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perous little community made its
preparations and then listened for the
tramp of the victorious vanguard. It
was towards evening that there can-
By SAMUEL GORDON
tered into the market-place the com-
manding general, while the Jewish
I.
"This is no talk for a daughter of deputation stood ready to receive him
By the reedy river , amid the casta- mine. You shall marry Oilman if I with the honors due only to a crowned
net concert of the frogs, walked Mal- have to drag you to the canopy by head.
First came the white-bearded old
kah and Ephraim A sweeter music the hair."
came from a distant hill, where a
Malkah caught at the lapels of his Rabbi, carrying the Scroll of the Law.
Then the Syndic, bearing a plate of
hom-going herdsman piped his cur- coat with an hysterical laugh.
bread and salt, then the Elders, and
few lay—the heart of Russia singing
"Oh, father, you won't do that,"
finally the Cantor. The Rabbi had
in a minor key.
she cried. "I shall go willingly
Malkah and Ephraim heard nothing enough to the canopy. But don't make recited the Prayer of Augmentation,
the
Syndic had offered the bread and
except their own voices chanting the me sign tonight. Let it stand over till
salt, and now it was the turn of Eph-
glad apean of their hopes. But be- the morning."
raim,
the Cantor, to sing the Hymn
neath their lovers' talk rang a stern-
"Till the morning?" mused Tar- of Welcome: "Blessed he he that corn-
er strain. The future was a very phon. "What du you say, Calman?"
eth
in
the name of the Lord; we bless
big thing to them, not unfraught with
Calman gave a start. He had not you out of the house of the Lord."
the spirit of adventure and anxiety.
followed
the
argument,
being
wholly
But
a
strange thing happened. With
To them it included, among other
intent on compassing the beauty of this great and awful occasion to in-
things, a breaking away from their
Malkah's
face.
He
knew
she
was
spire
the
sweet-voiced singer to a free,
present moorings and a plunge into
a precarious unknown. It was im- fighting against something, but not untrammeled gush of song, the not,
for a moment did it (wear to him came out choked and tremulous. The
possible for them to marry here in
that it was against himself. The others looked at him amazed. Stiff
Orodno--Malkah's father would see to
that. And over Ephraim loomed the thought of living his life without Mal- and erect stood the orderly, like a
kah was too monstrous to entertain. statue hewn out of stone. But when
shadow of the preszief, which meant
But he was a silent, undemonstrative the first sound of Ephraim's voice
a separation of years while he was
away with the colors. They had to man, and his emotions lay buried deep reached his ears, he gave a start and
down in his heart. He would not blinked his eyes violently several
make their plans, and their opportuni-
show them now.
times.
ties for doing so were few.
The General watched the scene with
"M'hat I say, Tarphon? If she is
They had come to a halt outside
content to wait till tomorrow, so am a grins and sinister benevolence, and,
Ephraim's dwelling to take leave.
when Ephraim had finished, addressed
"I shall tell my father tonight," I," he said with a shrug.
The house was in darkness and si- the deputation, bidding them surren-
said Malkah mutinously. "It's best
lence, except for the sonorous snores der all their gold and silver, their
to see how we stand."
of
Tarphon that seemed to shake the cattle and plump-fed geese, and to
On one foot, I'm afraid," said
very gables. Noisletissly Malkah stole remain quietly in their houses, and
Ephraim sadly.
from
her room, dressed in outdoor all would be well with them.
"Then we shall run with both,"
Ephraim walked away, but he (lid
remarked Malkah, clenching her little attire and carrying a satchel. Then
she
lifted
up a plank in the flooring not immediately return to the house.
hands with the firmness of her re-
and pulled out the little package Tar- He had to think over the terrible por-
solve.
And then she went, trying to heart- phon kept secreted there—her three tent that had arrived. Was he to tell
en herself all the way home for the hundred roubles. On the threshold Malkah, or keep the secret to him-
formidable task in store for her. A she looked hack, For the first time self? And then he reflected that it
sudden thrill of apprehension made in her life she thanked God that she did not depend on him whether it was
her stop dead in the doorway when had no mother, no brothers or sisters, to remain a secret. So he must tell
she saw her father seated at the table to whom she would have to bid an Malkah and consult with her what
before the steaming samovar, with unspoken farewell. For a moment steps to take against the danger that
Calman opposite her. Her father and she thought of the outrage she was threatened. A first glance at bins,
Calman drinking tea together? And committing on her father's feelings. as he walked in, told Malkah that he
that atmosphere of intimate under- A presentiment, too, was upon her was the bearer of had tidings.
"What has happened?" she asked
standing which seemed to prevail be- of the remorse she might feel in the
tween them! Tarphon Wassermann, calmer days to come. At present she anxiously.
"He has come, Malkah."
standing on his dignity as Cantor of felt none. The two tears that
"I knew he had come, the General."
the important congregation of Orodno, trickled down her cheeks were all the
"Not the General, but—of all people
usually kept his distance with his tribute of filial piety her father had
a
right
to
claim.
in the world—Calman! I recognized
subordinates, the members of his
Then she turned and stole through him even before I saw his face. its
choir. And Calman was only a chor-
ister, singing bass, as Ephraim sang the silent streets till she came to did not look at me, but he must have
tenor. What was there in this sud- Ephraim's lodging, and brought him known ow by my voice."
Malkah clapped her hands joyfully.
den familiarity between her father out by throwing stones at his window.
And then they did what they deemed
"Calman—Calman here? Oh, where
and Calman?
shall I find bins? Perhaps—perhaps
The old man looked at her with it advisable and necessary to do.
What shape this took, or at any he will bring me news of my father."
keen hard eyes as she entered.
"If he does not bring us anything
"Where have you been all the even- rate the initial part of it, was vouch-
safed to Oilman, when he came next worse, Malkah. He was always a
ing?" he asked coldly.
At Granny Mariam's, plucking morning and found Tarphon raging good hater."
"You don't mean he will try to hurt
goose-feathers," replied Malkah, not up and down the room like a caged
us?" asked Malkah, shrinking.
without truth, for she had met tiger.
She
has
gone!"
he
shouted
at
Cal-
"God grant he will not. Shall we
Ephraim waiting outside for that
man.
escape?"
stolen half-hour of theirs.
"Gone—where?" the latter asked
But Malkah refused to lie influenced
"I have something to say to you."
vacuously.
"Yes, father?"
by his gloom.
"Where the pepper grows—how
You will marry Calman."
"What, run away from Calman?
Malkah, though warned by her shoud I know?" Tarphon flung back You are crazy, Ephraim. If he comes
presentiment, turned white, but kept at him. "Gone with Ephraim, the we shall welcome him as an old friend,
a brave front and smiled at him with apostate, the eater of forbidden food. and give him tea, and talk about the
And the three hundred roubles have old times."
seemingly incredulous eyes.
gone as well."
You are joking, father!"
When, however, an hour later, Cal-
"Are you quite sure?" queried Cal- man appeared, it was evident that he
"Joking—am I, Oilman?"
Calman, clumsy and ponderous lot man in a faraway voice.
had not come for a friendly chat. For
"Do you think I'm talking in my he came in company with a captain
that he was, made a non-committal
sleep? And whose fault is it? Whose of Cossacks and three soldiers. A
gesture of embarrassment.
"It's not a thing to joke about," but yours, with your stpuid dillydally. cold fear gripped at Ephraim's and
ing. 'I'll he content to wait if she Malkah's hearts.
continued Tarphon sternly.
He drew a document from his coat is.' Ha, you see she didn't wait. By
"What nationality are you?" the
pocket and unfolded it on the table. now they are over all the seven moun- officer addressed Ephraim.
"This is the betrothal contract. You tains."
"In your honor?" An—an Aus-
Calman gazed all round him, as trian."
will sign it."
Malkah looked at' the paper horror- though he were in a dream and ex-
'Si have information that you are
stricken. It meant her doom. Once pected presently to wake up and see not. Calman Calmanovitch, what is
she signed it she was lost. The con- Malkah's flower-like face framed in your evidence?"
tract had all the binding force of a the blonde glory of her hair, rise up
"I bear witness," said Calman,
marriage-deed. Ephraim, man of suddenly before him. But all he saw "that this man is a native of Orodno,
honor that he was, would consider her was Tarphon's rugged form and thun- in Podolia. He ran away from serv-
bound by it and repudiate her. The derous features. lie doubled up his ice three years ago."
hands and gulped down a sob. And
thought gave her courage.
"It's a mistake, your honor!"
then he saw Tarphon stride up to quavered Ephraim.
"I can't sign it, father."
the
mantel-shelf, take clown a picture
"Why not?"
"If he is the man," said Calman,
"I have promised myself to of Malkah and tear it into a hundred "he will have a large brown mole on
shreds.
Ephraim."
his left shoulder-blade."
"So!" rasped the old man. "Her
Tarphon rose and drew himself up
"Strip him !" ordered the captain.
to his full height, which was not in- name shall never pass my lips again.'
In a moment the tell-tale birth-mark
That was poor consolation for Cal- stood out. Malkah cowered back with
considerable. So he stood, towering
over her, a stern figure of patriarchal man. When he left Tarphon he went a low cry of despair.
out into wild and lonely places where
wrath.
"You have lied," said the Captain.
"you promised yourself to Eph- he might give vent to his heartache "You have fled the colors—you have
raim?" he echoed scornfully. "Then and despair. So he had lost Malkah, betrayed his Majesty, the Little Fath-
I'll un-promise you. What I have said and, as Tarphon had said, by his own er. There is only one fate for such
I have said. No one but Calman shall folly. No, not by his folly, but by traitors. You will be shot at dawn."
be your husband. The Rabbi has her treachery. And it was with
"Mercy, mercy!" wailed Malkah,
granted him his slaughter certificate. Ephraim that she had plotted, flinging herself at the Captain's
I shall find him a place as Cantor and Ephraim, his dearest friend, who, knees.
Ritual Slaughterer, and you and he though Calman was a silent man and
"And you—the Captain gave her
will be happy and comfortable as two undemonstrative, must surely have a cold covetous look—"you shall join
turtle-doves. Ephraim can go and known what was in Calman's heart. my household. Calman Calmanovitch,
serve his time as a soldier. It will do It was not till evening that he gained you will stay. You will be responsi-
him good."
control enough to return to his home. ble for them with your life."
"But Calman has also been con- Ile found his old mother reading
scripted," said Malkah quickly.
psalms, a woman with a kindly face
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"Oilman will go free. He will buy and meek, patient eyes. These she
himself out."
lifted to her son and looked at him
over her horn-rimmed spectacles.
Malkah drew back in surprise.
"Has Oilman so much money? I
"Well, is it mazel-too, Calman?"
didn't know he could save it out of she asked gently.
his three roubles a week."
"Such good luck may my enemies
"Well, then, I will say that you have every day of their lives," he re-
will buy him out," said Tarphon, torted fiercely. "She has run away."
combing his long beard with his
"Run away? Then it means that
fingers. "There is your dowry, the God willed it not. You shall find an-1
three hundred roubles left you by your other."
grandfather. Now what is a bride's
"There isn't another like her in the I
dowry for if not to buy herself a world!" moaned Calman.
husband with it?" And he laughed
"Do you think God such a poor ,
uproariously, but immediately lieCIIMC craftsman?"
grave again. "Now sign, Malkah."
Calman was silent. Then he threw
"I will not sign, father," said Mal- hack his great shoulders and shook
kah, trembling between fear and his fists into the air.
anger.
"But I shall find them—I shall find
Tarphon stepped close to her with them!" he cried.
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my son?"
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"They will wish they had never
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"Calman!" She rose and hobbl«I
across to him and gripped him by the
arm. "Calman, unsay those words!"
"I shall not unsay them."
"If you do them harm, I shall writhe
in my grave."
"It's they who will writhe."
"Then I shall pray to God to change
your heart, change all the hate out of ,
it—a ye, and even all your love for
me, if that should he the price." She
clasped her Issok to her breast and
folded her withered hands across it.
"God of Abraham, if my son cannot
be a good Jew, at least make him a
good man. Let the fear of you walk
before him, and cause him not to for-
get that all Israel are his brothers
and sisters!" Then she turned to her
son suddenly: "I shall he watching
you, Oilman, wherever I am. Remem-
ber!"
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