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Updated: May 8, 2025
The Gregorics divided the 18,000 florins refused by the nine ladies, among the three of them, and also the few hundreds obtained by the sale of the dead man's furniture and personal property, but the rest of the money was still missing. The whole town was discussing the question of its whereabouts, and all sorts of silly tales were set afloat.
"After all," they said, "who knows what ties there were between them? Gregorics must have been a lively fellow in his youth."
All the same there are some things that will never be known for certain; for instance, what really became of Pál Gregorics' fortune, for there is no sign of it to this day. Was the supposed receipt in the handle of the umbrella or not? No one will ever know, not even little Matykó, who drank the water with three sparks in it. No king drinks such precious liquid as he did if the story be true.
I don't know if he has provided for your future, my poor boy, but it's all over with me, I'm dying, I wouldn't mind betting it." And he would have won his bet too. Gyuri went home for Gregorics's funeral, and a week later the landlady sent word that the old professor was dead, and he was to send money for the funeral. But what was Kupeczky's death to that of Gregorics?
Nature had blessed Pál Gregorics with a freckly face and red hair, which made people quote the old saying, "Red-haired people are never good." So Pál Gregorics made up his mind to prove that it was untrue. All these old sayings are like pots in which generations have been cooking for ages, and Pál Gregorics intended to break one of them.
'It seems to me, Jónás, I said, 'that you wander about the next world, too, to buy "ole clo'," and bought that umbrella there of Pál Gregorics. At which he smiled, and said he had not gone as far as that yet, for he only kept to the two counties of Zólyom and Hont, and had divided the neighboring counties among his sons; Móricz had Trencsin and Nyitra, Számi had Szepes and Liptó, and the youngest, Kóbi, had only last week been given Bars, but they none of them intended to go into the next world until they were obliged to."
When the last lesson was over, Gregorics was waiting at the gate, and the delighted boy would run and join him though his comrades, who, one would have thought, would have had enough to occupy their thoughts elsewhere, teased him about the old man.
The boatmen, astonished, gazed at one another, then the younger man began to pull off his boots. "Are you joking, sir, or do you mean it?" "Here are the hundred florins," said Gregorics, taking a bank-note from his pocket-book. The young man, a fine specimen of a Szeged fisherman, turned to Kupeczky.
The masons looked at each other surprised, and the elder one answered. "Why, of course we can keep silence, that is the first thing a man does on his arrival in this world." "Yes, until he has learnt to talk," answered Gregorics. "And even afterward you can make the trial if it is worth your while," said the younger man slyly.
Why, the old man used to mix dry potato leaves with his tobacco to make it seem more, and poured the dregs of the coffee on it to make it burn slower." Pál Gregorics heard that he had displeased the good townsfolk by smoking such dear cigars, and immediately took to short halfpenny ones.
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