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One, however, had watched Diedrich's constant visits to the house, and his heart burned with jealousy. One evening Diedrich was returning to his home, when, looking over his shoulder on hearing footsteps, he discovered that he was followed.
The Judgment of Thackeray The Union The Prolific Diedrich Knickerbocker Omens of 1836 The Century Its Descent from the Sketch and the Column Old-Time Austerity Leaders of the Talk The Lotos The Union League The Manhattan The First of the College Clubs The Columbia Yacht The New York Athletic Rise and Fall of the Traveller's The Arcadian.
Diedrich Knickerbocker, the old gentleman whose sudden and mysterious disappearance has been noticed. It is published in order to discharge certain debts he has left behind." When the book was published the people took it up, expecting to find a grave and learned history of New York. It was dedicated to the New York Historical Society, and began with an account of the supposed author, Mr.
Brill at that time was not a populous city, nor did it possess much commercial importance; but it was well walled and fortified, however, and had a most commodious port. The inhabitants were peaceable, well-disposed people, who thought as much of themselves as the citizens of other cities of similar importance are apt to do. Among them was a young merchant Diedrich Meghem.
The chronicle of the venerable Diedrich here goes on to relate how that, shortly after the above-mentioned events, the whole province of the New Netherlands 'was subjugated by the British; how that Wolfert Acker, one of the wrangling councillors of Peter Stuyvesant, retired in dudgeon to this fastness in the wilderness, determining to enjoy "lust in rust" for the remainder of his days, whence the place first received its name of Wolfert's Roost.
Attached to the story is a note supposed to have been written by Diedrich Knickerbocker, which a careless reader might overlook, but which is an excellent introduction to the story.
Diedrich was well aware of the relationship, and it increased the confidence he felt in Peter, who was also of his own way of thinking indeed, a more thorough Protestant could not have been found. Diedrich found his way, at the hour appointed, to Peter Kopplestock's cottage down by the river-side.
This, with the other sketches, was printed in handsome form as the first number of a periodical, which was offered for sale at seventy-five cents. In fact, the best story in the first number, "Rip Van Winkle," was represented to be a posthumous writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker, the author of the "History of New York."
"What object have you in dodging my steps?" asked Diedrich, placing his hand on his sword ready to draw. "As you ask me a question, I will put another to you," said the stranger, also drawing his sword half out of the scabbard. "For what purpose do you visit the house where you have been passing the evening?"
"The times are not propitious for marriage, however," he observed. "Matters may mend; they can scarcely grow worse. Gretchen is young, and can wait a little. You must have patience, then, my good friend Diedrich." Gretchen and her lover passed many pleasant evenings together, though it was considered prudent not to make their intended marriage public.
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