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Updated: May 15, 2025
"As you like," answered Paul, slipping the fire-arm into his pocket. The starosta moved away a pace or two. He was essentially a man of peace. Half an hour later it became known in the village that the Moscow doctor was in the house of one Ivan Krass, where he was prepared to see all patients who were now suffering from infectious complaints.
Again Keith started to rise from his seat, but even as he did so, it flashed through his mind that he was given no more attention to German than to other studies. "... to Otto Krass of the Second Grade," the Rector completed his sentence, holding out a book.
"I don't know," he said at last, being a truthful fool in most matters, "I have not asked papa yet." And there was a smile on the other boy's face which Keith disliked without guessing the significance of it. Commencement brought him a prize again a German dictionary just like the one Krass got when Keith carried off the highest prize in school after thinking himself ignominiously passed by.
But this mood changed abruptly into contriteness. Perhaps he was being punished by some one, by God he hesitated at that thought for grudging his schoolmate the place and the honours that he probably had deserved. Keith was the meanest of the mean.... Krass was back in his seat showing his book.
As Keith sank back on the bench, Krass, quintus, rose with an expression on his face as if he had become personally involved in a particularly incredible miracle. A whisper ran through the rest of the class. Glances were cast at Keith, who felt them like so many lashes on bare skin although in every other respect he had once more become utterly unconscious of what happened about him.
Then he remembered his mother's remark on hearing about his place in the class, and he wondered if it could be possible.... But the parents of Krass had neither wealth nor position. That much he knew.
Then followed his marriage with Gretchen Krass, a Swiss girl of peerless beauty. Then came the gallant rescue, which almost cost him his life, of three drowning sailors whose boat had upset in the sea near Heligoland. For that and his victory over the American yacht Defender, C.C.I., the Emperor forgave him and placed him in control of the new aeronautic arm of the German forces.
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