The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-29
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 North Hell, . handsome young
 university graduate i'm engineer.
 ing lost his job following the
 merger of the plant where he was
 employed aud became swimming
 instructor at . mountain lake
 resort. Martin had made quite c
 reputation swimming for his Der.
 lin club and he stressed the fact
 that hc was an amateur. although
 through necessity he had agreed
 to teach Herr Birndl's patrons.
 Ho sent several times daily to in-
 quire for . letter regarding an
 invention he had perfected. Ere.
 quently he went hungry as his
 earnings were less than Q third of
 Q schilling for each lesson he
 gave. While training for c race
 he was caught i'm . storm as he
 was swimming across the lake.
 He was almost drowned when
 Puck, 16-ycar-Old daughter of
 the latter known on tho stage as
 &ANhhhkhA kB0gAAAy EOWCu Out nhhA
 saved him. From the day of his
 arrival Martin was attracted by May Lysscnh0p, whose father was
 wealthy and who had Q twin sis-
 tor Carla. The hotel guests could
 not tell tch girls apart but Mar.
 tin could and hc and May fell
 deeply in love. He was greatly
 surprised when he saw Anika, Q
 girl dancer of his student days, as
 Countess Czercny, who was at
 the hotel with the count. Martin
 had pawned his dinner jacket
 and owed 52 schillings on 1t. He
 wanted 1t so he could attend an
 assembly dance with May and
 after several failures to borrow
 the money, he told Puck of his
 dilcma. She said her mother
 would give 1t to him.
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 INSTALLMENT 13
 When Martin found himself in the Bojan's bedroom he was @ little afraid, although he was no coward. He felt dimly that he was Sur rounded and beset by far too many women this summer. He was in love with May. She filled him to the brim with love and tenderness. and with desire and passion. He often had the feeling that an explosion threatened him, that he would be rent from top to bottom, that his strength was strained to breaking point. ,"Its all too much for me- he groaned sometimes, meaning the castastrophe that threatened his too aroused feelings May, brac- ing and vital as she was, had all she could do to keep him calmed down. But the other women whom the summer days brought to Frau enyee did their utmost to disquiet and upset poor Martin Heil.
 The day began with the hump backed Resi-, who brought him milk warm from the COW before he had left his Procrustean bed. Her aager zeal and devotion were al once ludicrOus and pathetic. Next 'there was Frau Birndl gazing with all her eyes at Martin in his bath ing costume, at his muscles and the limo of his neck, which was indeed admirable. She stood for hours to. Rether in the blazing sun. leaning on the railing of the gangway. Al for the adoring looks and remarks of the pupils who clustered about him, he could scarcely keep count of them all; from early morning the air seemed to shimmer and flicker with them. Even the deaf and dumb girl had turned up - Stefanie von Brinckmann was her name-to take lessons in swim ming; and with great patience and kindliness he gave them to her la boriously in dumb show. Vesi Schwo woisshackeI too. pretty as a pic ture with her blue eyes beneath crown of plated black hair, had most emphatic ways of showing her regard. She never removed his plate without pressing against him Excuse me, If I'm in your way, she would say, pressing against his knees as she passed along between the benches.
 All this might have been toler. able. But there was Anika--Aniku- schka--and she, owing to the un. forgetable sweetness of her caress. es, was extremely dangerous.
 "Anika, you set me on fire. Anikn don't touch me. shall go up in the air." Martin implored her In an. guish. But Anika did not care.
 And then what was to be said oi CarIa Lyssenhop, who made her ap' pearance one evening in the sha- dow below the terrace where he was accustomed to meet May and threw herself into his arms under the pretense of being May herself Martin had received her kiss with alarm and confusion and had not said a word. Was Carla to suppose for a moment that he had not re. cognized her? What the devil did they all want of him Just now he had had to console Puck. And here he was in Bojan's bedroom in order to accept fifty-two schillings.
 He feared the Bojan more than any of them. The Bojan knew only too well how to make herself felt in the most dangerous way of all ---she hypnotized him. When he came to the castle she did not be- have like the other women. She merely began to uncoil. She gazed at his mouth. She gazed at his neck. She gazed at his hands. Then his mouth and neck and hands started to burn. But the worst wal that she hypnotized him. In q shameless and almost intolerab blt way she hypnotized him with hei red hair and her too smooth skin and the Pierrot costume that she wore in "lulu."
 The Bojan was lying in bed. But it was a bed such as Martin had never seen. It was suspended from the ceiling by golden cords like e swing--a Cytherean gondola. Or
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