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They are not my friends, anyway, and I'd rather you did not dance another csárdás to-night." "I am sorry, Béla," she said quietly, "but I have promised Fehér Károly and also Jenö. They would be disappointed if I broke my promise." "Then they'll have to be disappointed, that's all."
"Well said, little Elsa!" came now in ringing accents from the foremost group in the little crowd; "we must see you dance the csárdás once or twice more before that ogre has the authority to shut you up in his castle." "Moreover, your promise has been made to me," asserted Fehér Károly lustily, "and I certainly shall not release you from it." "Nor I," added Jenö.
"And I am sorry, Béla," she said, speaking at least as firmly as he did, "but I have given my promise, and even you would not wish me to break my word." "You mean to disobey me, then?" he asked. "Certainly not after to-morrow. To-day I have my mother's permission, and I am going to dance one csárdás now with Fehér Károly and one after supper again with Jenö."
Then it was that the merry company at last broke up, and that Fehér Károly and his brother took the short cut behind the inn, and found the bridegroom at whose expense they had just danced and feasted lying stark and stiff under the clear September sun.
Fehér Károly and his brother, who lived down the Fekete Road, had taken a cut across the last maize-field the one situated immediately behind the inn kept by Ignácz Goldstein, and they had come across Béla's body, lying in the yard, with face upturned and eyes staring up sightlessly at the brilliant blue sky overhead. It was then close on eight o'clock in the morning.
For a time; though for a time only; Karoly or others returning in a week or two, to a still higher extent of thousands; mischievous as ever in those Ratibor-Namslau countries.
"I didn't mean to defy you, Béla," she said, striving with all her might to keep back the rebellious words which surged out of her overburdened heart to her quivering lips. "I couldn't be unkind to Jenö and Károly, and all my old friends, just this last evening, when I am still a girl amongst them." "You preferred being obstinate and wilful toward me, I suppose?"
Stopping at Debreczin only long enough to get a little supper at the station restaurant, we pursued our journey through the night. I do not imagine that we lost much that was worthy of note owing to the darkness, for the line continues to traverse a sanely plain utterly devoid of good scenery. Towards morning we passed two important towns namely, Nagy Károly and Szathmár.
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