The House That Shadows Built (1928)

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20 THE HOUSE THAT SHADOWS BUILT sity upon the principal. With Arthur’s share they proposed soon to do exactly that. Arthur, having finished the Gymnase in a blaze of glory, was going on to the University at Berlin. For Kalman Liebermann saw in this brilliant elder nephew not only a real rabbi but a jewel of the Temple. Officially Kalman adopted him; he went on his career, which fulfilled all the early expectations, as Arthur Liebermann. Before young Adolph had drawn the wages of his second month, his gloomy meditations crystallized into decision. He would go to America; and the estate must pay his passage. Immediately he set on foot a series of adolescent diplomacies. Herman Blau was the first obstacle. When Adolph, on closing his apprenticeship, accepted service in the general store, he had bound himself to stay with the job for a year. Through all his early, struggling career, impatience was his personal devil; the alloy of his splendid energies. That year seemed an eternity. “I want to go to America,” he said when he summoned the courage to have it out with his employer. “Right away — this autumn.” On the American question, Herman Blau was openminded. His own daughter had married and emigrated to New York; her husband had found a good job in a department store. He, too, believed that America made magic. On the other hand, he disliked to lose an assistant so cheap and valuable.