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While with tearful eyes she bade Massi farewell, she gave him messages of remembrance to Wolf; and the violinist, no less agitated than herself, promised to deliver them. He was hopefully anticipating a cheerful evening of life in the midst of his family. Existence had promised Barbara higher things, but she seemed to have found the power to be content.
He did not know to whom the child that had been intrusted to his care belonged, and, as he had bound himself by a solemn oath to maintain secrecy toward every one, he did not utter a word to Barbara about the boy and the obligations which he had undertaken. The parting was a sad one to the young wife, for in Massi she lost not only a tried friend, but as it were a portion of her former life.
Before leaving her, he undertook to send her tidings of Wolf's health now and then by the violinist Massi, as he had not leisure to do it himself. At the same time he earnestly entreated her to repress her wish to see the sufferer again, and to bear in mind that she could receive no visitor, take no step in this house or in the city, which would not be known in the Golden Cross.
Wolf Hartschwert slightly shrugged his shoulders and calmly answered: "It is all true about the heritage, Massi, and also the trouble, but it is unpleasant to hear you, too, call me 'Sir. Let it drop for the future, if we are to be intimate. To others I shall, of course, be the knight or cavalier. You know what the title procures for a man, though your saying
"Inde-e-ed?" drawled Massi; then he bent his eyes thoughtfully upon the floor for a short time, and, after calling Wolf by name in a tone of genuine friendly affection, he frankly added: "Surely you know how dear a comrade you are to me! Yet precisely for that reason I stick to my counsel.
At the same time she thought of her other two boys, and her face again wore a compassionate expression. Not they, but this little prince from fairyland was her first-born, her dearest, her true child. But where were they taking her John? What had Massi to do with him? Why should the boy be in Philip's train? There was only one explanation. Her child was being conveyed to Spain.
Now Barbara herself mentioned the boy whom Massi had taken to Spain in the train of the Infant Don Philip. How this affected Wolf! He started, not only in surprise, but in actual alarm, and eagerly demanded to know who had spoken to her about this child in connection with the violinist. Barbara now said truthfully that she had seen Massi with her own eyes in the Infant's train.
Appenzelder would not leave his boy choir, but Gombert had accepted an invitation from the Duke of Bavaria, at whose court in Munich the best music was eagerly fostered. His road would lead him through Landshut, and how more than gladly Barbara would have accompanied him there! She must now bid farewell to Appenzelder and Massi, and it was evident that the parting was hard for them also.
Because I know nothing myself. Then the old man reflected, and added, 'But I shall not even succeed in keeping this one quiet, because he is so much swifter than I." "And is the Emperor Charles satisfied with such a teacher for his son?" asked Barbara indignantly. "Massi had described the sacristan to Don Luis as a learned man," replied Wolf. "But I have now told his Majesty of a better one."
According to the secret history thus prepared for the enlightenment of the king and his ministers, the whole administration of the Netherlands especially the financial department, with the distribution of offices was in the hands of two favourites, a beardless secretary named Cosmo e Massi, and a lady of easy virtue called Franceline, who seems to have had a numerous host of relatives and friends to provide for at the public expense.
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