
The sun then the star rises, the star escapes the dawn breaks the day is lost to change the night, the night disappears the day arises. Lost days change days, spent months connect months!
The seasons will not change, but they will not heed this change and exchange, but they will go on and on without ceasing from day to day, from years and centuries to centuries.
Where did it come from and where did it go? Was it the beginning and was there akhimya? Wallahu nature.
At the Java Medical School in Jakarta, in almost a year, there was not much change.
The lessons of the students, the longer they continue, for there will be no longer any fast and the school will certainly be closed, so that it can rest the students who have been working for it, he said, learn to work hard in that year.
Samsulbahri and his best friend Arifin apparently are advancing in his lessons. In every test that has been done that year, it is evident that they are not left behind in their lessons from their peers.
The objections and hardships that he suffered so much at the beginning they came to Jakarta, disappeared already and bias them to a new life.
Only the memory and longing of the heart of Samsul-bahri to Nurbayalah who did not want to be reduced, even more and more the taste, so sometimes almost unbearable fines like that.
Moreover, in these few days, his heart was very prone to be mingled with sorrow, with no knowledge of why; as something of danger, which had fallen upon his beloved.
Therefore the more he remembered Nurbaya and the more he wanted to see his sister.
"Reran," he said in his heart, as he sat pensively alone, on a rock, in the schoolyard, "my old dream came to seduce my mind.
Glad my heart, when the memory of the wretched dream began to disappear; but why now is this coming so suddenly to tempt my heart?
Ah, perhaps because my mind had gone back to Padang, for there would be no longer a day of fasting and there would be a meeting with her beloved."
While he was thinking that way, Arifin came with a letter addressed to Samsu, and gave this letter to his friend.
When Samsu saw the address of the letter and the real coming from Nurbaya, he entered his room, will read the letter alone.
When this letter was about to be opened, his heart thumped and his body felt, as if there was some sad news to be heard; it was special to be seen by him, the wrappers of the letter, as if there was some sad news to be heard; it was special to be seen by him, as a former point of water.
"Because of this letter or sea water?" samsu asked in his heart.
When the wrapping of the letter will be torn, suddenly fell a picture of the Nurbaya hanging on the wall of the room, so that the glass and frame shattered, while the portrait itself was damaged as well, because of squads of spiky glass shards, piercing through her lover's chest, about his heart.
The portrait was lifted by Samsu, then the removal of broken glass that entered the Nurbaya's chest slowly, fearing it would be damaged image. However, he was careful, the portrait paper was also damaged about the chest of Nurbaya.
"Magical," thought Samsu in the heart, pensive. "What does this address mean? What news will I hear?"
After cleaning the broken glass, then the new letter was taken, opened with trembling hands and a pounding heart.
At that time it seemed that the letter was full of water points, and his writings were much less bright, as a letter written by a person whose mind was tangled. The letter said:
Padang, 13 March 11897.
Samsulbahri's Beloved!
...Though I know, that this poor letter, which...
...I have written with tears in my eyes and heart...
...Very sad again poignant, more so than sliced with...
...election and acid, salt; and dark mind...
...The fog will come with very sad news...
...To you, it may also decide expectations...
...you, which you practice day and night and though...
...feel the breaking heart of my heart about the sad...
...and the sorrow of the destinies which shall befall you because...
...heard this poor news, but I guess...
...I also wrote this letter, for fear that you may...
...suspecting that my heart has indeed turned away...
thereof.
...Perhaps this news will cause wrath and...
...I have a doubt in your heart, Sam, and I will...
...Eliminate your trust in me and therefore is not...
...you'll take it back on me and you're wasting me, as...
...Throwing garbage into the dump, because on your trumpet...
...I am truly one who holds no promise and...
unreliable.
...Let me swear first,...
...maybe you believe me back. Wallah...
...Rabbi, my heart has not changed from before to you and...
...this is my memory, will hurt your heart and disconnect-...
...kan your expectations. Almighty God my witness, and...
...If I am not right in this, let it be punished and...
...I am from the world to the Hereafter. Indeed...
...I'd a thousand times rather die of soil than...
...living mirrors the carcass as this, and if there is no fear and...
...no remember I will you, I must have killed myself, so that...
don't suffer anymore.
...Now what am I gonna say? Because that's...
...Apparently my fate has been overwritten. Although how...
...I also want to refuse or I will spare myself from it,...
...niscaya will be a mere waste of the work, for profit and...
...the fate of man is determined, since in the womb of the mother of the birth....
...Didn't I say in the saying: Malang no...
...can be rejected, lucky unachievable? Not a year that...
...now have you known my thread, because of you...
...Have had a dream about my fate? Now it's...
...The time has come apparently, I have to keep my fate, that is,...
...cannot be denied again. Ought to waste all ideals...
...and my memento, all my hopes vanished, broke my rope...
place depends and ..."
There Samsu could not read this letter anymore, because the paper seemed to be full of tears, so that it became flowers and letters written on it became less bright.
Therefore surpassed by Samsu the less bright writings, then read the follow-up:
..."So you can find out how anal started...
...My deception, I also write this letter. Thus,...
...You can worry about how much I am wrong in this matter...
these.
...As I have told you, my father's shop has been...
...burned all. That was the beginning of my affliction; of...
...- That is the origin of my torment. Like the story I heard from...
...your father on the examination which was carried out later...
...rather than that, there are signs that declare combustion...
...it's what people do, because near there, there's a former place...
...oil and reed butts. Notwithstanding, Sam,...
...until now no longer have information, who...
commit that crime.
...To add to your father's heart, the fire was per-...
...Betrayal, the cause of which was first burned, of the third...
...The shop, are both shops on the side. Both almost...
...Simultaneously eaten fire. If those shops don't burn people,...
...how-was that fire able to jump from that store...
...first to the third store, by surpassing the store in...
...middle-center. If you could jump, it would be the store...
...first it's first hams burning really, really,...
...The fire can jump to the third store. But...
...As I said, those two shops on the other side were the first...
at first both burned, then the store in the middle.
...For the fire is the work of the people and the fire eats...
...Very quickly, can not classify a piece of goods...
...Because when the fireman found out, the two shops...
...it has almost burned out. And because of the heat of the fire, the,...
...No one dared to go near those shops....
...That is also why there is no thread...
...out; all of you have been destroyed by fire. For the third reason...
...The store has not yet included insurance, please lose my father on...
that night about fifty thousand rupiah.
...One more thing that amazes your father, the shopkeeper...
...it apparently slept well, so the fire died. Just...
...It is the shopkeeper in the middle who is out of danger...
...mat. But if he is not helped, he will die;...
...because when the fire ate the store in the middle, not yet...
...he woke up, so he was interrupted by soldiers to the outside. Out, though,...
seen as a drunk, no insaf of himself.
...As I told you, my father was that night...
...no at home, go to Padang Panjang, manage...
...business on some of its subscription stores there,...
...who apparently want to pay his debt and not...
...mau took the stuff again to my dad. That's...
...which makes the mind in my heart. Really do...
...Is that the work of people? If true, what does it mean...
who is this hidden enemy?
...When my father came home the next day, because...
...I was sent a wire letter by your father, I told you about the accident...
...To him and I also express my heart to others...
...which you have dreamed of. But my father would not...
...heard my words, because he believed so strongly...
to that guy.
..."It was not he who did evil," said my father, "in vain...
...Our fate is like that. Even so,...
...don't you work on that!" my father said, "because...
...My dark garden is still there and my forest goods...
...Accept this month, there are also five boats; enough...
...for me will start trading, as before. If with...
...Help Allah, return all that has been lost."...
...My father, because his patience seems to be full...
...his mind leaves the good fortune to the Almighty God...
...Power and ask for His grace. That is what I...
...give me a miracle of my heart, for it will be manifest to you,...
...That the Lord has forsaken us and has not helped...
...we again, though I do not know, what sin and...
...mistakes we made. All tribulations and...
...the accident came crashing down, as is the curse...
...Who has fallen on our heads; for two days...
...then from that came my father's boat boy who...
...usual carry and take business goods from...
...Canal and Painan reported, my father's five boats...
...has been shipwrecked in the sea, violated by a typhoon that blows, when...
...The night of the fire. None of his cargo was...
...help, as all the boatmen, will surely die...
at sea, if not helped by another boat.
...How my father felt when he heard the news,...
...I cannot tell you here, but Allah is...
...who knows. Even if the face water remains, there is no...
...changed, and apparently gave up and relied on God,...
...But I know his heart is in a crumble as a glass...
fall to the rock. From that day on we lived frugally.
...Not much later than that, apparently my father...
...borrowing money to Datuk Meringgih, the number of ten...
...Thousand, with that promise to my father, I know nothing....
...Maybe it will be debt payers or it will be run anyway...
...wake up his fallen business. But...
...Apparently in the three months he always lost, so...
...End that money. All the people in the Canal and Painan,...
...Run away from my father with the money...
...there, and all my father's subscription stores in Padang Darat...
that too, there is no need to pay his debts.
...There is only one hope for my father, the coconut garden...
...The end of the reef, but this hope was also decided,...
...Because we had to fall into the mud, we could not be helped....
...The devil who brings all the danger seems to...
...not satisfied to see that we have become so. Wasn't it...
...Our treasures alone will be destroyed, but our souls...
...pun will be revoked anyway and if this unfortunate fate,...
...no want to leave us, I mean...
that bastard's not gonna be here much longer.
...The coconut tree my father had hoped for, did not want to...
...fruiting again, while the fruit is there, young old so...
rotten, fall to the ground. The trunk is all dead.
...How can an accident come...
...overwrite it like that, I can't think about it. Ruptured...
...my brain recounts whether my father's sin was up...
...Got that kind of punishment? I can't believe my dad exists...
...Do something bad or make a big mistake,...
until tortured like that.
...But what to say? If fate falls, then,...
...all can be reasons. For me it is that profit...
...as the saying goes: Supposed to be hot until evening, may be...
...midday rain. That is the real greatness of God, which...
...can be a tamil for all investors. If desired...
...His treasure, as much as it is, can be lost...
in the blink of an eye."
Only until it was read by Samsu letter Nurbaya, shed tears, which had been detained. "Let there be a danger that I fear" he thought to himself, "How shall my beloved finally be?"
After she had her tears washed, she continued reading the letter.
..."After three months, Datuk Meringgih came...
...asking for money back, he said because it needs to be used,...
...but my father no longer bears. How much my father...
ask for a promise, it's not permitted.
...That's when I found out about my father, how my grandfather's heart was....
...Actually grimaced to him. That time he did...
...feels, Datuk Meringgih is not his best friend, but...
...the enemy; so the greatest enemy. All of you...
...my suspicions that I have told him, begin to believe...
nya.
...But what can you do, Sam! The pawn has gone to...
...China, it can't be changed. Who knows, maybe Grandpa...
...It is this that wreaks such havoc, that,...
...so my father fell like that. It was with...
...intentionally borrowed my father money, so that he also fell into...
...in his hand. If so, then Grandpa...
...Meringgih it's the biggest villain, who nailed...
in the trunk, cut in the folds.
...After being asked by my father with great difficulty, then...
...he's tough another week, but with...
...agreement, when in that week there is no pay...
...the debt, it will certainly be at home and goods...
...My father and I will put him in prison....
...Only when I was given to him, this beast, this beast,...
may my father pay the debt, if there is money.
Reading this abomination, red is the color of Samsu's face. His eyes as fiery, his forehead veins swelled up and his entire body trembled. His hand was clenched as he was about to pounce on Datuk Meringgih, who in his sight was probably on his face.
"Damn it!" such was the word that came out of his mouth, "A wise old dog. Remember the look and age you want to ask Nurbaya. With a ghost, you should marry!"
After Samsu described his heart, then read the letter, because he really wanted to know, what happened to his lover.
..."In that week," is the connection of letters...
...Nurbaya," go my father to and fro looking for money,...
...But there is no one who believes in him any more,...
...because he has fallen miserable. While his best friend,...
...who often helped him in his pleasure, has been...
...leave it anyway. That's how the world is, apparently,...
...patut is affirmed by the Jakarta people with insinuations: There is money...
...Baby branch, no money brother floated. Yep! Guys...
...A lot of gigs, but friends cry rarely together....
...It is money that is seen, feared, respected, and...
...loved people; money that's relatives' friends, mothers and...
...civil. The bear will not be orphaned, silent...
of all, live a life.
...If so, how big is the world, how...
...The evil of man! But there really is no one...
...who does not see money in this world? Respectfully...
...Because of respect, fear because of fear, love because of affection, and...
...love for love? Although I believe, there certainly are...
...people who don't look at money, real people...
...people, among the inhabitants of this city of Padang, but because...
...this accident that overwritten me, it became my heart...
and lacking my trust.
...Now let me continue my story, lest I be too...
...That coconut grove at the end of the Coral, the treasure of my father...
...appealing, do not neglect to be sold, because all of you have...
die." dead."
At that time Samsu's heart grew more and more unpleasant, so he shook his head.
..."Therefore; when my father's promise will come...
...To Datuk Meringgih, on his night, he came...
...to me, ask my mind about this, because...
...esoknya will surely come—Datuk this listen...
our decision.
...I've been speechless; ever since my father's shop burned down,...
...what I can't please. I often cry...
...at night recalls my poor fate....
...My dream is always in my eyes. Is after...
...Grandfather Meringgih collect his receivables, is not that I can...
...Sleep every night, but always cry....
...Often I am surprised, because as seen by me...
...Grandfather Meringgih came to rule me. Thus,...
...my body becomes thin dry skin remains a bone dressing:...
...If you look at me now, you must not know me anymore...
...engkau to me. This is how my body changes, because...
sad, hard, scared and heart-eating."
..."I know, Nur, that you don't like Datuk...
...Moaning," said my father that night to me. "First...
...his age is old, second because apparently not good, third...
...because of his vile habits. That's why he's not your soul mate. And...
...I also know how your heart is to Samsu and his heart...
...to you. I am nothing else but that is what I claim...
...I hope day and night, that I will see...
...you will sit down with Samsu one day, because...
it is your soul that is comparable to you.
...I believe, too, that his parents are at this time...
...Very sad to see this and too eager to...
...Help me, but because I can't, just be cloudy...
...Keep away, that Sutan Mahmud will not...
...obstructing our ideals, even will and suffice...
...the matchmaking. Even if I knew that, but...
...I also ask your mind, lest it be...
...became regretful then han, for you alone are the...
...can decide this. If you are to be a wife...
...Grandfather Meringgih, congratulations to me, do not go inside...
...Jail and of course there will be no sale of our homes and land...
...this. But if you are not willing, I and all...
we who are still here, will fall into his hands."
...Hearing my father's words, I can't stand it...
...again sad my heart, crushed my heart, then cried-...
...lah I sobbed on my father's chest, so wet clothes...
...and the cloth, because of my tears. Is not...
...I answered her a word because my chest is like...
it broke and my neck was locked.
...When my father saw me that way, his tears...
...can't be held, so the out of the field fell...
...to his cheeks, and then kissed my head while saying,...
..."Nurbaya, I have no intention of forcing...
...england. If you don't want to, let's go; it's okay. Let it...
...This treasure is either gone or I am in prison...
...Even if, as long as you do not increase your grief....
...In my mind I will not be in prison; I;...
...maybe he can still be persuaded. I am indeed above...
...Love to die instead of forcing you to marry someone...
...Which you do not like; and if I do not remember you and...
...Unafraid of my Lord, there will long be no more me...
...in this world. But it is you who is my ally....
...How will you do if I no longer exist? Whose...
who's gonna keep you?"
...And then there were my father's tears in...
...pipinya. The treasure is useless to me,...
...If you don't exist. What am I going to defend? My dependents...
...others none of your mother has long since died....
...It is your thoughts that awaken my heart...
...trade, seeking great profit, that you may...
...then don't be hard in your life. There is no other...
...I want and foretell and I ask Rabbul-...
...alamin, but it is your pleasure and sinfulness that will be,...
...when I'm home. Now you don't like...
...That person, that's it! My obligation has been carried out, so that...
...don't you regret me any day. Now come...
...We will all the will of God by reason and...
surrender!"
...Hearing my father's persuasion, then I can...
...pitched a voice and asked, "Isn't it enough to...
...the debt repayer, if all the slave goods are sold with...
...Father's house and land? Because I prefer poor...
rather than being Datuk Me ringgih's wife."
..."The land does not sell, because no one wants to...
...Buy it and price your things with this house of course-...
...Is not more than.six seven thousand rupiahs. Where to look for...
...other with interest on that debt money? But never mind, don't...
...you think again about this please cheer up your heart, and we...
wait for what is coming."
...That night I could not close my eyes...
...even a moment's worth; neither can crying, as...
...out of tears. Even though my eyes are open, but no...
...Can I think of nothing; is as my brain has tired....
...So lie down and then all those nights...
...with open eyes and a chaotic mind....
...My thing is like a man who doesn't know himself,...
...Between waking and sleeping, between living and dying....
...Various visions with a giving feeling...
...fear and terrible my heart, come flirting. Said ber-...
...dream, my eyes are open, it says watch, my mind is gone...
...will according to my will. This is what is called...
people dream in waking up.
...After dawn on the east and...
...Just let the chicken reciprocate, then realize I will...
...myself and turn to dawn, and come out...
...I wet my head still hot, as iron...
...flamed. Then I take a shower to refresh my body....
...After taking a shower, I was able to think correctly....
...When I remember my things, take my heart back...
...and thump my heart and tremble the bone-joint...
...My .., for my punishment will soon fall or...
...punishment of my father. If I hadn't been pounced on him, it would have been father-...
it is I who will be tormented, the beast.
...There's not much longer than that, really...
...Datuk Meringgih with two Dutch....
...After going up to my house with no more sitting, he asked...
to my father, "How?"
..."I could not pay the debt" answered my father, "and my son...
I can't give it to you either."
...When I heard my father's words, I yelled at him...
...With his anger, then said, "If so, bear it...
...by you!" then he handed the matter to the officer...
...The Dutch, who came with him. An...
...Than this master said, while approaching my father,...
..."Although with sadness, but forced to slave will...
...to bring the lord into prison, at the will of Datuk...
Moaning."
..."And I had to confiscate the house and all...
the treasure of the servant lord," said another official.
...My father can't say anything else than,...
"Do the duty gentlemen!"
...When I see my father being taken to prison,...
...As a guilty criminal, darken your eyes...
...Me and my mind is gone and with nothing I know,...
...Come out of me, and shout, "Don't put my father in prison!...
Let me be Datuk Meringgih's wife!"
...Hearing my words, smile Grandfather Meringgih...
...with a smile, which is on my sight, as a smile...
...A tiger that was about to pounce on its prey, and t...
...shadow his joy and lust and the lust of animals...
to his eyes, so I had to close my eyes.
...My father said nothing but to embrace...
...I asked, "Is that what you said?" Like one...
...the tool nodded to me, for it brought out words...
an can't be anymore.
..."For helping my father, my son gave up...
...to himself to you, to satisfy lust and...
...your heart, which is the heart of the beast" my father told...
...Grandfather Moaning." Now I know that...
...my downfall is solely because of your actions also because...
...pierge your heart, spiteful and unable to see others...
...germarta is like you. By pretending to...
...Best friend with me, you empowered me, until I...
...fall into your hands and obey nothing...
...your vile will. But it's okay, Grandfather Meringgih!...
...God is not blind; you will...
...have also been punished for this betrayal of yours," then my father...
...led me into the house. Since that time...
Samsu, I became the wife of Datuk Meringgih ...
There was no light here, for the paper was full of tears.
After Samsu read this accident, he lowered his head on his desk, crying very deeply, because he was saddened by the fate of his lover and fortunately himself.
All the ideals of his heart that he had long hoped for, at that moment disappeared, as the stone fell into the depths, the rain fell into the sand, unsearchable.
The hope that had long been fleshy in his heart, was suddenly decided by Datuk Meringgih, with a break that could not be connected anymore. "This is my memory that I have long desired!
This is the fruit of my prayer and supplication, day and night to the Almighty God! Alang-kah unfortunately lucky this fate of mine!" thus the fruit of Samsulbahri's cry alone in his room.
After weeping bitterly for some time, he suddenly stood up, gritting his teeth and clenching his hands.
With a pale face and blazing eyes, holding back his anger, he held a portrait of the Nurbaya near him, lifted his face up and swore, "By Allah, by His apostle! As long as there is a breath in my chest, I will avenge this evil!
There is no satisfaction in my heart before I demand to defend this cost.
Oh, my God, my God! Please also grant my request and do not take my life away first, before I mean this."
After swearing that, Samsu bowed for a while, as if to hold back his sorrow and anger; then he sat down on his chair, saying nothing.
When he regained consciousness, he continued to read Nurbaya's letter with eyes that were still red and wet.
..."Perhaps you can't think of it. Samsu, how...
...broken my heart now. First because it's gone...
...Promise you and decide your hope; second...
...because he was forced to sit with a man who...
...This grandfather Meringgih; the old demon I hate so much. Is not...
...Something I can look at him for. It's rich, apparently...
...The ghost of the hunter, his people, God knows,...
...originally a dry fishmonger, his habits are more than habits...
...beast, his behavior is rude and cruel. After all, it is people...
...Who dropped my father from his riches and name; is...
...Our enemies are the greatest and will be...
...became my algojoku, to uproot my life. To people...
...That way I have to give myself up. With the...
...he I have to live together. Try to think; Ouch!...
...No one is as miserable as I am...
in this world!
...Though I have presented all these things, my,...
...Perhaps you have not believed in me and...
...still think that I did all these things, too,...
...to deceive you. But Allah is Subhanahu...
...wata ala witness, Sam, and He also knows...
...how does my heart feel, when I have to give myself up....
...I may not be discouraged, though,...
...If you do not want to believe me, because even...
...how even though I'm a believer in promises, nothing...
...according to my words and vows I have issued....
...And I am a woman who has decided...
...hope of his lover. I can't not do that. Would...
...but is there any other path I can follow inside...
this accident?
...For I have not suffered the restraint...
...as this, there arose a memory in my heart to...
...kill myself. That is the punishment that corresponds to sins...
...ku. A thousand times I'd rather die in the dirt, than...
...Life reflected the carcass, as this. But when I...
...will eat poison, come my memory, just in case...
this act is wrong on my frugality.
...Therefore I write this letter, so that you may know me...
...this from beginning to end and know all the causes...
...For which I have made a promise. When the...
...have you read this letter, you can weigh the punishment...
...You'll drop it on me, and I'll take it...
...willingly and sincerely. Even if it were from you, I wouldn't...
...I have mercy, I know, that in this world it is not...
...there's my hope again. That is why I ask you...
...As much as the request, you reply to this letter with...
pretty soon.
...As you see, some of your dreams were...
...had happened, just fell into that abyss again. When the...
...had gotten there, surely my death would have come...
...anyway. So my downfall because of this Datuk Meringgih, can't...
...I refuse again, for this is my fate. By...
...therefore, in this case, it is better for me, quickly...
...spent my age, so as not to endure too long....
...One that will cover my heart when I have...
...To get there, to the end of your dream, is to fall...
...into the abyss is with you....
...Maybe that's where we won't get divorced again, though...
...in this world people can still be separated. In hereafter...
we will be united forever.
...So this is what it was, my beloved. Later, if there are still...
...the life in my body, I also keep the story...
...alang this, as long as you still see my former hand...
...Who will paint my wretched strand. Perhaps...
...Nor can I call you my beloved, but...
...being my brother, may still like you and...
welcome a kiss from your miserable sister.
NURBAYES
After Samsu read this letter, dire evennyal ah himself in his bed, then face down crying sobbing all night.