Show We Have Changed All That By Herbert Quick and andElena andElena andElena Elena Mac Mahon Copyright by byThe byThe byThe The h Bobba Bobbs Merrill Co CoW WU W- W U Service Herbert Herbrt Quick a s visit to Vladivostok tn in 1920 on behalf of or the tir lied Hed Cross and his hiI meeting with Llena led to this story lory It came eane as an Interlude In the composition of or his hi epic of or the thelona Jo a the soil oil the three famous r novels novel s Folly Tire Hawkeye and nd nd the 1 he Invisible oman V oman and nd the record of or his early carty years One Siva Min s Life LIre lie le desired to have havet Irv 1111 publication deferred till the tho last mentioned work his work hia was finished Then eam came his hi untimely death The reader familiar with his stylE will find Its If Impress everywhere In We e Il Changed Ch All 1 that hat and no nowhere here else elle perhaps ps does It appear to better advantage Vet set et he was w wa that his hi collaborator coll a n woman oman of or the untitled nobility a monarchist mon of or the extreme right but with the true Itus sian elan lan instinct tor tar the verities senates should hate e a full rull share of or credit I 1 am Iryl trying to make malte It he sal al t ta 1 a real stud of or the lire life of or the vie turns the not nol lilt In the most mol mo t striking dissolution rf social In history 1 the he facts acts the lie nuances of or the life lire and the plot In largo ITRO measure aro are fur Cur by mo m int brilliant t and ind unique work e el new evident evidence of or his 10 tower er and sym sympathy sympathy pathy It Is t a masterly etching or of orthe the end of or a great epoch nn an In which the force of or Imagination Is equalled by the tir skill kill of or execution CHAPTER I 1 Kazan and the House of Krassin The man wore a II nt s smock I but lie be wis W very sery ery terrible to the great who ho sums showing him 0 over oser er hu her hou house e But hint that group of men w ho ed they hIm they were ere more still 1 ter ci er she slie could not Onre 11 from fromI I him the t feeling i contempt tint that she felt felt for him and for them is us she he opened hoe me room after another for thel their r In Inspection rh flu t Is one of ot the rooms said s she witH little 1 1 alf smile as Us if tf at his Ills IgnOl nce of re f rent houses houes Into lItO which wa 2 looked at first t Across here tere ire the list st rooms on this side I please J 1 Ibe he rain nun in the s pe s smock follo eu by hy that flint terrible squad of M armed men felt the stint stin of her con contempt tempt For he hind lind been leen In krent houses b fore 1111 1 his peas nt s smack he he wished that he lie could somehow mike e her understand that he lie hind hall r ne worn orn It until came to In the lie dil dictatorship of the pro letan it tt lIeas lIe He was as confused and s evis e cd Ju Just t as she slie had hoped tie he would be So o he lie turned from the thedoor thedoor door 1 which she slie hind hid leI the flies had teen ticen before Just before just as with It h hell liel hl I breath she slie l h h hid d hop ii d he would do and he t entered the room across time hall when the strung strong plain distin goul h d old of the p S Sun un the door open for him Time The squad p outside The min n In time the lie nt s smock entered entered- entered entered the lu lu urious boudoir of n a nlaly alady I lady laly I lie Ile 11 strode across to the lie other end of the room and ond threw aside ashle n a he Persian hinging h lie prese pressed I rudely ly h Into a n bedroom A Ac AsI I he entered a oun girl rose ruse from flom nI n I chaise longue on 1 which she slie l h hind Ind been ind nd stOOl stood before him In films n negligee her eyes ees 03 es Id wide with Hh as lot Mother her sped g the girl what hat Is the of this I I It Is an aD officer of the goO I the old lady still breathing J quickly Jut hut more easily rs does oes time the lie I hen ant ani when hen the lie search hl his passed her ne nest t lie he Is looking ut at the I house houe They thought ht we e might hale e unoccupIed rooms I I hive e e to this this-this this this gentleman gentleman- o 0 n I he shouted with needless emphasis I I I am nm J 0 of the local government go of 01 the of the lie e I 1 e e are considering whether you tine ladles ladies will ill not go out Into the street and leive le these rooms to time s of tile the lie government gO I 1 Musia said the old woman you may ma retire my daughter d while we are busy here Nothing Nl doln doing I said v I 1 Idon don t feel eel so much In a n hurry hurn as J I I did before I 1 I c ime In here This room I fuld he to Ills his clerk derl- hut but looking Ing mean at nt the time girl will trill ill remain just a as asIt It Is I 1 like time the furniture I like e Cr thing In it IL It ome ollie mv my rl r plat pl us some music I 1 feel like hike enjoin enjo Ill Does the render reider comprehend the tbt r lely unless s he lie or sh she sho was wis In 7 11 In those times times-or times or at le Ie leist It in III Hu we may make II ender to understand un lot To time he eyes s 's of if trl travelers elers pressing lId that day dav from Moscow lo V lo or orI I Pet ro r d either ell hu by b WI v or hy by bunt bOlt nt on the ol i the an am anI lent hint city lit of litI I i I lai Idy pr ai d shimmerIng In trig In time the hot sun of midsummer It Is If one may y guess hut any anything nn lit tiling thing hut but chaos und and Hohlt r In the lie ol ola ole n basin still Is Is tie the lie cent r 1 01 I culture In eastern HUll sla lla and of if Christian culture foo wo for forIt forit forIt It la Is time the elle of ot the great aral arah ot of otI I the In It still stands one may suppose tile the old y convent consent ent In su hutch the miracle Black of oll l once hid her ber honK home before site she uras ruts ravished n assay uy by Iy bl fO 1 which rind for religious relics lint ago ngo to Moscow lo V u und and then to St bt t where Petersburg where It her miracles have hu been I less s frequent than tilt v were sere ere formerly Ith her oriental eye l looked assay UY across the Admiralty suburb where hue Ieter Peter the Unlit tits Ills riser rhel fleet for or his bis camp ns against t Persia down her pretty little river riser the kit hn i to where the olia olJa tlc tilt Iu sinn sian Mississippi JI nm flowed flossed ed almost t dry on this day In comparison pith II h the floods th t sometimes roll Into the purlieus purlieu of looked on across the lie lg user over mysterious m distances to m ou ous eastern astern places to Perm to Utu do hum n to and on to Astrakhan But hut I I had an un eye ee e e of the time old dent too Hh tills this she contemn plated tier her railway 11 line from lo Low w her f of snip SO of her beri population Just now nosy seemed much In need her tier other oilier factories ot of leather military hoots munitions of I stir w and to and to go o time the lie munitions munitions- of or s Images Im anI nail and candles of cot cotton cotton cotton ton cloth woolens rind bells There 1 here were ue many miny tr elers who sought ought for or a n first t gi glin I lit int e a of ot It and thought It onla only a n little dirtier than lit of yore Thy They were ere of all sorts hut but those who thought of the lie dirt are ort worth h noting They Hiked t amen hit b of the lie house hOIl c of r ra ln w 1 here at tills this To tilt y Is asking Musia lusla I Kr l r essin to play for hIm Such lIch tr wore nil all sorts cons of clothes lot he and n a few were ere In uniform All their clothes were or hid h once been heen of good lu Some borne ome of these thee men had hul never ne seen or hid Ind r TJ L w 1 S n 6 t tS S a ta t tV ts V fir s d dd d Kazan Had an Eye of the Occident Too seen her rely rarely but they were ere crowd crowll Into the city bee hec ruse most mot of them were ere under undu the 8 of the old em ant empire mire lIre le legal residents of the toss to town ton n III he cause cauce their ancestors hind hi ht en tn rebis terell there The They were ere of the lie caste LaSle of the plain proud old 1 worn om in 1 who hn humid fluttered twit V from her lier secret with Ith Tm sl IllI rIm down n therein there thereIn thereIn In the I house house-a IlOu house e-a e a pail t of the history of Great t Hu sla Ith nu au great t re est estites Immense power po and ss P a and hack t I i few s with Ith the lie serf and the knout In their theirs s stem 1 They he were wel e going down to 1 n 1 for allot another her silting bitting of the I sett e It Court of rIte In which went on the trill trl of their souls a II count In 1 were 1 ere also on trial the souls of sky lv of the squad of armel armed men with him and the soul of sits Mis I with Ith her secret suret room arid her tier haired liler dau-liler lu flush 11 ibl Iu- Iu al I t i staga stag y a rent reat wine winepress Ille press In which the tr r les ipes ere belli being Hushed crushed crushed and the grapes lles ere the souls of men and women TO TO DE BE |