Show W we I 1 nave C h in if 9 ud all that r by herbert quick and elena mac mahon 6 copyright by the bobbs robbs merrill co I 1 service THE STORY commissar a soviet quad squad avades the I 1 ome ol 01 kras s n ar aristocrat i at kazan with the purpose 0 of sitio ning th lace for govern nent use V I 1 insky insults the daughter mu alu sla sia lomm comin asar lorig 9 urged to confiscate the h b me tie tl e family consists of judge krassin mrs airs kra krassin sin ilya former cincer and musia lor a promises to hinves digate CHAPTER ill continued 4 S e was mourning her horses ind cow so low had bad her possession fallen in numb r and value to a young man named I V ladimir one of those young men ato 1 I 0 had flocked to kazin from the capital because lie he was a citizen of the PI ice and because be he was drifting S eting in salons was the great occupation of the russian nobility at this time as in tact fact it had always been historians of the french reNo revolution lution describe the knit in the sun who scarcely paused in their knitting as they counted their one two and so on as the guillo tine rose and fell T tl e antithesis of the knitters in the sun are the sitters in the silon salon the young man vladimir lis listened attentively lely to the princess he had slipped into the krassin house by a gate on the b bid acl street the night before and wore defiantly the uniform with its soft golfen epaulettes of bis his old regiment fo they were banned by the ill he would have sung cod save the czar in pub lie if occasion hid called for it t the wearing of the forbidden insignia was character of his bold reel red less con tempt of tl e usurpers of tl e po ver of the it R assian people and of his class the vaunt aunt of race he tie answered the princess as ng if st e had been ing before him a matter of high statecraft craft 1 I the new way said he it wont last long I 1 am glad you are so hopeful said colonel bovarsky I 1 hpe you are right I 1 vlad lad mir and you mv my deir princess are DO worse off than others tl TI ey have liken taken almost all the animals in kazan under this U levisa decree I 1 the colonel wore no forbidden in signia lie ile had come from I 1 etro grad to his old fam ly seat here because bp ils his occupation in petrograd was g ne tie in these Lenini zed days dabs life 1 ere had bad become so harl and he hid hoped that the iraln fruits fowls fowl and oti ott er pro proofs as ons of I 1 is kizan K r izan tan ian Is algi t keep in thit th it old delicately nur aured t lody ody it tie e breith breath of a life u which aich strange to say was still of val ie t him C inthy sol I 1 erly from it tie e crown ermin of his gray heal to the soles of his not very well shod feet chiq hi beard frimmel I 1 be he thit th it of nicholas 11 his erect form and manner ee ele gant almost to edess mi mii I t serve serne as an ad advertisement of his ink rink r to any servant or oppressor of tie proletariat who mi might bt catch a of him A bitter sitter in the silon the S tiers ID in the sal fial n ha had d a al and always filkel ele gantes and rather well of those in pon power er tl TI ev did lid so no v a as we ue have hae heard hut but mrs irs iriss n and the princess soon coon n i aged a little aside OL it tie P phase f 1 1 e subject which related to lira ilya grissin irs krassin s son and his ej eil it under tinder the aon soviet let power tie tl e in tier refu ed I 1 ti abnit aan it that biere tl ere was arv ai but though to a stranger she w uld hive have as cool as when she nas sur row rout led by her great frien Is 19 and her collis of servings ser vints in tie of oil das her anti inti surprised a frightened look in her tier eves eyes fr in time to time a as she pitted I 1 her gr v m n I 1 air and mide her nal ual gesture of courtesy toward one of tie tl e akers I 1 I 1 I 1 eg your pardon said raid sl e t C lonel B I 1 of H I 1 not quite understand under what you were saving to I 1 lad mir 1 I was saving 7 said the colonel that fits tl is fear fearful ful scourge of human beasts if I 1 army express myself s si stron strongly iv is 19 til tal ing on new peril to everything go in this I 1 and the rabble under tinder him it is hard to entin erate the consequences they are very nimer turner us said sirs krassin they and the refugees from the german front are simply pad ln tie tl e town full I 1 do not mean the number of them replied the colonel and he would have been proud to know bow how much like nich nih las as 11 II he looked as be he made his cl et nourish flourish with his I 1 and but the effects of their control nor OT the material effects either though they are very ery evil I 1 airee aree ai ree with you etere tl ere said mrs grissin as if to evade a fading of the real subject of tie tl e colonel colonels s words I 1 suffer some of il ese material materi il coi coia sequences seq unes the people on my lands are behaving very badly some of them actually claim that the own omi the lands but others other are bringing brining in a part of what they took from us and are I 1 am sure giving givin a part of ue tte loot to the B Isle viki trying to act so as to be safe wi whoever oe er finally wins I 1 suppose I 1 should be desi erate crate it if I 1 did not hive about two years pro visions in the refrigerators and storer oms what we are coming to I 1 can not imagine sl SI e was plaintive over her evil plight she was triumphant because it was vias no worse and she was nas cour leous according to the old hospitable hospi tible ethics of her class in tt us giving her the asu rince nce that there was still plenty for all it was a charac te ristle speech As tor for tl it e complaint in it all the landowners ha I 1 aca acq alre I 1 the habit of speaking like children or sen ser ants Nants conaci us of injustice and abuse and back of it all was a sense of imi fall ending scarcity even with all their cupl lies on hand if the nile could alink it too would complain on bacon ing conscious of tl e fact that the rainfall in abyssinia and the lake lahe region had permanently teased ceased and that when ben the water already coming downstream should tall fall there would be no more ind no more mie nile why mrs krassin Krass ln refrain from complaining at a similar cabas she had been a Va turlin and all tie tt e V alfea valley knows thit the Va turlin family have been great people s nee the tartar invasions by birth they were vt ere of the higher nobility some members of thi this and oti oil er old famil faint es maintained among themselves thit they were bette belie born than any of the roval ronal fam ly tl TI ey had always controlled it ings through their ownership of lands and their powerful organization their men hid always pres ded at the local military they had con trolled a majority of votes in the and held many honorable offices serving always without salary they vere conscious of having devoted themselves them seles to the state of hav bay ing made sacrifices of having ren dered valuable se vice and duty to the n nation whatever may have been their public virtues they felt virtuous and unselfish whatever they received from the old order came to them like the light of morning or the rain from heaven heave n as a part of the natural scheme of things hid it not always been so why should not mrs krassin have two years provisions pro visions laid in even in this time of scarcity was not her brother a V an elected elect d mars al a of tl it e nobility dd D d sl st e not not have near rela ties ti es who held high diplomatic posts who had been officers of ohp G birds who were in conal lenuial places in the ministries in I 1 was n t her uncle a secretory secre tiry of the inte lor was not her cousin a trellia at tt tie e court of the empress mother alother why sh sit uld sl e not live in plenty an I 1 setu security rity with the homage and service of every body paid to her as it hid bid always been there was jo ao answer in this salon the bolshevik with its oligarchy did not bring an answer to this fearful question of inequality of human beings in the house of Is krassin they were the queries of knives knaves fools assassins and lunatics and yet with all tl it air ability and train ng in public life thee people of tie upper nobility were viere the first to suffer in the reio revolution lution in the tile first fall of a go government to the forces of the revolution they were in a ma jor tv and then came the I 1 coup tie loss of their lands they were vi ere d wn and out before any one else fell the banks the mer chants and the manufacturers held on for two years or so after whit sky called the krassin krasin acing 1 ing were doan and done for had they only anond it the revolution most of them had gloated ver erld cism of the old government the im aerial family or for that matter over oner any government or power and now they sat in their salons an I 1 talked bitterly of the old times yet n bo iv v could say ho v they I 1 have es c sped ri it the pice dice of destiny were coaled against them not only against their fortunes and tl it air bo lies their very souls were n tr il it TO BE CONTINUED |