But the Professor was relieved. Money was scarce. He had many children, and he thanked the Queen over and over for her goodness.
CHAPTER XXII
DAYS OF DARKNESS
All the Storks, grown and children, liked their new Nest in Königsberg.
It was a city, and there was more to amuse one than in Memel. But life still had its troubles both for them, for the Queen, and for Prussia.
One day Marianne was standing with the children on the bridge of Kantstrasse. They were looking down at the Fish Market and laughing at the fish women from the Baltic as they sold their fish. There were Dutch vessels in the Pregel, and queer sailors, and Marianne told the twins to look at the queer signs hanging on the houses on the bank. "When the Poles were here," she explained, "each man painted the sign of his trade and swung it from his house. See, that was a shoemaker, there was a tailor."
While they talked, people were passing along Kantstrasse by the dozens, professors going to and fro, town people, soldiers, sailors or fishers from the Baltic.
Presently along came Franz.
When he saw the little group he smiled and joined them.