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Three Who Never Stole
in his ears day and night, he will sure-
ly lose his reason.
By HANNAH BERMAN
• The war had been raging more than
•a year, Jews had been driven out of
!other Lithuanian tillages menthe and
months before we were driven out of
our village. And then we were thrown
out in the true, orthodox style- -just
told to go at once, and huddled into
a I rain which went and went.
air
was thick with the stench of hundreds
of ',mph: lying in top of one another,
sighing, groaning, wailing, cursing,
'and praying
That was during the first few days.
Later, we began to grow aceustonied
not only to the horror and misery hut
to the agony which every separate in-
dividual, by his very existents in the
train, imposed on all the rest. Our
limits grew paralyzttl with the conges-
tion and the orolottssite weight of our
neighbors, and all our fauultn s soon
lost the power of feeling but the 1111-
medint, needs of our !twin,.
To me the most untonduralt1e thing
was the unending groans and sighs
mod wails of the women. But, trines
are always ready ti melt into tears.
And, what's the use of sayin.r. any-
thing about them? Only since I had
nn one to talk ti, I felt noire etvasper-
;tied by the endless wailing of the
women than I might have been if I
had had something, a man's voice or
strong talk, that is, to distract my at-
tention. This was almost as bad as
the hideous discemferts and indecen-
cies and hopelessness of my p os iti o n,
liy nature, I am not a patient aunt,
but amongst nten, I II keep up my
courage--itinongst Diehl 1 ant a 111,111,
you understand.
The
Well, at lust I edged lay way to
where a man was sitting huddled up
oral silent, and evidently without the
slightest interest in What was going
ton about him. Ile was all Oldish 111811,
or perhaps only prtuniaturely old, I
don't know which. In the murky light
it was impossible to be sure of any-
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Hike me would rather talk to a he-goat
than to a woman, even though I was
simply bursting, to say something, and
to hear a word, a comment, a strong
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My neighbor took no notice of me,
at first, and my friendly questions fell
on deaf ears, At last I said to him
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"Eh, mister, you leave talking as
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well as groaning to the women."
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"Why should I groan?" he asked.
in good condition. Every order that leaves our yard
From my village, we were not driven
is perfectly dry and clean.
out. I ran away from it of my own
accord."
These words so aroused my curios-
ity that I was determined to niake him
, speak at all costs. I questioned hint,
and questioned him, until at last he
'cried, feebly.
"Oh leave me alone. Have nothing
to do ..,, with me. I a m a thief, and
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"First of all, Mister," I began,
Igosmo mbum• ■ ••
there can he nothing, worse than a
thief. Secondly, you are not the man
to do any wrong to anybody. I can
tell that by the looks of you. You can't
fool me, you must know. I not a n u n
amongst nien, that is to say, I know
where I 11111 in the world. You never
stole anything in your life. That's
what I say, and that's how it is."
"It is true that I never stole any-
thing. Yet I am a thief, and worse."
"A false accusation, then?'
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"%VIIo would accuse me of such u
thing? I myself accuse myself."
And, again the strange Jew lapsed
into silence. It seemed to me that he
could not make up his mind whether
to speak or not. And, within me, cur-
lOSIty burned like fire. Here was a
solitary 111101 amongst so many women.
And, here was I, the o n ly other man
in the carriage besides him, yet he
would not so much as speak with me.
Ilene %US a man who had something
to relate, but who would not open his
lips. And, at such a tune, and in such
mare would
circumstances when a i
clutch at a straw to save himself from
hearing the wailing and whining! One
other man amongst so many women,
he remains silent as 0 wall. l'gh"
"It's all right, little brother," I said
ironically, "if it's a seeret you may
keep it to yourself. And niay'ltto its
better so." Anil, turned away from
hon.
When I looked at him again,
found him staring at me with such
wild eves that I wits frightened. I
thought he was mad. All of a sudden
he begun to speak, but wildly, rapid
ly, excitedly, and loudly. I imagined
that the whole train-load of people
would hear him. But, no one took the
least notice of him. The women cared
for nothing at all but their own mis-
eries. They went on moaning and
groaning as if no tone else were in mis-
ery but themselves. And, how great
the strange Jew's misery was you can
gather from his own story.
"Yes, he ejaculated wildly, "yes, let
that be my punishment—myself to tell
the whole world of my guilt. Let that
be my punishment henceforth. Let the
whole world know that I am a thief,
and worse, much worse. Yes!
"Well, in short, I am a thief who
never stole anything in my life. I am
a murderer who never hurt a fly in
niy life. Once only did I sin, once,
and only once. It happened like this
"In my village, things had gone Si
bad that even the richest people were
reduced to the level of the earth. The
suffering around as became unbearab-
le. Yes, I saw bow you look at the
women, how contemptuously you turn-
ed away from them. And I tell you
a real man, dies when he hears such
groans and wails from women and
children, I am that sort anyway. I
could net bear to see my wife and
children growing pale and thin, and I
was distracted when their wailings
grew feebler and feebler. I ran about
like a lunatic, looking for food fur
them. Well, it was all no use. Go
here or go htere. Stay at home or fly
about. , Do what you like. Tear your-
self tollieces. I have found nothing
anywhere. So I made up my mind to
rob, to steal, But, there was nothing
to rob, nothing to steal. Even the
rich widow, Brocha—oh, may a bless-
ing come upon her!—even she had giv-
en up helping the people. She had
nothing to give, and she lucked her-
self up in her house, as if ashamed to
show herself in the village. In a mail
moment, I thought that she (lid not
luck herself away just so, because she
could not help anymore. In my mad-
ness, I imagined she was simply hid-
ing herself away, so as to eat in peace
the food she had hoarded away, hid-
den away for herself, And, although
I knew that it was nonsense to suspect
her of such a thing, yet, when a man
is maddened with misery, and when
the feeble wailings of his family ring
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"Presently, she said to me, softly
and kindly, as was her way.
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"I turned the whole house upside
down. There was nut it crumb of food
anywhere. III my blind madness, I
imagint (I that the very emptiness, ter
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"Brocha followed me around the
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"So Reuben, you have come to nib, I
me?"
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"Yes, I have come to rub you," I
shouted back fiercely. I wanted ti
let her know that she had done me an
iniury—yes, a life-long injury, by pre-
tending she was better Or than any-
tole else in the village, by hiding her
hunger from us, so that I, at any rate
had been led to bedieve she haul food
to eat, when, in reality, she was in the
same plight as the hungriest of us.
Surely, I told myself angrily, if I had
known she had not a crumb of any-
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"In that box there is money, I cried
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"Ifroocha was like death itself.
"I saw that she could hardly speak.
I was looking at her maliciously, as if
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"Ste, you thought you could hide it
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"She clinic over to me, put her hand
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"Reuben, do not touch the charity-
bo . Leave me that. Only that I ask
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"So, you want it, I shrieked back,
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"Brocha struggled with me, at t in
deeds, nor even in words. She had it
heart which bleeds for every wrong
and every drop of pain she sees. She
is helpless when her heart is bleeding.
She could only look at me. No words
can describe the ageny which was in
her eyes, and the ghastliness of her
face. In my madness, 1 imagined that
she was overrighteous. She wished
rather to give to those who could nev-
er repay her, nor even thank her, rath-
er than to us neighbors who might,
possibly, one day repay her, and who
would certainly thank her. And that
sort of overrighteousness I could nev-
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"If I am a robber, I must rob, I
cried venomously.
"The next instant I hail torn the
charity-box from the wall, and I was
shaking it violently. It was empty.
"What was there left me to do but
throw the charity-box on the floor and
fly from the h.zuse? I flew and flew,
as if ten devils were chasing me.
"And when I heard that a train-
load of Jews were leaving the village
of X, I ran towards it. And here I am.
See?"
The stranger again lapsed into si-
lence, his head drooping on his breast.
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