The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-02-19
THEY then drank more, amid a
perfect fracas OF talk and


perfect fracas of talk and
laughter. Ivan Petrovltch and
more, amid perfect fracas of talk
and laughter. Ivan Petrovitch and
Athanase Georgevitch walked across
and kissed the general Rouletabille
saw all around him great children who
amused themselves with unbelievable
naiVete and who dranl in a fashion
more unbelievable still Matrena Pc
troVna smoked cigarettes of yellow
tobacco necessarily, rising almost con
tinually to make q hurried round of
the rooms and after having prompted
the servants to greater watchfulness,
sat and looked long at Rouletabille,
who did not stir, but caught every
word, every gesture of each one there
Finally, signing. she sat down by Feo-
dor and asked how his leg felt. Michael
and Natacha, in corner, were deep in
conversaton. and Boris watched them
with obvious impatience. still strum-
ming at the guzla But the thing that
struck Rouletabilles youthful lmag-'
ination beyond all else was the mild
face Of the general. He had not imag-
ined the terrible Trebassof with so
paternal and sympathetic an express
sion. The Paris papers had printed re-
doubtabe pictures of him, more or less
authentic, but the arts Of photography
and engraving had cut vigorous, rough
features Of an official who knew no
pity. Such pictures were in perfect
accord with the idea one naturally had
Of the dominating figure OF the govern
ment at Moscow. the man who, during
eight days--the Red Week-had made
so many corpses of students and work.
men that the halls of the University
and the factories had opened their
doors since in vain. The dead would
have had to arise for those places to
be peopled! Days of terrible battle.
where in one quarter or another OF the
city there was naught but massacre or
burnings, until Matrena Petrovna and
her step daughter, Natacha (all the
papers told of IT., had fallen on their
knees before the general and begged
terms for the last Of the revolutiona-
ries, at bay in the Presnia quarter, and
had been refused by him. war is war,
had been his answer, with irrefutaoie
logic. How can you ask mercy Tor
these men who never give lt!" BE II
said for the young men OF the parrl-
cades that they never surrendered ana
oouo1l,, he ~ said for Trebassof that he
.aoosssr r,,v shot them III | had only
,,rsaIf 20 consider" the general had
y na,s - Do ~. journalist, II could have
han,, eontia &c a ,amb with these unfor-
,'na,os and so should not now my
s"if Nc oandamnea to death. After all,
Son ~ ~, u,hat thov renroacb me with.
10, ~ or',nS NV master ms brave
nay w., ei,I s'htoct M more and. after
an az. t,rst,,g have LET Others ferret
,e ome re nhmSrer that had hidden under
81, ~ n,othars, skirts Everybody talks
~ .se.l ronress,on ~ Moscow but let us
oaie VI .ne ur n,. friend NJ the Commune.
npean' ,r,' "s nians NJ work 7 would not
heie a "ae 80 n,ossacre within a court
haVo n,,,tuc uons, crowd Of men. women
au ,',,s. am rough and faith
ah' ,sie - ute Majesty but am not
Iui soio.e. y, have tho feelings of
aho,,n ,'iohs'u and father nv dear mon
nusoanu arni a ro,r readers that. II you
sleur' g. do not surmise about
oare W. r.or IN regret being con-
whe.he' daath
oeI,ihsu ~ ,hat sture,ed Rouletabille
Cer.aln'S staunch figure of the