The House That Shadows Built (1928)

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io8 THE HOUSE THAT SHADOWS BUILT lapse of the fur cape, his efforts to establish Kohn & Company in New York, his losing fight for control of the Penny Arcade, his scrambling and juggling to keep Hale’s Tour Company out of bankruptcy. He had become conscious of an itching irritation over all his skin; in him the first signal — as specialists were afterward to inform him — of nervous exhaustion. Now, he had altered again the whole direction and purpose of his life. He was about to enter his third apprenticeship, though he realized that only dimly. He did realize that he faced another struggle, and needed all his strength. “The most sensible thing he ever did,” says Brady now. He lingered awhile in Paris and Vienna, and then revisited Ricse. In the decade since he saw it last, more and more boys of the town had felt the stirring of ambition and emigrated to America. As a proof of prosperity, they were sending back remittances from their wages. But after all, these were only workmen or, at most, floorwalkers and clerks. Here came a native who seemed to Ricse a wealthy man. He had been partner in a New York fur busines; he was now a “theatrical manager” — little, orphan Adolph! Somewhat to his embarrassment — he having a sense of proportion — the Mayor turned out the Town Council to receive him. Evading further honours, he passed on to Berlin for a visit with Rabbi Arthur Liebermann, already established as the most eloquent of the younger Hebrew