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PAGE THREE
deed proud as a queen, her eves flash- remember that all Israel were broth.
ing like purple stars out of her alit- ers and sisters--and that prayer had
baster face. been ignored. Instead he had sent one
"I don't think it at all a good idea, tohis death and the other to a fate a
thousand times worse. What would
Calman.
I shall not Marry you. I
she say to it? Was she stirring in her
shall go to the natchelnick."
grave .. . ?
"To command, natchelnick!" said
"Malkah!"
cried
Ephraim,
staring
Cullman, drawing himself up to the
Upon him was a strange sense of
at her horrified. Ilad she taken leave
salute.
discomfort and desolation. And then
of her senses?
the murky room became suddenly il-
The officer clattered out, followed
"I am going," said Malkah firmly. luminated by a hovering halo from
by his three myrmidons, and left a
Oilman nodded his head with
great silence behind him. Husband
under which a pair of meek patient
eyes were looking out upon him. All
and wife were huddled together in a wiseacre air.
frantic embrace. Calman had seated
at
once something seemed to strike
know.
And
kill
yourself
as
moot
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him like a blow at the heart.
himself on a chair. Suddenly he as you've got there," he said.
brought the butt of his rifle to the
"What is the date, Ephraim?" he
"No, Calman, I shall not kill my-
ground with a thud that wrenched
asked quickly.
self."
from Malkah a strangled cry of
"I shall die on the Nth of Tammuz,
"Then
you'll
live--to
shower
bless-
alarm.
Calnian."
ings on me from morning to night."
"I always knew I would find you,"
"I shall indeed, Caimans"
Ali, that was the meaning of it. This
said Calman with a great guffaw.
Ephraim was wringing his bands, was the anniversary of her death. On
"What have you thine, Cullman, what while Cullman broke into an ironic this day he would have lighted the
have you done?" moaned Malkah.
memorial light and gone to the syna-
laugh.
"Yes, Calrnnn, I shall bless you fur gogue to recite Sanctification for her
"What did you do? You stole the
giving me the chance of noticing atone- repose. Ile had thine so every year.
three hundred roubles."
"I did not steal them. They were ment. Ephraim;'—sobbingly she laid Today he had done neither. And that
mine," Malkah flashed at him indig- her hand on her husband's arm and was why she had stirred from her
looked up at hint with swimming eyes grave, had mine to him now. But not
nantly.
"Then you stole yourself from me. —"there is something I have never to rebuke him for having failed in his
But look what 0 bad investment you told you. I have not let you look into commemorative respects to her. No,
made of yourself. If you had married my intnost heart. I was afraid it to see how he would comfort himself
as your father commanded you to would grieve you. I did an unnatural in thisemergency against which she
do, I should nut have had to serve, thing when I went from niy father." had appealed for him to heaven with
"That was my fault," said Ephraim almost her dying breath, to see how
and you would not now have a hus-
dully.
he would deal with this brother and
band who is to be shot at dawn."
"No, no. It was I who asked you to sister of his. And upon it would de-
"Oh, God in heaven!" cried Malkah,
come
away.
But
ever
since
the
wrong
pend,
when they met in Garden-Eden,
burying her face in her hands.
"And moreover"—Colman lowered I did him has hovered over my life like whether she would stretch out to him
his voice to he more impressive—"you a cloud. Oh, it has not darkened my welcoming arms, or pass him by with
would not have had to become a ser- love for you, Ephraim—nothing can averted face. Ah, yes, that unseen
vant of the natchelnick. Malkah—a do that. I went against his authority, watcher.. .
queen, as far us your name goes! Oh, I foiled his dearest wish, even though
Quite as an afterthought it came
yes, a fine queen you'll make, with a it took no account of niy happiness. to him that it was really a pity that
I
left
him
bent
and
broken
to
live
a
Malkah should go to the natchelnick.
hroom-stick for a scepter. And that,
solitary old age. I know he has cast What on earth was the use of that?
perhaps, is not the worst of it."
Malkah turned from him with a nut Id—the letters I wrote him re- As it was, she was lost to him any-
look of infinite horror and contempt mained unanswered. So shall I not I how. And then, suddenly, a cunning
that brought another guffaw from bless Cullman fur helping me to my thought flashed on him. There was no
Caiman's throat. And then the silence purgatory? Ephraim, don't grudge I need fur her to be lost to him. Ile
me this chance of making amends for could gain her and keep her for all
fell again.
eternity. Ile could grapple her to his
The time crawl&I on with leaden my sin."
Ephraim stood stroking her hand i soul with hooks of steel. Ah, it was a
feet. The stifling summer night lay
great idea! There was a way by
over all like a pall of doom. From fur a while before answering.
"Yes, Malkah," he said at last, but which he could please his mother and
outside came the thousand-voiced tu-
mult of the camp, and every now and in a voice she did not recognize, "you , please himself at the same time.
then an agonized scream that chilled shall go to the natchelnick. You shall •in God's name, he would take that
Malkah to the marrow. Then, after work out your redemption, and when way.
a while, her head drooped, and a mer- we meet again in Garden-Eden you
He turned on them with a gruff
ciful stupor seemed to numb her brain. shall come to me with your soul abruptness.
Gently Ephraim disentangled him- cleansed of all reproach."
"Pack up and come."
"Thank you, husband," said Malkah
self from her hold and tip-toed up to
"It's not dawn yet, Calman;' replied
humbly.
Cullman.
Ephraim
quietly.
Calman
listened,
and
the
stupid,
"Oilman, a word with you," he
make-believe grin on his face gradu-
But Malkah, with her woman's in-
whispered.
was
angry
and
Be
ally
died
away.
tuition,
understood
better.
Oilman sat on stonily.
"Do you remember the night when amazed. What had happened? They
"Do you mean it, Calman—are you
were
turning
his
weapon
against
him.
we were making our way to Kovalsk
going to !UM. Us?"
It was most preposterous. Instead of
and you fell ill on the road?"
"If you'll give me a chance and not
Still Cullman made no sign of hav- exacting from them a terrible revenge, stand here palavering till it's to late.
he had given them occasion for a joy-
ing heard.
Hurry up."
sacrifice.
"I carried you to the charcoal-
And while they trepidantly were do-
And furthermore, he was afraid. He
burner's hut. And then they all fled
when they found that you had the didn't at all like all this talk of Mal- ing his bidding, he stood gripping his
rifle with tense fingers and looking at
cholera. I stayed with you and nursed kah's about blessings. He called to
mind a blessing a certain nom had it pensively. It spoke to hint eloquent-
you back to life."
ly. It stood for the iron discipline by
"Nut if you had nursed me back to given his mortal enemy. He had
which he was fettered and for the
a thousand lives would I give you prayed that the other might have a
grim penalties which any breach of it
hundred
mansions,
and
a
hundred
yours now," snarled Calmat'.
entailed.
"Hush, Cadman, dear," begged rooms in each mansion, and a hundred
In a few minutes Ephraim and Mal-
Ephraim, with an apprehensive look beds in each room. And then he had
towards Malkah. "I am not asking wished that his enemy might writhe kah were ready. They did nut take
much
baggage,only what they thought
in
torment
for
a
hundred
years
on
for my life. But if at any time I
most precious—Ephraim the bag •on-
have done you a little service, I may each one of those beds.
taining
his prayer-shawl and phylac-
There
seemed
to
him
something
have a right to ask you to do me one
now. I have been thinking over what double-edged in those prayers of Mal- teries, Malkah her Sabbath candle-
sticks
of
brass.
kah's.
Ile
had
great
faith
in
the
effi-
the natchelnick said about Malkah
joining his household, and I fancy it cacy of women's prayers. Ile remem-
So they went out into the night in
bered how, on the High Penitential silence, till they came to the fits, sen-
wouldn't be a good thing for her."
"You may he sure it won't," said Days, he had thrilled at the tempest try-post,
of benediction and lamentation that
"Who goes there"
Calmat' grimly.
"I have therefore a proposition to had gone up from the women's gallery.
"A friend.'
make to you, Calman. Shoot me now. It seemed enough to bring the very
"The password!"
Then take her to the Rabbi and marry gates, those adamantine gates of
"Vodka, brother."
her at once. As a soldier's wife she heaven, crashing about one's ears.
And with a laugh Cullman brought
And yet . .. Ile caught his breath out a bottle. The sentry took it,
will lie safe against the natchelnick."
"Ila, that's a good idea!" said Cal- sharply. There had been one woman's laughing too, drew a deep gurgling
prayers that had been of no avail. it is draught and handed it back.
man, starting up.
"No. ("Milian, it's not a good idea." awn mother's prayers had had no
"Pass on, friend."
The same happened with the second
Malkah stood before them, now in- wings. She had prayed her son should
sentry. But the third and last was a
' surly fellow who took his business
seri;i ndy.
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"Look brother," said Calman sud-
denly in an excited whisper. "There
'
are the Austrians!"
"Where—where?" gasped the sen-
try, spinning round.
:Slightly Caiman's rifle crashed
down on his head and the man
dropped without a sound.
"Now you are free. Yonder is the
road to Cracow."
"Oh, come with us, Calman," Mal-
kah implored him.
"No. Mine is another road."
With a swift gesture Malkah's
hands shot up, seized him by his great
ears and, pulling down his head to the
▪
level of her own, she kissed him full
on the mouth.
"That will do," said Calman, draw-
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"Good-bye Oilman," said Ephraim,
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"Good-bye, Ephraim. One more
E.. word, Malkah. Your father died a
year ago. He forgave you before the
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end."
Then he went bark swiftly, licking
▪
his lips, for Malkah's kiss had left
good taste upon them. He had often
wondered how Malkah's kisses tasted,
and now that he knew he had achieved
-M the consummation of all earthly win-
dom. And he chuckled inwardly for
=the blessed lie with which he had left
her. True, Malkah's father was dead.
But he had died without forgiving her.
At least, he had said nothing about
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forgiveness.
At seven o'clock he presented him-
self to the natchelnick.
"Where is the woman?" the latter
—
ailaasked, wrinkling his brows.
"Both prisoners escaped in the
night, your honor."
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= Oilman looked down the gleaming
barrels and smiled. Ile was thinking
of Malkah's kiss. Ile also thought of
= the memorial light he had not lit for
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E. flame of gratitude he had kindled in
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