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FROM THE FRYING PAN INTO THE FIRE
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his heirs maintained to his memory,
was smiling down upon him and that
the gilded letters on the velvet cur
tain of the ark were saying: “We are
witnesses."
Chapter 9.
Agitation and confusion mixed with
terrified voices of men and women
filled the Jewish Quarter. From every
house half dressed persons were
hastily running into the street, yell
ing! “Givalt, Givalt!"
“What has happened?” one asked
the other, not understanding the
cause of the excitement. “What has
happened ?"
“I don’t know. Perhaps there is a
fire somewhere,” was the answer. Be
fore the man had time to say another
word, he was dragged along by a mob
of men and women pushing their way
up the street.
“Fire! Fire!” cried the man who
heard the words from his neighbor,
and the yell of terror was taken up
in turn by others.
“Fire! Help, fire! The town is on
fire! Help!” Such cries came from
everywhere.
“Where is the fire?”
But no one could answer the ques
tion. Everyone who could run, ran as
fast as his legs could carry him. The
cries for help attracted Reb Benzion
and he rushed out of the Synagogue.
He asked the first man who came
along:
“Where is the fire?”
The person thus addressed, instead
of answering, turned deathly pale and
fell on the sidewalk in a faint. Men
and women in their excitement be
came still, more frightened when they
saw a man lying unconscious on the
street. Those who approached the spot
in order to help the prostrate man,
were horrified to behold near him Reb
Benzion, whom they thought dead.
“The dead Benzion is here His
ghost has come back!”
Benzion could bear it no longer. He
mustered all his strength to explain,
but instead he broke down and began
to weep piteously.
“It is he and no other,” he heard
some one say. “I do not care what
any one may say about his being
dead, I am sure it is he and no other.
He lives, too. I can see it.”
Before Benzion could see who was
saying these words, Sigmund was
standing before him with outstretched
hands.
“Sholom Aleichem,” called
young man. “Thank God that
only a rumor."
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In his joy Benzion embraced Si*
mund and covered him with kiaJ,
while he said:
“You have saved me. You are im
liberator, my benefactor. You have
saved me from death, from insanity
—you whom I have calumniated io
miserably. But I shall make amends
for my misdeeds. I thank God f or
sending you to me in my hour of dis
tress. What haven’t I lived through
since last night! The torments of Hell
are like child-play compared with
what I suffered. What shall 1 do now’
Stand by me, advise me. .
“Calm yourself. Everything will be
all right. You are the victim of a base
intrigue. It will be straightened out.”
“Will you take me to my wife and
children? Before long you too shall
be one of my children. I have pledged
myself to it."
“I am already that which you de
sire me to become. The intrigue—”
“The intrigue—has it gone so far?
But perhaps this is God’s will, too.
Take me to my wife and children
But how will we keep the people from
running when they see me ? How shall
we do it?"
“Everything will be well in time.
But first, let us go to my home. You
will wait outside for a few minutes
so that I may prepare Esterka for
the surprise. Meanwhile the mob will
disperse, too—"
“I shall do everything you ask of
me."
They were soon near Sigmund’s
home. The younger man entered, while
the elder remained outside. A few
minutes later Esterka embraced her
father shedding tears of joy.
Chapter 10.
The sorely tried Benzion was sor
row stricken when he came home and
saw the many changes which had
taken place during his absence. The
house where he and his family hao
formerly lived was now a Home for
the Aged and Infirm; his wealth had
been divided among his children, and
large sums of money had been placed
in the hands of heads of various com
munal institutions. His sorrow this
time was, it must be admitted, to his
credit, mixed with a regret that hi
w'as unable to put into practice t e
good resolutions he had made, k
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