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Updated: June 4, 2025
That evening the Dago Duke leaned against the door-jamb of the White Elephant Saloon and watched Dan Treu coming from Dr. Harpe's office with failure written upon his face. His white teeth gleamed in a smile of amusement as he waited for the sheriff. "Don't swear, Dan. Never speak disrespectfully of a lady if you can help it."
There was nothing more to say, so Dan Treu turned on his heel and walked away, angry, sceptical without exactly knowing why. The aversion which Lamb had inspired was still strong within him when he stopped on a street corner to ruminate and incidentally roll a cigarette. "When he gets close I feel like I do when a wet dog comes out of the crick and is goin' to shake."
Ernestine herself wrote him often. "I always believed that you could love Clara alone, and still believe it." In January, 1836, the engagement with Ernestine was formally broken. Shortly after this, Robert's mother died. He was compelled to leave Leipzig in dismal gloom. He said to Clara simply, "Bleib mir treu," and she nodded her head a little, very sadly. How she kept her word!
I wrote Poppas some account of these horrors, as during the court proceedings we had become rather better friends than of old. His reply arrived only a few days ago; a photograph of himself upon a camel, under which is written: Traulich und Treu ist's nur in der Tiefe: falsch und feig ist was dort oben sich freut!
Bolstered for the moment by this resolve, she threw back her head and raised her eyes. The Dago Duke, Dan Treu, and an important looking stranger were crossing the street and she felt intuitively that it was for the purpose of meeting her face to face.
When she declared that it was only one illustration of the lengths to which ignorant and suspicious foreigners would go, her listeners agreed that she must indeed have much with which to contend in practising her profession among such a class of people as were employed upon the project. The only person who did not laugh, beside the countrymen of the two Italians, was Dan Treu.
"Run? when I go I'll fly." All the town turned out to look when Dan Treu drove into town with the girl sitting bolt upright and very white upon the seat beside him. They stopped at the Terriberry House and her old room was assigned to her, but all the gaping crowd considered her a prisoner.
I've got to go to the County seat on a case and I can't be here myself. Billy was a personal friend of mine, so treat him right." "Sure; we can turn him out first-class for that money; a new suit of clothes and a tony coffin. Any friend of yours I'll handle like he was my own." There was something slightly jocular in his tone, a flippancy which Dan Treu felt and silently resented.
"It'll buy fruit for the kid, something to read, and a special nurse if he needs one," they told the deputy and they gave the money with the warmest of good wishes. Dan Treu took their gift to the hospital, and Billy Duncan burst into tears when he saw him. "Oh, come, come! Buck up, Billy, you're goin' to pull through all right." "Dan! Dan! Take me out of here take me away! Quick!"
He was shocked; he was filled with a regret that was personal in its poignancy. He knew exactly what such a loss meant to Billy Duncan, who earned his living with his hands and gloried in his strength independent young Billy Duncan an object of pity in his mutilated manhood! Dan Treu could not entirely realize it yet. Lamb met him at the hospital door as though he had awaited his coming.
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