Vineta, the Phantom City

Vineta, the Phantom City
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E. Werner. Vineta, the Phantom City

CHAPTER I. THE WIDOW AND HER SON

CHAPTER II. WALDEMAR

CHAPTER III. VILLICA

CHAPTER IV. THE MEETING

CHAPTER V. THE BROTHERS' FIRST MEETING

CHAPTER VI. A TRANSFORMATION

CHAPTER VII. STRATEGY AND JEALOUSY

CHAPTER VIII. THE OLD "WONDER-CITY."

CHAPTER IX. DOCTOR FABIAN'S DIPLOMATIC MISSION

CHAPTER X. LEO'S VISIT TO ALTENHOF

CHAPTER XI. THE NEW RÉGIME AT VILLICA

CHAPTER XII. THE NEW CONSPIRATORS

CHAPTER XIII. THE YOUNG LANDLORD'S RETURN

CHAPTER XIV. THE HUNTING-PARTY

CHAPTER XV. THE "HISTORY OF ANCIENT GERMANY."

CHAPTER XVI. CASSANDRIAN WARNINGS

CHAPTER XVII. THE FRENCH LESSONS

CHAPTER XVIII. THE ASSESSOR'S WOOING

CHAPTER XIX. THE FOREST DRIVE

CHAPTER XX. THE CONFLICT BETWEEN LOVE AND DUTY

CHAPTER XXI. THE RESCUE

CHAPTER XXII. THE NEW UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR

CHAPTER XXIII. BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER

CHAPTER XXIV. THE FATAL VENTURE

CHAPTER XXV. HUBERT GROWS MISANTHROPIC

CHAPTER XXVI. A DREAM OF EXILE

CHAPTER XXVII. THE GOVERNMENT COUNSELLOR

CHAPTER XXVIII. THE "FRAU PROFESSORIN."

CHAPTER XXIX. REUNION

CHAPTER XXX. AUF WIEDERSEHEN!

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"Doctor, will you have the kindness to stop once for all these everlasting complaints! Nothing can be done with the lad, I tell you. I have tried often enough to make him change his ways, and have called in six private tutors to help me. We could not manage him, and you can not; so let him have his own way!"

It was the rich proprietor, Herr Witold of Altenhof, who gave this advice to his ward's tutor. Both gentlemen sat in the large corner room of the Altenhof dwelling. The windows were wide open on account of the heat, and all the surroundings showed that the people who dwelt here held such things as elegance and comfort superfluous if not disgraceful. The shabby, old-fashioned furniture was shoved here and there as convenience demanded, and without the least regard to taste or order. On the walls hung a confused medley of fowling-pieces, hunting implements, and deer-horns. Wherever a vacant space offered, a nail had been driven, and some nondescript object had been hung upon it without the least concern for appearances. Upon the writing-desk lay household accounts, tobacco-pipes, spurs, and half a dozen new riding-whips; a pile of daily newspapers upon the floor afforded a luxurious couch to the large hunting-dog, and gave evidence of frequent use. Nothing was in its place; but there was one article in the room which gave a hint of the artistic tastes of the inmates of the house; this was a very gaudy, highly-colored hunting-piece which hung over the sofa, occupying the place of honor upon the blank, grimy wall.

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Doctor Fabian seemed fully to understand the family relations, and to regard the approaching interview with an alarm quite equal to that of Herr Witold; but it arose from entirely different reasons. "Heaven help us!" said he, anxiously. "If Waldemar, with his uncultivated manners, goes to C– and appears before the princess, what will she think of him?"

"She will think that he resembles his father and not her," was the emphatic answer. "And as soon as she sees Waldemar, it will become clear to her that she can make him no pliable tool for her intrigues; for I will wager my head that she has some intrigue on hand. Either the princely purse is empty–I believe it has never been any too full–or a little government conspiracy is on the tapis, and Villica, which lies close to the Polish boundary, is a very convenient place. Heaven only knows what she wants of my boy, but I will find out her plans and open his eyes in season."

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