On the third day Leonard again found the petition and again encountered
Henrietta.
This time he spoke to her.
"My dear Henrietta, have you read 'The Mysteries of Paris?'"
Henrietta, as usual, only stared at the speaker with frightened eyes and
said nothing.
"How did you like the description of Bicetre? A horrible place, eh? I
have noticed that you have been behaving in rather a peculiar way
lately. In fact, the whole district has been talking about it and saying
that you are a little crazy. I have been asked all sorts of questions
about it too.--Hitherto I have always told everybody that it is not
true.--But if once I should say that it _is_ true, then, you will be
most certainly shut up in a mad house. Regulate your conduct
accordingly."
CHAPTER XX
THE FIGHT FOR THE GOLD
Of late Mr. Gerzson Satrakovics had invented for himself a peculiar sort
of pastime.
He had renounced bear hounds and grey hounds and all other kinds of
dogs, he did not care a jot when partridge shooting began, but he hung
up his gun on a nail and began regularly visiting one after another the
session courts of the counties of Arad, Biehar and Temes, in all of
which he was a justice of the peace, and moving resolutions.
The object of these resolutions was to induce the three counties to
endeavour with their united strength, and in conjunction with the
Transylvanian counties of Hunyad, Feher and Zarand, to extirpate the
robber bands that had so long been terrorizing the whole district.
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