the "bootmaker of God" was very meagerly provided with worldly +goods. One day last week the silver clasps from his fur cloak wandered +into the coffers of Mistress Sadie, the landlady of the inn of "The +Linen Shirt." + +But he was not in vain the "bootmaker of God," otherwise He, his only +customer, would not have come to his rescue at a time of his greatest +need. All at once letters began to come to him by mail containing ten, +twenty, or even fifty gulden. Usually it was the letter of some old +customer who informed him that having become well-to-do he now wished, +with expressions of great gratitude, to repay to Master Filcsik some old +debt. There are, after all, many honest men living in this world. + +For a time he believed that if the debtors did not owe him anything, it +must have been to his father, whose name too was Steve. The only thing +that was remarkable was, how could his father have given so much away on +credit? + +As soon as his suspicion was aroused, so soon did he solve the riddle. +One by one he returned the money letters to the Judge. How does he dare +to send presents to Steve Filcsik? Does not the Judge know that his +grandmother is descended from the famous Becsky family and the like? + +The money letters ceased to come thereafter but there came many sad +tidings. Beautiful Therese Filcsik had become mortally ill. All wherein +she had heretofore found pleasure she now rejected; pomp and luxury, the +fine various and delicious meats she turned away from; refused her +medicines and expressed a wish to see her father. Poor Therese! she was +after all not such a bad girl! + +And the wish of Therese was so pressing that in the end the Judge +himself was bound to call for old Filcsik. "Well, old man, now you come +with me, you must whether you want to or not; don't deny this request of +your very sick daughter--" + +"I have no daughter!" + +"You come with me! that is settled!" + +"It cannot be: I beg of you respectfully, do not press me; it cannot be, +I have very urgent work." + +"Do please, come with me for my sake!" said the Judge amicably. + +Filcsik sighed. Probably this was the first occasion in all his life +that he had done so. + +"You refuse to come? You discard your only child?" + +"Yes, sir, if you please!" + +"You! the outcast of society?" + +"Well, sir, that is not impossible, such a plain common old bootmaker +like myself is capable of doing anything." + +The honorable young Justice now began to use sweet words of persuasion +and promise, but they all rebounded from the marble heart just as did +the threatening words. + +"Why don't your grace," he said, "have me arrested and put me in irons? +Then I will have to go along wherever you may wish to take me." + +After all, the mighty judge who ruled over all the county, was compelled +to return without the bootmaker. + +But the judge had not in vain a hoary veteran Michael Suska, for his +body servant, who concocted a shrewd plan to attain the end desired. + +"Gracious Sir! I know this man Filcsik. He would run after us just as a +little pig will run after a sack from which corn is dropping, if--" + +"Well, what? speak up!" + +"If we would steal his fur cloak. His life and death depend upon that +cloak. He is a very peculiar man--" + +"Well, then, see to it that his cloak is stolen away!" + +The hoary veteran could not be trusted with a better job. Ever since the +revolution he had no more important task on hand. Oh, well, in those +days--but wherefore speak of his deeds then? No one would believe him +now. + +In the meantime the sick lady was restless on her couch amidst silken +pillows, shuddering whenever she heard the noise of approaching wheels. +She half leaned on her arms listening, burying her emaciated hands in +her long black hair which flowed down over her white night gown. + +She is provided with all that her longing can desire, yet she is the +poorest being in the world, for she lacks health, and something +else--love. + +That love that burned within her for husband is naught to the love that +warms the heart, the filial love for parents, and she never felt as cold +as now. + +Nothing does her any good; the voice of the man whom she loved is +painful to her; it were better he were not walking at her side and would +leave her to herself; the bed is hard; in vain it is made of silk and +soft feathers, in vain do the servants fix it and repeatedly put it in +order. + +How well would it be if she could lie at home beneath the paternal roof, +however poor that home, beside the capacious stove, and she could hear +at the open window the voice of the evening bells of Majornok, and if +her cold feet were covered with the famous fur cloak of her father. + +Of this she spoke, of this she dreamed last night and behold--in the +morning, fate had fulfilled her wish, when she awoke, over the beautiful +red quilt, there lay spread out her old acquaintance the fur cloak. + +And those roses and red tulips which render its collar so pretty, throw +their shades over the deathly pale face of Therese. This last enjoyed +pleasure is as sweet as long ago the first might have been. + +Michael Suska redeemed his promise soon enough and he speculated well. +When old Filcsik came home in the night time from the tavern of "The +Linen Shirt" he found his house burglariously entered, and his fur cloak +gone. The big nail was empty, bereft and bare of its ornament. It was +then towards the end of October. The winter stood on the threshold of +the season. + +Filcsik roamed about in the village with lowering brows, his hat pulled +down sullenly over his eyes. He did not drink; he uttered no word. His +misfortune completely broke him down. He was afraid to look into the +eyes of men, because he feared that from the lips of all would come the +malicious question, "What has become of your famous fur cloak?" + +But hope did not forsake him. He felt it that the dear treasure would +ere long come back to him. It could not be lost; whoever stole it could +not use it. The whole county knew it to be his. + +And he was not mistaken. The news came that the thieves were caught and +the stolen property recovered and was by that time in the hands of the +County Judge. Within four days the rightful owner could recover it, or +else it would be auctioned off as property found or recovered whose +owner could not be identified. + +Immediately he started on his way to the castle to reclaim it; he did +not hesitate a second, he went to demand his own. + +The County Judge made no objections, he admitted that the fur cloak was +there and silently beckoned him to follow. Through many bright rooms on +the floors of which fine carpets were spread, Filcsik trod with his +muddy boots behind the Judge until at last they arrived at a dark room. + +"There is your fur cloak," the Judge said with trembling voice and +pointed to a corner, "take it!" + +The old eyes became but slowly accustomed to the darkness, but he found +his way to the corner whence groans and moans came. + +The Judge stepped up and withdrew the bed-curtain, Filcsik staggered +back. + +Therese lay there, pale as a broken stemmed lily, her long black +eyelashes closed, her feet covered with the famous tulip embroidered fur +cloak. + +She was beautiful even though now dying, an angel saying good-bye to +this world. Where is she hurrying? To the heaven from which she once +came. + +It may be that she will never again open those charming eyes of hers, +which could glance so archly, or those lips of hers which to kiss was +such supreme bliss. + +Filcsik stood mute, motionless, as if in thought, but only for a minute; +then he boldly stepped up to the dying, and took off that cloak for +which she had pined so much. It may be that she would have no use for it +any more. + +The dying angel did not even move. Filcsik's hand did not even tremble. +He did not even cast a last glance on his dying daughter. Mute, without +uttering a syllable, he went out as if nothing could pain him. + +He did not even turn back when the Judge, as he was crossing the +threshold, savagely addressed to him the epithet, "Heathen!" + +Outside, he hung his rightful property around his neck, and +notwithstanding that it had become dark, he started for home by an +unused route. He did not want to meet with men just then. He probably +felt that he was no longer a man. + +From his face naught could be read; seemingly it was calm. Probably it +even expressed some satisfaction on account of the regained fur cloak. +Truly there must be a stone in the place of the heart of this man. + +When he reached the rivulet at the foot of the Majornok mountain +opening, (just there where, it is said, the soul of Mistress Gebyi rides +nightly on frightened horses) he stumbled over something in the way. + +It was a beggar's bag filled with pieces of dry bread. Its owner must +have prayed successfully--there was enough of the daily bread there even +for tomorrow. + +But lo! there lies the owner thereof beneath a tree, a ragged beggar +woman, in her lap a child. + +He placed the bag at their side and then lit a match to see better +whether or not they were dead. + +Their heavy breathing revealed that both were alive, mother and child; +exhausting fatigue alone could have sent them into such profound +slumber. The cold weather, the bitter wind and the ragged dress are not +favorable to such sleep. Only they can sleep as these do, who are +exhausted. Their faces, especially that of the child, are already blue +from cold and the tiny limbs tremble like frozen jelly. + +Filcsik took out his pipe from the pocket of his coat, filled and lit +it, and then sat down on the ground beside the sleepers. + +He looked at them a long time. He could see very well; the sky was full +of stars. The stars looked at him and perhaps beckoned to him +encouragingly. + +All at once he bent lower over the sleepers; his forehead was +perspiring, his head was bowed down and the famous fur cloak slipped off +his shoulders. It was well, for he was warm anyhow. And then the fur +cloak never burdened him as much as now; it had never been as heavy as +at present. + +When it slipped down, he suddenly picked it up and spread it over the +two sleepers. + +Then he jumped up and slowly and thoughtfully began to walk towards +home. Once he stood still, then retraced his steps. Did he intend to go +back for it? + +No, no! what would those million eyes looking at him from above say to +that! + +Now he hurried; he almost ran towards home. + +The night was quiet but cold. The old man was without his fur cloak and +yet he felt no cold. + +One thought warmed him within, in that place where other men have their +hearts but where, according to general belief, providence had +substituted in him a stone. + +Since that time he has had no fur cloak. But for all that he speaks of +it as if he still possessed it. He brags of it, he bets on it. + +Men know the fact already and were they not afraid of his vituperative +proclivities they would laugh at him; as it is, they don't concern +themselves about him. God, men, have turned from him because he is a +godless, unchristian fellow. If one of these days he dies on a heap of +straw, a raven or a crow will act as mourner, the ditch of the +churchyard will be his resting place. + + + + +[Illustration] + +Here endeth this Veracious History of "Heathen Master Filcsik" Wherein +is evidently shown that no matter howsoever hard a man's heart may be +there are times and occasions When, ruled by a Higher Power, he is moved +to do a kindly act. Written originally in the Magyar language by Kálmán +Mikszáth, and translated by Wm. N. Loew. Done into Type by me, Charles +Clinch Chubb, Clerk in Holy Orders, and one hundred Copies printed at +our Press in the Parish of Grace Church, Cleveland, Ohio this +seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord, mcmx. + +Number 52 + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Transcriber's Note: The following typographical errors have been +corrected: "Filscik" in the sentence beginning "But Filscik, like the +lover-husband" has been changed to "Filcsik", and "delcious" in the +phrase "various and delcious meats" has been changed to "delicious". 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