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Three days' grace, moreover, are allowed to the said Valentine Kalondai, within which time he is to come to a decision." With this politic document both the Jesuits and the Zwirina faction were very well satisfied.
Michal answered not a word. "Thus all your negations are confuted, and now let us hear your affirmations. What is the name of the young man who has presumed to make you a declaration of love?" "Valentine Kalondai." The learned man no sooner heard this name than he smote violently with the palm of his hand on the volume of Macrobius lying open before him.
At the bottom of the pan, the last drop of water had long since evaporated. "My buck-goat has arrived," cried the witch, in triumph. At that moment, Valentine Kalondai entered and advanced toward Michal. It was no longer joy, it was frenzy which took possession of the young woman.
The car stood still before Kalondai's house, the doors and windows of which were shut, as indeed were the windows and doors of all the houses, and closed they must remain till the pealings of the church-bells gave them the signal to reopen. At the knocking of the curator, Valentine Kalondai appeared on the balcony. "What do the citizens require of me?"
Zurdoki had sent her to corrupt the wife of Valentine Kalondai. She had intended, by fair means or foul, to have carried Michal off and made her Zurdoki's mistress. She had been paid to do so, and had got everything ready for carrying out this diabolical plan.
The Turks, overtaken, and thus prevented from dragging away my husband alive, at once resolved to kill him, and one of them drew a saber to cut off his head. But Kalondai was quicker than the Turk, and cut him down with a single blow. Thus he saved my husband's life and liberty. So now you see how well we did in praying together out of the same prayer book. You have a brave husband!"
That will, indeed, be a painful meeting when Valentine Kalondai and Henry Catsrider meet each other in the narrow path leading to the scaffold, the one as the judge of wretched criminals, the other as the torturer, the executioner of the condemned felons! How will he be able to look that man in the face? He would not submit to the inevitable.
The fulfilment of the proverb, as you make your bed so must you lie in it, comes to pass. Valentine Kalondai knew Henry Catsrider ill, and all his psychological calculations foundered completely. During the last few years Henry Catsrider's nature had entirely degenerated.
Valentine Kalondai declared, however, that he would only hold office till the new order of things had been established; then they must elect them a new sheriff in his place.
Valentine Kalondai took the pen, dipped it into the inkhorn, and wrote, no longer with a trembling hand, the date and his own name at the bottom of the warrant, underlining the words "with three staves" twice, and taking good care not to mistake the inkhorn for the sandbox when he sanded his signature.
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