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Updated: May 18, 2025
"But then you ought to see the marks of the bullets on the opposite wall." And it was a fact that, look as they might, they found no trace of a bullet on the walls or anywhere else. The events at the Mikalai csárdá considerably upset Hátszegi. He returned home very sulky and was unusually ungracious towards Henrietta.
In the ice-bound season the young man set out, and from the description which Teresa gave him, he recognized the funereal pine-grove which John Kárpáthy had had planted round the family vault, in order that there it might be green when everything else was white and dead. He quitted the sledge, and cut across the plain, while the driver returned to the wayside csárda.
On approaching the next csárda, Maria allowed Hanák to draw nearer to her; her escort had to explain to the mob of peasants drinking in front of the door on what errand they were speeding. He did so in his usual boisterous bombastic fashion. "We are going to town," bawled he.
Next morning Clementina, after first making quite sure that nobody had had his or her throat cut during the night, was moved by curiosity to ask what sort of connection his lordship had with this csárdá since he seemed to know everybody in it.
"Thank you; you are very good to me, but I must return this very hour. The moon will soon be up, and there will be light enough to see my way by. I must make haste, for there's lots for me to do at home." He could not prevail upon him; a man's sorrow has no desire to be comforted. Rudolf accompanied him to the wayside csárda, where the sledge was awaiting him.
The csárdá woman kissed Henrietta's hand with great familiarity and kept on saying in a quavering voice: "Oh, thou tender little creature! to think of giving them to husbands so early!" cried she. But Clementina, who was always nervous in strange places, called the baron's attention to the fact that loud masculine voices were proceeding from somewhere within the csárdá.
You and I, papa Gerzson, might go on there with the horses while the coachman makes the best of his way on foot to Oroshaza, where he can get fresh horses and join us early in the morning at the csárdá." Squire Gerzson jerked his head significantly. "I don't want to alarm you, my dear Baroness," said he, "but that csárdá lies in the beat of the "poor vagabonds" you may have heard of them."
Whoever in an evil hour encountered Fatia Negra had a shaking hand for the rest of his life. Ever since that meeting at the csárdá Henrietta's hand also trembled to such an extent that it was only with the utmost difficulty that she could sign her own name. What happened to her after that meeting? Whom did she recognize in Fatia Negra?
Only three of them were mounted, the General's adjutant, Kamienszka, and himself, all the rest were on foot. Even with the utmost exertion it would take at least four hours to reach Hétfalu. During the long journey Maria told Imré everything she knew about his family. Nobody disturbed their conversation, the road was empty and noiseless. When they reached the first csárda that also was silent.
John could see that it was now quite impossible for him under the circumstances to think of quitting Pest. Squire Gerzson Satrakovics thought it best after that night at the csárdá to go back to Arad. This wondrous event, the clue to which he could not hit upon anyhow, must needs interest Hátszegi most of all.
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