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Updated: June 18, 2025
'No, the wise man goes slowly, Slimak deliberated. The gospodyni appeared at that moment with Maciek. They went into the alcove, drew two chairs and the cherrywood table into the middle of it, covered it with a cloth and placed a petroleum lamp without a chimney on it. 'Come, Soltys, called the gospodyni, you will have supper more comfortably in here.
I'll give it you, I'll rip myself open to give it you...thirty-five paper roubles and a silver rouble. 'Oh dear, oh dear! wailed the gospodyni. 'Weren't you letting the cow go for thirty-three roubles just now, Soltys? Grochowski raised his tearful eyes first to her, then to Slimak. 'Was I?... Josef...brother...I'll give you the cow for thirty-three roubles.
'It is no use tracking near here, said the Soltys, 'we know all about that, but it would be useful to know where the other track leads to. Follow that as far as you can, and if you find any clue let me know at once. You ought to be back here by to-morrow. 'And shall we find the horses? 'We shall find them even if we had to drag them out of the thieves' bowels, said the Soltys, looking fierce.
'Slimak drove them out of the house? she repeated, fingering the bodies, 'yes, that's my little girl, she's grown a bit; whoever heard of a child being frozen to death?... she was meant to come to a bad end. As God loves me, yes, that's my girl, my little girl they've murdered her; look at her! she suddenly became animated. 'Drive on, said the Soltys, 'we must be getting on.
Here was the Soltys, known in the whole parish as a hard man, crying like a child, and Slimak shouting like the bailiff and disobeying his wife. 'Come to the barn, Soltys, said Slimakowa, taking him by one arm while Maciek took the other. He followed like a lamb, but while she was preparing his bed on the straw, he fell upon the threshing-floor and could not be moved by any manner of means.
Maciek was also given to understand why Jasiek Gryb had entertained the gospodarz and his family so liberally, and Grochowski even seemed to know the man who had presented Maciek with the monks' cordial and said that the woman in the sledge was not a woman at all. 'I will do whatever you tell me, Soltys, said Maciek, embracing his knees, 'even if you should send me to my death.
'And...Soltys, have you heard what the accursed Jew has been saying about Maciek and the child being frozen to death? 'How shouldn't I have heard? said the Soltys, reluctantly; 'it's true. 'Frozen...frozen? 'Yes, of course. But, he added, 'every one understands that it's not your fault. He didn't look after the horses and you discharged him. No one told him to go down into the ravines.
The old man looked helplessly at the peasants in turn. 'Are you going to ruin my life for a paltry sum? 'Wait...wait, cried Gryb, seeing that the Soltys was in earnest. He took Slimak aside. 'Neighbour, if there is to be peace between us, he said, 'I'll tell you what you will have to do. 'What? 'You'll have to marry my sister. You are a widower, she is a widow.
When it was broad day, Antek fetched the village deaf-mute, who washed and dressed the old man, laid him out, and put a consecrated candle at his head. Antek then went to give notice to the priest and to the Soltys of his father-in-law's death and his own inability to pay for the funeral. 'Let Tomek bury him; he has got all the money.
Near the church the tracks became confused and, what was worse, divided. Kasztan had been ridden to the right and Wojtek to the left. After reflecting for a moment, Maciek followed the latter track, possibly because it was clearer, but most likely because he loved that little horse the best. About noon he found himself near the village where Magda's uncle, the Soltys Grochowski, lived.
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