“Why is it that I do not advance?” he asked himself as he sat gloomily revolving16 on the high stool. “Am I incapable17? Have I been idle, negligent18, or inattentive to my duties? Do I not know all the details of the business from beginning to end? Do I not know by heart all the statistics of the road, the number of passengers and the weight of freight carried, the condition of every station, the receipts and the expenditures19 to a pfennig? No, the fault is not mine. It is owing to rishus, to anti-Semitic prejudice. My only fault, as far as I can discover, is that I am a Jew. To that I owe all my misfortune. This accursed accident of my birth 246prevents my talents being appreciated, prevents my attaining21 the success which I should naturally reach; and, I suppose, as long as I am marked with this badge of disgrace and social inferiority I shall always remain an unimportant, insignificant22 individual. That Ober-Director von Meinken, he is, I am sure, the chief cause of keeping me down. He always looks at me with such a dark, unfriendly glance whenever I have to enter his office. He is the very picture of a Rosho, although he talks smoothly23 enough. I don’t doubt but he would be glad enough to get rid of me altogether if he only knew how to bring it about.”
“Aha, friend Levy, why are you plunged24 in such deep thought?” suddenly said a deep, hearty25 voice at his side. “I have been standing26 here a whole minute and you have never even noticed my presence, so absorbed were you in your reflections. Did I not know that you were a married man of virtuous27 principles I would say that you were in love. But then the expression of your face shows that you have not been dreaming sweet dreams of love delights. If I am any judge of physiognomy at all, your thoughts have been disagreeable ones. May I ask what they were?”
Levy turned around with a startled jerk of 247the high stool. It was the Herr Ober-Director, Baron28 Adalbert von Meinken himself with a good-humored smile on his broad, handsome, Teutonic face, the lower part of which was covered with a neatly29 trimmed brown full beard. Levy blushed guiltily. He felt as though the keen blue eyes of his superior were gazing into his very soul and reading the thoughts that had just occupied him. He stammered30 forth31 a half apology.
“The Herr Ober-Director will pardon my preoccupation,” he said, “but I can assure you that I was not thinking of any outside matter. I never permit myself to think of outside matters in business hours. I was thinking of a method of reducing the expenses of the station Weizenhofen on the Blauberg-Schoenthal branch. That place costs a great deal more than it ought to, considering the small amount of business done at that point, and I hope soon to be able to lay a project before your Excellency which will materially reduce the cost of maintenance of the station.”
“Ah,” said the Ober-Director, with a pleased expression, “I might have known that you, Levy, were not wasting your employer’s time in idle ruminations. You have always been a faithful, industrious32 worker, devoted33 heart and 248soul to the interests of the road. I shall be glad to receive your proposal in the Weizenhofen matter and I shall give it full consideration.”
And the Ober-Director passed on and entered his private office. Levy bent34 over his books as soon as his chief had passed, and was careful not to fall into another fit of reflection that afternoon. The words of the Ober-Director had pleased him but he did not altogether trust them. He feared that he was under close surveillance, and that all his actions were being rigidly35 scrutinized36, with a view to finding some flaw in his conduct. He devoted himself, therefore, with redoubled assiduity to his routine work until the welcome sound of the bell, announcing the closing hour, relieved him from further labor37 for the day. He put on his hat, exchanged his light office jacket for his street coat, and with a pleasant word of farewell to his fellow-clerks sallied forth into the street. As he sauntered down the beautiful Kaiser Strasse, the finest thoroughfare of the town, through which he always walked both in his daily journeyings to and from the office and on his Sunday and holiday promenades38, he was greeted by so many friends and acquaintances that his hand was continually busy raising his hat in response to their salutations. His social equals, both Christian39 249and Jewish, saluted40 him with easy and unaffected cordiality, his humbler acquaintances with great deference41. These manifestations43 of friendship and respect, instead of pleasing him, added to his discontent and his resentment44 against the authorities of the railroad. He said to himself that it was a crying shame, indeed an outrage45, that a man so generally esteemed46 and honored by his fellow-townsmen should be kept in a subordinate position because of the religious prejudices of his superiors; and should be prevented by such a reason, so repugnant to the culture and civilization of the century, from attaining to the rank and emoluments47 to which he was clearly entitled. In this frame of mind he reached his handsome dwelling48, which was charmingly situated49 in the Schoenberger Allee, a new and fashionable street in the suburbs of the town. To the effusive50 greetings of the spouse51 of his bosom52, Frau Ottilie, née Kahn, he returned a curt53 answer and threw himself, in an attitude of utter disgust and weariness, upon the sofa.
Frau Ottilie Levy was a worthy54 counterpart of her partner in life. If harmony in marriage is secured by similarity in tastes and disposition55, theirs should have been an ideal union, for their characters and views were almost 250exactly alike. Like her husband, Frau Levy was intensely ambitious. Her sole aim in life was to secure the greatest possible measure of wealth and social prestige. She shared her husband’s grievance to the fullest extent; but, womanlike, she was inclined to put the blame on him for his failure to advance, and continually nagged57 and pestered58 him with her complaints, and the expression of her discontent at not being able to shine as much as Frau Geheimr?thin So-and-So or Frau Commerzienr?thin Somebody Else. Seeing the discomposure under which her husband was evidently laboring59, her woman’s instinct told her that now was not the time to nag2 and scold, but to sympathize and console. She therefore relinquished60, or rather postponed61 to a more favorable opportunity, the caustic63 lecture combined with a demand for a larger allowance which she had been preparing all day for the special benefit of her life partner, and began inquiring, with great solicitude64, concerning the cause of his disturbed condition.
“What is the matter, Franz dear?” she asked, in the same tone of winning gentleness which she had lately so greatly admired in the celebrated65 stage heroine, Adele de Pompadour, as played by Madame Graetzinger, the renowned67 251Erste Dame66 of the Stadt Theater. “Why are you so upset? I trust that nothing serious has happened.”
“Yes and no,” answered Franz dejectedly; “that old Von Meinken caught me to-day, when I was thinking about the shameful68 slowness of my promotion, or rather my lack of any promotion, and was neglecting my work. I was so absorbed in thought that I never noticed him, although, as he told me, he stood by my desk over a minute. Of course I gave him as good an excuse as I could get up in a hurry to account for my absent-mindedness; but how can I tell whether the old fox believed what I said or not? Confound him, he’s always sure to be around when he isn’t wanted. You can rely on it that I worked extra hard all the rest of the afternoon.”
“You don’t think that can hurt you any, do you?” asked Otillie, dropping her theatrical69 manner, and with just a shade of anxiety in her voice. “What harm is it if an old, trustworthy employee like you is idle for a minute or two in the day?”
“It oughtn’t to be any harm,” answered Franz. “But then you know how stiff and exacting70 these Prussian officials are. They think men are nothing but machines, and they make no 252allowances for anything. A number of men have been discharged of late, and then, you know, there is so much anti-Semitism nowadays. I, as a Jew, have to be particularly careful.”
“There’s the root of the whole matter,” said Frau Ottilie, pouncing71 with avidity upon her favorite argument. “It’s only because you’re a Jew that you have any trouble. Don’t tell me that an experienced, faithful official like you, if he were a Christian, would be trembling with fear of losing his place because he had been thinking of something for a moment or two. No such trivial thing would have been of any consequence in his case. It is only we Jews who must be continually alarmed, continually alert lest we commit the slightest error; because, in our case, any fault, sometimes even only imaginary, means ruin. Yes, Heine was right when he said: ‘Judaism is not a religion; it is a misfortune.’ It certainly is your misfortune, and therefore mine. As long as you are a Jew you will never advance. You might as well try to jump over the moon as to overcome the deep-seated prejudices of Christians73 against Jews. You simply cannot do it.”
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253“But, my dear,” said Levy, who had heard this sort of talk very frequently, and was rather weary of it, “what is the use of telling me all that again and again. I know as well as you that being a Jew is the chief hindrance74 to my progress. But what is the use of continually harping75 on it. I cannot change what I am; so why kick in vain against the unalterable?”
“But it is not unalterable,” said Frau Ottilie, with even more acerbity76 than the sense of her old and keenly felt grievance usually aroused. “You talk as though to be a Jew was the same as being a negro, or a Chinaman, or blind, or lame56. The negro cannot make his black skin white, nor the Chinaman his complexion77 or his features resemble those of the Caucasian; neither can the blind nor the lame alter their physical deformities. But the Jew needs only to speak a meaningless formula and permit three drops of water to be sprinkled upon him and presto78, change, he has ceased to be a Jew and become a Christian. All his former blemishes79 and shortcomings are forgotten, and he is received with open arms into Christian society. Instead of being an outcast and a pariah80, an individual barely and unwillingly81 tolerated, he becomes a beloved brother. Then, why stupidly submit to a load of inherited, unnecessary trouble? Why not rather take the one bold step which will make an end of them all at once and forever?”
254“But, my dear Ottilie,” said Franz, who, though used to this line of argument, was surprised by his wife’s unusual bitterness. “What is the purpose of all this? You don’t want me to be baptized, to be a meshummad, do you?”
“That is just what I do want,” answered Ottilie, vehemently82. “I want you to cease being a stupid martyr83 and begin to be sensible, and I want to be sensible with you, too. I am not afraid of the word meshummad. That is only a harmless term which stupid and fanatical Jews use to condemn84 people who are more sensible than they. Baptism will not hurt you. It is only the key which will unlock before you the gates of prosperity and happiness in life. Besides, if you look honestly into your heart you are no Jew. A Jew must have a faith, must believe in Judaism, and practise a lot of senseless ceremonies. You do not care a straw for the whole Jewish religion, nor bother your head about the Sabbath or the dietary laws, or any of the other absurdities85 which they call religious practices in Judaism. I don’t believe you have been inside of a synagogue in ten years. I am just as little of a Jewess as you are of a Jew. Yet, by keeping up the name of Jew, without any real reason except a blind clinging to you know not what, you expose yourself and me and 255our only son to all the trouble and disadvantages which result from connection with a despised and hated people. Again, I say, be sensible. Pay the price of admission to civilized86 society, that is, accept baptism and be done with it.”
Thus did Ottilie reason and plead with her husband to renounce87 his ancestral faith. The argument, thus seriously begun, lasted long, and was carried on with intense earnestness on both sides. The thought of accepting Christianity was no new one to Franz. His wife’s constant perusal88 of that theme had made it familiar to him, but he had never yet seriously contemplated89 the step. The memory of pious90 parents and of the religious zeal91 and piety92 of youthful days, though long since discarded, had had force enough to render the thought of apostasy93 utterly94 repugnant and prevent its serious consideration. But Ottilie’s nature was stronger than his; her’s was the masterful character, his the subordinate. Before the evening was over, her persistence95 and adroit96 reasoning had overpowered his feeble and illogical resistance. They retired97 for the night with the understanding that on the morrow Franz was to inform Herr Ober-Director von Meinken of his determination to seek salvation98 in the arms of the 256church, and to request the Herr Ober-Director to act as his godfather at the solemn rite72 of baptism.
The following morning Franz awoke in a state of high exhilaration. Now that he had made up his mind he was thoroughly99 content, and wondered a little how he had ever been able to pass so many years with the awful burden of Judaism resting upon him, hindering and impeding100 his progress, which he now pictured to himself as rapid and uninterrupted, bringing him from step to step to the highest rank in his vocation101. Ottilie was even more jubilant than her husband. She rejoiced that her influence over her husband was so great as to induce him to take so important and decisive a step, and she rejoiced particularly when she thought how grandly she would enter the salons102 of her distinguished103 acquaintances, no longer the merely tolerated Jewess, but the equal and co-religionist of them all. She pictured to herself with especial delight how solemnly she would enter the beautiful church, only two squares from their home, which was so holy and so fashionable; and what a sensation she would create with her reverent104 demeanor105 and her Paris gowns!
As soon as Franz reached the office he inquired 257whether the Herr Director had arrived. As he had anticipated, the Herr Director had not yet arrived. He did not usually come until about eleven o’clock, and this morning was no exception. Franz waited with great impatience106 the arrival of the great man. He thought it rather inconsiderate of him to stay away so long when he, Franz Friedrich Levy, desired to make him so important an announcement. At last, about a quarter of an hour later than usual, the Herr Ober-Director put in his appearance and went at once to his private office. He had not been in his sanctum five minutes when a somewhat diffident knock at the door was heard, and upon his deep-voiced “Herein!” Franz entered. “Ah, is it you, Levy?” said Herr von Meinken, with a pleasant smile. “I think I can imagine the reason of your call this morning. It is, I presume, in reference to that Station Weizenhofen matter you spoke107 of the other day.” Franz hesitated. Now that the decisive moment had come, he grew a little uncertain in his conviction of the spiritual beauties and material advantages of Christianity, and would have more than half liked another chance to think over the matter. But only for a moment.
“No, your Excellency,” he answered. “It is 258not in reference to the Weizenhofen matter that I have taken the liberty to request a brief interview with you this morning. I am still engaged in working out that matter, but I am not as yet prepared to make any definite proposition on the subject. The cause that has brought me before your Excellency this morning is of an entirely108 personal nature, but of the highest importance to me, and I trust that I shall have the benefit of your Excellency’s kindness and courteous109 sympathy in connection therewith.”
Herr von Meinken’s eyebrows110 rose slightly and his lips tightened111 just a little when he heard these words. He did not answer, but continued to eye Franz with the somewhat cold and dubious112 gaze of one who expects to be importuned113 for a favor and does not feel inclined to grant it. “What I desire and would respectfully request,” continued Franz, “is that your Excellency might kindly115 consent to act as godfather at my baptism, and that the highly honored baroness116 might graciously deign117 to act in the same capacity for my wife. I do not doubt that you are somewhat surprised,” he added, noticing the expression of genuine astonishment118 upon the Herr Ober-Director’s face, “at this request but the fact is, my wife and I have contemplated this step for some time. We are no 259longer in sympathy with the faith in which we were born. We have come to recognize that it is a presumption119 for an insignificant, retrograde minority to cling to a religion different from that of the great, cultured majority. Our tastes and views are all in close accord with those of the Christian people of the land. In a word, we feel that our place is in the church rather than in the synagogue, and, therefore, we have finally determined120 to seek our true spiritual home, the church, and to request most respectfully your Excellency and your Excellency’s worthy lady kindly to assist at the solemn rite which joins us with our fellow-citizens in the close brotherhood121 of religion, as we have always been joined to them in the brotherhood of patriotism122 and love of the fatherland.”
The Herr Ober-Director was surprised. There could be no doubt of that. The expression of his countenance123 showed it plainly. But another emotion of a less definite nature was also suggested on his features. It seemed something like amusement; but one could not be sure, for he did not explain it. He answered Franz very graciously, congratulated him on his resolution, which did equal credit to his head and heart, assured him that the true unity62 of citizens could only be found in their adherence124 to 260a common faith, and wound up by accepting, in the kindliest and most condescending125 manner possible, for himself and the Frau Baronin the honorable functions of godfather and godmother to Franz and Ottilie.
Flustered126 and confused by the extraordinary courtesy of the Herr Ober-Director and overwhelmed with happiness, Franz retired from the august presence. The baptism took place, with all due formality, about a week later. The minister of the fashionable Erl?ser Kirche, which Ottilie so greatly admired, Pastor127 Boecker, had been more than satisfied with the intelligent and modest manner in which Franz and Ottilie had applied128 for baptism, and had seen no reason to refuse their request for a speedy performance of the ceremony. At the rite itself, which took place in the presence of a small but select group of Christian acquaintances, Franz and Ottilie conducted themselves with due humility129 and reverence130; and the Herr Ober-Director and spouse performed their parts with perfect dignity and solemnity, while the Herr Pastor showed, by the unusual impressiveness of his address, that he considered the act one of exceptional importance. After the ceremony there was a charming little supper in a private room of the Hotel zum Blauen Adler. 261Never before had the Herr Ober-Director shown himself so affable. He proposed the health of their newly-made Christian brother and sister in the warmest and most eloquent131 terms, alluded132 in words of sincere appreciation133 to Franz’s many years of useful service to the Anhalt Diesterburg-Rickershofen State Railroad, presaged134 for him a still more distinguished career in the future, and wound up by extending to him, metaphorically135, of course, the hand of friendship and brotherhood. As for the Frau Baronin, she was as charming as she could be to Ottilie, whose right-hand neighbor at table she was. Our newly-made Christians were touched to the heart by all the kindness and sympathy that were shown them, and could hardly refrain from open manifestation42 of their joy. When the delightful136 feast was over and Franz and Ottilie had reached their home, they gave full vent20 to their exultation137.
“Now, Franz,” said Ottilie, “you see what it means to be numbered among the Christians. What cordiality, what sincere friendship they all showed us! Did you notice how extremely courteous the Frau Baronin was to me? She never used to do more than barely notice me, with a merely formal bow. But then I was only a Jewess, while now I am one of her own faith; 262that is the difference. I hope now, Franz, you understand how much you are obliged to me for having urged and finally brought you to consent to this step, which means so much to both of us. Ah, I shudder138 when I think of the time when I was numbered among the despised, wretched Jews. The church in which we were baptized is rightly called Erl?ser Kirche, for it has redeemed139 us both from the bondage140 of Judaism.”
“You are right, Ottilie,” answered Franz, his face beaming with delight. “This has been a great day for us. I have no doubt now but I shall rapidly advance. Did you notice how the Herr Director praised my services to the railroad and predicted for me a brilliant future? That is what they call a hint with a fence rail; that from now on I am to advance. The only obstacle to my progress was my Judaism; and that hateful stumbling-block being now removed, there is no reason why I should not rapidly forge ahead in my career.”
In this edifying141 and truly spiritual manner did our worthy couple discuss the advantages of Christianity until a late hour, when they retired to dream sweet dreams of financial blessings142 and social joys to come. The next morning, bright and early, Franz was at his post in 263the office of the railroad. He felt it incumbent143 upon him, so to speak, to show that he did not presume to take any liberties because of his new religious status, but that he still intended to merit promotion through faithful performance of duty. About the usual time the Herr Ober-Director appeared and, with a friendly nod to Franz, went into his private office. As his tall form passed through the door, Franz speculated as to how soon there would come through that door the welcome message announcing his elevation144 to the next higher post. He did not anticipate that it could come very soon; and when a half-hour later the Herr Ober-Director’s special messenger approached his desk and deposited upon it a huge envelope addressed to him and bearing the official seal of the railroad, he was greatly surprised. “So soon,” he said to himself, as with trembling hands and palpitating heart he tore open the portentous145 missive. “This is far speedier than I could have expected. How overjoyed Ottilie will be when I bring to her already to-day the welcome news of my preferment. I wonder what the post is for which I am selected.” Hastily he read; and as he grasped the contents of the missive, his gaze hardened into a stare, his breath came in short, quick gasps146, all the color fled from his 264cheeks and left them ashy pale. This is what he read:
“Anhalt-Diesterburg-Rickershofen State Railroad,
“Bureau of the Administration.
“To Herr Franz Friedrich, Chief Bookkeeper
of the Second Secretariat.
“Dear Sir: We regret to inform you that after the end of the present week your services will no longer be required. Thanking you for your faithful efforts in the past, and sincerely regretting the necessity of dispensing147 with your services in the future, we remain,
“Yours very truly,
“The Ober-Direction,
“Schmidt, Sec’y.”
Franz sat for a full minute as one petrified148, glaring at the curt official note which announced the end of all his hopes and ambitions, hardly able to realize its significance. Then a sudden resolution came into his mind. He would face the Herr Ober-Director; he would demand the meaning of this utterly inexplicable149 and outrageous150 action; he would reproach him with his hypocritical professions of friendship at last night’s celebration; he would shame him into continuing his services. He rose from his seat, went to the door of the Ober-Director’s private office and knocked. His chief’s deep-voiced 265“Herein!” was heard and he entered. The Herr Ober-Director was seated at his desk, and gazed at Franz with a grave countenance as he entered.
“Your Excellency,” said Franz, in a voice almost choked with emotion, showing the fatal letter as he spoke, “I have just received this communication, which informs me of my discharge. Is it correct? Am I really dismissed from the road after a service of over twenty-five years?” The Herr Ober-Director bowed in corroboration151. “Your Excellency will pardon me,” continued Franz, “if I ask you, is this just? Have I not always done my duty faithfully? Am I not fully114 conversant152 with all the requirements of my position? I believe these reasons would have justified153 you in retaining me.”
“What you say is true, Herr Levy,” answered the Ober-Director, “and I regret extremely to have to dispense154 with your services; but the fact is, the business of the road has declined, and does not warrant us in retaining so many officials. The Government is urgent that I must reduce expenses. I am, therefore, obliged to abolish the second secretariat altogether; and since your post thus ceases to exist, there is no choice but for you to go.”
266“Your Excellency will further pardon me,” said Franz, with increasing agitation155, “if I say that this action comes with especial harshness just at this time when I have joined your faith, and been initiated156 into the church under your kind patronage157. It does seem strange, to say the least, that during all these years, when I was a Jew, I was retained, and no complaint or hint of prospective158 discharge ever reached my ears; and now that I have become a Christian, you immediately discover that there is no need for my services and I am summarily dismissed.”
“That is the very reason, strange as it may seem,” said the Herr Ober-Director. “You see, we had already contemplated dismissing you some time ago, as the need for your services had really ceased. But there is so much talk nowadays of official anti-Semitism, of anti-Jewish prejudice on the part of the Government, that we hesitated to discharge you, since you were a Jew and an employee of many years’ standing. We knew that if you were discharged, it would immediately be made the basis of accusations160 of anti-Semitic tendencies on the part of the Government; and since the Government has no such tendencies, and does not wish to be considered as having them, we felt ourselves obliged to retain you. But now that you are a 267Christian, and a member of the State church, no such accusation159 of anti-Semitism can be made, and we therefore have felt at liberty to dispense with your services, which, as I have said, have really become superfluous161. And, now, permit me to conclude this interview, which is time-robbing and unprofitable, and to wish you a very good day.”
As Franz went out through the Ober-Director’s door he said to himself, with grim emphasis: “I think Ottilie will have to revise her favorite quotation162 from Heine. As far as we are concerned, not Judaism but Christianity has been the misfortune.”
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prospective
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accusation
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superfluous
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