The daily worker., 1929-05-25
V.
The Hidden Emigrant
SECRET ROOM.

the when the mountains glowed violet light
slid u between the and through
the ranbowcoored crystals of dust spad The tech
these tiny wg worlds dreaming of past geological epohs
tangible thick silence surrounded him.
happy this lost the end of a wind
ing corridor where dreamy regned at and where night
seemed joyfuy inaccessible away quarry valley
overgrown with wild roses and ivy
After the factory had been abandoned and the dark blue left
by the stolen doors and windows faced queonng the volcanic
rusty ropeway-hen stop
into elements chaos and calm Why not then be the tech
way and passed wihs steady balance?
but to pprehnd the profound significance the spiders
os between the double At some unxed point past
meaning the complex architecture of the cobwebs the airy
between the windows.
he periods the window round hudere
ongggd with sve hair brosse gazing the pear webs
Various ang the mtabe radiation % the and
twining' with their power of pr0digious tension.
d @ Tup i @ a tifid % % into blocks % hard T as % h e the h usp
cables flung
the SLOPE rusted from rain and lying amidst and refuse? No
hgroad buildings through
yard carrying wood for the metal parts of machines
order make ppighers and the betting from the transmission
halfdarkness
inhabited could be heard the laundering
ing of the Factory Committee seemed Engineer Kes that this
down the steps He noted their mounful and busted
gyy hunger suffering stamped
mpacabe obstnacy These pursued their ghtfu and in
eomprehenDle game gam & and had no care for him L.
setting mathematical problem his
he watched the workers with sneng and febe
hatred All these creatures exhausted by hunger and lack of employ
ment in their revolt against this condition had produced the revolution
future and burned nm the world like handful waste and thew had
forgotten the few remnants of the past this hidden
THE steps gowd
hmmered under the glarng seemed though they
being brought white and the point of breaking into
flame One would think that flowing the heated
and kissing and swelling bubbles and steam But these
like
from door door, in and out of the Factory Committee
Why Factory Committee needed now? There
previously and yet the factory known around the wod What
highly organized immense
taking Why much anxious scurryng tomorrow is the same
enseless days alike the infinite of reflections double
mirrors?
Every day o'clock sharp jacob the office
little brass He entered silently and
blush brise scalp transparent glass
put down glass of tea and two minute tablets of accharne wrapped
pick from the floor with his tips of crumbs which he
white and clean and in their oak frames the architectural drawings
looked as in the old times.
"One exactly, Herman Hermanovich."
Very well: You Don't let up to me-
windows, Jacob but open
every good sir
ENGINEER KEsr stood at the window with his back turned
Jacob His lvery bly short hair him slight air Of being
his like elastic bands, his old jacket
hung shoulders straight sticking
little tail.
Somewhere, his corridor faint raised
and then and heard the clicking the Abacus New people had
already been sent here by the Economic Council
Who they What doing there? Engineer kest
did did he know He had his forgotten by
Jacob where the existed
present rushing
automobiles
"a thing previously had strictly forbidden.
He regarded the round of the mountain striped by the edges
of rock strata clothed with shrubs and juniper bushes Higher
built of standing like
ve block fiery red from the its towers and arches comforting
upon it a sober puritan dignity.
whats there Jacob? What do call that?"
"The Club the Communist Headquarters,
Herman Hermanovitch."
"Theyve brought unintelgble language
1pt
this room, the window You M
THE the house of the director up
admng its strength This house had built
by him, Engineer Kleist
side Of the slope,
factory
higher than the
cupoas of the factory buildings behind
way These had been built
could fled abroad without his
The masterpieces of his hands stood his path i'm
mountains, indesrucbe than had be-
their prisoner.
with it's polished floor still retained the simplicity
dignity of heavy
stood still the
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