in its substance a confession of a man of deformed character and dicey
 morals. Kicked over and humilitated, Blether hurries from the castle
 to Spiritus' inn to offer his services to the spiritists. Since they
 have already known him for some time, he leaves misunderstood for
 Jelezny Brod, where he drinks like a fish. Well - for his whole life
 he has been accustomed to serving some master blindly, and so has life
 suddenly lost all meaning for him. This probably is the strongest of
 the motives for his desperate suicide, committed by jumping into the
 wild Jizera rapids from the Rieger's path pn his way from Jelezny
 Brod, UC.
 While Blether is killing himself, Atrament passes the boring time in
 jail by means of somnambulous sleep. All of sudden he starts to draw
 thoughtlessly strange patterns on the wall of his dungeon with a
 broken brick - medial drawings. A praemurdial spirit reveals to him
 that the man who poses as the Captain Satrapold is - just Satrapold's
 treacherous aide Poebeldorf, who devised a vile scheme with the
 intention to steal jewels from the Jilemnice castle and to flee to
 Cairo with enormous wealth. He was sent to the Jilemnice castle to
 prepare everything for the arrival of the real Satrapold, who is
 expected