Chapter X: A Defeated Victor

When Gitl, accompanied by her friend, reached home, they were followed into the former's apartments by a batch of neighbours, one of them with Joey in tow. The moment the young woman found herself in her kitchen she collapsed, sinking down on the lounge. The room seemed to have assumed a novel aspect, which brought home to her afresh that the bond between her and Jake was now at last broken forever and beyond repair. The appalling fact was still further accentuated in her consciousness when she caught sight of the boy.

"Joeyelé! Joeyinké! Birdie! Little kitten!"--with which she seized him in her arms, and, kissing him all over, burst into tears. Then shaking with the child backward and forward, and intoning her words as Jewish women do over a grave, she went on: "Ai, you have no papa any more, Joeyelé! Yoselé, little crown, you will never see him again! He is dead, _taté_ is!" Whereupon Yoselé, following his mother's example, let loose his stentorian voice.

"_Shurr-r up!_" Mrs. Kavarsky whispered, stamping her foot. "You want Mr. Bernstein to leave you, too, do you? No more is wanted than that he should get wind of your crying."

"Nobody will tell him," one of the neighbours put in, resentfully. "But, _anyhull_, what is the _used_ crying?"

"Ask her, the piece of hunchback!" said Mrs. Kavarsky. "Another woman would dance for joy, and here she is whining, the cudgel. What is it you are snivelling about? That you have got rid of an unclean bone and a dunce, and that you are going to marry a young man of silk who is fit to be a rabbi, and is as _smart_ and _ejecate_ as a lawyer? You would have got a match like that in Povodye, would you? I dare say a man like Mr. Bernstein would not have spoken to you there. You ought to say Psalms for your coming to America. It is only here that it is possible for a blacksmith's wife to marry a learned man, who is a blessing both for God and people. And yet you are not _saresfied_! Cry away! If Bernstein refuses to go under the wedding canopy, Mrs. Kavarsky will no more _bodder_ her head about you, depend upon it. It is not enough for her that I neglect _business_ on her account," she appealed to the bystanders.

"Really, what are you crying about, Mrs. Podkovnik?" one of the neighbours interposed. "You ought to bless the hour when you became free."

All of which haranguing only served to stimulate Gitl's demonstration of grief. Having let down the boy, she went on clapping her hands, swaying in all directions, and wailing.

The truth must be told, however, that she was now continuing her lamentations by the mere force of inertia, and as if enjoying the very process of the thing. For, indeed, at the bottom of her heart she felt herself far from desolate, being conscious of the existence of a man who was to take care of her and her child, and even relishing the prospect of the new life in store for her. Already on her way from the rabbi's house, while her soul was full of Jake and the Polish girl, there had fluttered through her imagination a picture of the grocery business which she and Bernstein were to start with the money paid to her by Jake.

* * * * *

While Gitl thus sat swaying and wringing her hands, Jake, Mamie, her emissary at the divorce proceeding, and another mutual friend, were passengers on a Third Avenue cable car, all bound for the mayor's office. While Gitl was indulging herself in an exhibition of grief, her recent husband was flaunting a hilarious mood. He did feel a great burden to have rolled off his heart, and the proximity of Mamie, on the other hand, caressed his soul. He was tempted to catch her in his arms, and cover her glowing cheeks with kisses. But in his inmost heart he was the reverse of eager to reach the City Hall. He was painfully reluctant to part with his long-coveted freedom so soon after it had at last been attained, and before he had had time to relish it. Still worse than this thirst for a taste of liberty was a feeling which was now gaining upon him, that, instead of a conqueror, he had emerged from the rabbi's house the victim of an ignominious defeat. If he could now have seen Gitl in her paroxysm of anguish, his heart would perhaps have swelled with a sense of his triumph, and Mamie would have appeared to him the embodiment of his future happiness. Instead of this he beheld her, Bernstein, Yoselé, and Mrs. Kavarsky celebrating their victory and bandying jokes at his expense. Their future seemed bright with joy, while his own loomed dark and impenetrable. What if he should now dash into Gitl's apartments and, declaring his authority as husband, father, and lord of the house, fiercely eject the strangers, take Yoselé in his arms, and sternly command Gitl to mind her household duties?

But the distance between him and the mayor's office was dwindling fast. Each time the car came to a halt he wished the pause could be prolonged indefinitely; and when it resumed its progress, the violent lurch it gave was accompanied by a corresponding sensation in his heart.

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laurels."--_Birmingham Daily Post._

_A JOURNEY IN OTHER WORLDS. A Romance of the Future._ By JOHN JACOB ASTOR. With 9 full-page Illustrations by Dan Beard. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

"An interesting and cleverly devised book.... No lack of
imagination.... Shows a skillful and wide acquaintance with
scientific facts."--_New York Herald._

"The author speculates cleverly and daringly on the scientific
advance of the earth, and he revels in the physical luxuriance of
Jupiter; but he also lets his imagination travel through spiritual
realms, and evidently delights in mystic speculation quite as much
as in scientific investigation. If he is a follower of Jules Verne,
he has not forgotten also to study the philosophers."--_New York
Tribune._

"A beautiful example of typographical art and the bookmaker's
skill.... To appreciate the story one must read it."--_New York
Commercial Advertiser._

"The date of the events narrated in this book is supposed to be
2000 A. D. The inhabitants of North America have increased mightily
in numbers and power and knowledge. It is an age of marvelous
scientific attainments. Flying machines have long been in common
use, and finally a new power is discovered called 'apergy,' the
reverse of gravitation, by which people are able to fly off into
space in any direction, and at what speed they please."--_New York
Sun._

"The scientific romance by John Jacob Astor is more than likely to
secure a distinct popular success, and achieve widespread vogue
both as an amusing and interesting story, and a thoughtful endeavor
to prophesy some of the triumphs which science is destined to win
by the year 2000. The book has been written with a purpose, and
that a higher one than the mere spinning of a highly imaginative
yarn. Mr. Astor has been engaged upon the book for over two years,
and has brought to bear upon it a great deal of hard work in the
way of scientific research, of which he has been very fond ever
since he entered Harvard. It is admirably illustrated by Dan
Beard."--_Mail and Express._

"Mr. Astor has himself almost all the qualities imaginable for
making the science of astronomy popular. He knows the learned maps
of the astrologers. He knows the work of Copernicus. He has made
calculations and observations. He is enthusiastic, and the
spectacular does not frighten him."--_New York Times._

"The work will remind the reader very much of Jules Verne in its
general plan of using scientific facts and speculation as a
skeleton on which to hang the romantic adventures of the central
figures, who have all the daring ingenuity and luck of Mr. Verne's
heroes. Mr. Astor uses history to point out what in his opinion
science may be expected to accomplish. It is a romance with a
purpose."--_Chicago Inter-Ocean._

"The romance contains many new and striking developments of the
possibilities of science hereafter to be explored, but the volume
is intensely interesting, both as a product of imagination and an
illustration of the ingenious and original application of
science."--_Rochester Herald._

THE STORY OF THE WEST SERIES.

EDITED BY RIPLEY HITCHCOCK.

"There is a vast extent of territory lying between the Missouri
River and the Pacific coast which has barely been skimmed over so
far. That the conditions of life therein are undergoing changes
little short of marvelous will be understood when one recalls the
fact that the first white male child born in Kansas is still
living there; and Kansas is by no means one of the newer States.
Revolutionary indeed has been the upturning of the old condition of
affairs, and little remains thereof, and less will remain as each
year goes by, until presently there will be only tradition of the
Sioux and Comanches, the cowboy life, the wild horse, and the
antelope. Histories, many of them, have been written about the
Western country alluded to, but most if not practically all by
outsiders who knew not personally that life of kaleidoscopic
allurement. But ere it shall have vanished forever we are likely to
have truthful, complete, and charming portrayals of it produced by
men who actually know the life and have the power to describe
it."--_Henry Edward Rood, in The Mail and Express._

_NOW READY._

_THE STORY OF THE INDIAN._ By GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL, author of "Pawnee Hero Stories," "Blackfoot Lodge Tales," etc. 12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. $1.50.

"A valuable study of Indian life and character.... An attractive
book, ... in large part one in which Indians themselves might have
written."--_New York Tribune._

"Among the various books respecting the aborigines of America. Mr.
Grinnell's easily takes a leading position. He takes the reader
directly to the camp-fire and the council, and shows us the
American Indian as he really is.... A book which will convey much
interesting knowledge respecting a race which is now fast passing
away."--_Boston Commercial Bulletin._

"It must not be supposed that the volume is one only for scholars
and libraries of reference. It is far more than that. While it
is a true story, yet it is a story none the less abounding in
picturesque description and charming anecdote. We regard it as a
valuable contribution to American literature."--_N.Y. Mail and
Express._

"A most attractive book, which presents an admirable graphic
picture of the actual Indian, whose home life, religious
observances, amusements, together with the various phases of his
devotion to war and the chase, and finally the effects of
encroaching civilization, are delineated with a certainty and an
absence of sentimentalism or hostile prejudice that impart a
peculiar distinction to this eloquent story of a passing
life."--_Buffalo Commercial._

"No man is better qualified than Mr. Grinnell to introduce this
series with the story of the original owner of the West, the North
American Indian. Long acquaintance and association with the
Indians, and membership in a tribe, combined with a high degree of
literary ability and thorough education, has fitted the author to
understand the red man and to present him fairly to others."--_New
York Observer._

_IN PREPARATION._

The Story of the Mine. By CHARLES HOWARD SHINN.
The Story of the Trapper. By GILBERT PARKER.
The Story of the Explorer.
The Story of the Cowboy.
The Story of the Soldier.
The Story of the Railroad.

New York: D. APPLETON & CO., 72 Fifth Avenue.

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