Show By Leod Leonid II I L A ZA R US Andrejew I I I. I from tho the v. s HEN Lazarus arose W x I grave In which the m mysterious vv power of ot loath deaths had kept him hima a n prisoner for tor three days tas ta's and ad three nights anti and returned to his house no one ommo noticed ane In him any of those peculiarities which In iii time to come core wore score destined to mal make o oven even his isis name terrible His friends and relations were WAre full ful of JO Joy and nd did er e everything they cou could to give him ilm choice viands wines ivines und and now new no clothing Tho They dressed him beautifully In imi tho time bright colors of hope and JO Joy and when he like a bridegroom again sat down In their midst again ate and drank when tho they thoy cried with wih emotion and called In the time neighbors that they might see tho the man who had so won won- wonderful wonderfully arisen from the dead The new expression lon which had hal como come Into Lazarus' Lazarus face was explained as ns asan an nn effect of or the heavy sickness and the time terrible emotions he must hav hAve passed through But e evidently the de de- de work of ot death eath on his bod body had laid been Interrupted only h by a wonderful wonderful won won- power hut but not entirely stopped In Lazarus Lazarus' temples temple under his yes ees ye anti and on his imis hollow cheeks there was a adark dark ghast ghastly blue color ills His Ils long nn lingers wore al also o bluish and ant his imis fn fingernails finger er nails nals which had imad grown luring during th the three days as In iii li the timo tomb had become dark purple On his lips and In man many places of oC hl his bOIl body tho time skin had been torn and had cracked Lazarus had grown rown stout stout His whole body had swollen as do dead bol bodies bodle Ie In the tho graves The Time like corpse corpse smell which every o one had noticed when h ho returned soon disappeared and after ter Some omo time the time blue spots on his hands hand and In his face grew paler and und th time the cracks on hi his lips hips and ant bod body healed until they could no more be seen But Lazarus Lazarus' whole manner an and character had imad changed and this surprised surprised surprised sur sur- no one Before Detore his death h Ito had Imad always alwa's been happy and contented he had loved lo to laugh augh and jol joke e am and because of this timis character which knew kne nothing of ot wickedness and dark thoughts the time Great Teacher had loved lovec him Now he ha had become earnest un und and silent alent he imo did not Joke nor did h lie he laugh at nt the thc Jokes jokel of ot others and th the words which occasionally fell Cel from hi imis lips only those absolutely necessary necessary sar sary to make mako o known his wants am and ml might ht be compared to the sounds with wit wih which an any animal animal expresses pain thirst or hunger Words orts like these a hu human human hum hum- man being ma may speak his hula whole life long ong and no one will wiil wil ever know whether er his hi soul feels happy happ or unhappy There he hue was sitting now with wih th time tho face of a corpse ho who had been ruled for tor three days das In darkness b bj by death dressed sed In beautiful clothes clothe glittering with wih yellow gold and blood bloody purple pure emotionless and silent an absolutely absolutely ab ab- ab- ab Clu ey changed being In the time midst o or of Ills His IlS friends and relations All AU around him was rejoicing and eyes ees full tul of lov love e 10 rested upon his face tace which was still sti as ns cold coM as that of a 0 dead bOd body bod an anthe and the time friends who shook hands with wih him noticed that his hand was cold as Ico ice They had lund sent for musicians who played joyful tunes and to an outsider outsider out out- sider everything e was happiness am an and mirth In the time house of Martha lartha and MaryA Mary Iary A careless man with one word Unveiled unveiled un un- veiled oled the truth In all al Its nakedness lie ilo le had not made clear to himself himsel the ceI meaning of or his words when ho he turned to o his friends and amid said with smiling lips Why VImy dont don't you tell teU us us Lazarus what you saw easy there Ever Everybody bod was shocked shock at this el question as If It I It ha had only now come cometo to them thetis that Lazarus had real really been dead three long Jon Jonda's days das The They looked at him full tul of or expectation and waited for Cor his answer But Lazarus remained S I le Ic Dont you want to tell tel us about It I 7 nis ni's friend asked In surprise Was 1 It then so terrible on the time other oIlier side aide the thu threshold of death everybody grew restless anti and wa was Impatiently waiting for Lazarus' Lazarus re reply ro- ro 1 ply 11 1 but he lie sat there cold and stern and did not even look up And now fot fo the time tho they thoy saw the teril bio ble color o face at and amid th th- th like corpse corpse swelling swelling- of or his bod body II lie le was resting his blush red hand on th time the timetable table In front of or him bins arid and c everybody looked at It as they were ivere waiting fo fur for the tIme answer And still sti the musicians musician I were playing But lInt 10 lo the silence reached even een their ears and md Just n ns as I water puts out the time flue flie Ire thus the silence put an end eni ent to the Joyful tunes h The I harps and zithers and the flutes ules ceased playing as If It suddenly a string had bad brol broken en on the time zither and a deep sIlence si sl sI- sI hence lenco settled upon the company That Thi was on tho the third da day after Lazarus I had left JeC the tomb From that time on onman man many experienced the fatal effect o or of hl his eyes ees but no one could at that tIm explain the time terrible which mystery 1 as t In tI thA ln 1 nth rl nt nf hi Ills Them The sin i sun did d- d not t cease case n- n shining when i n nhe he looked hooked up tip the tue fountain did dil no not miot cease play playing InK and the tho ho sky did not cc- cc IO- IO como come clouded but time the man upon whom ho tie looked no longer felt fel tho the sum sun no 10 lon longer er could coul see tho the cloudless sk sky Then you ou will wil not toll teU us Lazarus what you ou saw there hero time the friend asked tho the third time But Dut now his voice olce had become taint faint and colorless and he hardly hardt at his friend All AU the faces around a n hand hant to remark renmark that he lie had seen the time table tahle seemed as us If the they had suddenly sud suti- denly become ele CO covered with wih time the gray gri dust of the lie tombs and the gUI guests ts looked ool ed at one onto another In surprise am did thu not understand wh why the they had come conme together and why they were sitting slUing a athis nt at this table They rhey stopped speaking speakinG and ant remained sitting there In silence hardly aware of each others other's presence Then hn the bountiful table tallo around which had been seated joyful joul beings dressed in rich garments began to look loot like hike u field feld devastated be an b by fre fire Tho Time musicians felt offended and left heft lef and when the they thoy had gone one guest alter after ater time the other sneaked out for It had alread already grown late When hen time they wera wela surrounded on all al sides shIes by the time quiet darkness and wore ivero able ahle to breathe I more nore freely In tho open au all then sud- sud the time Image Imago of Lazarus appeared to them thorn dreadful and anti threatening threatening they thuy saw SIW the bluish gra gray face ace of or the J lead nJ nan man man the tho magnificent clothes in which ime he ic had imad been dressed to celebrate his return to life anti and the cold coin expression of or his imis e eyes 8 which seemed to lo shOot terror into the souls of the onlooker onlookers Like stony Images his hits f lends friends there outside the house houle In the time lai lark lark- It- It ness while the tho Image of ot their friend grew arrew more and anti more clear dear and anti lt for Ol three days dC'S he lie had hind been een l deal dead a. a three days the time sun Hun had risen and amid set and anti lie he was dead death tho thio children W were l' l Playing the brooks were rushing Across th the pebbles the time dust was rising from froni tho time dry tiry roads and he was lead dead Anti And now he Is 18 once more among the Lime living Iving- touches thorn and looks at He lie looks hooks at them thetis and thou through h his lIe glass glassy eyes ees death himself seems to be staring Nobody cared for Lazarus Lazrus nn army any more and tho the great desert which surrounds ho time holy hOl et city seemed to reach time the threshold of ot his hi dwelling One Ono aUer the other his him sisters Martha Mar Mar- tha ha and Mar Mary had hat left heft lef him For a long ong time did not want to heave cave him for tor she l knew ew not who Wo va to o nourish him bins and take care of or him hm hut one night when the time desert wind howled o lell through the cypresses dho iiO ho quietly put on her imer clothes and loft left lef him lm Lazarus heard how time the door opened heard how she site wont scent out heard for or flor a a. moment the howling of the tho wind t through trough the tho opening door heard lila sister close the tho door behind her but ime he ie did not arise to call cal her back or even to look after her hor Every ery one avoided oter him as aR If It ho he had haj b been Jeen een a leper loper and wanted to hang a n bell bel around his Imis neck so 80 that anyone anone might hear his imia coming But lut cominG said that It would woud be bo terrible to hoar LI Lazarus Lazarus' azarus azarus' bell bel underneath your our windows in n the tho silence of or the tho night and everyone every ever one Olne no agreed that this would be bo more mOtO titan han an any human being could stand exposed to the lie ravages ra of ot time und and the tue desert winds Lazarus arus' house houle began boan bo- bo le- le gl gan glan an to fall fail fal apart and nd the time hungry goats goat lund iad long hong ong ago run away to the neighboring neighboring neigh neigh- boring houses His beautiful garments gunmen's armen 8 grow old ol as ho lie had worn them on that hat happy happ da day when the musicians wore playing thus he ho still wore store theta them without changing as ns If It he tue could coWd no longer between se le an any difference new anti and old between what shat was torn and what was whole In the tho daytime when tho the merciless sup Up became the murderess of ot all living hiving 8 and even tho scorpions hide hid themselves under the time stones Lazarus sat motionless In time the midst of ot tho the burning sun nun with wih his like corpse face now ow almost concealed by his long unkempt un un- un- un kempt empt beard An And when tho time purple disc of the tho L 5 I. I sun lun sank lower towards the horizon then Lazarus went Into the tue desert In tho direction of tho the setting sun oun as ns If ho wanted to reach it I. I And nd every even one who tried to find out what Laz Lazarus rus did In the desert during tho the night never forgot tho the black shadow of or tb tho th big biK swollen man outlined against time the red cloud of or tho time Immense disc of th tb th setting sun The rise night and its darkness scared the curious from continuing their In Investigations In- In and thus no ono one ever found out what ant Lazarus did In th j des desert desort rt during the nl night ht but tho the black imago image outlined a against tho the big red cloud hurled burled itself into the tho brain of tr t er e every one ono who iho over saw It and never disappeared As At a wild wid beast beatt whose eyes have havo been fl filled ell with wih sand tears tear its iA head with Us its Is paws paw thus all ni those rubbed their cle eyes but ut tho time Image Imago of ot Lazarus did not disappear and was only forgotten at nt death eath and may bo be booven booven oven even not thou then But there thero were v-nrc also abo iron trots who lived for awa away and anti who had n nevi never r seen been leen Lazarus but only heard of ot him Full of or curiosity they came camo cam to him when ho Ito was Alt sitting n In its tim tho sun and anel oe an to sp speak Iak ak to him At first thoy shrugged gd their shoulders and disapproved of or th the stupidity of or the Inhabitants of at the holy ol city but hut when the tue short conversation w on was over o and the they came camo home their appearance was such that tho tile Inhabitant mush mush- of or the tue holy hal city Immediately recognise 1 them and said to one another an another nn- nn othEr other other- There Thero Is another fool tool who has hiS looked at t Lazarus And good oot brave bravo fearless warriors carried on their arms and nad glistening armour thoro there came happy happ youths laughing and singing there thero came miserly loving gold-loving merchants and oven even haughty haugh t servants from the temple tem teun- pIe 10 loft lor their staffs at Lazarus' Lazarus door door door- and no one returned as he had come The Time same terrible shadow en enveloped all al their souls and made them look hook upon life lre In a different way ivay And Emperor Augustus the time great groat divine ruler of at the tho world sent for tor Laza Lazarus rus Lazarus entered the thA streets of the time eternal city as If I all al the glory of ot the gigantic building all al tho tue splendor and the time beauty and the time music and tho the life were on only I an echo of ot tho the wind In the desert desort a reflection refection of or the hot flying sand aroun around his isis home sant The Time splendor of or tho the Imperial palace palCe did not make mako mako an any Impression upon T It I wa was as If It he did no not see uee Ir any difference between his own tum turn tumbledown down ble cottage I 1 ii the desert desort and time the imposing beautiful palace valace of lie lle rl rime Tho Caesar had already heard who Lazarus was wa and was ready rendy to rt- rt T- T cel him bins He lIe was a bravo brave man nian felt rel his hil own immense Invincible power and auth Id did not want to rely reh upon timi wea v support of ot human beings In the struggle with tho the man who had arisen from the time dead Alone face faco to face tace to lo lomet met Lazarus Dont loo look at me Lazarus he lie commanded com corn as he entered I I have havo h heal bom 1 that sour our your head hend Is Is' Is like that of o Mc- Mc I.- I. m and Id I'd that if I one looks upon yoi lJ no nc is turned Into stone stono Ho lie vent ent close cOe to Lazarus and looked bolted at his hla hil face tace and his strange go garments ts Looking at you OU close by you ou dont don't appear terrible my friend so much time the worse for Cor those people who have ha to told me inc about you and must consider a dignified and pleasant pleasnt appearance terrible Now we will wil speak a few fe feW words together A 1 Augustus began be an a conversation an and l tried to search the time soul of Lazarus Lazarin with nith wih his hula eyes and his isis words Why Vh r did IJ you OU not greet me when I 1 camo came In he lie aE asked Jed I did lid not know that this was nece- nece ar flary Are you OU Christ N No Augustus nodded his head That in Is good I do 10 not love 10 the Christians Christans the thc they shake hake the tree of life lre before the they have allowed It to get o till fist of fruit and the they scatter scaler its Us leaves to the winds But who are art you OU then then With Ith f some nome me effort Lazarus replied replied- I 1 ivas WiS dead I heard of or that but taut who are arc you ou ouno now nosy no Lazarus I-azarus hesitated for tor a n moment and then repeated sternly I Was Listen to me stranger the time emperor em em- said Eald loudly anti |