"Why, I have just said," he exclaimed impatiently, "that it cannot be done, but even if it could, I would not do it, for I feel as though she also had a right to the fortune, as it has been in her possession so long, and Providence seems to have sent it direct to her."
"But supposing you could get at it through Veronica?"
"That seems out of the question too."
"Really? Well, now listen to me, Gyuri, for I have something to tell you."
"I am listening."
But his thoughts were elsewhere, as he drummed on the table with his fingers.
"Well," went on Sztolarik, "when I went in to Huszák's this morning to buy the two rings you wanted sent by the messenger (for I had no intention of coming here myself then), Huszák was not in the shop, so the rabbit-mouthed young man waited on me. You know him?"
Yes, Gyuri remembered him.
"I told him to give me two rings, and he asked whom they were for. So I said they were going a good distance. Then he asked where to, and I told him to Glogova. 'Perhaps to the priest's sister?' he asked. 'Yes,' I said. 'She's a beauty,' he remarked. 'Why, do you know her?' asked I. 'Very well,' he answered."
Gyuri stopped tapping, and jumped up excitedly.