In this our ninth season, welcome to the latest episode of our current Tale for Our Time. If you hop over to our timely Tales home page, you'll find it displayed in Netflix tile style, with the stories organised by category - thrillers, fantasy, romance, etc - which we hope will make it easier for you to find your favorite serial. If it doesn't, please let us know. But you can now access seventy-eight of our cracking yarns here - and all previous episodes of our current adventure, The City Without Jews by Hugo Bettauer, here.
And with that welcome to Part Eleven of our tale. In tonight's installment, a deJewed Vienna is taking its toll and the wilier councillors are pushing back:
After making sure that neither a colleague nor an inferior was in the room, he said loudly and distinctly, "Mazeltov!" knocking thrice on the under side of the table. Incidentally, it might be divulged that Herr Kallop admired a voluptuous Jewess—twice divorced, to be sure, but blessed with many millions by way of compensation—who now lived in exile in Prague. And he longed for nothing so much as for the return of her person and her millions to his beloved country—if for no other reason, than because he could not possibly cope any longer with the rising cost of living on his salary as President of the Municipal Council...
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