Something Good #113: A Lost Children's Story From Vienna (Summer Rerun)

It’s the summer, so here’s one from the archives. The story takes place in Vienna. The year isn’t entirely clear, but the sense is that we are in the waning years of the “ nervous splendour ” of the Austro-Hungarian empire—in that uneasy twilight period between the suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf and the assassination of his cousin, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. I must have been around six or seven…