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Updated: June 11, 2025
But she could not restrain the anxiety she felt for the son, as she asked: "And since then? Have you heard nothing further?" "Yes, on several occasions. Once when I was with the embassy at Florence, I heard her name mentioned incidentally. She was at Rome; then a year after that she was back in Paris again; and sometime later I heard that Frau Zalika Rojanow was dead."
Then Hartmut Falkenried came home from his garrison on leave, and met the new family in the house of his friends. He saw Zalika, and his life's destiny was sealed. It was a sudden and blinding passion, for which one too often pays with the peace of a whole life. He forgot the wishes of his parents, their plans for his future, and his quiet, warm attachment for his youth's playfellow, Regine.
Zalika learned to know me in the hour of our separation; she'll be cautious about driving me to extremes a second time." "But perhaps she will seek to accomplish secretly what you have openly refused." "That is impossible; the discipline of our institution is so severe there could be no intercourse here of which I should not learn at once." Wallmoden did not seem to share his friend's confidence.
"Why have I always been told that you were dead?" Zalika stepped back, and in an instant all tenderness had died out of her eyes, and in its place was a wild, deadly hate, as the answer came like a hiss from between her set lips. "Because your father hates me, my son and because he wishes to deny me the love of my only child since he thrust me from him." Hartmut was silent.
Scarcely an hour since, had he not heard the words: "You shall obey and learn to yield while yet there is time." His voice was full of bitterness as he replied. "In any case, I must go back. I have given my word to be at Burgsdorf again in two hours." "Really?" asked Zalika, sharply and scornfully. "I thought as much.
As a Bojar's daughter she had her title of nobility, and even the forced sale of her Roumanian estate, about which many knew, may have aided her to play her rôle. Society opens its arms only too willingly to such as she, especially when they have talent, and that Zalika undoubtedly had. By what means she lived is another question." "But Hartmut, upon whom she forced such a life, what of him?"
When he met with a sudden death while hunting, Zalika, being next of kin, fell heir to his large possessions. As soon as she entered into possession, she began at once to plan how she could get her son. You know that part of the story. Then they passed a few years in a wild, erratic life upon her Roumania estate, and they fairly flung money away in their extravagance.
Do not turn away, old friend, you know I have never mentioned that name before you, but now that it is brought unavoidably to the front again I must speak plainly. I must admit we could expect nothing less from Frau Zalika, than that she would appear again.
"When you have made a great, proud name and future for yourself then you can stand before him and ask him whether he despises you or not," Zalika had said to her son on that memorable night when he had protested against breaking his word to his father. Now the first step toward this brilliant future had been taken.
Falkenried shrugged his shoulders contemptuously: "Still acting a comedy? you need give yourself no trouble; I know all. Wallmoden laid before me the proofs of the game which Zalika Rojanow and her son played in Paris. I know the sources from which the money came on which you lived after she had lost her fortune.
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