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Updated: June 16, 2025
It was the first real vacation of her life, and more than that she was going to Semmering, in the very shadow of the Raxalpe, the beloved mountain of the Viennese. Marie had seen the Rax all her life, as it towered thirty miles or so away above the plain.
A dozen intent men sat at the tables; a silent room, but for the hum and click of the instruments. Tarrano said softly: "We have been very busy while you below were engaged with your petty hates." He seated himself at a table apart, upon which was a single mirror, and he gathered us around him. The mirror was dark. He called: "Rax let me see Mars you have them by relay? The Hill City?"
"'Kennst du das Land' Good-morning, sir the old Rax wears a crown. It will snow soon. 'Kennst du das Land wo die Citronen' Ah, madam the milk Frau, and are the cows frozen up to-day like the pump? No? Marvelous! Dost thou know that to-night is Mignon at the Opera, and that the Engel sings? 'Kennst du das Land' " At eleven came Rosa with her husband, the soldier from Salzburg with one lung.
"Dunter," he said, "rax me that bar from the furnace"; and uplifting Sampson, as he called the monstrous hammer, he plied the metal with a hundred strokes from right to left now with the right hand, now with the left, now with both, with so much strength at once and dexterity, that he worked off a small but beautifully proportioned horseshoe in half the time that an ordinary smith would have taken for the same purpose, using a more manageable implement.
Bitter and hard, that is, during his absences; he had but to enter the room and her rage died, to be replaced with yearning and little, shy, tentative advances that he only tolerated. Wild thoughts came to Marie, especially at night, when the stars made a crown over the Rax, and in the hotel an orchestra played, while people dined and laughed and loved. She grew obstinate, too.
Greater than she had ever dreamed it, steeper, more beautiful, more deadly, and crowned with its sunset hue of rose was the Rax. Even Stewart lost his look of irritation as he gazed with her. He reached over and covered both her hands with his large one under the robe. The sleigh climbed steadily.
Here they had bought a luncheon, there Marie had first seen the Rax. Again at this station she had curled up and put her head on his shoulder for a nap. Ah, but again, at this part of the journey he had first seen Anita! He took a car to the Siebensternstrasse. His idea of Peter's manner of living those days was exceedingly vague.
A distant scene, empty and lifeless save for black puffs which rose in the air above the city. Tarrano called impatiently: "Closer, Rax!" The image dissolved, blurred; turned red, violet, then white. We seemed now upon a height close above the city. It was seething with confusion. Fighting going on in the streets.
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