Show we changed all that by herbert quick and elena mac mahon copyright by the bobbs dobbs merr 11 co service THE STORY commissar soviet squad I 1 vades the home of 0 kraa kras sin aristocrat at kazan the family consists of 0 judge kras 3 sin in mrs krassin ilya former officer meer end musia vlad mir for mer officer Is musia a fiance mrs krasen expressed tear fear for her son a e safety ilya recognizes in a former dishonest steward musia musts wonders it if she Is to tf to be a victim of the national of women I 1 0 vlad mir musia criticizes her brother ilya a a of the situa tion the bhe kno vs vladimir Is a en her of an fin organization work ing for the downfall of the bol vladimir kills a bolsby vik soldier and Is arrested A ra ding parly party searches the kras sin home ilya Is taken prisoner planning to sale ease her son mrs airs krasin kras in induces 9 musia to accod pany her on a visit to loris CHAPTER IX 15 mrs krassin presents a petition when musia awakened the next morning it seemed for a moment as if tl tt e revolution and all that followed it had been a disturbed and horrible dream and that she was now awak ened to he be old lift of which she had at times been a little weary but wt ich n nw w she saw had been so bean beau ticul A night of profound slumber had done away with all her sense of danged and she had been playing with ilya flys and vladimir and her girl friends on the great lawns overshadowed by bv tall trees at one of tt air noble old country count seats hut but there hid had be been ben n a fairy charm in the trees the grass had had a green than she had ever noted and the flavers were more splendid and then she sickened a the realization thit that everyll ing had been wrecked and that day she was to go with her in ther aher to a dreadful of a bol hp jk commissar to plea 1 for her br tl tiers er s life ste sl e r se and prayed before her ik n to pray was better than to struggle if only she were tree free of this struggle I 1 tien she went oui out with her mother to make their sui rane effort to pie d I 1 r and ransom the head of their family aina TI tie e vear had a little wl wt ile tie she herself hid had aged ale tt it aught and while her mother had so pl hr br ken d wn TI tie e trees wt wre re clotted in the gold of the russ n a tun nal na forest not the qa lend r f tl 11 e oriental lentil or rug seen in america I 1 I 1 ie skies dunst me ine of old filtering ilter ing through the golden leaves the lands Hpe dreaming in a bl lish hae d opening t ere and there into a transparent i uri url ie in spite of everything even everi thing he the rh eh idren tha credit public gardens garden were f fill ill of them af si arting in the sand s ind filling ailin tl 11 e avocation ai hh ith st flouts outs and laughter tl TI sight of fieri brought airs to is fast eves the sll silt t of their I innocent inocent the in tl it e midst if f tl ti e ever pres i wake ent en was ar s si ott et pt ste sl e wa entire very sensitive this orning arnin e her tier n ther balked with al at her home m vis vig r as it the I 1 le longe I 1 t ti her water tt it ans the reso tut n f tf n ani an 1 the h hibit abit of auth rity TI tie e went 1 il I n ng t gether in friendly olen eral re as if stev tl PT hid settled everything he ease in tween tapin so that borla were are breaking aking s mrs ansin in her in e after va ri able black al alj in n an sin old fash ing on lone tone I 1 frock of i ie tone n itch she was attire erv deconink beco con was ai a i satisfied wilh with the dices f r she w is bre hrek I 1 ip in the n that ahe she in A man alo N I 1 0 is I 1 attractive Is more ilke like ig Is mon ly t ti i n ke e a ai at peal than 8 1 aa del dowdy ot ore e ks and aa sl ihl as they would have pro bounce I 1 tl em selves h b weer they were r it liter I 1 er c list leu fell us I f r tl it elf sell f good cl tl it es n thit that street in gazina farm hit that mon mort ing for the calill calbre re chiq dren in the parts verv few peorl ig is his tv ere 0 it and n ni t f them t farm cl el thed in queer ustus es et purchase f all at tl it e commission sl ops aps at wl wt le ifa plates places pe pie in nee neel br bought u ht a an n ou de et ivo 6 bought at the thieves autti n where loot v BIS is sar arid id most alost f the men wore it 11 tary sl st arts hut bit it Is fact meant g as to their having served ID in tt tte e a army I 1 here lere and il here ere were men and altien in evening A 1 th s many w men w re n walte I 1 tie stocal ins and find old f ishlon ed irenes drees es these were women of the intelligentsia families who had access to old trunks or those storage roon s called in these garments had been packed away tor for years an nn i forgotten until this elre unit of 0 t eed teed all thrush this summer the mill find been accumulating in the his aliv dirty streets the Bol bolshem shel t ai at parent ly having given no thought to the danger of an i pi pt den ic le mst of the shops were closed many were locked ep up seem ugly with the shutters tightly closet down beggars in foul rage rags piled plied theli trade with outstretched handa hands at every corner shabby which look took so quaint in pictures stood wait ing for fares or rattled over the mis erable pavements with their lean horses whipped to a callop luxury ous oui carriages which looked aa as it 11 they had never been washed went by drawn by magnificent orloff horses wrapped in clouds of dust and ailed filled with rough looking bolshevik soldiers at the bases of moving dust clouds which dwarfed those generated by the car biages roared wildly speeding motor cars violating every rule of both law and safety in their insane flight their drivers not taking the trouble even to sound their horns it was as a ling walk to the railway station tt ti e tine fine old boulevards then out into the public streets but tl it ey finally arrived musia was to n re te that hey they were both thickly po pondered dered with dust and might make a not very favorable impression on n st t of the trad tract s in the yards stood military trains tr ians strongly raided by armed soldiers on others were long tong sir i gs of freigh t tars lars which had been inverted nver ted into div dwellings ellings a tice which accounts for the loss to the world of ds of cars all over russia much aluch ammunition lay scat seat about on the ground best ie le and between the tracks mingled with broken rifles parts of cannon empty im am ov SO of 10 I 1 Begg beggars rs in foul rage rags piled plied their trade with outstretched hands at every corner shall a membra of war made si st per destructive by imcoe farther on down the track toward I 1 oris car were p les of ammunition covered with fth t rn canvas finally I 1 car itself a hue eangon de stand ng on a cleared track with the vay ay 1 01 I en ell for its instant departure its engine under steam a few yards doti tie nils ralls a mechanical frey rey hound bound held in slip an armed guard stood at tie steps leading up into the car from front the plat platform fortu mrs krassin moved forward to ad dress the fouard but sullenly sud lenly noticed that her daughter was no longer lonser beside her for musli had k back in a sudden ace access of fear her tier moth er turned took her by the at aim in and led her tier forward as i ne tie might lead a timid animal rahe I 1 he instincts of a lifetime caused her to adol t in speaking to the guard tl it at tone of respect which the private individual uses in intercourse with ot ore e in an official position d tons the average weight of ar an Is 4 tons |