Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-04
CHAPTER XVII.
Entering the Stretch.

Half-past Z on the morning of the
18th of October found Emil and Ivan
Transforming the outer Office at 96 Nathan
street from a sleeping breakfast room
into a neat and orderly commercial bas-
ton. The breakfast dishes had been
washed and Emil was putting them care
fully into the fling cabinet, while Ivan
folded the bedding and arranged 1t on the
hunks back of the counter
This is but little like / expected" said
Ivan. pausing for a moment Here have
I become a janitor, a cook, general
office man and "A chambermaid-and
came to this country to fight for liberty
''You are lighting for liberty, replied
Emil. but YOU are one of those who can
never learn that the most successful
fights are of the greatest silence. You
have become a leader among the Russian
Jews. If the present system continues
long enough they will all the money in
the world control. Who the money con-
trolls the world controls, but evolution is
never enough for you. You must have
things come about through an election
or a battle before you are content. AS
have many times pointed out TO you--
A knock on the door interrupted Emil,
and Ivan opened 1t to find the iceman
with a large chunk standing in the hall
Come but twice a week after this and
come earlier" said Ivan, taking the ice
and putting IL into the wall safe
You must be careful" cautioned Emil.
You are knocking the paint off that safe
and getting it all with hicks covered"
III my way of doing IL does not satisfy
YOU, YOU are at liberty to do it your
self
II am the head bookkeeper. it would be
improper" replied Emil. with dignity.
You speak as though | were janitor
by inheritance" returned Ivan TO one
who believes that all labor is equally
honorable, how can any task be i'm
proper
Unless one possess unusual powers. of
discrimination. it is extremely difflcult to
apply a grand and undeniable abstract
truth Under certain circumstances l
would cheerfully the ice into the safe put.
but to our present business such a course
would be harmful.
Ivan had picked up the broom, but In
stead of using IL. he faced Emil and de-
manded: did we come to this country
to engage in BUSINESS"
Not So admitted Emil We came
| under false pretensiorx- This young
| Bennington pretended to be OF great
wealth possessed. and now
! HE was of great wealth possessed, he
does not pretend things. You know per-
fectly well how this has come about and
you are Of a mean spirit to reproach him
AS for me, l shall do my best by him.
You would do no more than l. myself
am ready to do. II you are so thought
full of his interests. why are you not OF
the wall safe more careful. Does he wish
| 1t known that ii is of woodland an ice
| box?
| This is a small matter" replied Ivan
disdainfully II am willing to give vi
| my life for him..
! THAT is also a small matter" rejoined
| Emil. You were willing to give up your
| life for Russia. for suffering humanity
| for-well, for almost any reason what
ever. but after all, the giving up of q life
| is of small effect. i should rather have
h1I, mi fixrfn
| dead ones. II is easy enough to say. my
| life ] am willing at his feet to lay down.
| but when il comes to being careful of the
| icebox day after day, 1t becomes mo-
notonous. and
| There is nothing on earth so monot-
| onous as the constant growing Of your
voice" cried Ivan. 'One would think
that a MATS capacity in all things was