You will do as I wish in this matter, brother Manasseh, will you not ?" Another nod of the bowed head.
* * * * * The prediction uttered by Manasseh, when his enemy lay in his power in the desolate church at St.George, was completely fulfilled.

Though he would have infinitely preferred banishment to Siberia, Benjamin Vajdar was forced to return to Toroczko, to the very house where he had been reared, and there take up his abode as a state prisoner.

The government made him a pitiful allowance of three hundred florins a year, to keep him from starving.
Thus it was, too, that Anna's words came true, and the man despised and rejected of all the world sought refuge in the house where he had been tenderly nurtured as a child.

Thus did he return, vanquished in life's battle, to have his wounds bound by the hands of those he had so grievously wronged, and to beg a place in that family circle into which he had done his utmost to bring sorrow and despair.
Manasseh met the police officer at the door, and heard his announcement with perfect composure.
"We have no objection to raise," said he, "against the decree of the government.

Benjamin Vajdar was formerly a member of our family, and so we must provide for him.