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Scan 144
The violin maker, 1905
14 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 138. See the scan on archive.org.
1As they entered, an oil-lamp burned on the table. Its light fell full on the face of the stranger, who sank breathless on a stool. He looked slowly around the room of his rescuer; on the wall there hung some violins and some tools of a violin maker.
3"Where am I, then?" asked the Italian.
5"In the house of the violin maker Klotz," was the answer.
7"Are you he?" asked the stranger, fixing his burning eyes on his host.
9"Yes," answered the other. "You have fallen into good hands. I was myself in Italy, and I know how glad one is when he falls into good hands when in trouble." Klotz said nothing more, but went to his wife Maria, in the kitchen, and asked for some warm soup for the poor man whom he had left in the house.
11The stranger was very silent. He barely answered "yes" and "no," and seemed to be sunk in thought, turning his eyes from the light.
13They brought him something to eat. An invitation to take supper at the table he declined with thanks and remained sitting by the stove.
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