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Updated: June 19, 2025
The author looks upon his characters with a great, all-tolerant sympathy, aloof yet kindly, as a god. A more objective work of fiction it would be hard to find certainly in what used to be called "the neurasthenic North." And this from the pen of the man who wrote Sult, Mysterier, and Pan.
Jerry was awfully glad that he had found his parents and that he was going with them and was much excited at the thought of traveling with the circus for three whole weeks and getting real well acquainted with Great Sult Anna O'Queen, but his throat grew all lumpy at the thought of leaving kindly Mother 'Larkey, loving Kathleen and gentle Nora and Chris and yes, and Danny and Celia Jane, too.
In Aftenröde, the "Sunset" of the trilogy, Kareno himself deserts the cause of youth, and allies himself to the party in power. And the final scene shows him telling a story to a child: "There was once a man who never would give way...." The madness of Sult is excused as being delirium, due to physical suffering.
Jerry heard the strident voice of the elephant-tender commanding Sult Anna to lower him and the man started to jab the elephant in the trunk, but Whiteface shouted: "Don't touch the elephant! She knows the boy!" "He's not hurt at all!" cried an amazed voice in the crowd. "Take your seats! There is no danger!" Whiteface called to the frightened and huddled mass at the top tiers of seats.
"He didn't know he said it," Chris added, "an' he couldn't tell Danny what he meant by it, could he, Danny?" "No," Danny replied. "That clinches it!" exclaimed Whiteface, and took Jerry from his mother's arms. "Don't you cry any more, Gary-boy. Nobody shall hurt you again. O'Queen was what you used to call Sultana, the elephant 'Sult Anna O'Queen, as though that were her name.
Jerry waved his hands to them and bowed and a patter of hand-clapping ran along the audience as they passed until they reached the entrance. Chris suddenly cried, "Danny! Look at them el'funts! They're standin' on their heads! Lookee!" Jerry just had to see that and he squirmed around in Whiteface's arms. "They're funny!" he laughed. "Which one is Sult Anna?"
'I didn't mean to 'sult him, faltered out the Overseer, his voice running through an entire octave, and changing with the varying pressure of the Colonel's fingers on his throat; 'but he said he war an ab'lishener. 'No matter what he said, replied the Colonel; 'he is my guest, and in my house he shall say what he pleases, by G . Apologize to him, or I'll send you to h in a second.
Only Harold and Milton were there, the former leaning against a chair, his face very pale, his collar open, and his mouth moving loosely. "What's the matter?" Milton looked at her anxiously. "There was a little trouble " Then Harold saw her and, straightening up with an effort, began to speak. "Sult m'own cousin m'own house. God damn common nouveau rish. 'Sult m'own cousin "
"He'll be killed!" cried Danny's remorseful voice, high and shrill above the uproar. "And it's all my fault!" "Up! Up! Sult Anna!" commanded Jerry, and laughed aloud and waved his arms. Why were all those people afraid? Sult Anna wasn't going to hurt him! All the clowns had come running about the elephant. "It's Jerry Elbow!" exclaimed Whiteface.
The two men stood there, face to face, hands clasped, the one fair-skinned, full-lipped, handsome in his neat sult; the other tragic, somber in his softened mood, his large, long, rugged Scotch face bronzed with sun and scarred with wrinkles that had histories, like saber cuts on a veteran, the record of his battles.
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