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Updated: May 4, 2025
"You have taught him that?" The other shook his head. "Come, we will see." Together they tiptoed through the dark church, softly up to the organ-loft and peered in. The boy, oblivious to sight and sound, played on. Kerlman leaned far forward, craning his neck. He drew back, a look of stupefaction in his face. He held up his large thumb and looked at it soberly. "What is it?" whispered the other.
Bohm gave a sharp, generous laugh. "You may use it." He laughed again. "All the world will use it!" he said, patting him on the back. "It is a great discovery. Play more." The boy turned obediently to the keys, and while he played, the master slipped away. "Come down," he whispered to Kerlman, whose fat bulk filled the doorway. "Let us come down and get some beer. I am very dry this day."
Over their mugs, in the garden across the way, they looked at each other solemnly. Then they threw back their big heads and laughed till their sides shook and their wigs stood askew. Kerlman laid his fat thumb on the table and regarded it respectfully. "Gott im Himmel!" he said. Bohm nodded, his eyes twinkling. The fat man raised his thumb from the table and twiddled it in the air.
Now and then he took off his glasses and rubbed them vigorously, and put them on again to peer absently down the street. A heavy figure, clad in the faded blue uniform of the Michaelsschule, rounded the corner, puffing heavily. "Ach, Kerlman!" The tall man started forward with a stride. "You are late." The other nodded imperturbably. "Ja, I am late. Those boys I cannot make to hurry."
It fell with a stiff thud. "Ja, ja," he said, half impatient, half laughing. "How is one to do it such fool tricks! Ja, ja!" The keen eyes watching him had a proud look. "You know what he will be that boy," he said exultingly. "He will be a great musician!" "He will be a great bother," grumbled Kerlman.
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