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'I pity you with all my heart.
SECOND PART
Nevertheless, I am not the husband of my great, great, grandmother; and this is a reflection which affords me infinite relief,--but I am the husband of Madame Lalande-of Madame Stephanie Lalande-with whom my good old relative, besides making me her sole heir when she dies-if she ever does-has been at the trouble of concocting me a match.
(Paris, may fourteenth seventeen seventy eight, to his father.
With my tears, go into thine isolation, my brother.
'The bear had best sleep here.'
For all this, it became necessary to call another Parliament.
"But when it comes to this scheme of yours for the wholesale distribution of wealth-you've got a problem on your hands that you might have difficulty with."
Here I paused for an instant, in the expectation that Madame Lalande would interrupt me by supplying her true age.
They were profoundly quiet.
FOURTH PART
And the anguish of thy justice in being just to those that disdain thee?
Me not one single day more dan de eighty doo."
So when the rest saw that, they were so afraid that they crept up and lay at his feet like so many curs.
john BRADSHAW, serjeant at law, was appointed president.
It came through Jimmy Pendleton.
Thou lonesome one, thou goest the way to thyself!
She is eight years old and learns everything by heart. Something may come of her for she has talent, but not if she goes on as she is doing now; she will never acquire velocity because she purposely makes her hand heavy.
Be on thy guard, also, against holy simplicity!
The third day came the Troll's brothers, but they did not come in man's shape.
Here was something she understood. Here was no problem that had to deal with big, fearsome sounding words.
'Still five minutes more', said the lad, as he pulled and pushed at the posts and pins, and the house floated up.
Not so soon, though, but that there was a great opposition in the Parliament to a celebrated paper put forth by Pym and Hampden and the rest, called 'THE REMONSTRANCE,' which set forth all the illegal acts that the King had ever done, but politely laid the blame of them on his bad advisers.
Many a one hath cast away his final worth when he hath cast away his servitude.
We shall see what comes of it tomorrow."
It was now nearly if not altogether daylight; and, as I gazed, enraptured, at the angel by my side, the singular idea came, all at once, into my head, that this was really the very first moment since my acquaintance with the celebrated loveliness of Madame Lalande, that I had enjoyed a near inspection of that loveliness by daylight at all.
THIRD PART
In vain.
So he ran down and told his mother.
The instrumental performers were many and of superior talents.
That is your case."
But O! it would have been well for the King if he had let them go!
"I had a perfectly lovely time, and lots of things were so queer and different, you know-like eating dinner at night instead of noons, when you ought to eat it.
To hell with Kerensky!
After that they followed him about wherever he went, and when he got home, they lay down outside the house, with their fore paws on the door sill.
Thou camest nigh unto them, and yet wentest past: for that they never forgive thee.
"To be sure!--dat is so!--ver true! but den de portraite has been take for dese fifty five year.
It was tied round his waist.
It is called the Short Parliament, for it lasted a very little while.
I could scarcely restrain the excessive transport which possessed me.
They said moreover that they had their men with Kerensky, and that they were doing their part....
But again mr Pendleton interrupted with a laugh.
They would fain crucify those who devise their own virtue-they hate the lonesome ones.
There was a slight pause, then, with a sigh, Pollyanna resumed.
It would take a good many Lord Mayors, however, to make a people, and the King soon found himself mistaken.
"Why, Jimmy Bean, what do you mean?" cried Pollyanna.
Those large luminous eyes!--that proud Grecian nose!--those dark luxuriant curls!--"Ah!" said I, exultingly to myself, "this is indeed the speaking image of my beloved!" I turned the reverse, and discovered the words-"Eugenie Lalande-aged twenty seven years and seven months."
But the worst enemy thou canst meet, wilt thou thyself always be; thou waylayest thyself in caverns and forests.
He was immediately taken into custody and fell from his proud height.
He said 'twas a sissy name, and he hated it.
JIMMY AND THE GREEN EYED MONSTER
Clearly, however, shall thine eye show unto me: free FOR WHAT?
Citizens of Petrograd, we, the Bolshevik Municipal Councillors elected by you-we want you to know that the Right Socialist Revolutionaries and the Cadets are engaged in counter revolutionary action, have forgotten their duty, and are leading the population to famine, to civil war.
At last, one day the biggest lion was chasing a hare which was blind, for it ran straight over stock and stone, and the end was, it ran right up against a fir stump and tumbled head over heels across the field right into a spring; but lo! when it came out of the spring it saw its way quite plain, and so saved its life.
And be on thy guard against the good and just!
You are also to understand, that even in pursuit of this wrong idea (enough in itself to have ruined any king) he never took a straight course, but always took a crooked one.
In about an hour after my arrival, to be sure, a single shaded solar lamp was lit in the principal drawing room; and this apartment, I could thus see, was arranged with unusual good taste and even splendor; but two other rooms of the suite, and in which the company chiefly assembled, remained, during the whole evening, in a very agreeable shadow.
But Kerensky made a fatal blunder.
All available forces must be hurried there....
'No', said she, 'maybe there's witchcraft in it'; and so with threats she forced him to follow her.
One read:
Beware of bodily anger, and control thy body!
You will understand me to say, then, that I wish you to wear spectacles;--ah, hush!--you have already consented to wear them, for my sake.
"How about the Cossacks?"
At first the King tried force, then treaty, then a Scottish Parliament which did not answer at all.
Chapter sixteen.
This time Beldingsville did not literally welcome Pollyanna home with brass bands and bunting-perhaps because the hour of her expected arrival was known to but few of the townspeople.
"Name it!" I exclaimed with an energy that had nearly drawn upon us the observation of the company, and restrained by their presence alone from throwing myself impetuously at her feet.
'Just as I thought!' said the old dame; 'now we can't go a step farther; a pretty bed we shall have here!'
"That is all very well," I said.
When the Earl of Pembroke asked him whether he would not give way on that question for a time, he said, 'By God! not for one hour!' and upon this he and the Parliament went to war.
So the lad went and took hold of the old dame; and dragged her up the hall along the floor.
The Pulkovo detachment by its valorous blow has strengthened the cause of the Workers' and Peasants's Revolution.
O man, know this, that the unrestrained are in a bad state; take care that greediness and vice do not bring thee to grief for a long time!
We have now disposed of the Short Parliament.
Pollyanna had, for the moment, forgotten all about the original subject of the controversy-the name "Jamie" that was dubbed "sissy."
"Goodness gracious me!" I exclaimed, almost at the very instant that the rim of the spectacles had settled upon my nose-"My goodness gracious me!--why, what can be the matter with these glasses?" and taking them quickly off, I wiped them carefully with a silk handkerchief, and adjusted them again.
No one speaks, and then he calls john Pym by name. No one speaks, and then he calls Denzil Hollis by name.
'Stuff and nonsense', cried the king; 'all this fuss about a maid! I'll get you just as good a one again.
Frederic Larsan silently contemplated the young reporter who pretended to be as wise as himself.
From time to time men came in, yelling for the members of such and such a detachment, to go to the front; others, relieved, wounded, or coming to Smolny for arms and equipment, poured in....
In like manner his good works receive him who has done good, and has gone from this world to the other;--as kinsmen receive a friend on his return.
Thus interested, and knowing that the heir she sought was actually in the city, she made inquiries of her party respecting me.
Fred, imperturbable, interrupted him:
We were passing by the thicket, of which the young reporter had spoken to us a minute before.
In a little while came a great bird flying with an island in its claws, and let it fall down on the fleet, and sunk every ship.
"No!" replied Monsieur Darzac.
But the condition with which it was coupled rendered hesitation, of course, a matter altogether out of the question.
On the almost deserted Nevsky, swept by a bitter wind, a crowd had gathered before the Kazan Cathedral, continuing the endless debate; a few workmen, some soldiers and the rest shop keepers, clerks and the like.
Life is easy to live for a man who is without shame, a crow hero, a mischief maker, an insulting, bold, and wretched fellow.
Yes; the lad knew all that.
"And what is your hypothesis?"
You Americans are born politicians; you have had politics all your lives.
A discrepancy of this unnatural kind gave rise, too frequently, alas! to a life of unhappiness.
The moment is decisive.
There must be men where the lights shine so', said the lad.
They suited me, in fact, to a t
"We are perfectly neutral.
Let a man leave anger, let him forsake pride, let him overcome all bondage!
"If we had a bicycle here, we might demonstrate the correctness of the young man's reasoning, Monsieur Robert Darzac.
Was that-was that-was that rouge?
The old dame said she would sham sick, and say she could never be herself again unless she tasted those apples; for she had set her heart on them.
"The bicycle explains the disappearance of the murderer's big foot prints," I said.
Make thyself an island, work hard, be wise!
It's only a few hours more, now. Even if Kerensky wouldn't come they haven't the men to run a Government.
The impression she produced upon the company seemed electrical but the effect upon myself was something even more.
Then all the court began to bewail, and the captain most of all.
The other man interrupted.
Kerensky made the great mistake.
I handed my adored wife out, and ordered breakfast forthwith.
As the impurity which springs from the iron, when it springs from it, destroys it; thus do a transgressor's own works lead him to the evil path.
We remain neutral.'"
The fact of the presence of the chambermaid-who had come to clean up The Yellow Room-in the laboratory, when Monsieur Stangerson and his daughter returned from their walk, at half past one, permits us to affirm that at half past one the murderer was not in the chamber under the bed, unless he was in collusion with the chambermaid.
Then Trotzky again, fiery, indefatigable, giving orders, answering questions.
"Brutes!
If there had been a man on the bicycle, the wheels would have sunk deeply into the soil.
So they burned out his eyes and turned him adrift, in spite of his prayers and tears; but, as the boat drifted, the lions swam after, and at last they laid hold of it and dragged it ashore on an island, and placed the lad under a fir tree.
This is a well conceived custom, giving the party at least a choice of light or shade, and one which our friends over the water could not do better than immediately adopt.
Health is the greatest of gifts, contentedness the best riches; trust is the best of relationships, Nirvana the highest happiness.
The telephone girls were testifying.
With this, she took my arm, and I attended her home.
Here, after looking at the marks of the bicycle, which followed, going and coming, the neat footprints, I thought I might intervene.
I replied as best I could-as only a true lover can.
One after another the Commissars reported-capture of the Telephone Exchange, street fighting, the taking of the Vladimir school....
But there is a taint worse than all taints,--ignorance is the greatest taint.
"Bravo!--bravo!" cried Fred again, and coming suddenly towards us and, planting himself in front of Monsieur Robert Darzac, he said to him:
The Bolsheviki cannot keep their promises to the masses, even in the country itself.
Next day the Troll-for it was a Troll as clear as day-asked if the old dame would stay and keep house for him a few days; and as the day went on he took a great iron crowbar, and asked the lad if he had a mind to go with him up the hill and quarry a few corner stones.
"Name it, my beloved, my Eugenie, my own!--name it!--but, alas! it is already yielded ere named."
You are right, when you say that Mademoiselle Stangerson fired her revolver, but you are wrong when you say that she wounded the murderer in the hand."
I was thus deprived of the pleasure of seeing, although not of hearing, her sing.
Let, therefore, no man love anything; loss of the beloved is evil. Those who love nothing and hate nothing, have no fetters.
See, just in front of the little path leading to the lake, that was his nearest way to get out."
'I should think so', said the Princess; 'it hasn't so much as turned or stretched itself once.'
"The Duma," said Trupp, "is on the side of the democracy in its struggle against arbitrary violence; but in any case, whichever side wins, the Duma will always be against lynchings and torture...."
In the final of the Somnambula, she brought about a most remarkable effect at the words:
So he loaded four ships and set sail for Arabia.
Both plans met a pitiful defeat.
"See!" they said.
From pleasure comes grief, from pleasure comes fear; he who is free from pleasure knows neither grief nor fear.
Having said this, he asked me for the paper pattern of the footprint which he had given me to take care of, and applied it to a very clear footmark behind the thicket.
But the lad was a long time gone, for as soon as he got so far into the wood, that the old dame could not see him, he ran off to where the belt lay, took it up, tied it round his waist, and lo! he felt as strong as if he could lift the whole hill.
Here, in imitation of Malibran, she modified the original phrase of Bellini, so as to let her voice descend to the tenor G, when, by a rapid transition, she struck the G above the treble stave, springing over an interval of two octaves.
In the archway where Miss Bryant stood seven people were shot dead, among them two little boys.
"You'd make a wonderful detective-if you had a little more method-if you didn't follow your instincts and that bump on your forehead.
Your years surpass in some measure my own.
We've won the power; now we must keep it!"
'Oh!' said the lad to the Troll, 'now I see what you mean to do with me.
He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins.
Revolutionary law and order.
I am waiting for the arrival of my chief before offering any explanation to the examining magistrate."
'Stuff and nonsense!' said the lad; 'no harm if we have.'
He who has given up both victory and defeat, he, the contented, is happy.
However, I could not refrain from uttering an exclamation.
I am Napoleon Bonaparte Froissart! and if I havn't married my great, great, grandmother, I wish I may be everlastingly confounded!"
The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.
For instance, the Council of People's Commissars had promised to publish the Secret Treaties; but Neratov, the functionary in charge, had disappeared, taking the documents with him.
Yes! they were good to do that, they said, so they set sail with a fine breeze, and got to Arabia in three and twenty hours.
As I appeared vexed, my young friend took me by the arm and admitted that he had not meant that for me; he thought more of me than that.
Wait till the Cossacks come!"
Madame Eugenie Lalande, quasi Simpson-formerly Moissart-was, in sober fact, my great, great, grandmother.
We have no following-now.
"After all it is very possible," I said.
'No! let's first burn out his eyes, and then turn him adrift in a little boat.'
This latter argument seemed finally to soften the rigor of her determination.
After a moment he said:
We have sent a committee to Kerensky to say that if he continues to march on Petrograd we will break his lines of communication...."
When thy impurities are blown away, and thou art free from guilt, thou wilt not enter again into birth and decay.
what-what-what-what had become of her teeth?
"What makes me think that?--Why these footprints, which I expected to find!" he cried, pointing to the sharply outlined imprint of a neat boot.
Well! they were both ready to go, and on the way his mother talked to him, and asked, 'How it was he had got so strong?'
He proposed again that all Bolshevik members should be expelled from the Duma.
"What makes you think that?" I asked, "since these footmarks are not continued on the path?"
"Froissart!" said I, beginning to faint, "why, surely you don't say Moissart, and Voissart, and Croissart, and Froissart?"
It might be supposed that the murderer was working for the other."
Ah! let me see!
If they had waited for the Constituent Assembly-"
Thy life has come to an end, thou art come near to death (Yama), there is no resting place for thee on the road, and thou hast no provision for thy journey.
The Troll did not dare to do otherwise than the lad bade him, and the end of it was that the lad rolled down a great rock, which fell upon the Troll, and broke one of his thighs.
Could I believe my eyes?--could I?--that was the question.
"Really-you are an extraordinary fellow-for your age!" replied the detective in a tone not wholly free from irony.
The peaceful population recognises this fact; the foreign Embassies recognise only such documents as are signed by the Mayor of the town.
'Heaven bless and help us! what a stout heart you have got', said the old dame; 'don't you see we have got amongst Trolls?'
Pulkovo.
There are no two ways of reasoning in this affair.
She made me relate many of the earlier passages of my life, and listened with breathless attention to every word of the narrative.
"You will see in a few days.
He who has tasted the sweetness of solitude and tranquillity, is free from fear and free from sin, while he tastes the sweetness of drinking in the law.
"And the man had a bicycle!" cried the reporter.
To make the soldiers continue the war.
"Yes, she's well enough.
"Keep it!" she said, with one of her most ravishing smiles.
The man continued his flight to Paris."
"Without money," said Menzhinsky, "we are helpless.
And the man who gives himself to drinking intoxicating liquors, he, even in this world, digs up his own root.
No! he looked savagely grave.
Kerensky is smashed!
Jupiter, and every one of the gods and goddesses, little and big!
"When art starting?"
I could not but observe that Monsieur Darzac was deeply moved; and I suspected that Rouletabille's confident assertion was not pleasing to him.
I dare say it's best.
"If everything that is against the Bolsheviki is counter revolutionary," said Pinkevitch, "then I do not know the difference between revolution and anarchy....
"Aha!" he said, rising.
The two men looked at one another.
We thought he was about to faint.
He who possesses virtue and intelligence, who is just, speaks the truth, and does what is his own business, him the world will hold dear.
Kerensky is retreating, we are advancing.
"See!"--and he called to Frederic Larsan.
In conclusion, I dwelt, with a convincing energy, upon the perils that encompass the course of love-that course of true love that never did run smooth-and thus deduced the manifest danger of rendering that course unnecessarily long.
Leave the sins of the tongue, and practise virtue with thy tongue!
No, no; there was but one man there, the murderer on foot."
Suddenly, at the end of the court, he turned, and saw her standing there; he came back quickly, and took her in his arms.
Many cases of drunkenness had been remarked the last two days.
He professed excessive astonishment, of course, but congratulated me most cordially, and proffered every assistance in his power.
Father is going as a delegate from his Union, to ask help from the Glasgow folk.
Late in the afternoon word of it spread through the city, and hundreds of bourgeois called up to scream, "Fools! Devils!
What, in the name of everything hideous, did this mean?
He who gives himself to vanity, and does not give himself to meditation, forgetting the real aim (of life) and grasping at pleasure, will in time envy him who has exerted himself in meditation.
The audience flowed, changing and renewed continually.
"If I did not reason as I do in regard to this gravel," he went on, "I should have to assume a balloon!--My dear fellow, the science of the aerostation of dirigible balloons is not yet developed enough for me to consider it and suppose that a murderer would drop from the clouds!
Not a girl was injured, not one insulted.
"From Moscow, bad news.
I am twenty two, you say, granted: indeed, you may as well call me, at once, twenty three.
Look ye here!" and he pulled out the great house key.
The sight of the elect (Arya) is good, to live with them is always happiness; if a man does not see fools, he will be truly happy.
It is surprising to find such a big disturbance from what appears to be a simple cause.
"God bless thee, Mary!--God in heaven bless thee, poor child!" She threw her arms round his neck.
Let us live happily then, though we call nothing our own!
I begged of him not to be angry; but he was too much irritated to listen to me and declared, ironically, that he admired the prudent doubt with which certain people approached the most simple problems, risking nothing by saying "that is so, or 'that is not so." Their intelligence would have produced about the same result if nature had forgotten to furnish their brain pan with a little grey matter.
It is not easy to get over the alarm of Thursday night-the situation is altogether too critical.
"It's perhaps as well he shouldn't see her now, for they say her face is sadly drawn.
His accomplice, the wearer of the neat boots, had come to wait for him on the edge of the lake with the bicycle.
At this dangerous hour, when the Municipal Duma ought to use every means to calm the population, to assure it bread and other necessities, the Right Socialist Revolutionaries and the Cadets, forgetting their duty, have turned the Duma into a counter revolutionary meeting, trying to raise part of the population against the rest, so as to facilitate the victory of Kornilov Kerensky.
"You will never know if it does not turn out to be the truth.
He got up without speaking, and went up stairs.
There is no fire like passion; there is no losing throw like hatred; there is no pain like this body; there is no happiness higher than rest.
No one must be on the streets after eight in the evening, except the regular guards.
"I'm not a going, Will.
"Oh! grandfather!
O mendicants! throw off that taint, and become taintless!
Chapter eighteen.
He had a paper parcel in his hand.
This is the fourth day of gale; if one reflects on the quantity of transported air (nearly four thousand miles) one gets a conception of the transference which such a gale effects and must conclude that potentially warm upper currents are pouring into our polar area from more temperate sources.
We ridicule these coalitions with political parties whose most prominent members are petty journalists of doubtful reputation; our "coalition" is that of the proletariat and the revolutionary Army with the poor peasants...
The policy of every storekeeper is to have something up his sleeve for a rainy day.
A proclamation of the Finland Regiment, in December, nineteen seventeen, announcing desperate remedies for "wine pogroms." For translation see Appendix five.
He who walks in the company of fools suffers a long way; company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful; company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinsfolk.
They don't dare arrest the Duma!
At first I were afraid o' trusting her, and I used to follow her a bit behind; never letting on, of course.
He seems in this predicament to have clung to the old idea of walking up wind, and it must be considered wholly providential that on this course he next struck Tent Island.
Even the moving picture shows, all outside lights dark, played to crowded houses.
But Job had no notion of going.
They both stood thinking.
Thou art now like a sear leaf, the messengers of death (Yama) have come near to thee; thou standest at the door of thy departure, and thou hast no provision for thy journey.
We passed a quiet Sunday with the usual Service to break the week day routine.
The Mayor said hopefully that the Petrograd regiments were ashamed of their actions; propaganda was making headway.
"This is it.
Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy.
and, if you can slip in something tender,--something, you know, of what I feel,--may be she would listen to you, Mary."
For some time past some of the ponies have had great irritation of the skin.
If not, perhaps we shall be forced to...."
But no! Job seemed imperturbable.
And his shirt's not ready!"
Kerensky attempted to break it by the force of the Cossacks.
To day with the temperature at zero one can walk about outside without inconvenience in spite of a fifty-mile wind.
Let no man ever look for what is pleasant, or what is unpleasant. Not to see what is pleasant is pain, and it is pain to see what is unpleasant.
I'm sorry enough; but I mustn't slight poor mother's friends.
"Yes, but how were we to know?
Oates called my attention to it, but we were neither much alarmed, remembering the speedy recovery of 'Jimmy Pigg' under similar circumstances.
In the Nicolai Hall the Duma session was coming to an end.
She hurried to her irons, and tried to make up for lost time.
There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
I'm just getting him a bit of supper.
The result waited on the word from Petrograd....
Leave the sins of the body, and with thy body practise virtue!
I should have so loved to nurse her; and I did try, until I found I did more harm than good.
Out for exercise at this time I was obliged to lean against the wind, my light overall clothes flapping wildly and almost dragged from me; later when the wind rose again it was quite an effort to stagger back to the hut against it.
"No, it isn't;" rousing himself, to think of what he was saying.
No sufferings befall the man who is not attached to name and form, and who calls nothing his own.
Colonel Polkovnikov was in command of their forces, and the orders were signed by Gotz, former member of the Provisional Government, allowed at liberty on his word of honour....
"Why," I asked, "do you publish such lies in your newspapers?"
Twice whilst engaged in this task I had literally to lean against the wind with head bent and face averted and so stagger crab like on my course.
"You say no one crosses the threshold but has something sad to say; you don't mean that Margaret Jennings has any trouble?" asked the young sailor, anxiously.
But life is hard to live for a modest man, who always looks for what is pure, who is disinterested, quiet, spotless, and intelligent.
Frostbiting weather!
But now that blood has been spilled there is only one way-pitiless struggle.
Here the useful presents stopped, and they were quite enough; but Carol had pleaded to give them something "for fun."
Bless me, Will, that's sudden, isn't it?"
It was my turn for duty on Saturday night, and on the occasions when I had to step out of doors I was struck with the impossibility of enduring such conditions for any length of time.
"The notice posted in the streets under the heading 'To the Pillory,' which calls upon the people to destroy the Mensheviki and Socialist Revolutionaries," said Nazariev, "is a crime which you, Bolsheviki, will not be able to wash away.
What could her father be doing up stairs?
To make the peasants forget about the land...."
"I declare to goodness," murmured Susan, on the other side, "there's so much to look at I can't scarcely eat nothin!"
"Larry!
"The captain told me in a fortnight he would be ready to sail again; but it comes very sudden on me, I had got so fond of you all."
"Oh, wasn't it a lovely, lovely time," sighed Carol.
Tools, metal material, leather, straps and dozens of items are administered with the same spirit of jealous guardianship by Day, Lashly, Oates and Meares, while our main storekeeper Bowers even affects to bemoan imaginary shortages.
Oh! grandfather; if I could but see!"
Men went in, fresh and vigorous; night and day and night and day they threw themselves into the terrible machine; and came out limp, blind with fatigue, hoarse and filthy, to fall on the floor and sleep....
"To night.
Now, Papa, submit, or I shall have to be very firm and disagreeable with you!"
"But, oh!
As members of the working class you should be happy-"
I'll go and find him before you can say Jack Robinson!"
I find it exceedingly difficult to settle down to solid work just at present and keep putting off the tasks which I have set myself.
"Oh, I hadn't decided.
I couldn't eat, and it's best to be off.
Meshkovsky, a neat, frail little man, was coming down the hall, looking worried.
Or why did not Job go?
I shan't see you again."
On our small heating stove stands a cylindrical ice melter which keeps up the supply of water necessary for the dark room and other scientific instruments.
The candles flickered and went out, the tree was left alone with its gilded ornaments, and mrs Bird sent the children down stairs at half past eight, thinking that Carol looked tired.
This was tabled, however, for there were no personal charges against the members, and they were active in the Municipal administration.
Perhaps this has done me good."
Mary understood the particular fondness that was thus generalised. She spoke again.
Every few minutes the poor beast had been seized with a spasm of pain, had first dashed forward as though to escape it and then endeavoured to lie down.
I recognised Colonel Polkovnikov, former commandant of Petrograd, for whose arrest the Military Revolutionary Committee would have paid a fortune.
Mary had a very decided opinion of her own on the subject, but she did not feel as if she had any right to give it.
Then, when Carol and Uncle Jack perceived that more turkey was a physical impossibility, the meats were taken off and the dessert was brought in-a dessert that would have frightened a strong man after such a dinner as had preceded it.
Mary knew from his step, and his way, how much he was put out, and feared Job would see it, too.
You know the Cadets do not really want the Constituent Assembly-not if the Bolsheviki can be destroyed now." He shook his head.
"You'll think on me on Tuesday, Mary.
The course of events is not very clear, but it looks as though the gale pressed up the crack, raising broken pieces of the thin ice formed after recent opening movements.
The attempt of Kerensky to move counter revolutionary troops against the capital of the Revolution has been decisively repulsed.
"Thou dost not know that I'm larning to do without food," said he.
I passed him twice and seemed to gather that things were well, but Crean afterwards told me that he had had considerable trouble.
Uncle Jack dried his tears, carried him upstairs, and soon had him in breathless fits of laughter, while Carol so made the other Ruggleses forget themselves that they were soon talking like accomplished diners out.
A Socialist Revolutionary friend of mine drew me aside.
To night Ponting has photographed the hand.
"Ugh! The dirty, ignorant people!
"But didn't it amount to that anyway?"
"The decisive step has been taken.
The distance of Tent Island, four to five miles, partly accounts for the time he took in returning.
I wish I were a boy, I'd go to sea with you. It would be getting away from bad news at any rate; and now, there's hardly a creature that crosses the door step, but has something sad and unhappy to tell one.
"Nonsense," laughed Carol; "as I never have to get up to breakfast, nor go to bed, nor catch trains, I think my old clock will do very well! Now, Mama, what were you going to give me?"
"You see my folly is this, Mary.
"The Bolsheviki," said Trupp, "will be conquered by moral force, and not by bayonets....."
The light comes on apace.
"But that isn't the thing," objected Carol, nestling close to her father; "it wouldn't be mine.
The counter revolution was being put down.
Within three minutes it had drunk a bucket of water and had started to feed.
"No!" replied Mary, smiling a little, "she's the only one I know, I believe, who seems free from care.
Then every girl had a pretty plaid dress of a different color, and every boy a warm coat of the right size.
Realising that they can only last a few days, we have decided to come to the aid of the strongest force opposed to them-Kerensky-and help to restore order."
Nothing like a fortnight!"
Larry!" Good Gracious, where was Larry?
Kerensky is flooding the trenches with tales of Petrograd burning and bloody, of women and children massacred by the Bolsheviki.
Mary hastened to make her a cup of tea; while Job, lately so talkative, sat quiet and mournfully silent.
There was great bustle behind a huge screen in another part of the room, and at half past five this was taken away, and the Christmas dinner table stood revealed.
Why didn't he go for the doctor?"
The soldiers replied that they would remain neutral, but would not disarm.
I went to see the crack at which soundings were taken a week ago-then it was several feet open with thin ice between-now it is pressed up into a sharp ridge three to four feet high: the edge pressed up shows an eighteen inch thickness-this is of course an effect of the warm weather.
There was no noise or confusion; it was just a merry time.
He's starting this evening."
The pseudo workman smiled frankly.
"It's best as it is.
But as hour after hour passed without improvement, it was impossible not to realise that the poor beast was dangerously ill.
Meanwhile all was not well on the revolutionary front.
"But we mustn't talk any longer about it to night," said mrs Bird, anxiously; "you are too tired, dear."
Worst of all, however, was the strike in the banks.
This fleeting hour of light is very pleasant, but of course dependent on a clear sky, very rare.
Land to be turned over to the Land Committees.
"You can have both," said mr Bird, promptly; "is there any need of my little girl's going without her Christmas, I should like to know? Spend all the money you like."
"I could almost wish it had been otherwise," said Will, thoughtfully. "I could have been so glad to comfort her, and cherish her, if she had been in trouble."
"Oh, well, cheer up!" cried Uncle Jack.
He came in, and sat down, more quietly than usual.
"But Lenin has issued an order to dynamite the State Bank vaults, and there is a Decree just out, ordering the private banks to open to morrow, or we will open them ourselves!"
I have felt well all day; not a bit of pain anywhere.
In both cases there was a flickering in the light and a change of colour from deep orange yellow to blood red, but the latter was dominant.
Look at this!"
Before us are struggles, obstacles and sacrifices.
I will steal in softly the first thing in the morning, and see if you are all right; but I think you need to be quiet."
Margaret, having told her tale, leant back with weariness, both of body and mind.
"Are you sure there were nine of you?" he asked, merrily.
During this talk people were constantly entering and leaving-most of them officers, their shoulder straps torn off.
It is good enough for us...."
For instance, Evans (p o), after thoroughly examining the purpose of some individual who is pleading for a piece of canvas, will admit that he may have a small piece somewhere which could be used for it, when, as a matter of fact, he possesses quite a number of rolls of that material.
"No drinking, comrades!
She had always liked Will; but now it seemed as if a sudden spring of sisterly love had gushed up in her heart, so sorry did she feel to hear of his approaching departure.
Kitty chose ice cream, explaining that she knew it "by sight," but hadn't never tasted none; but all the rest took the entire variety, without any regard to consequences.
Girl after girl came to the tribune-over dressed, fashion aping little girls, with pinched faces and leaky shoes.
"But why do you combine with the Cadets?"
He was so restless; not speaking (she wished he would), but starting up and then sitting down, and meddling with her irons; he seemed so fierce, too, to judge from his face.
Sarah Maud went out through the hall, calling, "Larry!
I have been amused and pleased lately in observing the manners and customs of the persons in charge of our stores; quite a number of secret caches exist in which articles of value are hidden from public knowledge so that they may escape use until a real necessity arises.
"Very well, your Highness, I surrender."
Red Guards are incapable of handling a complicated business like the railways; as for the Provisional Government, it has shown itself incapable of holding the power...
The work goes on very steadily-the men are making crampons and ski boots of the new style.
They were all sure that he had come in with them, for Susan remembered scolding him for tripping over the door mat.
Later the pony was sent out for exercise with Crean.
The French Embassy promptly denied this, but one of the City Councillors told me that he himself had procured the officer's release from prison....
On Thursday afternoon Mary was surprised, in the midst of some little bustle in which she was engaged, by the entrance of Will Wilson. He looked strange, at least it was strange to see any different expression on his face to his usual joyous beaming appearance.
"A bronze figure of Santa Claus; and in the little round belly, that shakes, when he laughs, like a bowl full of jelly, is a wonderful clock.
It would be hardly possible for a tearing, raging wind to make itself more visible.
"Didn't he come?"
But he pushed her away, and was gone.
These were just common workmen, peasants, "Dark People."...
Alice Wilson's so bad!" She could say no more, for her breathless agitation.
At this there was ironic laughter from the Bolshevik benches, and imprecations from the right.
He's ordered her leeches to her head."
At noon yesterday one of the best ponies, 'Bones,' suddenly went off his feed-soon after it was evident that he was distressed and there could be no doubt that he was suffering from colic.
It was so warm that I could have slept very comfortably.
"And why can't you cherish her, even though she is happy?" asked Mary.
We refuse to lend our services to any party which does not act by authority of ... a Government based on the confidence of all the democracy....
She did not know why, but she had never before felt so depressed, so desolate.
Some sailors ambushed behind wood piles began shooting.
The feast being over, the Ruggleses lay back in their chairs languidly, and the table was cleared in a trice; then a door was opened into the next room, and there, in a corner facing Carol's bed, which had been wheeled as close as possible, stood the brilliantly lighted Christmas tree, glittering with gilded walnuts and tiny silver balloons, and wreathed with snowy chains of pop corn.
The Soviet forces complied, and as they were leaving the Kremlin, were set upon and shot down.
As I expected, some amendment of Atkinson's tale as written last night is necessary, partly due to some lack of coherency in the tale as first told and partly a reconsideration of the circumstances by Atkinson himself.
However, mrs Bird said, pleasantly, "Of course you wouldn't wear hats such a short distance-I forgot when I asked.
And her voice! When I hear it, and think of the wishes that are in my heart, it seems as much out of place to ask her to be my wife, as it would be to ask an angel from heaven."
I have tried.
It can scarcely be coincidence that the two ponies which have suffered so far are those which are nearest the stove end of the stable.
Carol's bed had been moved into the farthest corner of the room, and she was lying on the outside, dressed in a wonderful soft white wrapper.
"When does thy father start, Mary?"
"I am sure of it," said mrs Bird, softly.
It was getting dark, but he loitered on, returning no greeting to any one.
A Committee of five soldiers was elected to serve as General Staff, and in the small hours of the morning the regiments left their barracks in full battle array.... Going home I saw them pass, swinging along with the regular tread of veterans, bayonets in perfect alignment, through the deserted streets of the conquered city....
"I know they need the clothes," she had said, when they were talking over the matter just after Thanksgiving, "but they don't care much for them, after all.
But her heart failed her.
Several did not come back....
The light, merry humour of our company has never been eclipsed, the good-natured, kindly chaff has never ceased since those early days of enthusiasm which inspired them-they have survived the winter days of stress and already renew themselves with the coming of spring.
She turned in to Job, who sat there still.
The Duma brilliantly illuminated and great crowds pouring in.
Just then Sarah Maud came up the back stairs, so radiant with joy from her secret interview with the cook, that peter could have pinched her with a clear conscience, and Carol gave them a joyful welcome.
There is no return to the past.
"Don't go yet, father; I can't bear you to go yet.
Evans is constructing plans of the Dry Valley and Koettlitz Glacier with the help of the Western Party.
"Why, Will! what's the matter with you?
"The petty bourgeoisie, in order to defeat the workers, soldiers and peasants, would combine with the devil himself!" he said once.
'Bones' seems to be getting on well, though not yet quite so buckish as he was before his trouble.
Not a fortnight since you knocked at Jane Wilson's door, and I was there, you remember.
Haven't I almost everything already, and am I not the happiest girl in the world this year, with Uncle Jack and Donald at home?
Anyway the return of the light should cure all ailments physical and mental.
"But where is Baby Larry?" she cried, looking over the group with searching eye.
"What's the matter, my wench?" said Job, hastily.
The Bolsheviki are depending upon the passions of the unbridled masses; we have nothing but moral force. We will protest against massacres and violence from both sides, as our task is to find a peaceful issue."
By this time it was dusk.
Mary promised that she would do all that he asked.
"This is merely an adventure on the part of the Bolsheviki.
What a wonderful sight it was to the poor little Ruggles children, who ate their sometimes scanty meals on the kitchen table!
A dilute solution of carbolic is expected to rid the poor beasts of their pests, but meanwhile one or two of them have rubbed off patches of hair which they can ill afford to spare in this climate.
I am very pleased with this arrangement.
I went round by mrs Davenport's, and she were hard at work; but, the minute I told my errand, she were ready and willing to go to Jane Wilson, and stop up all night with Alice."
The conquerors of these riots, the saviours of the wreck of our country, these will be neither the Bolsheviki, nor the Committee for Salvation, nor the troops of Kerensky-but we, the Union of Railwaymen...
"What do you think of Kerensky?" I asked.
"My dear child," whispered Uncle Jack, as he took Carol an orange, "there is no doubt about the necessity of this feast, but I do advise you after this to have them twice a year, or quarterly, perhaps, for the way they eat is positively dangerous; I assure you I tremble for that terrible Peoria.
Science cannot be served by 'dilettante' methods, but demands a mind spurred by ambition or the satisfaction of ideals.
I was the victim of a very curious illusion to day.
Now, will you come right in to Miss Carol's room, she is so anxious to see you?"
They would not give me their names, but both were Socialist Revolutionaries....
So much the better, and perhaps she could cover her father's rudeness by her own civility to so kind a friend.
If we can get these people to run about at football all will be well.
You never look half as happy when you are getting your presents as when you are giving us ours.
"Oh, Kerensky is guilty of the sins of the Provisional Government," answered the other man.
Such a happy, happy day!"
Yesterday the planet Venus appeared under similar circumstances as a ship's side light or Japanese lantern.
You are paid sixty rubles a month, and have to work ten hours and more....
Usual Sunday routine.
The employees of the building, the line men and labourers-they stayed.
Her father, as soon as he was out of sight, slackened his pace, and fell into that heavy listless step, which told as well as words could do, of hopelessness and weakness.
Her golden hair fell in soft fluffy curls over her white forehead and neck, her cheeks flushed delicately, her eyes beamed with joy, and the children told their mother, afterwards, that she looked as beautiful as the pictures of the Blessed Virgin.
A few minutes later Cossack artillery opened fire on the barracks, killing eight men.
"Perhaps; I hope so.
Oh Mary! many a hasty word comes sorely back on the heart, when one thinks one shall never see the person whom one has grieved again!"
Kameniev answered discreetly.
He was afraid to yell!
The snow is so hard blown that only the fiercest gusts raise the drifting particles-it is interesting to note the balance of nature whereby one evil is eliminated by the excess of another.
"I am not so very tired, Mama.
"Just a little bit, father, before starting," coaxed Mary, perseveringly.
Smolny was almost empty, but the Duma was thronged and noisy.
A new pair of sealskin overshoes for ski made by Evans seem to be a complete success.
"You have been badly treated," he said.
"Oh! father, don't go yet.
"I'm going now!" answered Trotzky, and left the platform.
peter rang the door bell, and presently a servant admitted them, and, whispering something in Sarah's ear, drew her downstairs into the kitchen.
Is Margaret very well?"
"Bend your head a minute, mother dear," whispered Carol, calling her mother back.
They are certain to have been caught by this gale, but I trust before it reached them they had managed to get up some sort of shelter.
A Commissar from Smolny named Kirilov tried to halt it; he was threatened with lynching.
What is the use?
The six girls scurried backward and forward, instructing, helping, scolding....
"Yes, I have opened the window a little, and put the screen in front of it, so that you will not feel the air."
In those two days of really terrible weather our thoughts often turned to absentees at Cape Crozier with the devout hope that they may be safely housed.
Confess!"
So, aided by inquiries here and there from a passer by, he led and carried the little fellow home, where his mother had been too busy to miss him, but now received him with thankfulness, and with an eloquent Irish blessing.
The armistice conditions proposed by the Mensheviki, he said, had been contemptuously rejected.
"I guess he's not lost-only mislaid.
All that night the commission wrangled, and all the next day, and the next night.
Our most popular game for evening recreation is chess; so many players have developed that our two sets of chessmen are inadequate.
I've been in to wish them good bye, and my voice stuck in my throat.
"You thought I was dead?
"That's a problem," he admitted.
A few more books, and a gold thimble, and a smelling bottle, and a music box."
Now, what were you going to give me?
He looked at Will, but spoke no word of greeting or welcome.
You think I am as powerless as that day I fell dead at your feet?"
There was a sound of scuffling; an inside door slammed; then the front door opened a crack and a woman's face appeared.
Laura thought this, believed it; because she desired to believe it.
But john answered abruptly,
think!
"Our programme?" said the officer.
That's the day we shall hoist our blue peter, Jack Harris says."
The Ministries won't work....
I thought you were-"
"But perhaps she is," suggested Mary.
They tried to send a mission to the Stavka, but we arrested them at Minsk....