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Then: "Now I must be off to Poganec," said I. "So endeth the first day's service." "And the last." I drew myself up. "Am I dismissed, then?" "Oh, well " "Of course, if you're not satisfied, madam " "But I am, only " "Then," said I, "I'll stop on. Good night, beautiful Doll." "Dolly." "Dolly, then." I swept off my hat and turned to go. "Don't you want to er shake me?" said Dolly.
They were coming in the car from Salzburg, and were going to join me this evening at a farm called Poganec, where I had slept last night and where we were all going to stay. We had told people we were going to fish. I think Jonah meant it. We others were going to sleep and watch him and sleep again. Now, Poganec and Savavic were only seven miles apart, and were served by the same post office.
We had done our twenty miles out, and I was looking for a place to turn the car, when I caught sight of Poganec below us in the valley, by road some three or four miles away. Then suddenly for the first time a terrible thought flashed into my mind. We were on the very road which Berry and the others must take, coming from Salzburg. Supposing we met them....
In fact, they were at opposite ends of the same valley, in the midst of which, half-way between the two, our common village slept in the hot sun. It was in the course of my first walk that I had come upon Savavic. And now, instead of being at Poganec to welcome them this afternoon, here was I at Laipnik pretending to be a chauffeur. What did it matter? I should be back that evening.
I reached Poganec just as they were finishing dinner. As I entered the room: "Hullo," said Berry. "This your night out?" "That'll do." said I. "You had your show this afternoon." "My show? My humiliation," said my brother-in-law. "Think of it. My wife's brother in service. How can I ever hold up this noble head again? And this after all my years of striving to elevate. But there!
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