An Old Heart Goes A-Journeying (Paperback)

An Old Heart Goes A-Journeying Hans Fallada ILLUSTRATED BY GEORG SALTER SIMON AND SCHUSTER New York 1936 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Copyright, 1936, by Simon and Schuster, Inc. 386 Fourth Avenue, New York Second Printing Manufactured in the United States of America Farmer Tamm gives good measure, Page 18 onienis I. IN WHICH PROFESSOR KITTGUSS IS VISITED BY AN ANGEL, AND SENT TO UNSADEL 1 II. IN WHICH PROFESSOR KITTGUSS SEES A FAT FARMER HANGING FROM A TREE, AND A GIRL CRYING UNDER A HEDGE 14 II. IN WHICH PROFESSOR KITTGUSS PAYS A CALL THAT ENDS IN A COALSHED 28 EV. IN WHICH PROFESSOR KITTGUSS ESCAPES FROM ONE DARKNESS BUT FALLS INTO A BLACKER ONE 43 V. IN WHICH PROFESSOR KITTGUSS RECEIVES A SECOND SUMMONS FROM THE ANGEL 54 . VI. IN WHICH EVERYTHING GOES WRONG, AND PROFESSOR KITTGUSS FLEES IN SECRET 68 II. IN WHICH ROSEMARIE SETS UP A COM PLETELY ILLEGAL HOUSEHOLD 86 CONTENTS IN WHICH A COUNCIL IS HELD BY NIGHT, AND A STATE OF SIEGE DECLARED AGAINST THE SCHLIEKERS 100 IX. IN WHICH THE ACCUSED BECOMES THE ACCUSER, AND PAUL SCHLIEKER MAKES A CATCH 112 X. IN WHICH ROSEMARIE COMES INTO POS SESSION OF A LARGE SUM OF MONEY, AND OTSCHE RUNS FOR HIS LIFE 126 XI. IN WHICH GAU SHOWS HIMSELF A STERN FATHER, AND SCHLIEKER AS SOME THING WORSE THAN A CROOK 141 XH. WHICH CONTAINS AN ACCOUNT OF THE YOUTH, THE RISE, AND THE VICISSI TUDES OF THE SCHLIEKERS 156 IN WHICH DR. GEORGE KIMMKNIRSCH ACQUIRES SOME PATIENTS AND BE COMES INVOLVED IN A CONSPIRACY 1 74 XIV. IN WHICH MANY PEOPLE GO IN SEARCH OF MANY THINGS AND THE WRONG PEOPLE FIND THE WRONG THINGS 189 XV. IN WHICH PROFESSOR KITTGUSS SETS OUT IN SEARCH OF HIS GODCHILD AND WHAT HE ENCOUNTERED ON THE WAY 204 XVI. IN WHICH ROSEMARIE DOES NOT CHOOSE TO OBEYMAGISTRATE SCHULZ, BUT DR. KIMMKNIRSCH DOES HIS BEST 218 - vi CONTENTS XVII. IN WHICH A RUNAWAY CHILD GOES HOME, BUT DOES NOT STAY THERE 229 XVIII. IN WHICH BOTH PROFESSOR KITTGUSS AND ROSEMARIE EACH ON HIS OWN AC COUNT RUNS AWAY 242 XIX. IN WHICH THE PROFESSOR TRAVELS WITH EMPTY POCKETS TO BERLIN TO SEE ABOUT SOME MONEY 257 XX. IN WHICH ROSEMARIE LOSES ALL HER FRIENDS 270 XXI. IN WHICH EVERYTHING GOES WRONG AND DR. KIMMKNIRSCH TAKES TO DRINK 286 XXII. IN WHICH PROFESSOR KITTGUSS MAKES FRAU MULLER ANXIOUS AND THE HO RIZON REDDENS 500 XXIII. IN WHICH ROSEMARIE THURKE FIGHTS HER BATTLE ALONE 312 XXIV. IN WHICH THERE IS EATING, DRINKING, AND DANCING BUT TWO PERSONS STAND ASIDE 319 ajpier In which Professor Kittguss is visited by an angel, and sent to Unsadel ONCE UPON A TIME there was an old Professor, named Gotthold Kittguss, who had neither wife nor child. Until he was fifty years old he had been a master in a large school in Berlin, where he taught the Christian Evan gelical religion. He also instructed the junior classes in Latin and Greek and with such of the seniors as in tended to take orders later on he read the New Testa ment in the original Greek, and taught them the rudi ments of Hebrew. His twenty-five years of teaching had left him with an abiding love for the younger generation but he was not content to teach the mere text of Holy Writ, he did his best to inculcate the spirit of the sacred writings. He had often expounded the New Testament, including the Revelation of St. John the Divine to his boys, but never ventured on any interpretation of that book, though it interested him more than all the others. A day, however, came, as he records in his diary, when AN OLD HEART GOESA-JOURNEYING God caused a light to shine upon me, and the gates to the temple of Revelation were thrown open. No limit in time had indeed been prescribed for the glory of the ful filled Kingdom of God, but perhaps a limit had been set to the tribulation that was to precede and lead the way to it. I set this presumption clearly and firmly be fore my mind and grew so absorbed in it that I was no longer able to pursue my teaching work. ... In spite of many appeals ftom his colleagues and pupils, he applied for his pension, which was finally granted...