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Updated: June 8, 2025
The Englishman wasn't there, but they got three or four others they were looking for Fritz and another deserter included. I was nearly there myself!" I was always hearing references of this kind to my exploit. I was never spoken of except in terms of admiration, but the name of Clubfoot der Stelze excited only execration and terror. I lived in daily fear of a raid at Haase's.
"Good, good!" said the German and put her lamp down on the table. "There was a telephone message for you," she added, "to say that der Stelze will come at eight in the morning to receive what you have brought." The deuce! This was getting awkward. Who the devil was Stelze? "Coming at eight is he?" I said, simply for the sake of saying something. "Jawohl!" replied Frau Schratt.
In a flash I saw before me again that scene in the squalid bedroom in the Vos in't Tuintje the candle guttering in the draught, the livid corpse on the floor and that sinister woman crying out: "Der Stelze has power, he has authority, he can make and unmake men!" The mind has unaccountable lapses. The phrase had slipped out of my German vocabulary.
I said, "and ... and took charge of things generally, eh?" Her little eyes snapped viciously. "Ach!" she said, "der Stelze is der Stelze. He has power; he has authority; he can make and unmake men. But I ... I in my time have broken a dozen better men than he and yet he dares to tell Anna Schratt that ... that ..."
The German woman turned to go. "Der Stelze will be here at eight, then," she said. "I suppose the gentleman will take his early morning coffee before." "I shan't be here," I said. "You can tell your friend I've gone." She turned on me like a flash. She was hard as flint again. "Nein!" she cried. "You stay here!" "No," I answered with equal force, "not I ..."
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