Requiem in Vienna
“They carried Mahler off the special express from Salzburg on a stretcher with four bulky soldiers of the Alpin Korps on guard duty. Prince Montenuovo was sparing no expense, now that there had been yet another “assassination attempt,” as the prince insisted on calling the poisoning.
Mahler’s face was greenish yellow; his chest rose and fell with great difficulty. As they hustled the stretcher past Werthen at the Empress Elisabeth Bahnhof, the composer’s eyelids fluttered open, and he recognized... the lawyer.
He lifted a beckoning hand, and Werthen went to him, bending down over the stretcher.
Mahler whispered, but Werthen could not hear his words at first. Leaning down more closely so that Mahler’s breath warmed his ear, Werthen was finally able to hear the message: “Find him, Werthen, before it is too late.”
“He was a lucky man,” Dr. Baumgartner, the attending physician at the General Hospital said. “Well, unlucky to have been poisoned in the first place, but fortunate in that he ate so little of the tainted sweet.MoreLess
Mahler’s face was greenish yellow; his chest rose and fell with great difficulty. As they hustled the stretcher past Werthen at the Empress Elisabeth Bahnhof, the composer’s eyelids fluttered open, and he recognized... the lawyer.
He lifted a beckoning hand, and Werthen went to him, bending down over the stretcher.
Mahler whispered, but Werthen could not hear his words at first. Leaning down more closely so that Mahler’s breath warmed his ear, Werthen was finally able to hear the message: “Find him, Werthen, before it is too late.”
“He was a lucky man,” Dr. Baumgartner, the attending physician at the General Hospital said. “Well, unlucky to have been poisoned in the first place, but fortunate in that he ate so little of the tainted sweet.MoreLess
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