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Updated: July 26, 2025


This was the formula of degradation which was the meed of those who failed to appear on such occasions. Moreover, the whole youth of the town used to take up the heckling with such spirit that further existence in the town of Kassa became an absolute impossibility for the person so distinguished. Ignatius Zwirina, however, was already deputy syndic of his native place.

But this very thing would have been no small triumph to Zwirina and Co. also, for the whole Hungarian party, which consisted for the most part of Calvinists, would be humbled to the dust by such an apostasy. As a renegade, Valentine Kalondai would be as good as dead and buried.

Then we set to work and dug out the coffin of pretty Michal and brought it hither, and placed it where the coffin of Zwirina had been laid, and now you can be quite easy in your mind, for your beloved reposes in consecrated ground, and flowers bloom over her all the year round." Valentine threw himself with his face to the ground.

All this lasted for a single brief instant, but it was quite long enough for the cloister door to open and close again. What had happened in the meantime was known only to the initiated. Then the fools' procession went on more noisily than ever. When they arrived at the Miskolcz gate, the superrector Zwirina and his halberdiers barred the way.

Thereupon he handed him a written permission, duly sealed with the seal of the city of Kassa, for Valentine Kalondai to challenge Ignatius Zwirina to fight him with lances, according to ancient law and custom, as prescribed by the statutes of the city of Kassa.

Three days' grace, moreover, are allowed to the said Valentine Kalondai, within which time he is to come to a decision." With this politic document both the Jesuits and the Zwirina faction were very well satisfied.

In the first place the object of his scheming had been frustrated by his enforced departure from the city. He was to have spurred on to action there the party which leaned to Vienna, and thus facilitated George Rakoczy's plan of handing over to Ferdinand of Austria the trans-Theissian counties. At Kassa, Mr. Zwirina was his willing ally, but now all communication between them was cut off.

"Look there!" said Simplex, drawing a dark lantern from beneath his mantle; "look and read!" Valentine drew near and saw on the splendid monument the name, "Augustus Zwirina," followed by a long litany of the deeds and services of that distinguished citizen. "Why have you led me to the grave of my mortal foe?" asked Valentine sternly.

Meanwhile the gates of the Jesuit cloisters were watched day and night, so that Valentine might not escape. There were two persons who made it their special business to watch the cloister: Augustus Zwirina, who sent a drabant, and Henry Catsrider, who sent one of his own apprentices. The headsman had another reason, besides mere personal vengeance, for cutting off Valentine's head.

On arriving at Saros, he gave up all the time that was not devoted to political intrigues to elaborating this evil design. That Dame Kalondai had been married to her husband at Bártfa he had already learnt from old Dame Zwirina, who had told him so immediately after that memorable dance.

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