Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by the Web Archive Transcriber's Notes: 1. Page scan source: http://www.archive.org/details/whirlpoolsnovelo00sien WHIRLPOOLS WORKS OF HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ * * * Whirlpools "Quo Vadis" With Fire and Sword The Deluge Pan Michael Children of the Soil Hania, and Other Stories Sielanka, a Forest Picture and Other Stories The Knights of the Cross Without Dogma On the Field of Glory WHIRLPOOLS A Novel of Modern Poland BY HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ Author of "With Fire and Sword," "The Deluge," "Quo Vadis," "Children of the Soil," "Without Dogma," Etc. _TRANSLATED FROM THE POLISH BY_ MAX A. DREZMAL BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1910 _Copyright, 1910_ By Little, Brown, and Company * * * _All rights reserved_ Published June, 1910 THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A. WHIRLPOOLS. PART FIRST. I Gronski arrived at the Jastrzeb manor-house about midnight. In the house all were asleep excepting an old servant and the young heir, Ladislaus Krzycki, who awaited his guest with supper and greeted him with great cordiality, for notwithstanding the disparity in their ages they were bound by ties of an old intimacy. It continued from those days when Gronski, as a university student, surrounded with a tutelary friendship the youthful Krzycki, who was attending the gymnasium. Later they met frequently and the closer friendly relations between Gronski and the Krzycki family did not undergo any interruption. Therefore when, after the first greetings, they repaired to the dining-room the young heir of Jastrzeb again began to embrace Gronski. After a while, having seated him at the table, he shook from his eyes the remnants of drowsiness which had oppressed him, became thoroughly animated, and said with sincere happiness: "How immensely fortunate I am that at last we have you at Jastrzeb; and Mother, how she has been expecting you! I, whenever I am in Warsaw, always begin with you, but a year has passed since your last visit here." Gronski inquired about Pani Krzycki's health and that of the younger members of the household, after which he said: