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"Good, good!" said the German and put her lamp down on the table. "There was a telephone message for you," she added, "to say that der Stelze will come at eight in the morning to receive what you have brought." The deuce! This was getting awkward. Who the devil was Stelze? "Coming at eight is he?" I said, simply for the sake of saying something. "Jawohl!" replied Frau Schratt.
The officer stared incredulously for a moment and then nodded to the scribe in token that he was to write down what was said. "Charged with having stolen a doll, is that it?" He turned to the policeman in charge. "Jawohl, Herr Hauptmann." "May it please you, Herr Hauptmann, I did not say that," put in the porter, coming forward. "Who are you?" "The man from whom the doll was stolen.
I shall be at the west entrance afterwards. You will bring him down yourself to the car." "Jawohl, Herr Graf!" answered the man in green, and the lieutenant vanished through the door into the night. A terrifying, an incredible suspicion that had overwhelmed me directly I stepped out of the car now came surging through my brain.
"Bitte um zwei Münchener!" "Sogleich, meine Herren." "Ein Chartreuse und ein Pilsener!" "Jawohl! Sofort!" And the waitresses sped, vying with one another, coquetting with their patrons, smiling gayly with sharp retorts; their eyes bright, their trays laden with foaming beer mugs. In one of the alcoves, far back in the shadow, sat two gentlemen.
Only his mouth quivered a little as instantly his hands busied themselves with clearing away my breakfast. "Jawohl!" he answered in a perfectly emotionless voice. And then he smiled and in a flash the old Francis stood before me. "Not a word now," he said in German as he cleared away the breakfast. "I am off this afternoon.
The boy from East Prussia said he didn't care what they took from him as long as they didn't take his life. He was safe now and nothing else mattered. He spoke with a Polish accent. I asked him what town he came from. "Allenstein." "Did you see anything of the Russians in 1914?" "Jawohl" he had seen plenty of Russian troops. They behaved very well.
As far as I was concerned I had really learned a little, and knew what to buy, and had fairly correct notions as to when and in what soil to sow and plant what I had bought; but of what use is it to buy good seeds and plants and bulbs if you are forced to hand them over to a gardener who listens with ill-concealed impatience to the careful directions you give him, says Jawohl a great many times, and then goes off and puts them in in the way he has always done, which is invariably the wrong way?
And then he would turn to us standing by, and with one hand on his heart, and the other sweeping grandly through the air, would make a profound bow and say: "The young lady and I great progress make already. I have her words comprehended. We shall wondrous mysteries solve. Jawohl! Wunderlich! Make yourselves gentlemen easy. Of the human race the ancestral stem have I here discovered."
Each man had a soldier servant who looked after boots and luggage, kept him supplied with cigars and cigarettes from the Quartier commissariat for a paternal government included even tobacco! and charmed the simple republican heart by whacking his heels together whenever spoken to and flinging back "Jawohl!"
Krafft put his hand to the side of his mouth. "She gave him three thousand marks." On all sides the exclamations flew. "Oh, gee-henna!" "Golly for her!" Again Krafft leaned forward with a maudlin laugh. "JAWOHL but on what condition?" "Heinz, you ferret out things like a pig's snout," said Furst with an exaggerated, tipsy disgust. "What, the old louse made conditions, did she?" "Is she jealous?"
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