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Show ARADLE FROM THE RUSSIAN. Well Ml;l:t We All Say'hl, Tsa, An But. a Sinner." Ivan Oxanovlch niit a hoitsnbrcak. r-r -and for a long time success at" 1 "tided 011 hi crimes, but nt last he as taken and sont to Siberia. Ther he rctuali.ed 17 jcars He had gonu to Slboila it hardened and bitter man, lie lettirncd home kind and humble, for In those barren wastes (5qd had revealed his truth to him. God hud softened hit hcait. And Ivan Oanov!ch, tn order to atone (or his many crimes, look tho llttlo money he had saved In prison and sst forth on tht Ions? plUr'mage to .lerusulom. After many hardships he reached the holy city. He Haw tho septileher, '.he mount, tho garden. And thu burden bur-den of hh sins was ll'itcne I and he wrpt any prajed. One day a beggar asked him for alms. "1 hnve nothing, brother." s "Dot;: jou He!" And thn begxr struck down the ngd pllsrhi with hli ''on-shod iaff. (.oarclied him. and finding that ho had indeed no money, made off. But Ivan lvanovUch lay by the road. Hide, blood flowing from a great wound In bis head. All night ho lay there In thfe cold and in the morning they founJ him and took him to a hospital. hos-pital. It was said that he would die. . As he lay dying sl vagabonds, tho beggar among them, were brought Into the room and ranged at his bedside. bed-side. "Tell us, Ivan Ivanovlch," said tho prefect, "which of these men struck you down for one thorn It was and his crime uhall be expiated on the gallows." gal-lows." The eyes of the dying man closed and he said In a weak, sad voice: "Let him go, whoever he may be, for I, too, am but a criminal," ' |