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Updated: July 14, 2025
Henry Vihodar firmly believes that his wife has perished in his burning house, from which, indeed, no living soul could possibly have escaped when once the sulphur and the tar caught fire. Besides, the young headsman will soon marry again. So you two must come along with me to Bártfa, where I'll pretend that the pretty lady is my daughter, and will put her out to service.
Well, after the work of yesterday night and to-day, the doors of every church are shut against Henry Catsrider, and the steps leading to every pulpit are broken down as far as he is concerned. The old vihodar had taken very good care that his son should never be a clergyman again. And Michal remained alone with her phantoms.
He had known nothing of all this till now. He began to wipe away the sweat from his brow. "Did not your reverence know then that the black cassock of the pastor of Great Leta and the red mantle of the vihodar of Zeb go together?
Once he put me to shame on the scaffold by breaking down altogether at his task, so I snatched the sword out of his hand and finished the job myself. Then they took the business away from me and kicked me out: they said that it was not meet that a woman should wield the headsman's sword. So I came hither and entered the service of this vihodar.
Janko, the mighty leaper, the instant his chains were taken from his feet, had sprung upon the vihodar, pressed down his chest with his knees, and bit him in the neck exactly on the spot where the great jugular artery is.
This he bit clean through, and as if to justify the fable, that whomsoever Janko bit with his envenomed fangs was a child of death the old vihodar fell to the ground like a log of wood, and when the apprentices sprang forward to tear the delinquent away from him, the headsman was already dead.
I'm perishing with thirst." Then he emptied a bumper of beer to the very dregs, and after that set about delivering his message. "I bring you good news, my pretty young mistress! The devil has carried off the old vihodar. The accursed Janko has bitten him in the neck with his poisonous teeth and the old 'un croaked straight off." Michal thought, with a shudder, that the cards had said as much.
My name is Henry Catsrider," and with that the young man rose from his seat. But the lady, in a transport of conjugal loyalty and devotion, threw herself at the father's feet, seized his hand and kissed it. She actually kissed the hand of the vihodar, the headsman. With glowing, cleaving lips she kissed the hand which had never been kissed.
At last the blare of trumpets and the roll of kettle-drums drowned the voice of the mob, and the sheriff arose on the dais and declared that despite the unhappy accident which had befallen the old vihodar, the execution of the law's sentence must proceed notwithstanding. The young master, the son of the vihodar, was there, and he was to do his duty, and that at once.
All three delinquents bore traces of torture on their bodies. They were covered with burns and sores. Yet they showed no signs of weakness. On the contrary, they greeted the old vihodar with wild laughter, and scornfully challenged him to show them of his skill.
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