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Shiel - -Release Date: January 6, 2013 [EBook #41794] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LAST MIRACLE *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Bergquist, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 41794 ***</div> <div class="figleft"> <img src="images/cover.jpg" alt=""/> @@ -459,7 +421,7 @@ now, you see, that little farm: it is not so bad. But it is not romantic—not <i>plantureux</i>. It would be strange to me if the English were other than they are. The English are an exact expression of England—their character, constitution, Church, everything. The cliffs -of Dover, now. Cæsar might have foretold their future from their mere +of Dover, now. Cæsar might have foretold their future from their mere appearance as he approached them; a traveller might just look at them from his ship, and go back home saying: 'I know the English'—if he be a man of force and grasp and insight. Oh no; that is a little hyperbole @@ -492,7 +454,7 @@ patronage and old friendship, that, for the life of me, I couldn't help feeling flattered.</p> <p>I suppose that to be caressed by a force is always pleasant—the purring -of a petted cat!—and I understood that the Baron Gregor Kolár was a +of a petted cat!—and I understood that the Baron Gregor Kolár was a force.</p> <p>For now I knew his already well-known name, inasmuch as, after turning @@ -760,8 +722,8 @@ the return of a prodigal, had pontificated High Mass in the metropolitan cathedral of England.</p> <p>At that ritual I had been present, and Langler had been questioning me -as to the conditions under which Tenebræ had been sung on the Wednesday -night, and as to certain minutiæ of the vestments worn by the orders +as to the conditions under which Tenebræ had been sung on the Wednesday +night, and as to certain minutiæ of the vestments worn by the orders during the liturgical drama of the Thursday. The rite was fresh in my memory, and he listened, I could see, keenly, as I went on to tell of the conveyance of the Pontiff from the dean's house; of the trumpets of @@ -811,7 +773,7 @@ now it culminates, for the English Church got to see that it must more and more imitate its great old Mother and her graces if it was to retain any of the interest of the nation. It has, in fact, by this imitation retained <i>some</i> of the interest of one class, but we know that it is -none of it a religious interest, but an æsthetic one; and as to the +none of it a religious interest, but an æsthetic one; and as to the lower classes, no sort of interest has survived. In other words, while the dogmas of the Church have become mawkish to all, her dear altar-cloths and subcingula have continued pleasing to some—to you and @@ -1040,7 +1002,7 @@ the whole, what a language do they speak, those spires, those bells, how noble an expression of men's noblest thoughts of this world through twenty ages! One knows that for the new phasis of the world the old expression will not do; but for myself, though I tolerate the sun, give -me Iris and the Götterdämmerung. Certainly, she was rather lovely, this +me Iris and the Götterdämmerung. Certainly, she was rather lovely, this old church of the Nazarene, with a loveliness that was so useful, too, to lure and lever the world. Who could have foretold that just in sorrow would have been born such a charm, that the moan alone of a saint could @@ -1314,14 +1276,14 @@ who has imprisoned Max Dees?"</p> <p>"Unfortunately," he answered, "there are no less than three Styrian barons part of whose name is Gregor—one a Dirnbach, one a Strass, and -one a Kolár—possibly the well-known Kolár——"</p> +one a Kolár—possibly the well-known Kolár——"</p> <p>At that name an exclamation escaped me.</p> <p>"Well?" said Langler.</p> <p>"But have I said nothing at all to you since I have been here, about -Baron Gregor Kolár?" I asked.</p> +Baron Gregor Kolár?" I asked.</p> <p>"I think not," he answered.</p> @@ -1352,9 +1314,9 @@ grave, standing on grounds which slope towards the exterior of the domain into oak-dotted swards that droop down to a wooded valley.</p> <p>That first day at dinner I was able to point out to Langler the sneer of -Baron Kolár at the part of the table where he droned amid the silence of +Baron Kolár at the part of the table where he droned amid the silence of his neighbours; and the next afternoon, when some men who had been -shooting were standing in a group on a terrace, Baron Kolár, who was +shooting were standing in a group on a terrace, Baron Kolár, who was among them, left them to lower himself upon a bench close to that on which Langler and I were sitting.</p> @@ -1384,7 +1346,7 @@ some ten years his senior) looked rather insignificant. It was suggested by his walk that one of his legs was somewhat shorter than the other.</p> <p>He started out at once to meet Dr Burton, who came toiling up the -terraces swinging a copy of, I fancy, Paradisus Animæ. I saw them shake +terraces swinging a copy of, I fancy, Paradisus Animæ. I saw them shake hands, and then lay their heads together, Edwards hearkening, Burton talking. Their walk led them towards Langler and me. Edwards began half to laugh, deprecatingly I thought; his shoulders shrugged; his arms @@ -1425,7 +1387,7 @@ ear these words:</p> <p>"Oh, well, he is not so bad, though; he does it very well—very well...."</p> -<p>They came from Baron Kolár, who was gazing through sleepy lids at Dr +<p>They came from Baron Kolár, who was gazing through sleepy lids at Dr Burton with (it seemed to me) the fondness of a father contemplating the feats of his boy in the presence of friends.</p> @@ -1486,13 +1448,13 @@ up quickly, saying: "with pleasure...."</p> <p>Dr Burton had now parted from Mr Edwards, and was passing close by us, wrapped in gloom, his frock brabbling at every stalk with the breeze; so -Langler hurried out to get at him, and Baron Kolár goaded after Langler +Langler hurried out to get at him, and Baron Kolár goaded after Langler his rolling gait.</p> <p>At this Dr Burton, as when a bull stops in its career to stare at some new object, stood still, and at once Langler said graciously to him: "Dr Burton, permit me to present to you my friend, Mr Templeton—his -Excellency Baron Kolár—Dr Burton."</p> +Excellency Baron Kolár—Dr Burton."</p> <p>The moment which followed was full of misery: for one could not tell what the doctor, still heated, would say or do. I was afraid that he @@ -1548,7 +1510,7 @@ think you will understand that I have no time for loitering and listening. As to your reference to the public-house, I confess that I do not understand you at all."</p> -<p>Baron Kolár was bestowing upon him a smile of sleepy fondness, and as +<p>Baron Kolár was bestowing upon him a smile of sleepy fondness, and as the doctor half turned to go, the baron's hand went out to the doctor's arm.</p> @@ -1559,7 +1521,7 @@ man should work hard, not for the sake of what he can accomplish in his youth, but because the impulse of his acquired energy will last him through his course in a higher sphere. He buys the habit of strife and empire, and that persists to the end. I am rejoiced to see you stressful -and <i>impressé</i>. Similarly, the youth of nations should be full of rages; +and <i>impressé</i>. Similarly, the youth of nations should be full of rages; their age suave and luxurious. But with regard to the public-house, now—do not harass yourself about such a nothing, since I answer for it that the difficulty will vanish. I would speak to you, but you are so @@ -1608,7 +1570,7 @@ fifty years."</p> observing may have been better than mine."</p> <p>"Oh, yes, I know old England very well—very well. I was once an -<i>attaché</i> to the Embassy for three years; altogether, I have lived in +<i>attaché</i> to the Embassy for three years; altogether, I have lived in England eight to ten years. I know the old country very well—not badly. Very nice it is, too—provided one brings one's own <i>chef</i>. The pride of England is not her political potency, but her beef, for in no country in @@ -1665,7 +1627,7 @@ other with some not very evident motive on either side, Langler striking his stick into the turf as he walked, looking downward; the baron looking downward also, at Langler's face.</p> -<p>Langler said: "I cannot be made a convert, Baron Kolár. Shells, you +<p>Langler said: "I cannot be made a convert, Baron Kolár. Shells, you know, are sometimes quite charming things, and for this shell which remains of the Church, I personally should, under certain conceivable conditions, be even prepared to give my life: such is the whim of my @@ -1694,7 +1656,7 @@ nobilities must go, too. Do you know——?"</p> Barons Gregor unlawfully has in his castle a prisoner, one Father—Max—Dees——"</p> -<p>He spoke pointedly, his eyes fixed on Baron Kolár's face; and on his +<p>He spoke pointedly, his eyes fixed on Baron Kolár's face; and on his face dwelt the Gorgon eyes of the Styrian.</p> <p>Some time went by in what was to me a distressing silence, till the @@ -1753,7 +1715,7 @@ scribbled in pencil the words: "You should not interfere."</p> <h3>THE COMPACT</h3> -<p>The next evening, as Baron Kolár raised himself on the arm of a valet +<p>The next evening, as Baron Kolár raised himself on the arm of a valet into the trap which was to carry him to his meeting with Dr Burton, Langler remembered that some matters were going forward at Swandale which demanded his personal managing, and he asked me to go with him.</p> @@ -1793,7 +1755,7 @@ in the fact that he, too, is 'beautiful'; or it may be found in the second fact known of him, that he is a 'union of Becket and Savonarola': we don't know: but we know that he <i>is</i> imprisoned, and that in some respects he resembles Dr Burton. As to who is the gaoler of Max Dees, I -am really no more in any doubt. The word 'Kolár' fits very well into the +am really no more in any doubt. The word 'Kolár' fits very well into the blurred space on the missive brought us by the wren; and the man himself, you remember, made no effort to blind our eyes when asked about the matter, even going out of his way to assure us that the other two @@ -1812,8 +1774,8 @@ enmity against the Church, and at the same time be found striking up a friendship with a churchman who in certain particulars resembles another churchman imprisoned in his castle? Certainly, one's mind can't reject a notion of danger; and it has appeared to me that I ought not to hold my -peace in the matter, in spite of the <i>outré</i> warning of the card which -Baron Kolár has been kind enough to forward me."</p> +peace in the matter, in spite of the <i>outré</i> warning of the card which +Baron Kolár has been kind enough to forward me."</p> <p>We had now arrived before Ritching church, which stands well back from the village street in a large piece of land—"park" one may call @@ -1845,7 +1807,7 @@ casement behind, and a moment later Langler whispered me: "There, you see, is the growth of vetch."</p> <p>Five feet farther, and from an angle of a lean-to, we could peer through -ivy and rose-bush into a lighted room: in it were Baron Kolár and Dr +ivy and rose-bush into a lighted room: in it were Baron Kolár and Dr Burton, standing. Langler laid hold of my arm, and we stood breathless, looking.</p> @@ -1907,46 +1869,46 @@ that my warning would be all too late. Imagine how momentous must have been the matter of that compact, Arthur, when Burton could be brought to confirm it with the Bible at his lips, and imagine the craft and the might of will by which he must have felt himself crimped and mesmerised. -Here is a man who two days ago began by telling Baron Kolár that he had +Here is a man who two days ago began by telling Baron Kolár that he had not leisure to listen to him, and already we find him <i>in genubus</i>, with (of all things) <i>the Book</i> at his lips. Have you not here a miracle of mind? But given a known individuality, one may deduce certain facts from it. We can assert, for instance, from our sure knowledge of Burton, that the compact contained nothing dishonouring to <i>him</i>, that it was lofty -and pure on <i>his</i> part. It must be so. And since it was Kolár who first +and pure on <i>his</i> part. It must be so. And since it was Kolár who first kissed, and afterwards Burton, we may say, too, that the first terms of -the pact are to be fulfilled by Kolár. If Kolár will do certain things, +the pact are to be fulfilled by Kolár. If Kolár will do certain things, as he says he will, then Burton will do certain things. But what things? Pity we couldn't catch a few snatches of the talk; yet certainly, even so, I don't think that we are quite in the dark. For Burton's motives -were lofty and pure: therefore Kolár's promises of good things did not +were lofty and pure: therefore Kolár's promises of good things did not concern Burton's own self-interests, or not solely. Yet Burton was so enthusiastic as to these promises that he took an oath of repayment: they may very likely, therefore, have concerned his love—the Church. -But the Church where? At Ritching? It is inconceivable that Kolár can be +But the Church where? At Ritching? It is inconceivable that Kolár can be so interested in the Church at Ritching as to wish to exact any oath with regard to it. 'Church,' therefore, as between him and Burton, must mean Church on a larger scale; and in the Church on this scale we know -that Kolár is, in fact, interested. But how is Burton, a village priest, +that Kolár is, in fact, interested. But how is Burton, a village priest, to repay services rendered to the Church on so large a scale? Does it -not seem as if Kolár's promises do not apply altogether to the Church, +not seem as if Kolár's promises do not apply altogether to the Church, but in part to Burton personally, that Burton is not for ever to remain -a village priest? Indeed, did not Kolár yesterday volunteer the prophecy +a village priest? Indeed, did not Kolár yesterday volunteer the prophecy that this 'union of Becket and Savonarola' is 'destined to become the greatest priest in Europe'? A singular prophecy, Arthur, from a man whose words in general assuredly have some significance. We may guess, -then, that Kolár's undertakings consist in rendering to the Church some +then, that Kolár's undertakings consist in rendering to the Church some good which will include the rise and greatness of the doctor himself, and the doctor swears to use his greatness in some way indicated, or to -be indicated, by Kolár. Certainly, such seem the divinations prompted by +be indicated, by Kolár. Certainly, such seem the divinations prompted by the facts which we have."</p> -<p>"Isn't it a strange thing," I said, "the interest of Kolár in the -doctor, even before he saw him? It is not to be supposed that Kolár is a +<p>"Isn't it a strange thing," I said, "the interest of Kolár in the +doctor, even before he saw him? It is not to be supposed that Kolár is a very regular church-goer, yet he hastened to hear the doctor at once on coming to Goodford. One could be almost certain that the letter describing the doctor as Becket <i>plus</i> Savonarola, and asking someone to -'come down,' was addressed to no other than to Baron Kolár."</p> +'come down,' was addressed to no other than to Baron Kolár."</p> <p>"Very likely," replied Langler; "and that was chiefly what I had to say to Burton in our interview just now. I tried to persuade him that the @@ -1954,12 +1916,12 @@ baron is no friend of priests, that he probably has one of them a prisoner in his burg at this moment, but because I could make no certain statements his mind was closed against me. On his part, he used the words 'evil-speaking,' 'presumption,' 'interference'; he said 'dare,' he -said 'irreverent.' But I won't speak of that interview—it was <i>bête</i>. +said 'irreverent.' But I won't speak of that interview—it was <i>bête</i>. The sentiment that now occupies my mind about Dr Burton is this: 'the pity of it!' One cannot touch pitch and go undefiled. I have often had the augury that Burton is a man with a tragedy in his future, and, if I was right, that tragedy now perhaps takes shape: it will consist in his -'defilement.' Baron Kolár has prophesied that the doctor will be the +'defilement.' Baron Kolár has prophesied that the doctor will be the greatest of priests: well, if I, too, may prophesy, I say that from being the greatest of priests, as he now is, he will become no priest at all; that by little and little he will drop from his height, will lose @@ -1992,7 +1954,7 @@ the fame of Dr Burton's oratory had spread through the house, and dowager and lordling, finding the Sabbath evening empty, yielded to the pique of curiosity and to Mrs Edward's organising genius.</p> -<p>Baron Kolár, too, had everywhere dropped the opinion that Dr Burton was +<p>Baron Kolár, too, had everywhere dropped the opinion that Dr Burton was a nice fellow, that he was not so bad, that he was the only living man with whom grandiose speech was a natural function, like sleep.</p> @@ -2042,14 +2004,14 @@ vehicles, saddle-horses, drivers, grooms, in the midst of costumes and chatter. Two of the carriages had already started, bearing away cries of laughter at the crowded discomfort within them. I saw the pink brow of Mr Edwards under the neck of a rearing horse; large Mrs Edwards was in a -flush of earnestness; Baron Kolár was seated on a cube of marble +flush of earnestness; Baron Kolár was seated on a cube of marble bestowing his teeth upon the scene.</p> <p>Miss Emily was not yet ready to start, so ran into the house, telling me that she would be back in three minutes.</p> <p>It had been ordained by Mrs Edwards that she should drive with Baron -Kolár. I was with another party. In a few minutes only two of the +Kolár. I was with another party. In a few minutes only two of the vehicles were left; in one of them sat the baron, waiting for Miss Emily. I was in the other with four ladies; the baron's was a cabriolet, mine a car; both waited for the coming of Miss Emily.</p> @@ -2182,7 +2144,7 @@ to search the divine horror, the light was most dim, and the revelation seemed rather the spectre of a thing than the thing itself. Only, each detail was perfect, and it was the crudeness of these details which proved its reality to the mind with proof a hundred times sure. The -haggard crucifixions of Dürer and Spagnoletto—all the <i>macabre</i> dreams +haggard crucifixions of Dürer and Spagnoletto—all the <i>macabre</i> dreams of a painter, graver, sculptor, heaped into one massacre of flesh and of grinning bone—would seem like a child's fancy in comparison with that fact. Still in my dreams I see the sideward hang of that under-lip, and @@ -2215,7 +2177,7 @@ and escape into the sacristy; the others mingled the sounds of their awe, till the echoes became one murmur in the vault. As for me, the burden of my thought was this: "at last...."</p> -<p>But, looking up, I was conscious of a row of teeth, and of Baron Kolár, +<p>But, looking up, I was conscious of a row of teeth, and of Baron Kolár, who, with a raised head, was smiling his benediction upon the scene, and his look was as when he snuffled sleepily of a thing, "well, it is not so bad." I do not know if anyone else noticed him; but, as for me, @@ -2488,7 +2450,7 @@ the matter when Emily herself walked in."</p> <p>"As she was about to set out with the party," he answered, "a note had been handed her, purporting to come from me, asking her to join me secretly on a matter of urgency at the Cart-and-Horse in Mins. So -<i>outré</i> a thing, of course, alarmed her, and she started out in great +<i>outré</i> a thing, of course, alarmed her, and she started out in great haste. It was only when she got to the Cart-and-Horse, that, looking again at the note, she saw that the writing was not really mine, but a forgery. She then got a trap, and drove back to Goodford."</p> @@ -2568,7 +2530,7 @@ off, and Edwards says that Society will have to moderate its tone in face of what he foresees"—and some more of this kind.</p> <p>I told her that I didn't think that the Langlers would be shortening -their visit. "But as to Baron Kolár," I said, "is he among the departing +their visit. "But as to Baron Kolár," I said, "is he among the departing guests?"</p> <p>"No," she answered, "the baron stays on till Thursday. He was closeted @@ -2578,18 +2540,18 @@ some explanation—puts it all down to hypnotism—I must go." On this s ran on up, and left me.</p> <p>Below I was at once struck by a difference in the tone of the house. I -did not see Mr Edwards, and Baron Kolár too was missing. Langler told me +did not see Mr Edwards, and Baron Kolár too was missing. Langler told me that the baron was at Ritching Vicarage with Dr Burton, and when I mentioned to him what Mrs Edwards had whispered me as to Burton's probable rise, his answer was: "well, that will be only fitting: -moreover, Baron Kolár prophesied it, you remember."</p> +moreover, Baron Kolár prophesied it, you remember."</p> <p>The afternoon passed into twilight, and still I saw no sign of the Styrian, but an hour before dinner, as I happened to be strolling alone in one of the home-coverts separated by a path from the park, Mr Edwards, without any hat, broke through the bushes, dashing back his hair, and looking pestered. "Oh, Mr Templeton," he said, "have you seen -anything of Baron Kolár?"</p> +anything of Baron Kolár?"</p> <p>I said no.</p> @@ -2619,15 +2581,15 @@ me—all extraneous work and worry—for <i>I</i> haven't studied Church-organisation! if anyone were to ask me who is the real head of it all as things are, the King or the Pope, I believe I'd be put to it to give him a straight answer. However, there's this Lincoln -Chancellorship, and I'm hunting down Baron Kolár to see whether or not +Chancellorship, and I'm hunting down Baron Kolár to see whether or not he'll have it for Dr Burton just for the time being...."</p> -<p>At this I could not help exclaiming: "but what voice has Baron Kolár in +<p>At this I could not help exclaiming: "but what voice has Baron Kolár in the matter of the career of Dr Burton?"</p> <p>"Oh, well," said Mr Edwards, "you would hardly see the inwardness of it off-hand by the light of nature, for it is delicate in a diplomatic way. -You know that Baron Kolár fills such a place both in and out of the +You know that Baron Kolár fills such a place both in and out of the Reichsrath that he is one of the four men who really have the world's peace in the hollow of their hand, but perhaps you don't know by how far he is probably the most dangerous of the four, for the bottom meanings @@ -2636,7 +2598,7 @@ them you would have first of all to draw his teeth, for his mind lurks in a stronghold of which his teeth are the ramparts, and it takes a pretty tricky one to see much that's behind 'em. Anyway, the Foreign Minister of a country whose chief asset is peace would rather stand -personally well with Baron Kolár with a view to sound sleep at night +personally well with Baron Kolár with a view to sound sleep at night than with, I was going to say his—own—wife."</p> <p>"Quite so," said I; "but still, what can be the grounds of this @@ -2650,14 +2612,14 @@ up the mountains of preferment——"</p> <p>At this point a clerk ran up to deliver some message to Mr Edwards, who went off with him, I, for my part, continuing my stroll through the covert till I came out upon a road, where the first thing which I saw -was Baron Kolár's valet reclining in a meadow, smoking. I went through a +was Baron Kolár's valet reclining in a meadow, smoking. I went through a gate to him, and asked where his master was. His answer was in the words: "perhaps can you that house there under see? there is he."</p> <p>I knew the house to which he pointed: it is called Dale Manor, and was then the home of two old maids whom I had long known as "Miss Jane" and "Miss Lizzie" (Chambers), for they were visitors at Swandale. How Baron -Kolár had come to know them, why he was there, I couldn't guess; but, in +Kolár had come to know them, why he was there, I couldn't guess; but, in good nature to Mr Edwards, I walked down three very steep fields, then down two lanes, to Dale Manor, in order to tell the baron that he was being sought.</p> @@ -2669,7 +2631,7 @@ flowers. I think that the sun had already set, and the scene in there was all one of bowery shades and peace and well-being. Miss Jane, I suppose, thought that I had come on a visit, and after asking some questions about the Langlers and the miracle invited me in. I then asked -if Baron Kolár was in the house, to which she replied, with a smile: +if Baron Kolár was in the house, to which she replied, with a smile: "yes—<i>fast asleep</i>."</p> <p>"Asleep!"</p> @@ -2705,7 +2667,7 @@ to decide to ask him in."</p> <p>"It must have been an event!"</p> <p>"Well, we were certainly put out," answered Miss Jane, "and poor Lizzie -has been taking lavender-water; for Barons Kolár do not grow on every +has been taking lavender-water; for Barons Kolár do not grow on every bush, and it all came upon us like any thunderclap. He sat by that window in the drawing-room, talking, talking in his long-drawn way, and looking sleepy, while Lizzie and I glanced at each other, wondering what @@ -2759,7 +2721,7 @@ them...."</p> <p>On this we went in, to find Miss Lizzie, all brown silk and mitts, sitting in patient vigil over the Styrian, from whom came a note of slumber. To me nothing could have been funnier than this casting of his -gross weight by Baron Kolár upon these dainty ladies, and at the sight +gross weight by Baron Kolár upon these dainty ladies, and at the sight of it I was afresh pierced with laughter. Miss Jane now took Miss Lizzie's place as watcher, while Miss Lizzie came to ply me with hushed questions about the miracle, till at last the baron opened his eyes, @@ -2788,7 +2750,7 @@ them to say anything: merely as listeners they have a merit. I am only sorry that this so-called miracle has come to excite and unsettle them."</p> -<p>"But 'so-called,' Baron Kolár!" I could not help crying out: "surely you +<p>"But 'so-called,' Baron Kolár!" I could not help crying out: "surely you saw the miracle with your own eyes, like the rest of us!"</p> <p>"Well, yes, I saw it," he said; "oh yes, I saw it, too. But this looks @@ -2950,7 +2912,7 @@ Emily, to my surprise, said to me: "who, then, is Max Dees?"</p> only think that she had overheard Langler's talk with me on the Saturday evening, and, anyway, had now to tell her all—of Dees' imprisonment, of his prayer "<i>for God's sake</i>," of our almost certainty -that Baron Kolár was his gaoler, of the paper found at the inn at Mins +that Baron Kolár was his gaoler, of the paper found at the inn at Mins stating that "Dr Burton is another Max Dees," of the disappearances, like Robinson's, which Langler had found to have been going on over Europe, and so on. That morning Langler had not risen from bed—he had @@ -3021,7 +2983,7 @@ read it, handed it to Miss Emily.</p> <p>It was at that moment that a thing new, I think, to Swandale took place—a spark of anger, a flush of the cheek: for Miss Emily, tossing the telegram aside even as she read it, let the heated words escape -her: "oh, I am like Baron Kolár: I don't believe in miracles"; and then +her: "oh, I am like Baron Kolár: I don't believe in miracles"; and then for the first time I saw Langler look with reproof at his sister.</p> <p>"Emily," said he pointedly, "your words seem to me irreverent."</p> @@ -3056,7 +3018,7 @@ irreverence, Aubrey! Why was I not allowed to see it? Why were not you? To be charged with irreverence, Aubrey! The thing is not, so to say, 'the work of God'; it is related to the disappearance of Charles Robinson and of Father Max Dees, and of all the others, and to these two -new 'miracles'—and Baron Kolár foreknew that it would happen in Dr +new 'miracles'—and Baron Kolár foreknew that it would happen in Dr Burton's church when he foretold Dr Burton's rise. And to be charged with irreverence, Aubrey! If you wish to find out the meaning of it all, go to a castle in Styria, for that is where the key lies—" and some @@ -3154,7 +3116,7 @@ at liberty them that are bound!"</p> Emily came in with a plate of seeds, and Langler sat up straight.</p> <p>Now, before this, Miss Jane and Miss Lizzie had been giving the story of -Baron Kolár's visits; one afternoon lately, they said, the baron had +Baron Kolár's visits; one afternoon lately, they said, the baron had come down from London merely to eat their toast; and they expected him again soon. This being so, I was surprised that Langler should be so unbridled as to publish to them his going to Styria to set free the @@ -3694,7 +3656,7 @@ the wire-pullers, had to give in. Mrs Edwards herself, who drove over one afternoon from Goodford, told us so much; and by the middle of March it began to be taken for granted that Dr Burton would be metropolitan of Canterbury. I remember the date very well, for just about that time -Baron Kolár came down to Goodford for one afternoon to repose himself, +Baron Kolár came down to Goodford for one afternoon to repose himself, to eat the Misses Chambers' toast, and sleep on their sofa, and have his hair brushed; and it was that same day—either the 14th or 15th of March—that the weak voice of our friend said to her brother: "you @@ -4025,7 +3987,7 @@ Tiarks, whose face I was destined one day to see. I read it with a greed which I could not hide. But it consisted mostly of a gorgeous heading, the writing being in two lines only, and these cold enough but for their salute of "high-born sir!" It merely acknowledged the receipt of our -"honoured but somewhat insubstantial [ungegründet!] communication"; and +"honoured but somewhat insubstantial [ungegründet!] communication"; and there it ended.</p> <p>It was for this that we had waited! The paper was actually perfumed.</p> @@ -4170,7 +4132,7 @@ secret sympathy, for it seemed that even God, howling from heaven, could not quite bring it about to clericalise the modern world. I had just telegraphed the throwing out to Langler, and was gossiping about it with some men in one of my clubs—it was late, after the theatres—when I was -aware of Baron Kolár's presence: he had come in with three men, and his +aware of Baron Kolár's presence: he had come in with three men, and his eyes, swimming round, found me out. He walked straight to me. "Miss Langler," were his first low words—"how is she?"</p> @@ -4200,8 +4162,8 @@ just virtually thrown out Diseased Persons? Tell me now which of the two you think will come off the victor in this duel between Edwards and the archbishop."</p> -<p>"Who can win against the grain of an archbishop under a <i>régime</i> of -miracles, Baron Kolár?" I asked.</p> +<p>"Who can win against the grain of an archbishop under a <i>régime</i> of +miracles, Baron Kolár?" I asked.</p> <p>"What!" said he, eyeing me sternly from top to toe, "but is there to be no term to the insolence of the Church? Remember that this plan of @@ -4250,7 +4212,7 @@ fear of being interfered with and hindered, and by it you wash your hands at once of the whole business and burden."</p> <p>"Perhaps; but still, frankly, it would not be quite to my taste: I'd -rather die than seem <i>outré</i>, or strutting, or oracular——"</p> +rather die than seem <i>outré</i>, or strutting, or oracular——"</p> <p>"But since so much is at stake——"</p> @@ -4359,13 +4321,13 @@ to recovery.</p> meanwhile twice saw Archbishop Burton, once in the Lords on the night when Diseased Persons was being debated for the second time; all the world was there: I saw Mr Edwards peeping behind the throne; I saw Baron -Kolár ironing his thigh, while his eyes dwelt upon the primate, who, +Kolár ironing his thigh, while his eyes dwelt upon the primate, who, somehow, denounced the bill less loudly than I had expected to hear. I thought that Dr Burton's girth was less outgrown, his visage less brown than usual; indeed, I have grounds to know that about that time the archbishop was putting himself to cruel tortures with regimen, the thongs of discipline, and other articles of piety. Twice to my -knowledge, while speaking, he glanced up at Baron Kolár in the gallery, +knowledge, while speaking, he glanced up at Baron Kolár in the gallery, and I witnessed the meeting of their eyes. Well, the bill, which had been sent up this second time with an ominous drop in Edwards' majority from twelve to nine, was anew mutilated; and at this thing the sort of @@ -4378,7 +4340,7 @@ was he, and a sort of world-wide mutter against churchmen, which did not dare express itself, yet could be felt, was abroad. It was at this juncture that I again saw the archbishop one night at a political crush at the Duchess of St Albans'. I was making my way through a throng when -I caught a view of Baron Kolár's head above a press of men, and, the +I caught a view of Baron Kolár's head above a press of men, and, the hall being full of a noise of tongues, I won near to the group around him to hear, for he was talking; in doing which I caught sight of the robed figure of the archbishop sitting on an ottoman, silent, solitary, @@ -4465,7 +4427,7 @@ touch of personal stateliness, he was listened to with attention.</p> <p>Half-an-hour afterwards I was talking with a man over a balcony rail, where it was dark, when I heard behind me the words: "you should not slacken in your opposition to the bill: the Church must be pushed on and -made quite triumphant"; they were spoken by Baron Kolár, and from Dr +made quite triumphant"; they were spoken by Baron Kolár, and from Dr Burton I heard a murmured reply, but not the words; then I am almost certain that I heard the baron say: "there will be some more miracles"; and I distinctly heard the doctor's reply, halting, wifely: "how do @@ -4512,7 +4474,7 @@ hide myself well somewhere. Have no fear for me, I undertake that no one shall track me, I shall be safely hidden, and get quite well, and be back in Swandale to welcome you when you return. Go at once, will you, for me? with Arthur. 'Quit you like men, be strong'; you are in for it -now, poor dear: it has happened so. I take £40 from the casket. But, +now, poor dear: it has happened so. I take £40 from the casket. But, beloved, if it be only possible, come back to me; and bring him who goes with you. Your Emily."</p> @@ -4524,7 +4486,7 @@ catch the first passage.</p> <p>We were safe aboard at Dover, and the boat about to cast her moorings, when a car was seen making down the pier, and an outcry arose for the -boat to wait awhile, the men in the car being Baron Kolár and two +boat to wait awhile, the men in the car being Baron Kolár and two others. They were barely in time, and soon after the baron had manœuvred himself aboard I saw his earnest looks clear into a smile.</p> @@ -4547,7 +4509,7 @@ which, indeed, was mostly unuttered, but one felt when he was criticising by a certain fastidiousness and thickening at the cheek-bones, as if he tasted acid. At Charleville, where we found a streaming town, one of the pilgrimages having just got there, the tone -of the <i>dévotes</i> was specially distasteful to him; we saw a throng +of the <i>dévotes</i> was specially distasteful to him; we saw a throng kneeling in the twilight on some church-steps, everyone with a certain beggar-like languishing of the eye-whites—a very Latin thing—which Langler called "sick-saintly." But he was ever out of joint with the @@ -4561,25 +4523,25 @@ everywhere. At Charleville, when we returned to our hotel from our stroll, a lively little maid with flaxen curls would have us look at her first-communion veil, her paroissien, and suchlike pious gems, remarking meanwhile: "is it not soft and nice, sir, to be a female -Christian—n'est-ce pas, monsieur, que c'est doux et bon d'être -crétienne?" To which Langler replied: "I only hope so: moi je suis -crétien."</p> +Christian—n'est-ce pas, monsieur, que c'est doux et bon d'être +crétienne?" To which Langler replied: "I only hope so: moi je suis +crétien."</p> <p>Being very weary that first night we slept till two <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>, when we set -out afresh on the car road over the suspension-bridge through Mézières, +out afresh on the car road over the suspension-bridge through Mézières, under a dark sky most bright with stars. Our trim little chauffeur, whose name was Hanska, was a "rager,"; but this mode of flight was never to Langler's taste, and we had meant to travel on rails, till the sight -of Baron Kolár on the Channel-boat had caused me to know that the +of Baron Kolár on the Channel-boat had caused me to know that the rail-train would be much too slow. We had lost sight of the baron at Calais, but near noon of the second day, when we were shooting some miles well on past Sedan, a trumpet hooted behind, and there churned upon us a large chariot travelling urgently. It must have been very swift, for we were swift, but it rolled pressingly past us, showed its hind wheels, and travelled on out of our sight. Through the dust I saw -in it Baron Kolár and his two friends.</p> +in it Baron Kolár and his two friends.</p> -<p>"Baron Kolár means to be in Styria before us, Aubrey," I said.</p> +<p>"Baron Kolár means to be in Styria before us, Aubrey," I said.</p> <p>"In which case, what is the good of our going on?" asked Langler.</p> @@ -4596,13 +4558,13 @@ something, if only for our poor prisoner."</p> <p>Well, on we went, hardly knowing toward what: but our object after much talk had turned out to be threefold—(1) to find out whether there was -really a prisoner Father Max Dees in Baron Kolár's castle of +really a prisoner Father Max Dees in Baron Kolár's castle of Schweinstein; (2) to present ourselves with this <i>fact</i> to the authorities, and so force the release of Dees; (3) to interview the released Dees, and then give to the world whatever he might have to divulge of a design against churchmen. And chance favoured us to a wonderful extent that day between Sedan and Metz, for not fifteen -minutes after Baron Kolár's chariot had vanished ahead we came anew upon +minutes after Baron Kolár's chariot had vanished ahead we came anew upon it standing still by the roadside, its occupants standing and prying round it. As we flew past them I cried to Langler: "they can't repair, and are miles from anywhere: are bound to lose a day!" nor from that @@ -4619,7 +4581,7 @@ expression; it appeared to me the haven of the world; the morning-star was awane in the heavens; and I had the thought: "how well to have been born in here, and to have housed here always in peace!" It was a breathing-space to me, till the burden that was ours darkened down anew -upon my mind with its weight of care and doubt. As to where Baron Kolár +upon my mind with its weight of care and doubt. As to where Baron Kolár might be we had no idea, having seen nothing of him since his breakdown near Metz.</p> @@ -4734,9 +4696,9 @@ still the priest at St Photini's, so perhaps my friend and I have taken a voyage in vain. Who, then, is now the priest there?" "There is no priest," said she; "even if there were, we of this church-parish should no longer plod to his church, since it is work enough to keep body and -soul together; for burials a priest rides up from Badsögl; but St +soul together; for burials a priest rides up from Badsögl; but St Photini's has been shut up near five years—before the birth of the -little sugar-corn Käthchen, in fact."</p> +little sugar-corn Käthchen, in fact."</p> <p>"But that is strange!" said I. "To whom does St Photini's belong?"</p> @@ -4756,7 +4718,7 @@ the alp?"</p> <p>"Ah, dear Heaven, he is very much feared, and very much loved, and very much pitied, by all."</p> -<p>"Pitied? Baron Kolár?"</p> +<p>"Pitied? Baron Kolár?"</p> <p>"Ah, dear Heaven, yes: for nothing less than a very great wrong was done to his lordship by one in whom he had trust. They say 'one love is worth @@ -4779,7 +4741,7 @@ the good Pater no longer alive?" "Who knows?" said she. "You do; tell me," said I. "But I do not know, sir, truly! perhaps the baron himself could impart to you that information." "But where is the baron?" I asked, "in the duchy, do you know?" "The baron is at the burg, sir." -"Baron Kolár at Schweinstein! When did he arrive?" "Late last night, I +"Baron Kolár at Schweinstein! When did he arrive?" "Late last night, I believe," she answered.</p> <p>"Strange," I thought, "that we have heard nothing of it, though we have @@ -4917,12 +4879,12 @@ laughter.</p> blush from the stove, I whispered to Langler: "did you hear the '<i>there is</i>' in English from the cliff?" "No," said he, "I think not." "But was not the voice at all familiar?" "I thought, Arthur, that it resembled -Baron Kolár's." "So did I," I said.</p> +Baron Kolár's." "So did I," I said.</p> <p>Outside the winds worked, venting brokenly and gruff like breakers of oceans thundering on unearthly shores, while for some time I lay too fore-done to sleep, pondering the wonder of that voice in the night. If -it was truly Baron Kolár's—I am still not sure of it!—what, I asked +it was truly Baron Kolár's—I am still not sure of it!—what, I asked myself, could be his motive? Had he merely wished to prove to us his absolute power over our lives? Or had this terrible man meant to destroy us, but relented in the midst? I oftentimes think that he had a liking @@ -4944,7 +4906,7 @@ more.</p> <p>I, for my part, more easily overcame the effects of my night on the alp, and during those days set myself to come at the truth as to whether or -no Baron Kolár was really at home; I must have questioned twenty people; +no Baron Kolár was really at home; I must have questioned twenty people; but the answer was always the same: his lordship was not in residence.</p> <p>On our third morning (a Saturday) at the guest-court we received, to our @@ -5026,7 +4988,7 @@ led us into the gaudy little church, which Langler examined lingeringly, especially two curious niches in the south wall beside the altar, where the elements had been kept, over which he bent so long that Herr Tschudi and I became restless; "I see," I said meanwhile to Tschudi, "that your -front row of seats are really easy-chairs, as I once heard Baron Kolár +front row of seats are really easy-chairs, as I once heard Baron Kolár say that they are."</p> <p>"Yes," he answered, with a smile. And he added, with a certain flush and @@ -5068,8 +5030,8 @@ prison in the alp for that?"</p> <p>"Sir, let me tell you what you are not perhaps aware of, that among the ancestors of his lordship on the distaff side have been several -Reichsunmittelbarer-Fürsts, and that till late times the lords of this -castle have been rechts-fähig" (able to make private laws).</p> +Reichsunmittelbarer-Fürsts, and that till late times the lords of this +castle have been rechts-fähig" (able to make private laws).</p> <p>"Quite so, quite so," said I, "but still, a prisoner in a private castle ... in our times...."</p> @@ -5472,12 +5434,12 @@ moreover, it is not in the scheme. We have now actually seen Dees in prison, so the proper authorities can no longer refuse to act, and upon them we must now cast the burden."</p> -<p>"But the authorities <i>can</i> refuse to act," said I, "for Baron Kolár, +<p>"But the authorities <i>can</i> refuse to act," said I, "for Baron Kolár, remember, is no mere nobleman, but a political somebody, and the authorities, if they do act, may take weeks, or 'months or years,' as Dees said. True, the authorities are what we originally proposed: but we did not then contemplate that <i>time</i> would be the question, that Baron -Kolár might be here at home, or might have any purpose against the life +Kolár might be here at home, or might have any purpose against the life of this poor man—'crucify,' by the way, is the word which Dees used: open your mind to it, Aubrey."</p> @@ -5486,7 +5448,7 @@ he: "Dees' mind may be unhinged."</p> <p>"Not in the least, I believe," I answered. "Are crucifixions so very unfamiliar to you? I say that if some circumstance or other once led -Baron Kolár to vow that this thing shall be done, then it will be done, +Baron Kolár to vow that this thing shall be done, then it will be done, unless we act now out of the rut of ourselves, on a plane higher than our everyday height. It is hard to do, of course, but perhaps we can screw ourselves up to it. Let us think of Dees' agony of waiting for the @@ -5510,7 +5472,7 @@ I: "I am convinced that Emily would agree with me, if I know her."</p> <p>"No, nego, nego."</p> <p>"Well, we won't dispute that," said I; "but still, let us think of Dees -waiting, despairing, conscious perhaps that Baron Kolár is in the +waiting, despairing, conscious perhaps that Baron Kolár is in the castle, with God knows what ghastly meaning. And to move the authorities will take time, even if they be willing; and who can say what may happen meanwhile to Max Dees?"</p> @@ -5764,7 +5726,7 @@ with me to Gratz, but he said, what was true, that it was useless for us both to go; he was weary and disillusioned, and perhaps Herr Tschudi's command to go had something to do with his will to stay, but I was unwilling to leave him, and begged him to go down at least to -Speisendorf or Badsögl; but no, he would stay where he was. At last the +Speisendorf or Badsögl; but no, he would stay where he was. At last the noises died down, and some time after two we went to bed.</p> @@ -5797,7 +5759,7 @@ Misses Chambers, and was quite well, she said. But something in me boded that she was not so well as she said.</p> <p>Hence those weeks in Gratz were rather to me like three years. Among -Langler's letters of introduction was one to a Herr Müller, a +Langler's letters of introduction was one to a Herr Müller, a grain-merchant in the Holz Platz, upon whom I first called; he received me heartily, and introduced me to a certain Herr von Dungern, a lawyer, who said to me in his office on the morning after my arrival: "I'm @@ -5815,7 +5777,7 @@ statement, which you will duly formalise for me." "True, true," said he, and Herr Oberpolizeirath."</p> <p>I now know that this Herr von Dungern was a tenant of land under Baron -Kolár, but still, I can't accuse him of untrustiness to me, only of +Kolár, but still, I can't accuse him of untrustiness to me, only of slowness—of intentional slowness, I think. It was not till the following morning that I was brought to the bureaux with the affidavits, and then it was from bureau to bureau, each interview somehow filling up @@ -5868,7 +5830,7 @@ together apart. Such shrugs, such spreadings of both palms, and gazings over the rims of spectacles, one never saw! Then came the proposal that I should drop my plaint for a time, till the baron should be given a chance to set free his captive; to which I answered angrily: "But is -Baron Kolár to be forewarned by those who should be his judges? He will +Baron Kolár to be forewarned by those who should be his judges? He will never of himself set free this captive, and if he be given hints and nudges in the dark I shall consider that both justice and myself have been betrayed." "Eh, eh, we know that the English hold no leaf before @@ -5906,9 +5868,9 @@ which gave rise to this sort of fierce haste that now possessed and hissed in her to see our faces yet once again.</p> <p>Gratz, meantime, was as lively a town, both in a social and religious -way, as it is ever a charming one. I saw the fête of the Visitation of +way, as it is ever a charming one. I saw the fête of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin, and that of the Precious Blood on the Sunday -following, and each time I peeped into St Ægidius it was full of people +following, and each time I peeped into St Ægidius it was full of people praying, with a priest or two pacing among them, like well-satisfied shepherds, while in the lesser churches also was much the same sight. I had nothing to do at night, and to escape from myself went to two balls, @@ -5923,7 +5885,7 @@ pretty little girl named Rosie, who for some years had been in the service of my sister, Lady Burney, but now was in the service of the Duchess of St Albans. When I expressed my surprise at seeing her, her answer was: "the duchess is on the way to Vienna, but stopped at Gratz -to have an interview with Baron Kolár; she understood in London that the +to have an interview with Baron Kolár; she understood in London that the baron is at Schweinstein, but he isn't, as it turns out, and no one seems to know where he is somehow, so I don't know what our next move will be."</p> @@ -6004,7 +5966,7 @@ criticism, not without definite result.</p> <p>On the night of our meeting I mentioned her in my usual letter to Langler, and in his next to me were the following words:—"This Rosie, -you tell me, says that Baron Kolár is not at Schweinstein: but you and I +you tell me, says that Baron Kolár is not at Schweinstein: but you and I believe differently! That voice and those two English words which you heard on the night when we were saved from drowning, and that light in (?) the castle laboratory on the night when we saw Max Dees—these, @@ -6058,10 +6020,10 @@ and everything, in the end, would have been otherwise than it was.</p> <p>It was on my seventeenth morning in Gratz that, having been fortified -with a letter by Herr Oberbürgermeister, I saw the Prince-bishop: the +with a letter by Herr Oberbürgermeister, I saw the Prince-bishop: the morning of an audience: so that I had first to wait a long time among a mob of all sorts of men, who passed in one by one at the call of a -Spanish abbé with sandals on his feet, a lad of such beauty that one's +Spanish abbé with sandals on his feet, a lad of such beauty that one's eyes clung to his face, till my turn at last came, and I was ushered into a chamber almost Pompadour in style, with statues, mirrors, flowers, through a door of which one could see, and smell, the @@ -6082,7 +6044,7 @@ face down to mine, the good man glared at me, giving forth the roar: "<i>Impious scoundrel!</i>"</p> <p>I, for my part, felt myself flush, and half rose to answer the insult, -for I fancied that he meant me: but he meant Baron Kolár!</p> +for I fancied that he meant me: but he meant Baron Kolár!</p> <p>During the remainder of our half-hour's interview it became clear to me that there had been long-standing feud and war before this between the @@ -6094,14 +6056,14 @@ discovered the key to the dungeon of Dees.</p> <p>And so it proved: for, to cut short the story of intrigue, and runnings to and fro, and hurried breaths, during the next three days, on my twentieth day in Gratz a body of garrison-soldiers and -sicherheitswachmänner, numbering twenty-seven, set out from Gratz for +sicherheitswachmänner, numbering twenty-seven, set out from Gratz for the mountains, I being in the rail-train with them, after having sent to Swandale the telegram: "All goes well; you will see us within four days."</p> <p>These officers of the law were sent out in secret, under orders to break into any part of Schweinstein Castle if need were, and to set free -the priest. I parted from them at Badsögl at four in the afternoon, +the priest. I parted from them at Badsögl at four in the afternoon, hurrying on upward on horseback, while the troop followed, travelling afoot. Langler and I clasped hands under the corn-sheaf hung in the guest-court porch, where he stood expecting me, looking, I thought, @@ -6127,10 +6089,10 @@ wore their wonted faces, and seemed to have no weight on their minds.</p> <p>While I was feeding upon the old gansbrust and beet, Langler and I made up our minds that we had better be at the burg when Dees was set free, so as to seize upon him, hear whatever he might have to tell, and then -speed down in the waggonette to Badsögl, whence we would wire Dees' +speed down in the waggonette to Badsögl, whence we would wire Dees' story to England, and so, having won our backs bare of the world's business, make for home. All this was settled. My trunk was waiting -below at Badsögl; Langler's was ready packed.</p> +below at Badsögl; Langler's was ready packed.</p> <p>In the midst of our talk a boy of the place named Fritz brought us a telegram: it was from Swandale, and in the words: "Yours received, @@ -6226,7 +6188,7 @@ sandwiches. I ran and asked one of them for the news.</p> <p>"He is not in there," was his answer, "we have searched every nook, and are now going to look round."</p> -<p>"Did you see Baron Kolár inside?"</p> +<p>"Did you see Baron Kolár inside?"</p> <p>"No, the baron is not in the castle," he said.</p> @@ -6319,7 +6281,7 @@ must have been imposed by the burg upon the mountain.</p> <p>"Yes," said the woman to us, "they watched me and the little Undine in my cottage, dreading that I should bespeak the two foreigners, for I fear neither them nor anything—the world knows it." We stood now with -her within a hütte, or cowshed, which let in the drizzle, and we had +her within a hütte, or cowshed, which let in the drizzle, and we had lightning glimpses of a Roman face, and black locks, and proud rags, and of a child whom she called Undine hugged in her powerful arms to her bosom.</p> @@ -6372,7 +6334,7 @@ established a pet in the castle. He was sent to the University of Gratz, where he highly distinguished himself. As in Austria most of the priests are of peasant birth, the baron decided to make of the genius a churchman; and in due course Dees came to be the priest of St Photini's -in the castle-court. At that time Baron Kolár was a widower, with one +in the castle-court. At that time Baron Kolár was a widower, with one child, the joy of his eye, a little maid of sixteen named Undine.</p> <p>"But Max strung his chords all too high for the folk," his mother told @@ -6423,7 +6385,7 @@ castle-court, and the bell ceased to ring, the people waited, but no Max Dees appeared. The hour for the beginning of the office was long past, and the congregation was murmuring, when all eyes were caught by a vision hung in mid-air: but a disgusting one this time—one worthy of -Baron Kolár—a pig nailed to a cross, a real pig to a real cross. And +Baron Kolár—a pig nailed to a cross, a real pig to a real cross. And while they gaped at it, the head of the baron came up through the trap-door of the vaults; he walked to the pulpit, went up into it. His hands were red with blood. The people declared that in that one day the @@ -6469,7 +6431,7 @@ displeasure.</p> As for the ill-starred Undine, she seems to have died in, or soon after, giving birth to the five-year-old Undine of whom I had lightning glimpses on the breast of the Mother Dees. This child, the granddaughter -of a nobleman, was in rags, and had never been seen by Baron Kolár: a +of a nobleman, was in rags, and had never been seen by Baron Kolár: a fact which chilled me with a sense of the changelessness of this man's resentments.</p> @@ -6502,7 +6464,7 @@ trunk, but hurry straight down to the nearest sennhaus, get horses—— Theocritus with all my notes," panted Langler, trotting after my haste.</p> <p>"Well, then, we must get the trunk," said I, "but it is dangerous: I -wish to Heaven that we were safe down at Badsögl...."</p> +wish to Heaven that we were safe down at Badsögl...."</p> <p>At that moment—we were now at the castle-back—I saw the light of a lantern, and a second later struck against Herr Tschudi. "Well met, @@ -6545,14 +6507,14 @@ and drive straight down."</p> <p>He did so! and we were off down the main road in a flush of escape. I pitied Langler for his lost papers, but there was no help. "Let us only -hope," said I, "that we sha'n't reach Badsögl too late to send the +hope," said I, "that we sha'n't reach Badsögl too late to send the telegrams to England to-night."</p> <p>"Why so particularly to-night?" he asked.</p> <p>"But is it not certain," I answered, "that the last phase of the plot against the Church must now be about to show itself in the greatest -haste? Wasn't it because of the might of the Church that Baron Kolár so +haste? Wasn't it because of the might of the Church that Baron Kolár so feared our meddling in the matter of Dees? And now that he has dared this massacre of a churchman, how shall he escape the Church's vengeance if the Church is to remain mighty one month more? He is about to strike @@ -6565,7 +6527,7 @@ precious."</p> ask that, Aubrey. Assuredly we shall do good. We, too, indeed, shall have to show that the miracles are none, but, then, we shall also show that they were no machinery of churchmen. In the case of the miracle up -here six years ago, which made the little model for Kolár's great +here six years ago, which made the little model for Kolár's great scheme, the death of the Church was due to the fact that the miracle <i>was</i> found out to be the doing of the priest; but if we show that on the great scale churchmen have been guiltless of guile no shock of @@ -6712,7 +6674,7 @@ may have been the form of the boy Isai, who had perhaps followed us, it may have been Miss Emily's wraith, or a phantom of our brains; in any case, we underwent such troubles and shyings of the soul that night as could not be told, lasting more or less upon us almost till we got to -Badsögl about daybreak, so worn out that we at once dropped upon our +Badsögl about daybreak, so worn out that we at once dropped upon our beds, and slept.</p> @@ -6724,7 +6686,7 @@ beds, and slept.</p> <p>I opened my eyes about mid-day quite quit of our night of griefs, with -the word "<i>safe</i>" on my lips, for down there at Badsögl in bright +the word "<i>safe</i>" on my lips, for down there at Badsögl in bright daylight all looked rosy at last, and I was already inclined to doubt the bogies of the dark. Eager to start for England, I woke Langler, wired to Swandale, warned our Hanska to be ready. We breakfasted, and @@ -6788,7 +6750,7 @@ intended."</p> <p>"Ah, it would shock her, such a telegram," said Langler.</p> <p>"We needn't send it, really," said I; "I only propose it so as to be -quite on the safe side, for this message of Baron Kolár's is just a +quite on the safe side, for this message of Baron Kolár's is just a threat, a last card to keep us from acting; if we defy it, and send the two telegrams, he will have no motive whatever to hurt Emily—except a wanton revenge, of which the man is incapable. I believe that Emily is @@ -6796,10 +6758,10 @@ quite safe, really. Let us boldly send the two telegrams, whether we send one to Emily or not."</p> <p>"Oh, I couldn't," he murmured, flinching, pacing the floor, sorely -pestered now. Of Baron Kolár as regards his sister he had a blue awe +pestered now. Of Baron Kolár as regards his sister he had a blue awe and shiver, like a man who when a child has been frighted with bogies. It is obvious that my view of the matter was the rational one, but he -flinched irrationally, he had a blue fear of what Kolár might just +flinched irrationally, he had a blue fear of what Kolár might just possibly be minded to do to Miss Emily. On the other hand, his pride rebelled against the baron, for when I said: "don't send the telegrams, then, but let us start at once," his answer was: "but who is this man @@ -6870,7 +6832,7 @@ which case, do you still advise me to send one to Emily bidding her fly from Swandale?"</p> <p>I looked at the clock, saying, "no, not now, too late: for if Baron -Kolár really meant her any harm, by this time he has made his +Kolár really meant her any harm, by this time he has made his arrangements to accomplish it; she wouldn't escape him. But he means her no harm, and such a telegram would only throw her into needless alarms."</p> @@ -7104,7 +7066,7 @@ it not better...."</p> <p>"Never mind, help," I panted.</p> <p>I think that he would now have helped, but as he was now about to say -something else the key turned outside, and Baron Kolár came in, equal to +something else the key turned outside, and Baron Kolár came in, equal to three men. As he locked the door again, I sprang up from my knees, and we both faced him. He had on the old shabby satin jacket, his hat hung over his eyes, looking earnest and abstracted, like a man carrying on @@ -7121,7 +7083,7 @@ paper.</p> <p>"Well, now, you see," said the man.</p> -<p>We made no answer, and Baron Kolár began to pace the room.</p> +<p>We made no answer, and Baron Kolár began to pace the room.</p> <p>"You have been most insolent and foolish, you two men," said he: "I have lavished warnings upon you in vain, and I shall have you shot within @@ -7151,7 +7113,7 @@ did hear it of her?"</p> <p>"Or rather—all of it," suggested Langler.</p> -<p>"Well, you made a mistake," said Baron Kolár. "However, I have a +<p>"Well, you made a mistake," said Baron Kolár. "However, I have a confirmed confidence in your honour: sign me, therefore, this paper, promising not to divulge to a soul during ten years, or till my death, anything that you have learned on the alp, and you shall be free men. @@ -7173,14 +7135,14 @@ finished with.</p> <p>It was now for Langler to sign.</p> -<p>"Now, Mr Langler," said Baron Kolár, when Langler made no movement to +<p>"Now, Mr Langler," said Baron Kolár, when Langler made no movement to sign.</p> -<p>"No, Baron Kolár," answered Langler, "no," with his eyes cast down.</p> +<p>"No, Baron Kolár," answered Langler, "no," with his eyes cast down.</p> <p>"What! You do not sign?"</p> -<p>"No, Baron Kolár, no," he repeated.</p> +<p>"No, Baron Kolár, no," he repeated.</p> <p>"Then woe to you, sir," said the Baron, measuring him from head to foot.</p> @@ -7199,7 +7161,7 @@ to die for a Church which you always call obsolete, for which you care nothing really, except by some trick of culture, it would be too monstrously pitiful, for God's sake, only this once——"</p> -<p>"But what is the matter with Mr Langler?" said Baron Kolár: "my time is +<p>"But what is the matter with Mr Langler?" said Baron Kolár: "my time is short."</p> <p>"But by what right do you even dream of daring to shed anyone's blood?" @@ -7211,7 +7173,7 @@ have such divine rights."</p> <p>"One readily admits the righteousness of your motives," said Langler, "but the clearness of your head is less certain, if I may say so. We all -intend to do good, Baron Kolár, but to do it is an intricate trick, only +intend to do good, Baron Kolár, but to do it is an intricate trick, only given to critics. You seem in your scheming to have quite forgotten the moral reaction which must follow upon the sudden death of faith, and upon the disclosure that the men who try to remind the world of God are @@ -7221,7 +7183,7 @@ swept away? Your motives are good: why should you not give up this scheme even now, and I, on my side, should be able to vow myself to silence?"</p> -<p>At this Baron Kolár, looking down upon him, answered: "you speak, sir, +<p>At this Baron Kolár, looking down upon him, answered: "you speak, sir, very like a child; you are a man with a mind made up chiefly of theories acquired in your study, or acquired from other prigs and theorists who are foreigners to the agoras of men. Is not this scheme of mine modelled @@ -7250,7 +7212,7 @@ of them, as swimming is to a frog that was lately a swimming tadpole. But do not trouble your head about any such questions at all: just sign me that paper now."</p> -<p>"I regret that I do not quite see with you, Baron Kolár," answered +<p>"I regret that I do not quite see with you, Baron Kolár," answered Langler stiffly, with downcast eyes, while I, wooing at his ear, whispered, "ah, but Emily, Aubrey, you forget!"</p> @@ -7258,7 +7220,7 @@ whispered, "ah, but Emily, Aubrey, you forget!"</p> <p>"No, sir," said Langler.</p> -<p>Baron Kolár groaned.</p> +<p>Baron Kolár groaned.</p> <p>"It seems a pity, Mr Langler," he said, "that you are quite so gallant a man. Nature, after all, is a cannibal tigress that devours her fairest @@ -7322,10 +7284,10 @@ paper this instant."</p> <p>"Oh, sign," I whispered, edging nearer to Langler, but he stood white, inflexible. "There is no occasion for anyone to die," he said, with -lowered lids: "let Baron Kolár be silent as to the miracles being none, +lowered lids: "let Baron Kolár be silent as to the miracles being none, and I, too, will be silent; but if they be bruited abroad as the work of churchmen, then, I shall not fail, if I have life and liberty, to -declare that, on the contrary, they are the work of Baron Kolár."</p> +declare that, on the contrary, they are the work of Baron Kolár."</p> <p>"But how am I to be silent?" asked the baron: "does Mr Langler imagine that I am alone in this scheme? This night three thousand gentlemen, @@ -7338,12 +7300,12 @@ my own private name: to save my life, then, which I have a thought of laying down for your wounded sister's sake, vouchsafe to sign me that paper this instant."</p> -<p>"Such a thought is most admirable, Baron Kolár, and would be quite +<p>"Such a thought is most admirable, Baron Kolár, and would be quite surprising, if it were not you who had it," said Langler; "but, after all, the claims upon us of gratitude and affection are not the greatest. I pray you, then, not again to ask me to sign the paper."</p> -<p>To this Baron Kolár said nothing in reply, but picked up the paper +<p>To this Baron Kolár said nothing in reply, but picked up the paper signed by me, put it into his pocket, and paced about, frowning; till on a sudden his brow cleared, he said: "oh, well," and he sat himself down on the bedstead laths. There he took out of his pocket a bag of grapes, @@ -7402,7 +7364,7 @@ with his hand held over his heart. I was only just in time to catch him. had got him to the chair and fanned him with my handkerchief he presently opened his eyes. "My heart, God knows," he began to say, when the key was again heard in the lock, whereat he got up hastily, -buttoning his dress again, as Baron Kolár came in.</p> +buttoning his dress again, as Baron Kolár came in.</p> <p>The baron first placed the key of the door and a piece of paper on the chair, saying: "here is the key and a permit for you to go out of the @@ -7410,20 +7372,20 @@ house, in case of my death, gentlemen"; then, pouring two pills from a big blue pill-box into his palm, he held them out to Langler, saying: "now, sir, if you take one of these I will take the other."</p> -<p>"But why so?" I heard Langler ask; and I heard Baron Kolár answer: "one +<p>"But why so?" I heard Langler ask; and I heard Baron Kolár answer: "one is a poison, the other is harmless; choose one, sir, and I will have the other."</p> <p>"But if I chance to choose the harmless one," Langler next said, "I -become the cause of the death of a most magnanimous man, Baron Kolár."</p> +become the cause of the death of a most magnanimous man, Baron Kolár."</p> -<p>"Of a most rash and foolhardy man, sir," was Baron Kolár's answer; "but +<p>"Of a most rash and foolhardy man, sir," was Baron Kolár's answer; "but choose quickly, I charge you, sir."</p> <p>"But, baron——" I heard Langler say.</p> <p>"Do not delay! or I dash the cursed pills to the ground!" I now heard -Baron Kolár cry out: "your chance to serve your sister and madman +Baron Kolár cry out: "your chance to serve your sister and madman Church vanishes in two ticks of my watch!"</p> <p>"Well, then, since you put it in that way, baron ... well, then, @@ -7431,9 +7393,9 @@ baron...." I heard Langler say, but what next went on I did not witness, for my face all this while was pressed against the wall. Indeed, I was sick, with a most mortal taste in my mouth, and there at the wall I waited in what seemed to me a month of stillness, until there reached me -a sound of moaning which I understood to come from Baron Kolár. I dared +a sound of moaning which I understood to come from Baron Kolár. I dared then, for the first time, to turn and look at them. Langler was standing -with his back against the wall, white, but smiling; Baron Kolár was +with his back against the wall, white, but smiling; Baron Kolár was sitting on the bedstead, holding his head with both his hands, his eye wandering wildly. When he caught my eye he said to me: "it is I who have swallowed the poison-pill, yes, it is I." And when I now moved to stand @@ -7458,10 +7420,10 @@ Miss Langler how a man like me died for her, tell the Misses Chambers and all your friends how I perished, let all their hearts pity me and bleed...." It was while he was saying this that I first noticed Langler, who now stepped out from the wall toward us, trying to smile, saying to -Kolár, "no, baron, do not dismay yourself with such fancies, you have +Kolár, "no, baron, do not dismay yourself with such fancies, you have already over-much worked out ..." but his speech was broken short by a jerk of the neck, his mouth was drawn, he had an aspect of terror: death -was in the face of my friend. Baron Kolár, staring at him, seemed to +was in the face of my friend. Baron Kolár, staring at him, seemed to start from a dream, and like a man dropped aghast but glad from the gallows-rope the man's lips unwreathed in a kind of rictus, as he said with an opening of the arms: "well, I told you how it would be," @@ -7472,7 +7434,7 @@ answer, when I only gaped at him, he fled away.</p> <p>I sat by the bedstead, upon which Langler had fallen, and must have remained there on the floor, I imagine, till five or six <span class="smcap">p.m.</span> the next -evening. Baron Kolár's prophecy that the bedstead would become a +evening. Baron Kolár's prophecy that the bedstead would become a death-bed within one hour did not come true, for it must have been two, perhaps three, hours before Langler was freed from his anguish, though I am not sure, for after half-an-hour or so the light for some cause died @@ -7701,7 +7663,7 @@ you will come with me forthwith to church."</p> wilful numbness of yours you won't remember anything. It is a Church of transcendent ambitions, Templeton, aspiring at no less than the planting under heaven before long of a tribe higher than man, though its methods -of setting about it are of a naiveté bound at first to leave you alien +of setting about it are of a naiveté bound at first to leave you alien to their mystery of meaning; its theory is that the fowl precedes the egg: it grapples with the parent, beginning at the base of the ladder, its eyes fixed on the flying galaxies; but you wouldn't catch a glimpse @@ -8107,7 +8069,7 @@ rest added by commonplace rude people.</p></div> <p style="margin-left: 30%;"><b>LIFE'S SHOP WINDOW.</b> <span class="smcap">Victoria Cross.</span><br /> <b>THE HUSBAND HUNTER.</b> <span class="smcap">Olivia Roy.</span><br /> -<b>THE KING'S WIFE.</b> <span class="smcap">Hélène Vacaresco.</span><br /> +<b>THE KING'S WIFE.</b> <span class="smcap">Hélène Vacaresco.</span><br /> <b>BLINDMAN'S MARRIAGE.</b> <span class="smcap">Florence Warden.</span><br /> <b>SINEWS OF WAR.</b> <span class="smcap">Eden Phillpotts</span> and <span class="smcap">Arnold Bennett</span>.<br /> <b>THE WIRE TAPPERS.</b> <span class="smcap">Arthur Stringer.</span></p> @@ -8116,383 +8078,6 @@ rest added by commonplace rude people.</p></div> <p class="center">T. 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