Show if WE CHANGE pea by HERBERT QUICK ANDELENA ELENA STEPAN DIFF MACMAHON covY copyright RIGHT tr by ther Th BOBas MERRILL CO WN tx SERVICE THE STORY commissar Vilt s soviet squad invades the I 1 ome of kras sin aristocrat at kazan with the purpose of requisition ins ing the place for or government goven ment use VI V 1 insky insults the daughter mu alo ela sla loris Is biked to confiscate the home the family consists of 0 judge kra aln mr mrs 8 kressin krassin ilya former officer and musia lor s promises to hinves digate vladimir former officer is musia s fiance mrs airs krain expresses tear fear for her son a safe ty ilya recognize in vil sky a former di steward I 1 CHAPTER IV continued 7 even eien mrs krassin s in state on her divan and gazing on them in indecision peri pert lenity ind feir at no more attention than a sin gle sharp glance from hlinsky as I 1 if f he were ere wondering whether oi 01 nit net he were lie ile took his stand in the middle of the room feet wide hands bands on his hips he tie inspected the premises like a buyer at an auction or a prospect prospective lie tenant looking the place over critically and as he walked about the little clerk f glowed with a portfolio and notebook trotting about his master first on one sf sl ie and then on tl e other like a little dog likely to run be between tiLeen legs and be rebuked or truck struck for it his back bent in servility ity chev talked about the room shy pointed to the windows with the remark that the curtains were vere too dark th tb s room A ill III do for the recep uon tion room said he but it w 11 have to be altered according to your notes and have baie more mirrors I 1 like mir bors and those other things I 1 told you about have baie you the memo memoranda raDda chiq conversation did not sound like the talk mrs grissin I 1 ad expected from a min in ili a peasants blouse but on second glance the mm min did not look took like a peasant it was as a per cep tible length of time before she was impressed with the sense of insult and degradation which swei t over her at their insolence and then her face flushed flashed and her hands bands del ched the blood of a thousand thou years of ruler ship flew in hot rage to tl ti e very ends of her dingers and flooded her brain she partly rose it tl en ell sank back into her chair as her caution returned AN herc here was ilya and as another in spec tion aroused her suspicions that this aas as blat tl at very thievish elsh steward who had had ilya ilva follow e ea I 1 to his home perhaps she put her pride under her feet quickly alay I 1 ask said she approach ing Vill wilt A I 1 it it is that jou 3 ou desire here shy did not til III e even the trouble to look sneer sneeringly at her he ile was a master of insult he ile threw a glab glar glabe e at her over oner h s shoulder and resumed his inspection of the palace 1 hey I I 1 ey slid ti tie e clerk us ng a ser vile form of expression and bowing homing with aith admiring pride t ward the coin mander are loot 1001 ing at this house for themselves ies I 1 scarcely understand said she to villi sky what A hat 3 aur ur clerk can call mean if they I 1 ike ke the house g add lid tl tie e clerk after I 1 Vl linsky t tad ad in heated that he meant to pay it attention to the ladys lady s question vou will lave iane to move out within eight hours I 1 exclaimed shy pron promptly pity but we ne have no place to go protested mrs airs hassin still incredulous as to the genuineness of the threat and I 1 could not move my in so short a time your belong belon insl said vill with his back t ward her you wont won t have to move moie bour belongings as you call themi them I 1 I 1 barisch oa risch said the clerk will choose what he neels nee Is you can then take away what Is left if there Is anything but sirs mrs krassin began to protest buti but I 1 sl in mimicry enough of youl blo dt hirsty para site ion ou have haie lived lived flied while bet ter people have been starving or in prison I 1 now Is our time to live and to choose I 1 hive haie no time to argue with you I 1 it if jou are to get out went on the cl clerk erk you will receive an order our house registry b ok slid sald mrs airs krassin in her most diplomatic tone I 1 has just been returned fr m the militia I 1 request you to lo 10 k at it so that you div see bow how many I 1 eople are living in this house at the present time its it s not worth morth ahil snapped with an impatient motion my time Is too precious now this room addressing the clerk put do in as my osice and this but this Is a room we hive seen before who can show us this house so we may not ose lose time by getting lost our melves eel ves 1 I shall be glad to show you said mrs airs krassin still diplomatic and with all her I 1 dignity Vl linsky looked at her with something like amusement lead on said he with large larity mabe well ell keep you n is housekeeper I 1 should like thail and then began tint thit tour tl the old and lal es ent the end of which we e III 1 e seen in musia s suite always mrs krassin like the hen con chealit g g her nest and her ile fledging igi ng sought to eade the necess ty of sur 11 a in I 1 Us Is rom sl 81 e of protecting no one else bhe en the rooms of V ladimir and the young men the discovery of whom would have been like the unearthing of a treasure to linsky Vl with no at tempt to ghe wa namin ruin and finlin them deserted she merely explainer el 1 that they were occupied by members of their exten extensile sise family who ho had taken refuse refuge in kazan all the time she was seeking some way nay to convey a message of vv warning to a in his room sometimes Vi Vill linsly opened the door to a room which mrs airs said he bad had seen to find out wl ether or it t she was de deceiving celing him always lie ile found that she had told him tl ti e truth all the time she was forced nearer enough of youl bloodthirsty par agite and nearer to tl e necessity of going into her sons son s room and of thus bring brin ing him and tl it is terror face to face it filled her with alth dread bad had shown his ferocity feio city in his beli lvir to I 1 er and she remembered what ilya had sal sail I 1 ahen she asked him if villa sky I 1 ad recognized h in as i ne tie of the family at wl ose coar coni faint he bad bid gone to pris n so lon ion ago yes I 1 believe he knew me mel I 1 I 1 am sure he did dial I 1 was tl 0 ere in her mind the secret that if 11 Vi linsly once was in produced trod into her dougl doubters ter a r ni ap IP would forget tl ti is dreadful dread fil it quest f fir r 11 a which it 41 e busl acte I 1 sl qi e could not have told you if she had tried pro probably bibly and she wild would not have tried whatever may ive been in the mind of that ag aled and per flexed mother she nov no v the card she had I 1 een holding back as st e reached III aha as s aboor boor sl e u alakel calmly past it and stol ped ned at musia s how about this d or old lady asked Vili niky pausing at the en trance to aija s suite again she was diplomatic she al at towed lowed a glow slow smile of half contempt as if at his ignorance and stupidity to curl her lips TO BE CONTINI ED |