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Do you think they'll take her into that family, do you think they will receive your daughter, the daughter of a " Von Barwig was now almost hysterical. "If they don't take her, I take her! If they don't want her, I want her. She's mine, I'm going to have her! I want my own flesh and blood. Do you hear, Ahlmann? I'm tired of waiting, tired of starving for the love of my own.
"You think?" eagerly inquired Von Barwig. "Well, of course there's nothing absolutely sure, but this is the last report he's sent in. Seems to me to pretty well cover the case, but it's been a hard job. This fellow Ahlmann has completely covered his tracks." "The child? She she lives?" "Oh, yes; yes!" "And the mother?" "I think he's located them all.
I am going to baptise you, Ahlmann; I give you back your name." "Anton, Anton! Why not sit down calmly and talk it over?" pleaded Stanton. "Ah, you were always a polite man, the kind women like; a man born with kid gloves and no soul. Now we take off the gloves; we show you as you are," and Von Barwig shook his finger at the man opposite him.
"You know what a scandal this will make," he pleaded. "I know," replied Von Barwig in a quiet tone. "I know!" "The whole country will ring with it," said Stanton. "You shouldn't have prayed so loud, Ahlmann," replied Von Barwig with a sardonic smile. "You laid too many cornerstones; your charities are too well known.
You always were a damned successful fellow, Ahlmann," he added vindictively. "Before God, Anton," cried Stanton with a show of emotion, "I didn't mean to do it; I swear I didn't. It was a mad impulse! It's not in my real nature." "Nature never makes a blunder. When she makes a scoundrel she means it," said Von Barwig. Stanton started and then looked through the library window.
Then, when the news comes, you ask for more money and when I have given it, it is again a false clue." "That ain't our fault!" observed the stout gentleman. "My partner follows a clue, and you can't blame him if it don't turn out exactly the right one. This fellow Ahlmann is an eel; that's what he is, an eel! But I think we've got him now, I'm almost sure!"
I take what is mine!" and he strode over to the bell and deliberately rang it. "Don't, don't for heaven's sake!" shouted Stanton, trying to restrain him. It was too late and Stanton almost fell back into his chair. "Come, stand up! To your feet, Ahlmann!" shouted Von Barwig in a loud voice. "I cannot throw you from your house as you would me; but I can empty it for you. Come!
Von Barwig felt the force of this argument, and he knew there was no reply to be made. His anger was gone he was thoughtful now. Stanton saw that he was gaining ground. "For her sake, Von Barwig," he pleaded; "for her sake! Just think!" Von Barwig interrupted him with a gesture, motioning him to silence. "Look here, Ahlmann," his voice was strangely quiet now. "I knew!
He even found it in his heart to forgive the mother; after all, she was the mother of his little one, that he could never forget. As for Ahlmann, he could not picture him; his mind refused to conjure up a thought of the man. It seemed as if he were dead, and that Von Barwig was on his way to rescue the wife and child from some danger that threatened them.
"This morning, just as I was leaving for rehearsal, the servant handed me this. My little girl is all I have left now." His voice choked with emotion as he turned once more toward the window. At the sight of his friend's suffering Poons could no longer contain himself, and he fairly blubbered as he read the following: "DEAR ANTON: Henry Ahlmann is in Leipsic and I have seen him.
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