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Stuler half rose from his chair, but sank again. "Exactly. This play, for some reason unexplained, is the price of his reestablishment into the graces of the noble Hapsburgs. Between us, I think the prince is playing a game for himself. But who shall blame him?" "The devil! I thought Austria was very favorable to the Osian house." "Favorable or not, it is nothing to us."
The night following remittances was a glorious one both to Stuler and the students. There were new scars, new subjects for debate, and Stuler got rid of some of his prime tokayer. The politics of the students was socialism, which is to say they were always dissatisfied. Tourists seldom repeated their visits to Stuler's.
"Stuler, how much will you advance me," he asked, "on a shotgun worth one hundred crowns?" "A shotgun worth one hundred crowns? Ten." Johann made a negative gesture. "Fifty or none. You can sell it for seventy-five in the morning. So could I, only I want the money to-night." "If you want wine " began Stuler. "I want money." Stuler scratched his nose. "Bring the gun to me.
He had fought a dozen successful duels, and finally had been expelled from the university for beating a professor who had objected to his conduct in the presence of ladies. Other ill reports added to his popularity. To be popular in this whimsical world of ours, one has either to be very good or very bad. Johann was not unwilling to speak. Stuler had given him the cue; the cuirassiers.
They kicked me out of the palace grounds yesterday; me, me, me!" hammering the oak with his fist. "Who?" "Von Mitter, the English-bred dog! I'll kill him one of these days. Is it play to-night, or are they serious?" nodding again toward the hall. "Go in," said Stuler, "and look at some of those heads; a look will answer the purpose." Johann followed this advice.
Without a word he filled the glass and set it down before Johann, who raised it and drank, his beady eyes flashing over the rim of the glass and compelling the innkeeper to withdraw his gaze. "Well?" said Stuler, uneasily. "I need you." Johann finished his glass with moderate slowness. "Your storehouse on the lake is empty?" "Yes, but "
Popular he was; but the students knew his failings, among which stood prominently that of a forgetful borrower. They would buy him drinks, clothes and food, if need be, but they would not lend him a stiver. And he could not borrow from Stuler, whose law was only to trust. Johann gambled, and wine always brought back the mad fever for play.
And when it breaks and break it will! gay times for you and me. There will be sacking. I have the list of those who lean toward the Osians. There will be loot, old war dog!" Stuler smiled indulgently; Johann was beginning to feel the wine. Perhaps he was to learn something. "Yes, 'twill be a glorious day." "A week hence, and the king goes forth a bankrupt." "If he lives," judiciously.
"I would that you had made no slip of the tongue, Johann," he murmured. "Gott, what is going on? The princess was not to wed, to be sure, but the duchess passed a king besides " "Silence!" enjoined Johann. "Stuler, I am about to venture on a daring enterprise, which, if successful, will mean plenty of gold. Come with me into your private office, where we shall not be interrupted nor overheard."
The night before he had lost rather heavily, and he wanted to recover his losses. Rouge-et-noir had pinched him; he would be revenged on the roulette. All day long combinations and numbers danced before his eyes. He had devised several plans by which to raise money, but these had fallen through. Suddenly he smiled, and beckoned to Stuler.
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