Show mer aar 1 f t wap axy W e have att ST V ec all that If herler ferbert quick and ana elena mac malion copyright by the bobba merrill co til service ervice THE STORY commissar soviet squad quad invades the home of 0 krasin krassin sin aristocrat at kazan VII frisky insults the tha daughter alula aluia commissar coi 1 3 lorla Is in urged urfred to con floca t e the home the family consists of J judge krassin mrs airs Kra krassan Krass ost ln ilya former officer and maisla ia vladimir former officer Is must as fiance dance mrs airs krakusin ex expresses presse fear ear for her safety ilya re recognizes 00 in a former dishonest steward mrs airs krassin conducts in an inspection of the horns home and contrives that he shall not see ilya CHAPTER IV continued r a 8 oh those are rooms we saw sav hing ago salt salta slie she here ere are the lust on this side ariter please ise yes said to protect pi elect his fits self respect 1 I 1 reine niber now lie ile entered Alu room is as we have seen ile he swept aside the lie hang ings I 1 i masked the llie door to the inner room roam tie he refused to il alto lottie young girl to retire when tier her mother hor horrified rIfled by ills familiarities quested tier her to to 0 o so tie lie asked tier her to piny for him r to play anything he in his pen peasants stints smock I 1 if mrs drassin lind harbored the idea that he might forget ilya lC Krass ln in tits this room tier her sur surmise nilse was correct airs K understood tits ills if able as he addressed tier her and k knew 11 ew IV aliat lint he meant when alien he said 11 that 1 lie he want wanted ed tills flits room mid and everything th n g in it left just as if wits was when lie he cattle came there to lle live but she quite trusted to Alu muelas retiring to prevent provell tier bom in tact fact that slie she could not understand wits ns its between airs krassan and what the law calls 11 tin an indisputable presumption ion and air mr mrs s as file I 1 lie court would liae have refused to admit an any y evidence to overturn it of Ot course alusha could not understand I 1 and the girl front from force of hibbit ried out this raise false presumption of n i liete site she stood there with etli tier her face blank of fill all coin lon like that it of a child tier her slight roin rounded ded figure revealed by her attire a very bewitching person to the e es ees s of the coarse and brutal intruder little graceful very feminine with hair of nf straw color and hipwell almond shaped eyes she was a new t type Y I 1 e to to and lie he acted according 0 to o tits lights in the premises ile he suddenly sat down bejot amusin anro and putted pulled tier lier down lap ekys atlen attends r ts who were walling waiting in the hall the roon room were to see a pule slim or girl in neg negligee liged run iiii out fit of the r room oom start back nt at seeing flient alieh sin 1 I group and then lien speed ns ny past thern into mother part of the house they stood for a moment followed her to tle me next nest turning found that she had va vanished q and then lien theyron the yran ran back with thoughts of bf assassination arother or other ies resistance istance fri their they found their chief stan standing ding with i it rather foolish took look on his face over the flip for form m 0 of t tin an old woman ariman who mho seemed to 1 have ia v e fainted on a sofa in the s room rom 1 I ft III show these J li sat said that flint ali lr time tins has come I 1 I 1 well old come to life harej Mrs KrassIn st slowly rose to a sitting g posture and looked upon him with on an expression in which hate indignation indig and pacification were curiously mingled iveleen ive I seen all I 1 want winf to see herp this mo morning ining said lie he when we I 1 want v 1 t er the house well send you an 0 order r i 1 and leave this room just ns as I 1 it t come coale we have wasted too much time here bowl now 1 loris will ha be complaining because tiec I 1 nm nin into intel I 1 they went out swaggering through the doors to their cars till and awny mrs krassan watched them on they went out of sight right and then than ninde her way nay quickly tor to where tier child wits concealed which child not M Aliis t lulf ln and had find never emiil asked about ily ilya a I 1 CHAPTER V defenseless muelas world clime crashing about her in down downfall rall in that scene with att Vil litsky slie site had find two contending feelings site she must he be avenged for thlu alil j insult should sh slie it daughter of tile lie boyars have laid upon tier her in tier her own on room the billhy hands of ailts lilts ills creature ll insky and upon unon tier her soul the stain of his commands and ills innuendoes and must this flits thing go BO un aeng avenge edt dt she ohp krew grew hot with rage I 1 and then her other feeling blanched her face and left her eold cold with fear the feeling that the lie even site wa ans S tie de fensel essl ahe the very ery gods would have fought for her ancestors the very could now exult over her fier lay iny their hands on tier her 1 in her own house in her mothers pre presence sence and there was n no one to whom site she could fly or appeal for vengeance or protection she could not go to ilyn tit he must not be bendan endangered erect on any jac account coutiL vladimir yes yea he would tight light for her but where was he lie ile had find come into the krassin house in the lite olgat like a mouse and was awaiting the proper time to slip out and what could eyen even an al gallant it ft champion na as do against the risen sea of the people what mat could not the wretches d do 0 she hold heard awful tales not ot yet contradicted of lie he nationalization of women was wah she to be the first victim of it in flits doomed city of kazan it wits almost inconceivable but she alusha Hr krassan Krass assIn ln was ft as defenseless against it unless the had some rules for tier her protection tion title was nn an easy t to 0 tills till lout in the peasants smock iler her father fut lier lie he was the last person in fit prosperity or adversity of whom tiny nn pr ft all family thought yet hiding filding aw abuy a even from the servants eye s in fit closets and attics after steal ing ln ditl k in ia the to tier her own on rooms tind and on finding them tem vaci labant tilt of visitors chang ing tier clot lies to something more fitting dighe t lie stole stoie for the first time in weeks to the boonis to which ar 1 r futher father had for years been confined its as tit lit tile the dust dusk wits was just shutting down don into the night judge ww Krasl nis sitting in a long flowered lowered dressing gown gon which was waa wrapped carefully about tits his feet reading a law book who lio Is it lie exal excl almed fretfully fiet fully 0 oil it Is IB you iou my daughter my aly cerps tile aie deiy had bad tonight and you startled stait led me I 1 nm ain very glad to see you ou of bourse Maro osla 1 I till sona piorry I 1 startled you father t site she had conte lo 10 her rather father fa filsht ened cited child to liny cling to ills fits hund hand with some soine instent that lie he relight might stand be tween her and a danger to which ile he wits as himself linin immune for neither nelt lier in father h other oilier nor mother was vis under tile shadow in which slid they could only be made to ille slie she stepped to tier her father timidly and took tits hand ht he allowed tier lier to retain it for a moment and then drew it away to turn i lent leaf of ilia his book there wag no harbor here lapie for this flits trembling soul 1 I 1 to do not agree with ith aliis decision slid said hs when hen I 1 was ns on ohp bench I 1 should never neter have agreed to such law a as 3 this my aly duty to ny my sovereign mould out not hot hilve have permitted it slie site asked filin if it would trouble or disturb him film if sho she sat by lint him for foi a while she blie felt hurt him though slie she tin biad no reason to feel so BO when lie looked up at her in surprise find said very deiv politely eliat he would 0 1 t I 1 be ers vera glad clail dent ile he it had ad not been he i e went on to s sav Y as it if delivering an opinion in cot bonit rt often favored by tile the compi tay of af Us ilia fai family tilly and tin it ft was a pleasure to note 11 at a an a 11 grenable gre pable except exception to tile rule anti and servants were not wha they leq used to be ills nian man simon Bosch kov seemed to take tl tit liberty of baving baling things outside tile house to which he wits was attending even een now hr air krassin did dd not ask much divich but it seemed to him thit that tied ns as lie he was to his chair or at denst confined to his room lie lidd had tile the right to look upon such lucli neglect as a hardship may it I sit with ou oil tonight asked alusta 1 I 1 will be very quiet perhaps I 1 van ran read to 11 it will be ve very ry kind of you sold the old lodge judge but few people read the low lav with understanding settled down on a low chair nt at tits his feet and rend read sometimes he would correct tier her pron pronunciation tion and once once or twice he gave gae tier her allt tle if lecture C on n the law ile he did not know W that it was a wise old aytac coming baak ck 0 lecture on afie ade laws of the lie obsolete I 1 after lie he lind hild grown petulant because he wanted simon Bosch koi tri to put him to bed simon really cil came me with muttered excuses and husla told fold him film to sit outside while she waited in his fits place beside the door of tier her fathers bedroom she sat sal and llster ed listened for the terror announced by a ring ong at tile the door or by heavy trampling in tile the passages or by stealthy root footfalls falIg in the hie hall or by tile the bursting in of the floor of tier her fathers suite by a man in a peasants sino k TO B BE F CONTINUED |