| Show we chame wr d all that by herbert quick and mena Stepan ciff mac mahon i copyright by the bobbs A ferrill co W NU service herbert quacks quicks visit to lo vladivostok in 1920 on behalf of if the 1 e red lied cross and behalf his meeting with vi h clena ele na Stepa cited to t alila ills story it ca carna ro e a as an interlude in I 1 the ile c composition n position of 0 hla his depto ot of the low iowa a soil 11 the three famous novels V nd emark arks polly tile the hawkeye and the invisible woman and the TL liers onal re record c ord of 0 lite early years earn one inin mans a life he desired to have its t s publication deterred deferred till the last iasi mentioned tri work lils autobiography was finished then raine came his untimely dea death t h T the he render reader familiar with his style wit will 1 ind find it its 5 impress everywhere in we w e have changed chanced all that and nowhere he re else perhaps does it appear to better beiter advantage yet he was anxious that his collaborator a woman of 0 the untilled unfilled nobility a monarchist of the extreme right but with the true rus elan instinct ills t for the tha verifies verities veri ties should have a ull full share a I 1 are of credit 1 I 1 am trying to make it he said a real studs stud 0 at the lite life ct 0 tho the victims the nobility in the most striking diss dissolution of 0 social values in history the facts tit alin nuances of the life and the plot in large measure are furnished nish e d by m my mr r collaborator this br 1 it and un unique I 1 que work gives ne new v ev evident idenie of his file power and sympathy P at h y it Is ie a masterly etching or of the end of great epoch an etching in which alie it force fu e e of imagination Is equalled equal led by the skill shill of execution 1 I 1 kazan and the house of krassin the man ft wore ore it 11 peasants sr hut but lie was waa very sery terrible to tile the great lady who was showing him over oer tier her house but that croup of men who followed blin they were more moi terrible still yet yei shia she could not colleen conceal from hint the feeling 0 contempt cont enit tint that site she felt for him film nicil all for them na as she opened one ie room after ati another olber fo for r their in ali tha it Is one of the rooms said bald she sh e witti with that lint little anif smile an if at its ignorance of grout great houses S into which we looked fall at first across here fiere are aie tile the last rooms on this side anter please 1 the tann rann in the peasants smock follow folI oneO a by therit terrible squad of armed men felt the sting of tier her contempt for he had find lieen been in great real houses b fore tills this peasants smock lie he wished that lie could somehow never worn it until liberty came to hussla in the dictatorship of tile the proletariat leta riat he was confused and exas cd just fig as she had hoped he would be so lie ile turned front from the door ih brough rouKh which she had st tild the they y had bad been before just as with held breath she had hoped he would do and he entered the room across th the hall when the strong strop plain distill finished old lady of the lie palace swung the door open for him the squad paused outside the man in the peasants smock entered entered I 1 the luxurious boudoir of a lady I 1 lie ho strode across to the other end of the room and threw islda asid a beautiful persian hanging ile he pressed rudely through into a bedroom As he be entered q young girt rose from a chaise longue on which she had beon beell reclining and stood before biffin in fit filmy negligee her eyes eves wide with astonishment ment A mother gasped the girl what Is the waning rne anIng of mist it Is in an of the lie government bald the old tidy lady still breathing quickly hut more easily a does flip lie hen pheasant when the lie search tins has passed tier nest lie Is looking nt at house they thought we night hilve unoccupied rooms I 1 have explained to tills this gent gentleman lentan no gentle gentleman maill 1 lie ile shouted with needless emphasis 1 I nin am sch shy of the local government of 0 the dictatorship of lite hie 1 we are considering whether 5 you ou tine ladies will not go tint out into the street and leave these rooms to tile the ofil vers of tile government 1 11 1111 sla said eald the old wo woman litan you rally retire my daughter while we are busy here nothing doln dohnal 1 I sald 1 dont feel so go much in a hurry as I 1 dil did before I 1 dime came ID 10 here this room fald lie to ills his clerk hill bill looking at the girl win will remain just as it la is I 1 like ilka the furniture I 1 like everything in IL it come my dear play piny us somo some music I 1 feel fee like enjoying myself today 11 1 floes does tile the reader compre comprehend liend the situation scarcely unless he or slip she wills in in th those se times or nt at least in russia hussla perhaps we may make it easier to understand to tile eyes of travelers pressing eastward that day from Alos moscow cov or Petro petrograd grad jelther either by railway milway or by ht boat till on the volga the ancient city of kazan lay jay sprawled abroad shimmering in in the hot sun of midsummer it Is if one may guess that anything but chaos and famine in the coign basin still Is tile the center of mohammedan culture in eastern kuala and of christaan culture tw too for tt it to la the site ally of the great matilt fani of 0 the annunciation i in it still stands one may inay suppose the old convent in III which the miracle working black virgin ol of kazan once had tier iier dionie before ali site was ravi lavished ravished shed away by higher which cared for religious relles relics first centuries ago to Illo moscow scow nal annl them then to st SL acre it appears her infra cles have be been e I 1 1 less bretl client than t they ley were cre for formerly ne r 1 y with tier her oil eye aimin looked too lied away across lite lie admiralty suburb w where here peler celer the lite great built ills river neet fleet f for r lila his en it aiges ile arsia 1 down dow her for pretty tittle little river the mi to tit where litro the volga tile iraq flowed almost dry on this day in ili comparison matli fill the floods that hint roll into tile lie purlie pur liens us of inz aknin till in licked ll eil on oil neross flip volga av ocr r distances to Illys lerl ous eastern eis lern places to perin to I 1 j fit down to Sar alov nil auml on to Astr althan BI but it kazan lind had un lin eye of the ot irp vi de dent too wit chii it till alila slie site content plated tier iier ballway line from froin Alo scow her ol of of if tier her kopul just now seemed enuch 11 in need 1 tier er oilier fin fite loiles ol of leather ry linets of 0 war anil and to KO go with ahli the of shered linagen lini iKes alit and cn can aniles iles flies of cot col ton cloth woo colons oo lons letis mul and hells there mete ere firmy travelers who sought for a first gillilea gil lileo e of it ond and thought it only it a little birtler hinn of yore rhey Ili uv were vere of nil sorts soils but those elio thought of the lie dirt are noting they tallied among of the house of krassan Krass ln where tit nt tills this moment sky Is asking to play for him film such travelers wore all sorts of clothes and a few mcw were ili hi all their clothes lot lies were or had once been of if good quil lity some of these aliese nien men lint and never seen kazan or had 5 r 1 T rm 11 1 RAX N kazan had an eye of the occident t too seen her rarely but they were crowding into tile city because most of them ere under the laws of tile old empire empi pi re legal residents of the town because their ancestors lind find been r registered e gis there they were of the caste 0 of f the plain proud old woman aho hail had fluttered buttered away from her secret with Tova risch down t tl el e in the krassin house a part of t the ile history of great russia with authority tho rity great estates immense power and wealth and hack back a few decades with the serf and the knout in their systems they were going down to kazan for another sitting of tile the grent great court of fate in which went on the trial of their souls a court in which were n also iso on trial the souls of suh sch sky of the squad of armed nien men wl with ith hlin him and the soul of airs krassin with tier her secret room and her blond haired da daughter tighter alusha Ittis sla was waa a grout groat wine press in which the grapes were being crushed crus lied and the grapes were the souls 1 Is of men and women TO BE CONTINUED gulls gull which keep to shore tile the blackhead black head gulls of Eil rope unlike the ordinary sen seagulls gulls common along tile the const coast of 0 tilts this country ore not nol sea krang birds they will not fol low fillips day after day but keep keel thern selves well lt liln reach 0 of lund land in fact they ore are not nol adverse to tiling flying inland und feeding in ili new plowed land on insects worms and the gulls breed front from file lie british isles enst east Cirou through gl Fu europe rolie as far its as turkestan Turk estan in winter they altey range till nil alie lie way from the azores to japan living largely along tile the shores shares tin on crustaceans small fish fill any food w which finds its way into tile the waters along the shores citrus one evening mit hirt liron brown was dented in the living room reading lite paper when ills little son john uge age live approached pro ached him and asked pepa what Is a lemon why a lemon Is a atrus fruit ault its ita something that caurs a bitter taste in your fri mouth olith ills his fullier father replied well papa ciapa it mother gives me that bad medicine tonight will slie site be lemon johnny inquired no to in either ce case It ichard brinsley Bri usley sheridan Sherl dnn 1751 1816 irish dran ind and politician and edmund burke 1720 1729 1707 1797 em ang 9 lish statesman nod and orator are both credited alth with the pun which follows when asked to pay at denst the in terest on a sum owed owe d the imperil tient nent but witty reply was wa it Is not to rny my interest to pay tile tiie principal nor Is it my principle to ph any Lu interest |
