Since Kalmar's escape he lived in daily, hourly fear that his enemy would strike again and this time without missing, and with feverish anxiety he planned to anticipate that hour with a vengeance which would rob death of much of its sting.
So far he had succeeded only partially.

Paulina and Irma he held in domestic bondage.

From the boy Kalman, too, he exacted day by day the full tale of his scanty profits made from selling newspapers on the street.

But beyond this he could not go.

By no sort of terror could he induce Paulina to return to the old conditions and rent floor space in her room to his boarders.