The Price He Paid — page 179: what you’re looking at

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170 ASSESSOR WINTERFELD’S PAMPHLET. “Ah, you are alluding to Winterfeld’s pamphlet!” said the superintendent. “Have you had the book in your hands already? Why, it can only have reached Rk this morning.” “T got it accidentally, from a colleague who had just received it. A most abominable composition ! It is open rebellion, sir—open rebellion! There are things in it addressed to his excellency—things —— Well, I don’t know how such a work came to be printed and circulated. Have you taken no steps to suppress it?” “T have no orders and no motive for doing so,” declared the superintendent, whose coolness formed a strange contrast to Moser’s indignant excitement. “The pamphlet was brought out in the capital, and there was not time, I suppose, to prevent its circu- lation. I doubt if amore virulent attack has ever been made on a statesman holding office under the crown.” “And it comes from a member of the service, from one who has worked under my eyes, in the bureaux!” cried the councilor, in despair. “But he has been seduced, led astray. Itis that Dr. Brun- now who has been staying here for weeks, under the pretext of settling some succession business, and who has not yet taken his departure.” | “Because in his case there has been even more than the usual circumlocution. Endless difficulties have been raised touching this matter of his rever- sion. ‘The gentlemen of the law-courts have, with rather unnecessary severity, let him feel the draw- backs under which he labors in being his father’s son and, for the time being, representative. Find- ing this, he set upon them a little while ago, and subjected them to so drastic a treatment that they were quite taken aback, and now really seemed as if they meant to hasten onthe affair. You havea prejudice against the young doctor, councilor. He is not such a bad fellow as you think.” “This Brunnow isa most dangerous man,” said the councilor, all his wonted solemnity returning to him with this topic. “I knew it from the first day I saw him, and my instinct in such matters is GOMmIichboo <S (E(0)