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Updated: June 10, 2025
Surely the affairs of an insignificant fellow like himself never crossed the mental horizon of such a big and busy person as Karl Krauss? There was no doubt that the animal he had seen near Elephant Point bore a suspicious resemblance to Krauss's weight-carrying grey pony! What was "Dacoit" doing in the jungle, thirty miles from Rangoon? He could make a pretty good guess.
I tell Karl that my father was an English General and I am English a real Englander. We differ in so many ways from these German women in what we eat, like, and believe, and how we make our beds, do our hair, and even how we knit!" Dressed for making a round of visits, Mrs. Krauss presented a different appearance from that loglike invalid her niece had first beheld.
Very different are those which are suggested by a mild and continuous light like that of the moon. A. Krauss tells how one day on awakening he perceived that he was extending his arm toward what in his dream appeared to him to be the image of a young girl. Little by little this image melted into that of the full moon which darted its rays upon him.
Krauss once more re-entered society figuratively leading by the hand a lovely niece, of whom she was unaffectedly proud and who, she imparted to her friends, "had given her a new interest in life." Hitherto, she declared, she had felt like a flower that was withering for the lack of sun; now Sophy supplied the sunshine.
Years of this relaxing climate and intense depression tempted her to seek relief, and once she had touched the drug it gripped her like a vice and made her a prisoner." "Whom you are struggling to release? Does Herr Krauss know?" "No; he has no suspicion. No more had I till recently. Lily, the ayah, Mr. FitzGerald, you and I, are all that are in the secret."
"Send at once for Herr Krauss he is in his office," and Sophy ran towards her aunt's room and found, as Lily had described, that her relative was passing away; indeed, save for her faint breathing, one would have supposed that she had already crossed the border.
Cf. a similar story told by a peasant to Dr. Krauss' mother no longer ago than 1888, as having recently happened at Mrkopolje: he "knew the parties!" Ellis, p. 208; Grinnell, p. 129. Jahn, p. 364, cited above, p. 279. According to him the husband was never to invite company to the castle. This is probably more modern than the other version.
Krauss, but his wife made no reply she merely beamed and shook her head. Eloquence and persuasion were wasted. He and Sophy might just as well have appealed to the alabaster Buddha in the drawing-room. Flora Krauss never argued possibly this was one phase of her indolent nature. She merely assumed an immovable, negative attitude and met every suggestion with a smile and a shake of the head.
He came away from China stony-broke, picked up a few thousands in Singapore and then settled in Rangoon about twelve years ago and Rangoon has suited him down to the ground. When they first arrived Mrs. Krauss was an extraordinarily handsome woman, popular and lively; could keep a whole dinner-table going and was always splendidly dressed. On the whole, a valuable, but unconscious tool!
The Krauss abode is large and gloomy it looks like a house in a bad temper, and stands in the heart of the German community; the servants seemed a low-class lot, the rooms were dark and untidy, and smelt of mould and medicine, but Sophy was just as bright and cheerful as usual; apparently delighted with everything loyal, of course, to her own blood.
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