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Pelle at any rate saw a little of Christmas as it passed, and was as interested in it as if it concerned himself; and he gave Lasse no rest from his questions that day. So Bodil was still faithful to Gustav, after all! When they got up the next morning, they found Gustav lying on the ground by the cow-stable door, quite helpless, and his good clothes in a sad state. Bodil was not with him.
I will pay you your thousand pounds." Rosek, still smiling, answered: "Gustav, don't be a fool! With a violin to your shoulder, you are a man. Without you are a child. Lie quiet, my friend, and think of Mr. Wagge. But you had better come and talk it over with me. Good-bye for the moment. Calm yourself." And, flipping the ash off his cigarette on to the tray by Fiorsen's elbow, he nodded and went.
They held meetings and denounced the Emperor and his lawless doings, but Gustav they would not help. The princes of Brandenburg and of Saxony, the two Protestant Electors of the empire, were rather disposed to hinder him, if they might, though Brandenburg was his brother-in-law. Only when the King threatened to burn the city of Berlin over his head did he listen.
That night runners were sent on the trail of Gustav to tell him to come back; they were ready. When he came, it was as if a mighty storm swept through the mountains. The people rose in a body. Every day whole parishes threw off their allegiance to King Christian. Sunday after Sunday Gustav spoke to the people at their meeting-houses, and they raised their spears and swore to follow him to death.
"I have been on the sands with Count Gustav." "Ah, that was nice, I should think," Mrs. Caldwell observed graciously. "And what were you talking about?" "Being married, principally," Beth answered. Mrs. Caldwell beamed above her knitting. "And what did he say?" "He strongly advised me not to marry if I didn't want to." Mrs. Caldwell changed countenance. "Did he indeed?" she observed with a sniff.
"When she had the fever and was getting well?" "Yes, I cannot forget it; poor girl, her cheeks were so hot I could almost light a match by them; but, thank God, she got over it." "You remember, Gustav, how cross she was and how hard it was to please her?" "But that was because she was sick; when she was well, then she laughed all the time, just like Nick when he don't feel bad."
"I discover this beautiful American here in Warsaw, in the heart of the war; I love her; I marry her. It is wonderful!" "It certainly is," said Gustav. "Wonderful indeed! And in order to bring her to a proper idea of your goodness and charm, you shoot her father and brother do you shoot her brother, by the way?" Otto scowled. "You are coarse, my friend," he said. "I do not shoot anyone.
A German page, Leubelfing, a lad of eighteen, was alone with the King. He sprang from his horse and tried to help him into the saddle but had not the strength to do it. Gustav Adolf was stout and very heavy. While he was trying to lift him some Croats rode up and demanded the name of the wounded man. The page held his tongue, and they ran him through.
When they had finished, the head man knocked on the table with the handle of his knife, and Karna came in with two dishes of porridge and a pile of bread-and-dripping. "Where's Bodil to-day?" asked Gustav. "How should I know? Her bed was standing untouched this morning," answered Karna, with an exulting look. "It's a lie!" cried Gustav, bringing down his spoon with a bang upon the table.
Born in New Haven, Conn., June 8, 1858, and taught music by Gustav J. Stoeckel, he came under the tuition of Dudley Buck for seven years. His twentieth year found him an organist at New Haven. Three years later he went to Brooklyn in the same capacity. He was the organist at Plymouth Church for some time before Henry Ward Beecher's death. Since 1887 he has been at the Church of the Pilgrims.
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