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The two together descended the rest of the companionway. The space in front of the dining-room was empty and so was the dining-room. It was tilted at an acute angle. A heap of dishes and silverware blocked the doorway. "Hahlström! Achleitner!" Frederick shouted again and again. Wilke pushed a short way down the long corridor, on which the cabins gave.
The staff was still in high spirits, including Professor Wilke, about whom we had not bothered ourselves all day; that is he did not come until the afternoon when he came to meet us on our way. We believe he is in love with Frau Doktor M. too, for he went about with her all the time, and it was probably on her account that he came.
Frederick took his knife away from him, spoke to him in a military tone, and unceremoniously touched a scar on the rough fellow's hairy neck to recall to him the fact that he had already sewed one knife wound, from which he had barely escaped with his life. That worked, and Wilke seemed to be repentant.
A buzzing as of swarming bees pierced distinctly through the roaring of the tempest, while above it rose the shrieking of infuriated, frenzied women. Frederick thought of his dark-eyed Deborah. She, too, was doomed. He thought of Wilke. Bulke, the faithful valet, appeared, leading Arthur Stoss by his coat collar. Within the next few moments, Wilke also appeared.
What's the matter?" somebody bellowed in his ear. "Nothing," he said, stroking his cat. In the meantime Bulke and Wilke had lowered Doctor Wilhelm into the boat. "That girl down there is giving herself a sore throat screaming for her father," said Bulke. Frederick decided, cost what it might, to take a look around below deck.
I'm awfully glad that three of our mistresses have doctors degrees and that we have one or really 2 professors, for we have the Religionsprofessor too. In the Third they are frightfully annoyed because only one of their mistresses has a doctor's degree. Dora has 2 doctors and three professors. September 25th. All the girls are madly in love with Professor Wilke the natural history professor.
Frau Doktor M. has two too and when she laughs its heavenly. December 8th. I do wish Dora would keep her silly jokes to herself. When the Trobisch's were all here to-day they were talking about the school and she said: "Gretl has a fresh enthusiasm each year; last year it was Frau Doktor Malburg and this year it's Professor Wilke. Frau Doktor Malburg has fallen from grace now."
Frederick protested, and disputed loudly with the third mate, who in the meantime had entered the boat and was grasping the tiller. He could not make up his mind to desert Wilke of the Heuscheuer, who had so courageously followed him below deck and had not yet reappeared. But now he saw him, literally sliding from the companionway entrance to the railing. "Wilke! Wilke!" he shouted.
In the midst of his annoyance Frederick heard a voice calling his name. He looked up and scarcely trusted his eyes on seeing a large fellow in whom he thought he recognised a peasant from the Heuscheuer Mountains, a peasant with an evil reputation for drunkenness and all sorts of misdeeds. "Wilke, is that you?" "Yes, Doctor, I'm Wilke."
Perhaps fortune might favour him; he might discover Hahlström and perhaps Achleitner, too, and help one or both into the boat. There was danger, to be sure, that the boat would put off before he returned. He had worked his way as far as the unused smoking-room. It was empty. Suddenly Wilke was standing beside him. "If you're looking for somebody, I'll help," the peasant declared.
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