Chapter 32: To the Village

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌​‌​‌‌‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌‌‌‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​⁠The burgomaster's house, with its elaborate fresco, "Christ before Pilate," still stood without any signs of life in the grey dawn. The burgomaster was asleep. He had been ill very frequently. It seemed as if the attack brought on by Freyer's flight had given him his death-blow, he had never rallied from it. And as his body could not recuperate, his mind could never regain its tone.

When Ludwig Gro