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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-04
When ProgressiUes eight"

On the eve of the adjournment of the first session
of congress it is natural to review tho outstanding
events of its life
This is arather difficult task under the circum
stances. Practically nothing has been done by the
much-heralded congress that was to be dominated
by insurgents. Consequently, of all the events of
an uneventful session the most impressive one is
the utter failure of the socalled progressives to
make even the slightest dent in the armor of the
reactionary old guard.
The fight over the liberalization Of the rules in
the House of Representatives turned out to be
disaster for the insurgents under the LaFollette
banner. The slick Nicholas Longworth spokes-
man for the biggest capitalist owners, handed the
Wisconsin delegation lemon in lieu of victory
In the Teapot Dome affair LaFollette emitted
few faint remarks. His colleagues in the house
were mum this occasion that was so fruitful of
real danger to the reaction. On the matter of
taxation, Mr.. Frear, who is the acknowledged
fiscal expert of the LaFollette camp was putty
in the hands of the shrewd democratic floor manip-
ulators. The showing made by the LaFollette
followers in the house tax debates was visibly dis
graceful, if the interests of the workers and poor
farmers are to be accepted as the criterion of
worthwhile legislation
Now it is a recognized fact that the Howell
Barley railway measure which does not even
pretend to weaken the iron grip of the financial
interests the railways of the country is one of
the pet of the so-called progressive bloc
Yet, even this empty, hollow piece of legislation
which has been the source of so much noise and so
many impotent promises to the railway workers is
betrayed at the last moment by its very sponsor.
Hiding behind verbose diatribe against the adj
ministration, Mr.. Barley has just withdrawn his
bill The excuse for giving up the fight and flying
from the battle even for this insignificant sop to
the workers is that there is no chance Of passing
it in view of the imminent adjournment of
congress.
The same spirit of do-nothingism and fight from
the front was also shown by the LaFollette house
floor leader, Mr.. Nelson of Wisconsin, on the cues
ton of adjournment This supposed champion of
progressiyism did not gather sufficient courage
to even protest in words against the reactionaries
voting to adjourn congress without having acted
on the most pressing needs of the rural and city
working masses
Yet, Mr.. LaFollette and his ilk dare to ask the
oppressed and exploited to follow them
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-04
By JAY LOVESTONE

would happen has happened LaFol-
lette, who will attend the same con-
vention with Coolidge, Lodge, Daugh-
erty and "Apricots" Mclean of Tea
pot Dome fame, has severed himself
from the great mass of farmers and
workers who are bent on organizing
class farmer-labor party in order
to give real battle to the exploiters
The step that LaFollette has taken is,
fortunately for the workers, politically
suicidal to him and will only enhance
the prestige of the Communists who
have always warned the working class
and the dispossessed farmers against
trusting him. The fact that LaFol-
lette was compelled to make an at
tack on the Communists the very
heart and body of his first frank
words on the political crisis now con-
fronting the country speaks volumes
for the influence and following won
by the Communists. The Socialist
Party at its height never attained
such Importance or that much pres
tige and trust amongst the masses TO
be the very source and center Of a
political fight involving such funda-
mental and vital changes in the class
relations OF the land.
LaFollette's throwing overheard his
last possible excuse for posing as
champion Of the working and farm
ing masses by attacking the st. Paul
convention is only a tribute TO the
growing prowess of the Communists
and to the rising class-consciousne
of the exploited workers and expro-
priated farmers.
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Cleansing Bulgaria

Much glee is evidenced in the dispatches cir
culated by our capitalist class over the reported
losses of the Communists in the recent elections
held in Bulgaria.
For the moment let us not debate the veracity
of these reports. We have seen the Communists
defeated too often in the columns of employing
class press Assuming that the statements relative
to the Communist defeat are true we propose a
series of questions meriting the most serious and
urgent consideration by the farming and laboring
masses the country over.
Where was all the much-wanted freedom of
bourgeois democracy in these Bulgarian elections?
Were the workers and peasants of this Balkan
vassal state of allied Imperialism permitted to vote
with the limited choice permitted to partici-
pate in the elections? Were the Communists al
lowed to have their own press? Were their leaders
released from Jail? Was the military ban against
the Communists lifted at the time of the elections?
The answer to all these questions is a decisive
NO. The elections in Bulgaria were more of
farce than capitalist elections customarily are No
pretense was made to have the balloting take on
even the faintest resemblance of free parliament
tary campaign to the very limited extent that such
is possible while the capitalists own the press
the schools, the government, the industries and the
armed forces. The bayonet in the hands of the
hangmen of the Bulgarian masses was the victor
in the last elections.
The Communists and the workers and peasants
were robbed of the right to express even their
most limited voices. The Communists of Bulgaria
were not defeated in open election. The ex-
ploiters and oppressors of the Bulgarian masses
with the help of the foreign capitalists, simply
made it impossible for the Communists to par
ticipate effectively in the campaign.
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Coolidge Agrees

Probably the best proof that the newly
tax law is not conducive to the welfare of the
great masses of the industrial and agricultural
areas is to be found in the fact that Coolidge
signed it.
The new law is a hybrid product of the manipu-
lations of the Democrats and the apologies of the
weakened progressives. 1t aims to satisfy every
class in society except the working and poor farm
ing classes whom it does not even consider. It's
only claim to difference from the original Mellon
scheme is that it reduces the surtaxes of the multi
millionaires from 80 to 40 per cent instead of to
% per cent as Coolidge desired, and that it caters
to the interests of the middle stratum of our CAPT
talist class little more than the administration
Republicans planned The shadow of the progress
sives is seen only in the scratch the taxpaying
skin of the lower middle class.
The tax bill fails in every respect The
progressives parading the defenders of the in
terests of the masses against the exploiters de-
serve the roundest denunciation for the shameful
way in which they surrendered to the biggest and
blacklist of our financial and industrial overlords.
In essence the new tax bill is a victory for the
upper crust of our capitalist class. The admins
tratiOn has gotten the multimilionaires much
more than they expected at the time the Mellon
campaign was launched. None of the employing
class leaders believed that they could realize the
entire Mellon program in this session.
Months ago when the kept press was predicting
that Coolidge would veto the Democraticinsurgent
measure we declared that he would do nothing of
the kind. We saw thru all the fraudulent propa-
ganda of the reaction fighting to get as much as it
could for its own class. "Silent Casv denuncia.
ton of the very bill which he signed is merely
warning to the working masses that the employing
class has not given up the fight to win an even
better taxation scheme for itself and is promise
to the exploiters that their interests will be
vigorously defended by the Coolidge clique
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Two years ago it was the national
indoor sport of the leading CORE
spondents and editors to talk them
selves blue and their readers sick
over supposed defeats and collapses
of the Soviet government. Lenin
was being buried daily. Moscow was
in the hands of and redeemed by
czarist pogrom agents and hooligans
every other hour.
Soon the stuff went stale. Now it
is the American Communists who are
being routed daily by the same gentry.
William Hard, who is simultaneously
the correspondent of the cleanest
liberal weekly and one of the dirtiest
reactionary dailies, is the latest one
to enter the lists against the Com
munists. The occasion is the rather
auspicuous one Of LaFollette's At of
rage and eleventh-hour confession of
his own incompetency and bankruptcy
in the present political crisis.
Mr.. Hard wants his readers to be-
lieve that LaFollette's wordy on
slaught on the Communists has
spelled the doom Of the Workers
Party and has tolled the knell of the
st. Paul convention. This is simply
another case where the wish is father
to the thought. LaFollette's outburst
will hurt him more than anyone else.
His open admission that he still
thinks 1t possible for the Democratic
and Republican parties to serve any
body but the reactionary big CAPT
talist interests is clear note of dis
illusionment for many of the workers
and farmers who, prior to this decla.
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Not a Workers Platform

LaFollettes idea of a platform for the presi-
Dental elections is pitifu exhibition of helpless
ness before the problems of modern society. Tink-
ering with the tariff, building waterways, amend
ments to the constitution etc. jostle proposals for
tax reductions and 'house-cleaning' in the depart
ments All of it is proposed from the point of
view of the small manufacturers, merchants, law
yers rich farmers and the middle class generally.
Not one item betrays the slightest desire for fun
damental change in the interests of the workers
and bankrupt farmers.
But for the stupidity of the old Republican
machine, there is little reason why the LaFollette
program should not be adopted by the big bust
ness interests in control Of the G. o. p True, it
is not their program but there is nothing in it
that really threatens them There is no relief pro-
posed to the mortgage-ridden farmers. The small
concessions made to the demands of labor could
easily be blocked by the machinery Of the wonder
full constitution of the United States The Coolidge
hackers would only have to gulp a little harder
to swallow the LaFollette program.
Dividing it fundamentally from any working
class character at all, however, is the naive idea
that this milkand-water program is sufficient unto
itself that it is not necessary for the workers and
farmers to organize their political forces to put
anything across, that all they must do is to get
politicians in the old parties, "good men," to
stand for these things The exploited toiers of
America are beginning to realize that even real
program of action-which LaFollettes is not
would mean nothing unless backed up by sepa
rate and distinct party, organized on a working
class basis, and fighting all down the line against
all. parties of capitalism
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Routing the Communists

ration, might still have had some
faith in him. The Communists, who
have been the steel rod in the whole
farmer-labor movement the country
over, who fought for the organization
of a virile political party of the ex-
plotted masses against the capitalists
while many self-styled progressives
and so-called liberals were still devoid
of courage to take a stand or were
still attempting to wash the oil off
the backs of the donkey and the eIe-
plant, have time and again told the
poor farmers that LaFollette is I'M
worthy of their trust and that he
would double-cross them and leave
themin the lurch' at the last moment.
What the Communists have said
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In the judicial elections just held in Illinois, the
workers had no opportunity to vote against the
capitalist candidates in any fashion. The old
Farmer-Labor party Of Fitzpatrick Buck and
Brown, has quit. The action some months ago by
the leaders of this group, endorsing capitalist can
didates on the plea of fighting against the ipjunc
ton, foreshadowed their present complete CAPT
tulation The Socialist party is still on the ballot
in Ilinos-but it also had forsaken the battle and
had no candidates. All the old leadership against
the capitalist parties has deserted to the enemy
None too early, therefore, has the Illinois Labor
party entered the field. Nominating Duncan
Mcdonald for governor, and preparing for a full
ticket in the fall elections, it gives the workers
of Illinois their only guarantee that when they 90
to vote next time they will not be presented with
the alternative of choosing between two sets of
capitalists.
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Republican party leaders are certainly in an
embarrassing position President and congress
are at loggerheads on the largest issues before
Congress, and both must be endorsed at the con
ventiop The program of unity and harmony will
have 10 be sought in demand for the "open shop
the right Of capitalism to do as it damn peases the
necessity to strictly regulate trade unions, uphold
the courts in the issuance Of injunctions against
labor, and shoot or deport all Communists and
reds On such program the G. O. p will find
itself one again.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-04
XII KLUx SHR|NERS
WAX POLITICAL OVER
ABSENCE OF WIVES

KANSAS CITY, June 3.-Thou-
sands Of shriners are here for
convention, and they are having a
gay time. The streets are oIosoed
with parading Masons Of various de-
grees. A prize was offered for the
best convention song, and the fol-
lowing from ku kIux indianapolis
took the prize:
"There amt no wives with US,
"There amt no wives with US;
"There may be wives with some OF
you guys,
"But there amt no wives with u.s."
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SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1924-01-19

PRODAJf Sc kanafi samicky
rollers, Seifertuv druh, v Gene
$500 do $500. K doptani v
{. 13413 Bartlett Ave. u vych.
131. ul., Union kara. 1-19
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DR. q B N E
ON A NJ K Y.

PRIME Sc divka, ktera ma
zkusenost v restaurantu. Musi
umet anghcky, cesky neb slo-
vensky. Stale misto. Haste sc
v {. 3637 Fulton Rd., blize
BrookSide parku. 1-19
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lany mlady muz, ktery nam
zajist6 nebude slouziti k ne
cti! Abych yam vse do podrob
nosti vypravovala, k tomu ne
nj nyni ami dosti casu, ami pfi
hodne chvile. Ale jest po ruce
hojne ddkazh o tom, ze omen
mladik je skutecne nasim ynu
KEN, tax ze nelze 0 tom ami
dost malo pochybovati. A vite
Ii, komu je omen mlady muz,
syn Leona, hra bete Bussie-
res, podoben, jakoby mu z O.
ka vypadl? Yam, hrabe podc
ba sc vnuk vas docela!"
(PokraCovani.)
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PRODA Sc krasny dinning
room set, 3kusovy parlor set,
gramofon, sici stroj, library
table, vysoka Tampa, stoian ma
kvetiny, dresser, chifonier,
|kombinacni kamna a rtzne il
ne veci, vse velmi LEVINE, do
'vazka zdarma. Haste sc (.
3343 Fulton rd. 1-19
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|POTREBUJI nekolik mensich
|domkd "a hotove. Mate-li po-
|dobny, ktery chcete neb mu-
|site prodat, navstivte mne neb
zaslete listek a ia vas navsti-
vim a muzeme sc dohodnouti.
The Atlas Finance Co., 5458
Broadway. Ptejte Sc ma Mr..
Stukbauer. 1-10
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ROMAN EMILIA RICHEBOuRGA
Volne pfelozil Frant. Ladisl, Click.

tkafl. JenOZ ODllceJ neVySlOV-
nou radosti zafil.
"Gosi," promluvila k starci
ponekud chraptivym a tresou-
elm se hlasem, "kdo odevzdal
vasemu vychovanci tyto spi-
sy?"
"Leon dostal je cd muze
jakehosi, ktery je mel peclive
uschovane."
"A proc pax odevzdal omen
,muz tyto spisy zrovna odcho-
vanci vasemu a medal je niko-
mu jinemu?"
"Protoze - protoze -" "a
iektal Cos, ''se domnival, ze
by mu molly k tomu slouziti,
ably opet nalezl rodinu matky
sye."
"Kde, mel ale hledati rodi-
nu otcovu, Gosi? o te nedeje
sc spisech onech zadne zmin
ky?"
Leon nehleda rodiny sWeho
otce, pani hrabenko," pravil
Cos.
20 tom 81 ihned sire pro-
mluvime," di hrabenka. "Ale
nyni, mily Gosi, zaprisaham
vas, pokracujte We SVEN vypra
vovani. Povidal jste mi, ze Wy
chovanec vas pfisel nahodou
do Saint Irunu a tam re Sc
dozvedel, re matka jeho Sc z
tamniho hostince V sire tmave
noci prosincove, V ktere piano.
yala husta chumelenice, ma ce
stu vydaia?"
"Tak jest, pani hrabenko." :"
Leon Sc pax jeste dale do
plaVal!
Aho.
"A ceho sc Jes'e vice 40
%seuei!
Nlceho.
1e-ii MONA! I'll hraoeh-
va eeuS Sc am hedozVeoeh
ktefaK Sc Jeno matka Jmeno-
Vaia
i'liielii hiatciha Sc q u.s.
:" ohech' htere mu pyiy ooe-
t1oal'y' neuozVedel' oopoVe-
oe' "o'' NaheJVyse aocetl Sc
'al''' 90 SC ifla'ha Jeho hazS-
Nala hucle-
ieoy hocle'. Wolala lfa-
oellha nusSiefes.
RI Teen slovech prltlskla 81
ooe ruce X sfacl' ktere j CIV
''''o' q i'e' oAou'lio d "ldhy je-
j voeche zazaflly.
uos uoiVeh ha nj pohllzel.
'ypfaVuJ1e oale' Hosl, pro
SIM vas, VypravuJte, proslla
hraoehka' poVldeJte mi, KITE
rak Vychoyanec vas setkal
Sc muzem, Jenz mu tyto spi-
sy oaeVzdal.
> tim setkal Sc take Jen ma
hodou' pam hrabenko,' di
Hos. jest TO Jakys stary zeb-
fak' Jmenem Mardoche, KITE
ry, Jak Sc zda, znaval jeho
otce Jeho matku. Ale muz
tehto hechtel Leonovl povedi-
u Jmena matky Jeho, pfedsti-
raJe, re k tomu nuti zavazne
prlclny"
Tot velml podlvne."
Nefll-llZ pravda," mluVil
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HLEDA Sc maly byt asi o 8
svetnicich pro bezdetne man.
zele. Nechte adresu v adm. t.
!. pod znackou "H". 1-19
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RONAJME Sc:

PRONAJME Sc domek 0 5
svetnicfch ma vych. "a. Pl.. Je
hned k nastehovani. Haste Sc
v {. 1926 vych. a.. Place wa
du. LA
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PRONAJME Sc stor & 115O1
Buckeye Rd., v kterem byl po
leta grocerni a reznicky OBJ
.chod. Blizsi sdeli JOS. Hruby,
11437 Buckeye Rd. 1-22
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PRONAJME Sc stor kuchy-
nj, hodici Sc pro jakykoli OBJ
chod. Haste sc v {. 1886 Full
ton rd., roh Sackett ave.
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PRODA Sc novy bungalow 0
6 pokojich Sc vsim modernim
zafizenim, da Sc LEVINE. Haste
Sc {. 135O4 Bartlett ave. v
Corlett. 1922
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PR0DA Sc zachovala victro-
la a rekordy, vse "a $500,
dale velky mahogonovy Libra
ry table, "a $4,000, a jne ri-
zne naradi, velmi LEVINE, Has
te Sc v {. 1858 vych. 163. ul.
p Kinsman I'd. t-22
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PRoDA Sc dim, cihelny bum
galow, ma vych. 1877. ul. a Kins
man, aneb Sc vym6ni "a dobry
stavebni lot a ostatnf hotove.
Zavolejte tel. Fairmont 4074
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ka JenO ma nfDlLOV a LeflluZ
nahrobku, zde ze poklekla u
hrobu zavrazdeneho a modlila
Sc modlitbu, kterez jeho by
la matka jeho naucila, a ma
kterou 81 nyni take najednou
vzpomnel, Aasel il v pameti
sve. jake davno ztracenou pei
lu.'
"A co Sc stalo pax? Co ci-
nil potion ten starry zebrak?"
"Nyni byl i starry Mardoche
pevne pfesvedcen, ze je Leon
synem zavrazdeneho a vypra.
voval mu, ze Sc zavrazdenJ
jmenoval take Leon a ze byl
Cd jakehos spatneho chlapa z
okoli zdejsiho zavrazden k
vuli svym penezdm, 0 nez by
no vrah oloupil.
ia vim, ia vim," prisved-
covala hrabenka, "vrah Leo.
nuv jmenoval Sc Jean Renauo
a byl pax pro tento zlocin cd,
souzen k dozivotni nucent
praci."
"Je-li MONA? Pani hraben.
ka zna - -"
"Ano, mily Gosi, znam, kite
rak smutne skoncil zivot svuj
mhj ubohy syn. Ale posud
jsem nevedela, re ono ubohe
dite, ktere jste ma silnici ma
lezl, jest take ditetem mym
o Roze, milosrdny, ty jsi sc
mad nami konecne smiloval po
dlouhych zkouskach a dlouho
letem utrpeni a zachoval isl
nam pro nase beznadeJne sta
ii jest6 blazenost a radost. O
Gosi, proc jste sebou nepil-
vedl hned meho vnuka?"
Cos rozpaky nemohl hned
odpovedeti.
"Byli jsme zamku d'Ar-
feuille,' promluvil pax, "a
tam isme Sc dozvedeli, ze Sc
PAM hrabenka naleza V Pa
rizi.'
"A proc tedy nepiisel hned
S vami?" tazala sc hrabenka.
"SmeI bych milostiv6 pani
fici praydu?"
"Zajist6 re smite. Nuze, te-
dy mluvte."
"Milostiva pani hraben 50,
Leon nechce 81 osobovati zad-
nych pray" odvece Cos, "a
naridil mi, abych vam We jme
nu jeho rekl, ze niceho ne
zada.'
"Ale, tot prece neni moz-
na!' zvolala hrabenka pfekva
penim takfka bez sebe. 'Prece
on jest nasim vnukem, slysite,
Gosi, povidam vam, re je sku
tecne nasim vnukem."
Gale je skoro jisto," naml-
tai Cos, "ze Leonova matka
nebyla provdana, PAM hraben
ko, a ze tedy nestava zadne
listing pfayoplatne, kteraz by
podavala dukazu o tom, re je
Leon vskutku vasim synem.
Naopak, mily Gosi, vse Sc
shoduje, vse podava 0 tom du.
kazy, re je Leon mym vnu
kem," odpovedela hrabenka
"Ci snad .sem no ia sama "a
sveho vnuka neuznala? ia u
znavam Leonovu slechetnost
uznavam ieho ltlocit, vsak my
premllzeme jeho pochybnost
a vymluvime mu je. Dnes po
prve opet po mnoha letecl
|prolevam Shy radosti, slz,
blazenosti nevyslovne! Vzdyt
Ease name syna, name pote
chu a radost start sveho. Ach
ikterak ma premnohe veci me
1 la bych Sc vas jeste tazat
lGOsi, ale nyni nemohu ma nj
ljineho mysllti, nez nd nase d
Ite."
Po tech slovech rychle b
-zela ke zvonci a zazvonila
/ Okamzlte objevil sc V salt
,Ine German.
"Vyrid'te panu hrabeti, I
IsloVila no hrabenka, "ze h
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vazani, kterak sc vAm bude-
me moci kdy "a to odslouziti?
Wy musite jeste dale zdstati
20 boku naseho syna a nesmi-
to Sc cd neho odlouciti! Vzdyt'
jste byl beztoho jeho nejvet-
sim dobrodincem, a Leon by
byl nejvetsim nevdecnikem,
kdyby vas cd sebe pustil - a
on je zajiste hodny, dobry a
slechetny. Kdybych no radeji
jiz mohla videti! Kterak mou-
Dire, kterak dobre We svte Sc
vse ridi a spravuje! Reknete
mi aspoh, jak vbypada mily
mas vnuk? Jest veliky, neni-
liz pravda, a take zajiste jest
Ihezky mladik? Myslim, re "a
| |jiste bude podoben svemu OF
lci."
ga nevim, zdali je otci sve
mu podoben, pani hrabenko,"
Iodvece Cos, "ale ma vlas TAX
rka je tomuto obrazu ma podo
bizne podoben," dolozil uka-
zav ma podobiznu hrabete z
Russieres.
"A Wy jeste tvrdite, ze ne
stava zadneho pravoplatneho
|spisu, ktery by dokazoval, re
jest Leon potomkem nasim!'
zvolala hrabenka s detinskou
lradosti.
V tom okamziku otevfely Sc
dvere salonu a jimi vkrocil
sem hrabe z Bussieres.
XIX.
Hrabenka bezela manzeli
svemu vstric, chopila no Ia
|ruku a vedla no do prostred
lsalonu.,
pane hrabe," promluvila k
menu, a oci jeji zarily nevy-
| Islovnou radosti, my neJsme
nyni jiz vice osamotnell o.
pusteni, vase jmeno nevyhas-
inc. nebot' posud zustal nam
ma zive SYN, name posud po-
tomka! Wy ma mne pohlizite
udivene a mystic snad, re po-
|zbyla Use mrozumu, ale Je to
'svata pravda, co Jsem vam
|nyni povidala.
"Pro Boha ziveho! Co re
pravite? Vysvetlete mi blize
slova sva!" zvolal S dychtivo-
'sti hrabe, a kolena Sc pod
MIN chvela.
"Tusim, re mi brzy porozu-
mite" mluvila dale hrabenka,
"poslyste tedy, co vam budu
vypravovati."
Ma to dala sc hrabenka do
vypravovani a manzel .jeji pc
zorne stole tn nepohnute a
ruce maize zalozeny, naslou-
chal, aby mu ami slova neuslo
:'Kdyz nest astna Lucie Me
lierova z domu otcovskeho dc
ciziny odesla, mela sc stati "a
nedlouho matkou. Porodils
pax vskutku dite. Byl to chla
pee, a tento syn po Lucii Mel
lierove posud zije, pane hra
be; on ie Parizi, a zde tentt
hodny muz no vychoval. A
kterak vytecne no vychoval
Jemu ma ubohy osirely mia
dix hlavne co dekovati, ze 81
pGhn u{al uSIoch4ily rzI6