Show we have changeat all tha that t by herbert quick and elena eiena Sir mae mac molon mallion copyright by the th bobbs merrill co service THE STORY commissar soviet acau aclu ad invades the home of krasin sin aristocrat at kazan VII frisk insky I 1 insults n s the daug liter muy ul bla 2 commissar com M loras L a he Is urged to confiscate the home the family con consists fists of judge krassin Krass ln mrs hire krassin Krass ln ilya former of officer fleer and vladimir former ormer gincer la is muelas fiance dance mra krassin expresses espre sea fear ear for or her sons safety ilya recognizes in skir a former ormer dishonest steward mrs drassin conducts VI Vl ellinsky linsky in an inspection inspects n of the home and contrives that he be shall not see sea ilya CHAPTER IV continued 8 oh those are rooms we saw long ago salt sali she billere are the last on this side enter please pleam yes said Vill to protect his self respect 1 I remember now lie ile entered muelas room as we have seen ile he swept aside the hanging i the door to the inner room lie he refused to allow the young girl to retire when her mother horrified by tits familiarities quested her to eo 0 o so ile he asked her to piny for him to play anything he in his peasants smock I 1 if mrs airs krossin had harbored the idea that he might forget ilya krasen in this room her surmise was correct sirs mrs krossin krassin understood under ODder his indescribable leer as he addressed her and knew abat he meant when lie he said that he wanted this room and every thing in n it left just as it was when ile he came there to live but she quite trusted to AIu Alu rearing to prevent her from understanding in fact that she ehe could not understand was cs as between mrs airs kressin and what the law calls an indisputable presumption and mrs airs krassin as the court would have refused to admit tiny any evidence to overturn it of course alusha could not understand I 1 and the girl from force of habit carried out this false presumption of nal vete she stood there with her face blank of nil all comprehension like that of a child her slight rounded figure revealed by her informal Inform nl attire a very bewitching person to the eyes eves of the coarse and brutal intruder little graceful very feminine with half hair of straw color and brown almond shaped eyes she was a new type to and he acted according to his lights to in the premises he fie suddenly sat down beside musia and pulled her down doun upon his lap attendants who were waiting in the hall outside the room were ast ached to see a pule pale slim girl in negligee run out of the room start back at seeing their sinister group and then speed away post past them into another part of the house they stood amazed for a moment followed her to the me next turning found that she ehe bad and vanished and then they ran back witt with thoughts of assassination or other resistance to in their minds they found their chief standing with a rather foolish look on his face over the form of an old woman who seemed to have fainted on a sofa in the luxurious room 1 I 1 will show these nobles said iliinsky that sir time has come well old woman come to life herel beret mrs mra krassin slowly rose to a sitting posture and looked upon him with an expression I 1 to in which hate brite indignation ond and pacification were curiously mingled ive seen all I 1 want to see here this morning said he when n we want the house well send you an order and leave this room just as it ft is I 1 conie come we have wasted too much time here now cowl I 1 Tova risch loras t oreg will be complaining because I 1 am late V 1 they went out swaggering through the doors to their cars tint and away mrs krassin krassan watched them as they went out of sight and then made her way quickly to where her child was concealed which child not ausla and Vill mity had never even asked about ilya I 1 CHAPTER V defenseless muelas world come came crashing about lier her in downfall in that scene with slie site had bad two contending feelings slit she must be avenged for this insult should she a daughter of the boyars have laid upon her in her own room the filthy hands of this creature and upon her soul goul the etain of his bis commands and his innuendoes and must this thing go she grew hot with rage and then tier her other feeling blanched her face and left tier her cold with fear the feeling that slie site even she was defenseless fensel fen seless esst 1 the very gods would have fought for her ancestors the very could now exult over tier her lay their hands bands on her in her own on house to her mothers presence and there was wag no one to whom she could fly byor or for vengeance or protection she could not go to ilya he must not be bendan endangered ered on any account vladimir yes yea he would light for her but where was he be lie he had come into the krashin house in the night like a mouse and was awaiting the proper time to slip sill out and what could even as callant gall int champion as vladimir do against ohp risen sea of nf the people what r 14 not the wretches rhea do she had bad heard awful tales not yet contradicted of the nationalization of women was she to be the first victim of it in this doomed city of kazan it was almost inconceivable but she musia krassin Krass ln was defenseless against it unless the had some rules for her protection she was an easy victim to this bushy lout in the peasants smock tier her fattier father he fie was the last person in prosperity or adversity of whom any sl of the family thou thought glit yet tet hilling biding away even from the servants bejes ejes in closets and attics after stealing back bach in the dusk to her own rooms 0 na and on finding them vacant of visitors changing her clothes to something more fitt fitting log she stole for the first time in weeks to the rooms to which hr father had for years been confined as an invalid the dusk was just shutting down into the night judge krassin was sitting in a long flowered dressing gown which was wrapped carefully about his feet reading a law book who Is it he exal excl limed fretfully oh it Is you my daughter my neres are very bad tonight and you startled me I 1 am very glad to see you of vourse ourse marousia Maro osia 1 I 1 im sorry I 1 startled you father she had come to tier her fattier father ti ra frightened child to cling to ins his hand with some instinct Insl that ile he might stand between her and a danger to which he nas as himself immune for neither father hother hi other nor mother wits was undre the shadow in which she morce they could only be rande to die slie she stepped to her ber fattier father timidly and took tits his hand bond he allowed tier her to retain it for a moment and then drew it away to turn i leaf of tits his book there was no harbor bar here for this trembling soul 1 I do not ogree agree with this decision sat said ha ba when I 1 was aas on the bench I 1 should never have agreed to such law aa this my duty to ny sovereign would not have permitted it slie site asked him if it would trouble or disturb him if she he sat ba b him for a while slie she felt hurt bun though she had no reason to feel so when he looked up at tier her in surprise and said very politely that he fie would be very glad ile he had bad riot not been he went on to say as if delivering an opinion in court often favored by the company of tits ills family and it wits a pleasure to note an agreeable exception to the rule and servants were not nha iba they used to be ills man simon Bosch kov Lov seemed to take th tb liberty of having things outside the house to which he was attending even now dow mr air krassin did not ask much but it seemed to him that tied as he was to his chair or at least confined to his room he had the right to look upon such neglect as a hardship may I 1 sit with you tonight asked musin 1 I will be very quiet tier ier haps I 1 can read to you it will be very kind of you said the old judge but few people people real read the law with understanding ilusca settled down on a low chair at his feet and read sometimes he would correct her pronunciation and once or twice he gave tier her a little lecture on the law lie did not know that it was a wise old aztec coming back bach 0 0 lecture on the laws of the Monte obsolete after be had bad grown petulant because he wanted simon Bosch kov to put him to bed simon really came with muttered excuses and musia hougla told him to sit outside while she waited in ID tits his place beside the door of her tatt fathers lers be bedroom drom slie she sat and listened listened for the terror announced by a ring at the door or by heavy trampling in the passages or by stealthy footfalls in the hall or by the bursting in of the door of her fathers suite by a man in a peasants k TO BE CONTINUED |