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That Baboushka is a witch of malevolence, or I am woefully misinformed, and the major an awkward antagonist. I would a thousand miles separated my daughter, and this young man, from both of them." In the lobby he saw a young girl, with her hair in curl-papers and a candle in her hand, descending the stairs from above. "Ah, Hedwig," he said gently, "I am not sorry you have risen so early."
He may have expected Baboushka or one of her fraternity, and the tall, slender student, who had flung off his cloak to run more swiftly, gave him a surprise. The agile and intelligent girl took the opportunity with commendable speed, and glided out of the major's relaxing grasp like a wasp from under the spider's claws.
Out of the two cavities which the broken staff now presented, rattled several gold coins. At the sight, the old hag scrambled toward where the major had fallen senseless. The Jew, after picking up the broken pieces of wood, would have lingered to recover those of the precious metal though at cost of a scuffle with Baboushka.
I had better have quitted the hall and profited by the invitation of refuge which Herr Daniels offered me." For the moment, he could take no part, though he could not doubt that Baboushka would denounce him a stranger, and the principal in the duel with canes. His cloak would help toward the identification and unless the hag's crew had abstracted it, it would be forthcoming, he doubted not.
He was sure that he had not left the town by the ordinary channels, but, as time passed, and the week ended fruitlessly, he was inclined to believe that the fiend which befriended Baboushka had also shielded Claudius with his wing.
The major had been discovered by quite another sort of folk than the allies of Baboushka, and the alarm was given. To advance was to invite an arrest which would result in no pleasant investigation. He had tarried too long as it was. The watchman's horn tute-horn sounded at the bridge and the squad responded through their commander; whistles also shrilled, being police signals.
She was half way over the bridge when he began to ascend the gentle slope, and when he was arduously following with the summit well before him, the officer emerged abruptly from his covert. He must have been calculating on this moment and this separation to which Baboushka had no doubt contributed. She now loomed into view.
You married the student Ruprecht who turned out to be your cousin Felix Clemenceau. For a time you played the part of the idolizing young wife admirably. You never reproached his father's head for the murder of your aunt and he said never a word about the old beggar-sovereign Baboushka.
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