I lay in the room on my bed of straw, so that they believed I was asleep; and I have often heard the name of Rothsattel from the lips of both, and the name of his estate too; and I know that misfortune hovers over him, but further I know not; and now I have said all, and will go.
The good advice I have this day given you will make up for the day when you fought for the wool and the hides; and you will remember the promise you have made me." Anton was lost in thought.

He knew from Bernhard that Ehrenthal was in many ways intimately connected with the baron, and this link between the landed proprietor and the ill-spoken-of speculator had often seemed to him unaccountable.

But Tinkeles' story was too incredible, for he had never himself heard any unfavorable account of the baron's circumstances.

"I can not," said he, after a long pause, "be satisfied with what you have told me.

You will think the matter over, and perhaps you will remember the name, and some of the words you heard." "Perhaps I may," said the Galician, with a peculiar expression, which Anton in his perplexity quite lost.