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But how taken aback was he when the first man who cast eyes on him gave vent to a loud: Ha! ha! ha! whereupon everybody else began laughing also and pointing their fingers at him and exclaiming: "Why here's Gerzson! Gerzson has come back again!" "Have you all gone mad?" cried Gerzson, confused by this inexplicable hubbub.
"We really cannot drink the water here, your ladyship," said Gerzson, handing her his flask; "to all appearance nobody will ever drink the water out of the well of this shanty again. Such wells are generally walled up."
At last, after a weary journey, when evening was already closing upon them, Henrietta perceived the csárdá gleaming white behind the acacia trees. When they stumbled into the courtyard they found nobody, and nobody came out of the door to meet them. "All the better, nobody will see these game-legged nags," growled Squire Gerzson as he helped Henrietta out of the carriage.
You'll never catch her up, for, early this morning, she drove back to Hidvár in a postchaise with her husband." "That can not be true. Did you see her?" "I saw her through my own field glass. But we all saw her did we not, gentlemen?" Many of those present admitted that they had indeed seen the baroness. "But my dear fellow," said the perturbed Gerzson, "this is no joke.
"This is very curious," thought she, "two men would have been quite sufficient to bring along the relay." Three of the four men dismounted from their horses and a fifth came out of the stable and had a short consultation with them; then the three approached the csárdá door and tried to open it. This struck Henrietta as suspicious and she thought it was now high time to awake Mr. Gerzson.
They had scarce proceeded for more than another half hour when Mr. Gerzson again began to cast suspicious glances down from the box-seat. "I say, Joska," he cried at last, "it seems to me the left leader, the whip horse, is also limping." Down leaped the coachman, examined the horse's foot and pronounced that the hoof of the left leader had also been pricked. "Devil take...!" cried Mr.
Not wishing to arouse the clergyman, he went to his carriage which stood in the stable and lit the lamp in order to read the mysterious missive. The letter was written on a piece of paper torn out of an album. He recognized Henrietta's handwriting, and the contents of the note were as follows: "Good kind Gerzson! I implore you, in the name of all that is sacred, to depart from hence this instant.
Should any troublesome person look in, you may tell him that the consort of Baron Hátszegi is here and that Gerzson of Satrakovics is mounting guard before her door." Old Ripa kissed her ladyship's hand without so much as thanking Squire Gerzson for his tip, but he quietly unyoked the horses and brought into the house some of the things he found in the coach.
At that all my pluck went down to my heels; I rushed under the shelter of the barn, cut the tether ropes of the horses, swung myself up on to the saddle horse, driving the others before me, and trotted into Arad without once stopping to water them." So he had reached home more quickly than Squire Gerzson himself. After that he was sure of the fellow's silence.
"Because I fear to leave them here, and also because I believe I shall never return to this house any more. I have one request to make of you and that is that you will read these letters and keep the contents to yourself." Gerzson promised to do so.
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