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The horses started, Zoska tried to get into the sledge. 'What are you doing? cried her attendants, pulling her back. 'That's my little girl! cried Zoska, holding on. 'What if she is yours? said the Soltys, 'there's one road for you and another for her.
'Run, Maciek, and bring her back, cried Slimakowa. But Maciek did not stir. 'You can't send a man after a mad woman on a night like this, said Slimak. 'Well, what am I to do with this dog's child? Do you think I shall feed her? 'I dare say you won't throw her over the fence. You needn't worry, Zoska will come back for her. 'I don't want her here for the night.
During her peregrinations Zoska had behaved with complete indifference; when she was taken to a new place she would worry at first whether she would find work. After that she became apathetic and slept the greater part of the time, on her plank bed, or waiting in corridors and prison-yards. It was all the same to her.
He dreamt that Slimak would become a gentleman when the railway was finished, and that he, Maciek, would then wait at table, and perhaps get married. Then he crossed himself for having such reckless ideas. How could a poor fellow like him think of marrying? Who would have him? Probably not even Zoska, although she was wrong in the head and had a child.
Flames were licking at it, and there stood Zoska shaking her clenched fist at him and shouting: 'That's my thanks to you, Slimak, for taking care of my child, now you shall die as she did! She flew out of the yard and up the hill; he could see her by the light of the fire, dancing and clapping her hands. 'Fire, fire! she shouted. Slimak reeled like a wild animal after the first shot.
No, it was a strange hand that groped along the wall in the darkness. He drew back, and his head swam when the door opened and Zoska stood on the threshold. For a moment both stood silent, then Zoska said: 'Be praised. She began rubbing her hands over the fire.
He walked by the side of the sledge and Grochowski and a man who was to make closer acquaintance with the police-court, for spoiling his neighbour's bucket, went with him. It so happened that, just as the Wojt was dispatching the bodies to the police-court, the police officer was sending 'Silly Zoska' back to her native village.
Then Slimakowa hired a woman by way of an experiment for half a year to help her with the work. Sobieska stayed for nine months, then one night she escaped to the village, her longing for the public-house having become too strong. Her place was taken by 'Silly Zoska' for another six months. Slimakowa was always hoping that the work would grow less, and she would be able to dispense with a servant.
Slimakowa stepped back for a moment, but when the firelight fell into the passage, she discerned a human face in the opening of the shawl, copper-coloured, with a broad nose and slanting eyes that were hardly visible under the swollen eyelids. 'The Lord be praised, said a hoarse voice. 'You, Zoska? asked the astonished gospodyni. 'It is I.
Zoska approached once more from the side of the ravines. 'Never mind the Germans helping you, you will die all the same, she cried. 'Who is that? shouted the settlers, 'catch her! But Zoska was too quick for them. 'I suppose it was she who set fire to your house? asked Fritz. 'No one else but she. Fritz was silent for a moment. 'It would be better for you to sell us the land.
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