THE NOURA VAN KEMMERS

Playing Fire

Heintje looked riled up. Thought garbled. The news he got from the telegram said that his wife Martina was sick in Buitenzorg and had been hospitalized for four days. Heintje could not delay time. He must leave for Buitenzorg tomorrow morning.

"All is ready, sir. All the goods you need I put in the suitcase" Nyai Sumiyati said.

"thank you. Maybe I'll stay a long time in Buitenzorg, until my wife gets well. You be careful here huh and wait for my arrival!"

Heintje went to Buitenzorg alone. Thought garbled. Martina was often very sick. The woman had frequent asthma that made her not to be too tired. The woman is also easily allergic to hot weather. Every time his body was exposed to hot air and felt angry, his skin would feel itchy redness and his body would suddenly limp and then faint. The woman was not suitable to live in a hot area.

After Heintje, Nyai Sumiyati stayed home. Heintje had already reminded him not to travel anywhere. But saturation began to approach him, until finally he decided to travel to the New Market.

Satisfied walking around from store to store to see the fabric, kebaya and slippers, Nyai Sumiyati sat in a fruit shop on the side of the road while waiting for the tram. Unknowingly, a white man was secretly watching her. The man did not waste the opportunity and rushed up to him.

"What's right here?" ask Johans Alois.

" Mister Johans....I guess who. I was just walking around looking at the store and now I'm going home."

Seeing Nyai Sumiyati alone is certainly not wasted by Johans Alois. Quickly, he expressed his desire to accompany the woman home. What followed was repeated meetings. Johans Alois often met the woman at her home. Giving attention, seduction and also affection that finally able to melt the heart of Nyai Sumiyati.

"Thank you for accompanying me here" said Johans Alois. Nyai Sumiyati just smiled. The white-painted room was a witness to their togetherness that night. A few hours earlier, Johans Alois picked her up and asked her to stay at his house.

"If all my business here is done, I will plan to go to Semarang. You're still willing to wait for me, right? stay with me and leave that Old Bangka Heintje. He never visited you, did he?" ask Johans.

"No idea, Sir. I have been living in his house all this time. Mr. Heintje once said that he would never leave me. He only went to Buitenzorg to take care of his ailing wife and he promised to come back. Give me some time, Sir! I just want to wait for reassurance from Mr. Heintje, does he still need me by his side or has he decided to go back to being loyal to his wife?"

"All right then. For now I will only focus on my main target" Johans Alois said with a sly smile.

"What target is Mister?"

And Johans also explained about his plan to take back the rubber plantation land owned by the Van Kemmers family. He also tells in detail about the cunning and rottenness of Heintje Van der Boon who did a lot of embezzlement in Herverman.

Seriate.