Show we hulff nave chan gemalli ge dAllI ty ly hertert IIer lert quick evil end elena Stepan tiff mac mahon hahon copyright by the robbs bobbs merrill co service THE STORY stony commissar soviet squad invades Inva ilca the home of 0 arns sin bin aristocrat at kazin with the purpose of I 1 ion ing tile the place for govern mei I 1 I 1 vi VII insky the mu blu sla CHAPTER I 1 continued 2 they had not expected to find kazan a clen city for fir in spite of the fact that slie she held field tier her proud place as 03 tile cultural center or of the whole volga kniley in spite of tier her great history of which these teiei e tra travelers elers and their families lind fill all been a part which chich accounts for fir their hereditary pride a history in purl part bulgarian in part fortar hut but russian since ohp time lime of ivan iran the alie terrible for all her great greal university of her paramount grand opera of her importance its H sent of oriental scholarship of tier monasteries of tier her ninny many churches whose domes shone golden unit hill lay day in the I 1 he hot sun bun and which possessed that godliness which Is next to clean allness bet et they had never in kazan been alile able to bring it closer than next the two qualities in tile the municipality hall had never actually co existed eil sred for nil these hundred find and ny fifty thousand people 11 h their crowded suburbs of tartars and of the laboring inhering hus bans and the ninny many great houses like the tie houe of sur round rounded ed by beautiful pardons gardens and filled alth lilt luxuries there hall never copen a central sewerage raKe system as if the lie quarter of a ni million lillon volumes it in the library of tile the Un hersity ralty of kazan had none bilth sanit sanitation follon perhaps Perli aps we ove are near the secret of Russ lii liere here in this library a certain student count leo tolstoi hat had in tile lie early corlies of fit tile lie last fast century found tile novels of sue site and dumas and in tills this old city he tind grown so weary of dissipation that lie told about it in a hook colic called youth like others hi h gly fic sired to demise cleanse the souls of his country and apparently their souls only the great ecclesiastical library was most important for its documents and books dealing ellb the interesting history of atti kesslin Kus wan slin religious feels beels hut bill treated of nothing closer to the subject of either personal or national purity for the multitude than inward purity and of the strange struggle of nf the he russians to obtain it as they were now tring to obtain purity of through lenina and trotsky people who nish ish to plumb the depths of the infinite would go 0 o farther and narl perli perhaps tips fare better if they began with mill plumbing of 0 a eiith mure prosaic sort especially in governmental ern mental matters for or in gailing galil gaii ing ng the mastery of the file prosaic preside ond and finite the people learn to handle democracy without causing it to explode it Is a line fine thin tiling for us of america that we had to bull build our own roads and bridges it if kazan had been obliged to in look after her sani tallon and similar matters she might never have seen commissar loris CHAPTER II 11 friend loris and friend the people made way tor commissar loris in token of if ills his authority ns as lie made ills way into the pre revo lutlo lutio nary palace of the goer gobernor nor gen era eral of kazan which with wilh its arsenal had been more potent fur for ases ages than tiny 0 or tier lier saints the soldiers of the people such Is the manner in which tile the customs of servitude suche sun lie saluted respect re fully lor for l or he was the th head of the government of the flirta birta of tile the proletariat in kazon kazan and was now colln to often attend and preside over its meeting ile he had an elegance defiance about him that thai not even ills old cossack uniform could take away ills red rather full lips were curled and his nose noise turned up in something like a sniff as if at some jad tit smell this Is really what it was and those who construed the expression to he one of contempt for ills his yoke fellows fellos lid 1141 him less that than justice for to be scornful of ones fellow workers in the time of terror Is not altogether prudent and there were some who could ond find no other oilier explanation the contrast between him and the half dozen men with whom he went into conference lay mainly in his smart elegant appen appearance ronce the mien of fit the man of the world that that had passed away perhaps fur evor ever the others seemed to feet feel tills this ana to show by their blunt ron gh wilys ways that they were not favorably impressed by these appearances of arts aris to cracy erney oil all hut hill one young mon will wilh a stooped form and tile ilie thick glasses of tile lie student whose milliners re mulled nhat they had bern been when his hi political theories for the fira little art patently paren parent lly ly took hini him into file bolshevist camp among tile hie hinn test st roughest and rudest of f thee tie ne dogs of war was a inan in a peasants peasi ini amoc it lie was sch who somewhat attend abeal of his order we have sien been inspecting lie he house or krassan lind and its ipanis for an hour or more mitre tile group kniep re bained in session clerks took look down memoranda aiu papers capers were 9 brut tat for dossiers Poss lers were examined Si dipill pIll raphers pliers ra took notes frowning throng Hir 1 hla file bushy brows CommiN commissar sar pLy after uie routine matters before ohp disposed of suddenly 34 meeting find line boon been made tile I 1 print tunit the peoples int interests erets woo would it lie inure borbi 1 orl ly served it 1 ills rall front remove relative tile his headquarters wily way car to I 1 the he pr lace loris in a 8 consultation consul tallon with will tile the pale consultation tho lip he sold student ft a seemed t denly maile more earnest full to hinr loris will said 1 I nm am discussing a milter matter in which I 1 think jou in may ile he interested 1 I 1 was engaged ged stilt loras whitt what 1 Is it alie e matter to i likit you yon refer 1 I 1 was milking making tile point Torn rIsch loris he repeated that it 11 would lie he better if YOU yon were to tranger tran fer your to tile the center of our pov gov erni nent this palace tile the peoples peo plea interests it seems to me ine would be hetler better served to cull call earn each other oilier Tova risch war wak almost obligatory friend and Is the verbal badge 0 the russian revolution as citizen was of tile hie french there I 1 Is something in whitt what you say refilled 1 laris ris 1 I am tit C considering on h filera it Tova risch Vi linky it would he more convenient Tova risch bolls lolls oils continued for other members of the government but there are advantages also said loris ioris in my remaining where here the hie people whom deserve we serve have learned to find me it should bo be should it not nor a n question purely of the tiling thing which la is aes iest for lie hie people there volts nas a sense of antagonism in the air at loris statement the pule pale student nodded assent the others seemed nan committal sky passed as if to avoid thu chii issue e to tile overcrowded state of the file city and the urgent need of more housing facilities these rhese he shouted striking lae the table balile with ills list ast and growing crowing red in the face even under the dictatorship or of the file proletariat still c crowd the proletariat into the street I 1 the while they sleep on bells beds of down we lie he on the stones of the paiement I 1 1 I thought better housed said loris loria sympathetically A smile went round every one there knew of the entire floor of tile chief hotel of the city which imd had commandeered comma for himself and ills his immediate retainers you know that I 1 1 mean loris lod lie he cried the people sleep on stones tills this must not bell he I 1 you tire are quite right replied loris we with will a slight emphasis on the pronoun have a right to protest against the hie nees nee necessity s of steel sl in on stones the bourgeoisie are eatery day by hundreds they corne come by boat by rail by vehicle and on foot hec because nule of the horrible living conditions in moscow petrograd Petro grad and ana other cities and because for many of them Is IR the old sent seat of nf their fam HIPS they claim to be crowded too and you said Vill ingratiatingly see in their crowding a reason for not disturbing them allow me to anish my tat ement sch sald claim to he crowded hat but lipar their stan standards of crowding arp arf not chote of the proletariat they have much room to spare if we do not find a re apdy for the conditions of which h spent speaks s before winter there w will III he witch much suffering and many deaths it grows grons worse dully daily and most mort of these returned bourgeoisie are secret plotters asnins our rule of if liberty and equality these seret secret treasonable societies which these fill papers pers picking up a dossier from the ie lesk desk describe their lives are busily forfeit to hie file state for treason and when they are imprisoned or tit their air lives tire are taken by the people their rooms will he be available for ali the e proletariat 1 18 s not this bagges tion worth worth considering every one but the pale student nodded loris had the gentile fur for tile the practical lie ile had won the members of tile the government to ills his side as lie had done many dimps before by riving giving voice to the idea which appealed pealed liti to them saw that hat he was losing ground in what hat was becoming a rivalry with alth loras TO BE CONTINUED |