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[Footnote 43: Red, white and green.]
The dialogue that thereupon ensued no shorthand reporter could have
reproduced, for the pair of them began forthwith to rave and storm at
one another with all their might, stamping, swearing, shaking their
fists, and loading each other with abuse. When they had got as far as
calling each other robber and scoundrel, the magistrate thought it high
time to interfere, and at his command Margari was torn forcibly out of
the tomato bed, led to a hackney coach and thrust inside; yet even then
he put his head out of the window and shouted that he did not mean to
sit in prison alone but would very soon have Mr. John Lapussa there
also, as his companion. All the efforts of the two pandurs were
powerless to silence him.
As for Mr. John, the magistrate simply said to him: "Sir, it is not good
for a man to make use of nasty tools, for by so doing he only dirties
his own hands."
Then he got into a second hackney coach and drove away after the first
one.
Even Mr. John could see that it was now quite impossible for him under
the circumstances to think of quitting Pest.
CHAPTER XVIII
THE UNDISCOVERABLE LADY
Squire Gerzson Satrakovics thought it best after that night at the
_csarda_ to go back to Arad. This wondrous event, the clue to which he
could not hit upon anyhow, must needs interest Hatszegi most of all.
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