The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-27

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Martin Hell, handsome young
university graduate I'm engineer
ing, lost his Job following the
merger Of the plant where he
was employed and became swim
ming Instructor &C q mountain
lake resort for the summer.
Martin had made quite q reputa-
ton swimming for his Berlin
club and he stressed the fact that
he was an amateur although
thorugh necessity he had agreed
60 tcnc Their Bifndl's patrons.
He haunted the post0fIlce and
sent daily to inquire for q letter
regarding an invention he had
perfected. Frequently he went
hungry for his sole income was
about q third of o schilling for
each lesson. Martin was train
ing for q race for his club and
one evening was caught In
storm when he started TO swim
across the lake. He was almost
drowned when Puck, 16-ycar-
year-old daughter Of Baron and
Baroness D0bbcrsbcrg, the latter
known ON the stage rs Camilla
Botan. r0wed out and rescued
him. From the day of his arrival
Martin was attracted by a tall
brown-eyed girl he learned later
was May Lyssenhop, whose IA
thcr was wealthy and who had q
twin sister named Carla. The
~uf tia
girls apart, but Martin could,
and he and May fell deeply In
love. Martin was greatly suirpris.
ed when he met Anika, a girl
dancer OF his student days, as
Countess Czcrcny, who was mt the
hotel with the count. May and
Caria saw them talking animate
ediy OF old times and were 81
them. Extravagantly Martin paid
hve schillings to attend q dinner
given to the winners In the an
'nual tennis tournament, one of
whom was May.
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They all sat at long table and
were very merry, and enjoyed
themselves immensely. May sat so
far away from Martin that he
could not even see her. She had a
strange gentleman beside her, Herr
Direktor Wucherpfennig, q bus
mess friend Of Herr Lyssenhop.
Herr Lyssenhop took in the Count
ess Czereny and conversed with
her In the most sprightly and gal
liant manner. Martin had by his
side the wife OF high official, a
Frau Geheimrat, who could not
help nodding her head In a tremolo,
that sometimes meant YES, yes,
yes" and sometimes mo, no, no,
no." She could not KEEP 1t still, but
apart from this she was agreeable
enough.
On the other side he had q very
powerful young girl who kept her
mouth open and uttered not word.
She merely started at all that went
on with importunate and devouring
eyes. and now and again produced
q deep, thoraty. and terrifying
laugh.
"The poor child Is deaf and
dumb" the Frau Gehelmrat ex-
planned. But never mind. She Is
my granddaughter, and she enjoys
1t 80 much. She Is 30 glad to be sit
ting next to you. She IL q little
crazy about you. You know what
young girls are, yes. yes, yes. yes,
mo- no, no, no., n0...."
Martin relapsed into silence.
When the dishes came around he
took shamelessly large helpings in
his rage and dependency. Once
someone as she passed stroked his
fair head in consolation. But 1t was
only Carla.
Yes. Fraulein, here we sit, but
what are we here for?" he said to
the deaf-and- dumb girl.
She had ben gazing at his lips
and now 1t seemed that she under
stood him. Her face took on a sad
and regretful expression, and she
passed her hand over her cheek
with a strange air. Martin, who al
ways got on well with animals and
children, felt a fleeing warmth Of
tenderness for this poor defective
creature. He stuck two rolls on two
forks and made them perform a
dance as he had seen Charley
Chaplin do In a film. The girl broke
into such a roar of laughter that
the whole table was silent for q
moment and looked stern reproof at
the deaf-and-dumb girl and the
swimming instructor in his wretch
ed blue suit.
Soon after Martin got up and
went miserably away. The deaf
and dumb girl pressed his hand in
farewell with an eager tremulous
pressure. The Frau Geheimrat agi-
lately waggled her head. Martin
went down to the water and swan
out to the middle of the lake. He
wanted to cool himself down, and
throw 1t all off.
Next day the proprietor of the
Petermann told Eggenhofer, the
porter, and the porter told Herr
Birndl, who passed 1t on to Mar
tin, that 1t was not customary at
the Big Petermann, nor was 1t very
Desirable that the swimming in
structor should be always in and
out of the hotel. The Peterman was
an exclusive hotel. and there had
been talk about this. and to pre-
serve the tone of the hotel only
gentlemen wearing dinner jackets
would be admitted to the public
dinners. For this reason. and to ex-
ciude undesirable persons, the tick
cts would henceforth be ten schil-
Ungs.
This communication threw Mar
Tin into fury. His lips went so
white that he looked quite CHASTITY.
Take the stop-watch and get In
to the boat" he said hoarsely to
May. II feel like making record
May, who looked frightened, clamb-
cred into the old tub with the stop
watch. Little MatZ rowed. Martin
started and did the fifteen hundred
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