Chapter 19 Chapter 19 Epilogue

The trial of the Danube gang took place quietly in the flames of the Russo-Turkish war.The bandits, including Ticha, who was easily captured in the town of Ruse, were hanged hastily and their bodies hung from a high gallows.However, their situation has never attracted the attention of the public as it did in peacetime, and the situation of the people themselves is miserable enough. Still, those things that the principal parties never figured out were explained in court arguments.Serge.Radko thus knew what kind of pretentiousness he had done for Karl.Dragos fell into the gang's cage; and how Striga learned from the newspaper that the court ordered him to investigate in Sarka town, so he sneaked into the fisherman Ilya.Bush's home, answering inquiries from the Grand Police Department.

Radko also knew how Nadya was robbed by gangsters, and Striga thought he had killed his rival in love, and repeatedly asserted to her that she was already a widow, and forced her to marry him, but Nadya's retaliation Resolutely resist.Especially one night, in order to prove his words, Striga showed Nadya the portrait, and pretended that it was taken from the true owner of the portrait after a desperate struggle.He bullies and seduces to the point of burning with rage, which ends in a violent scene.Nadya's desperate cry was heard in the night sky just as Radko escaped from the barge.

However, all this is a story of the past.Since Radko had happily seen his dear Nadya again, those nightmarish days had never been thought of again. After all these things, the happy couple could no longer live on Bulgarian soil, so they first settled in the Romanian city of Giurgiu.There they waited until the following May, when the Tsar formally declared war on the Turkish Sultan.Needless to say, Serge.Radko was one of the first to join the Russian army, and because he was very familiar with the battlefield, he played a huge role in the army. When the war ended and Bulgaria was finally liberated, he and Nadya returned to their hometown in Ruse and resumed their careers as navigators.The couple still live there today, happy and respected.

Carl.Dragos became their dear friend, and for a long time he never forgot to visit his old friend down the Danube, at least once a year, in the town of Ruse.Today, the gradual development of the railway network has shortened his journey, but Serge.Radko always took advantage of the pilot's opportunity to go up the river to Budapest to visit friends. Nadya bore him three boys, all grown up now.One of the smallest, after Carl.Dragos' rigorous training is on his way to the top title in the Bulgarian judiciary. The second child is worthy of being the heir to the fishing championship of the Danube Association, and he is dedicated to the people on both sides of the river.However, he has thrown away his fishing rod and improved his fishing technique.His skill at fishing sturgeon made him a household name and brought him a considerable fortune.

As for the eldest son, he will inherit his father's business after his father retires.At that time, he will drive steamboats and barges, from Vienna to the sea, through the winding river, avoiding the dangerous shoals and reefs in the river.The family of the Danube navigators will be continued by him. However, despite Serge.Radko's three sons are engaged in different professions, and their hearts beat to the same beat.Although life led them to different paths, they ended up with the same destination: they respected their father equally, sympathized with their mother equally, and loved the Bulgarian motherland equally.

(End of the book)