The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-27

you had with you tell won't bother him
and we'll let you go home"
az don't know any goings been left without
husband with little daughter Why do you torture me sou
Again an through her Her heart seemed
to burst, she cried out shhly;
"what have done to you? Why you beat 500"
"Speak and We'll let you free"
last words she realized that they
knew nothing about her business They had arrested her only BE-
the other All but Fmka Fmka was different;
in her this her blood flowed again
in her veins.
work and don't interfere s with any o %s
him grunt!"
commissions Cossacks tired covered with sweat
fagate the bloody flesh Their whips scattered drops
blood and minute morsels of raw flesh
The body brother Petro fell with of ter
CORY filth beside Dasha Covered with mud with animal
terror in his eyes he jumped slipped fell again; again
bounded and began to with naked feet in the me The
eap him. their whips raised Pero howled with his
whole body He them once and an blind s AND @ IN sn d
with all his might the knees Petro howed like
dog and fell down heavily on his belly in the slime
With eyes the tortung of her comrades
Dumb bursting could her from them
blood which boiled and dubbed like the moving In
blood and blood her ba behind the dusty window
holes was
CHE recovered consciousness where Colonel
y sitting, frowning, smoking and vindictive
"We, young how do like kitchen? Now tell
what you know"
"Didn't you recognize that lad or that grl?"
81 know them they
nfdren"
Two officers as young he whispered something Colones
ear frowned and then sucked in his cheeks
"Give her Colonel; we'll disnfect her Bit
Straight her face grmacng they breahed horrible words
painful than the whip.
of the her hands extended
"Nol 1 would rather die! Dont!'
The Colonel his hand, smiling
"An right happen you will only tell the truth Come
and tell u.s."
7 What do want
from me? Aren't you ashamed? You still young"
against his chair and screwed
his sptefuly
THE the dragged her
They her the floor dragged the clothes
from her shamelessly and violated her..
midnight lay, hafnaked and hdead in the cellar AS
y had erw ae pea y @ h n head @ op
then crawed Twice she seemed Nura the
stamping with her little feet dancing the wild Hopa dance
~ Dasa stretched her hand towards her and shouted in terror
disgust:
Then Nurka into her mind
of dream
After midnight she remembered it though in drsam-she
is crouched and lay there Bit by
recognized Fmk little brother pe and Elm the
officers and Cossacks with rifles
in All silent, benumbed like corpses
thing remained vivid in her the manycooed
which seemed to be within arms reach.
sSHE She knew she her death The y
they would be thrown out and they would be led
she would be She hsbu
only block of ce There this
the heart all simple though
reality and quite ordinary the tedious
which does not credit while dreaming, knowing
that images pass. Nuka forgotten though
existed then suddenly her image flew past her. with
oustrehed "Oh This shook her
like blow of the whip disappeared again
and forgotten like dream long past,
comrades lying the floor Of the orry shaken about
Elm Che had been thrown into the lorry like
corp Fmka Petro. Dasha had her
than lump of ice that could melt
ended with the motors When she pulled
off the orry ground stood motn had
Fmka hvering with the catching hold
Dashas Dress pressing herself like child
Efm their like corpse
stamping crafty dgued by the whipping and
his hcadhs black with boodhowlng splitting granting
(bu it it
other person. whispered huriedy and serny into Fmka
"Be and silent and silent Silent silent Blind
sient!"
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