Show we have changed all that by herbert quick and elena mac mahon J copyright by b the dobbs bobbs merrill co service THE STORY commissar Comm lEsar e soviet squad invades the home of krassin aristocrat a t at kazan horan tile ali f family amily consists ot of J judge krasin airs Kj krastin astin ilya fouriner officer and muria vladimir former officer la Is ilus Alu laa nance mrs krassin expressed fear for tier sons safety ilya recognizes I 1 in ellinsky Vl linsky a former d disho sh neet onest enard Et wonders if rhe phe lc Is to lie e a victim of the nationalization ot of women to ausla criticizes her brother ilyas acceptance of the situation abe n knows vladimir if a m member e aber of an organization in ing g for the downfall of the vladimir kills a bobbe bali he vik soldier and la Is arrested A raiding party searches the krossin home ilya Is taken prisoner planning to save her son mrs krassin induces musia muaia to accod ganv her ber on a visit to lorla loriet the latter ito Is busy and they are obliged to wait wail I 1 CHAPTER IX continued 16 he pointed out to them a vacant bench on the station platform beside the train an old dirty bench here they sat for a ing time patiently awaiting audience tile the bench gradually cited up with people its as time linn crawled on mostly soldiers and shabbier old women musia noted uie fart fact that she was aa the only girl among them all seemed awaiting some decision as to lo their dos des tindes for all save some of the hie sol titers looked depressed and anxious two or three times she went to the file guard and asked ached when their turn mould conic come as she had seen many people who ito lial had come after them go coing into the car and emering always slie site received the same answer Tova risch is busy thus wany hours passed then began to eee that because of their appearance pe ri arance of rank they were nere to he the last admitted it was its a new age of inequality mrs krassin sat sive when ausla had attempted in the file wily way of conversation slie site was wait ignored it seemed as it if a harrier barrier lud had interposed itself between them the silence was oppressive to musia the discrimination against then it in the matter of admission seemed to augur a their success As for mrs krassin she seemed to have taken on the stolidity of the patient peasant women nith whom slie site waited on oil tile the bench accepting tier lier leveling with till the crowd at last they were the only ones left on the bench belief and the guard tb throwing rowing the words at then them as one casts a bone to a dog told them to enter ahe lie car they stepped into a corridor and then into tile the reception room both were splendidly rich there were large lare turkish divans all around the walls of the reception room unit and on oil these divans on the walls ant and on tile alie floor were magnificent persian rugs rues the oriental orient nl aspect imparted to the hie place by these things was heightened by a colle cllon or of swords pistols and knives in n richly ambo embo embossed sed leather lonthier lont lier carved ivory and beautifully chil closed sect and ornamented gold cold and aller sheaths and holsters some gome of them set sei with diamonds and other bolher precious bhones all these losie rully disposed oo on tile the walls tile the room did ool nor look like the work room of a functionary lint hul suggested s leisure laure le luxury voluptuousness all with a touch of aitio th bar barbarae barle lira birs krassin felt fell of 1 at eh ehre e unexpected magnificence as the thought of nf the little coll collert polon lon of jewels she had bad brought bri uhL slie arli fl 11 depressed and indignant ai site she loil led around her enact nd tho light here Is stolen from its iia slie site felt insulted and abused by what she saw tier her rita erive lit in tills brigands brigande bri gands nest wn a loll 1011 then slie she recalled tier her eri errend find and front from that moment blie felt no conara victory impulse or beIt atlon ilyas rescue nod and redemption tooh lonk possession of all tier her bennf and stint ail with a n trembling hind hand she gh ened eded lie file lace at tier hiemst cast a side glance clience at and war wan li leased to note mile how flow pure and pretty she looked she he puaina il down to the bottom ol of her reticule the ilic money and jewelry she had filc filched hd with her maisla raw faw tile the and lowered her eyes their ure ore slit she thou glit was of nc lie count here agatin they waited a long standing a little apart in it tin inid lie of the rooan there was ns no I 1 ule rule ol of etiquette lo in the and visitors might ni nicil lil sit sil or alund a they plen pleased sed but bul they knew that hint HIP file were incurring the file possibility of bring rebuked it if they seated wid ami they felt that their self respect required thera them to stand suddenly the persian hanging which covered toe the doorway into the tuner inner t i V apartment apart mem was wag swept aside and a tall man lo in cossack uniform stepped in they were face to face with the great mrs airs kressin in the he anve days immediately fol following loning often tried to recall tile lie details if ir ioris appearance but she lind find a confused remembrance of bright intelli intelligent ent eyes a sear scar across a white forehead a liver earring worn vorn after the ilie fashion of some of tile Coss cossacks meLs alusha remembered every feature fes iture the hands which shoed no DO trace of former fi iriner toll loll the naring tile nostril like that of a arab anih horse the arched rr lipi eyebrows eje i ehrs brows rhe graceful movements or f every limb lie was us its different from flail lin joiy wretch retch villa 11 sly hy us its apollo from fl a amyr site she hail had halt paled pr led that hint ghere would he a 3 tie tween them and was bilt 1 ain athen ft lien lie spoke her henrt sank with will a of habitual lie the fhe guard lie ile did not for fill annina ing kept them wolfing ailina ft so long anny oot outside side or fir for keell ape ing them sl anding in ID the reception lie ile looked mrs krasen Kras ln over iver with a glance moved fruin front her feet to 0 hor lead in ri a mannet that was un oil spen kably rude lind then he turned ills his gaze upon ulion muia their Ilie lr eyes met and for a inocent slip glided into those thos I 1 black orbs arbs had so many visitors i fill terror tier her glance dropped to tile floor title slie site re ni dined conscious cons rious that lie was scanning tier lier gnep with i contin continuance biance of that of lit ills A tinge of red I 1 fled her cheeks and tier her heart bents tingled tier blager c ends thon then tile slie became conscious that after the guard had deported lie had indicated half lii a word half by it gerture sc geA sture ture fluff they were rc to be seated she stolp stole another glance at him tills this imitation to he be seated looked favor abla all to ri hep ber and tilie she wanted to verify tier changing appraisement of the man their Aniag nothing bolshevik about him site she folt felt hiis is eye glanced from one of Ms his visitors to UK file other from mrs hirs kraa sin will tier lier haughty plain face thi face of one in torment forment to ausla with her pallor pallar just tinged at ills his impudent glance clance with pink her wide anxious eyes tier her blond head her girlish purity purify and pret prettiness iness her atmosphere of if culture qualities of which he find seen little in that ogres agres den of his well lie he said interrogatively but 11 in a voice which conveyed the hie idea that lie was wag always saing it to some one and cared very little what tile response might be mrs krassin began her speech he fie looked toward the door with tile the manner of one conscious ons duus of taking faking part in wine some unusual proceeding nod and wondering whether li ether ot or nut not anyone Is overhearing or of ob JL it ile he moved uneasily lifted hla hend as it ft in protest when mrs krassin had uttered it jante nce or two but after a glance at alusha tie he sat impassive as she glie went on speaking in what she had alnas thought tier best manner mrs krassin laid hild tier her case before him film site she laid great stress on her words stringing them on the thread of tier her discourse like pearls slie she usually spoke well and on this greatest of all occasions of tier her life she lid did tier her wry very host best she su suggested that ter iier son ilya tind had been apprehended by the party sent out by the commissar under some misapprehension hen hension slon and slie site dwelt on tile lie harmless character of ilya and showed that tile the idea of ins his haling been engaged lo in any plots or conspiracies was utterly out of the question it vlas as a good deal of an oration tile fact that tile the woman was pleading for something much dearer to her than life did not 1101 stein to occur to lot lulls Is perhaps lie he had herome eat cal fouled to alip appeals pals of tills sort and after till all as mrs krassin 9 slip speed pelt drew va to a length approaching that of it lecture one in lorli lork position my lie he excused for being a little bore lorel the thing was las bovery plain either file i lie matter would be re soled according to her desires or it would not and that chait was nil there was to it ile ie anade one fine or r two movements of if impatience bin bill ench time he looked ot nt anxious cholly face with nil all tile pink ilium hurk haek to lu tier her heart now flow and withheld lils life crowt pro tet lira birs Kriis Kras hin slit beglin with will my son BOB was fir br ieh ld binl and polled ended after afier what men ell to to alusha like it very jorli long lime lih jib 1 I 1 hope iou ou will tind sly my inno ent ton ion at the end according to 0 o file cu custori storn slip handed him blin a written petition ITO TO DO BE |