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"Aunt, Uncle," sobbed Roche
All the voyage over, RaChel
doubted the wisdom of her de- and the strain of six months o
All
waiting
and watching for one'.
parted husband's relatives.
during the singularly calm days aged husband to die, and before
at sea, she brooded by the deck that of nursing one's father in a ;
rail, her amber colored eyes gazing hopeless illness broke down Ra-
steadily into the water. It was as chel's silence and reserve, the re-
if she derived some vague comfort serve which had been like armor
from the untroubled depths. "The on the journey over. She wept
Jewess with the amber eyes" they like a child all the short distance ni
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called her in the second cabin, to her uncle's home.
A typical modern five-room I ll
where she traveled. "They" knew.
all about her somehow, and yet, apartment, such as the lower mid- O r
none had attempted to break dle class occupies, greeted Rachel;
through the reserve which seemed and yet it had an old-world atmos-
phere. The first thing to meet her „10A
to arm her.
Only one day after The Con- eyes and to cheer her more than
queror" left the Baltic Sea port,• all her uncle's and aunt's consul.
all the women passengers in the ing words was the :4,1111W:11r which
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second cabin had something to dis- she had seen used always as a
cuss in their id:iterate:es at night. child. She caressed it, gently, lov-
"The Jewess with the yellow eyes," ingly, us one caresses a baby. A [4o ,
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they said, was is widow going to young girl once more, she ran
join relatives in the United States. from treasure to treasure, all fa-
The Russian relatives of the little miliar objects of her childhood,
Jewess, they added, had given her and she fondled them, asking about
enough to travel second cabin, this one, exclaiming about that.
while their raised eyebrows inti-
"And dust thou remember ...
mated, "How dare a Jewess, in her "And dust thou remember . .
native peasant dress, travel second Of course, they remembered, all
of them, and as they drank their
cabin!"
e
In an enforced community, one glasses of tea and munched their
is either wholly in or wholly out. small tea cakes they laughed and
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In the second cabin, for the entire cried, tears of sorrow mixing with
voyage, Rachel Kabatinsky, the tears of joy, so complete was tats
black-haired, amber-eyed Russian reunion.
They of the second cabin would
Jewess, bare-headed and, in her na-
tine costume was "out;" the rest never have recognized their silent
were "in." Oddly enough—it was J ewess now for , with the first
a shame the rest never knew—she heartbreak over, Rachel became
had been glad not to be one of communicative and utterly frank.
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them. It gave her hours to think, As she talked, in Yiddish now her
to plan, to wonder if, after all, uncle played meditatively with his
Jascha's relatives weren't unwise long, curly, black beard while her
in sending her to claim either the aunt rocked herself back and
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levirate marriage (the marriage, forth, although she sat on
by Jewish law, with a brother's straight chair, and kept her small
widow who has been left childless) black eyes fixed steadily on her
or the "halizah" (the ceremony niece's 'handsome face with its
whereby the brother-in-law is re- broad, high cheek bones and
leased and the widow becomes free straight, narrow brows.
to marry whom she chooses but
"And so, Aunt Leah and Uncle
which ceremony no honorable Jew Samuel, they told me that Israel,
would wish to go through because Jascha's young brother
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of the disgrace upon his family). low in God's custom." '
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True, her father would have wished
"And dolt thou wish it, Rachel-
it, and now, even six months after
Rachel
put in her aunt.
his death, she was still subordinat-
blushed, and, without answering,
ing her will-to his. All Rachel's life
ran to her small bundle from
had been an act of subordination,
which she took out a picture. Si-
from her birth until her marriage
at her father's death-bed to Jas• lently she gave it to Leah who
after an exclamation of surprise ,
cha Kabatinsky, his best friend.
"Rachel-le," the old man had handed it to her husband.
"lie is handsome, Rachel, my
groaned in his death agony,
child," she said. "He is a hand-
"Rachel-le, thou wilt not regret it.
some young man. Twenty-five?
Thou needst a father, my child,
alone as thou art mid Jascha will twenty-six?"
"Twenty-five, I think," said Ra-
be both husband and father to
chel, leaning over her uncle's
thee."
better look at the
Ileicha had been neither to her. shoulder to get is
which had taken clean-cut features, proud mouth
The SIIIIIIi Malady
her father suddenly from her came and chin, dark eyes and ' hair,
upon his best friend in a lingering although she could see them at any
form the night of Rachel's mar- time with merely shutting her eyes.
miage to him and for six months That picture had been her one
she had nursed him, hopelessly, to hope and comfort during the lone-
the grave. ly days which followed in the wake
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basking in the eager ministrations synagogue—he told me--where to Leah, that is a disgrace which one
finds hard to live down."
of Leah and Rachel. The address find him—his name ... "'
had been easily found, but no such Rachel was eager for details, Rachel was a child in many
person as Israel lived there. After and hardly ate of the delicacies of ways, thought Leah now, for all
much questioning, Samuel had ob.. the Sabbath dinner as Samuel, be- the sorrow she had lived through.
tamed the meager information tween bites, related the glad news. Her faith, for example; her seem-
that a young fellow of that name "Darling child, he has changed ing forgetfulness of the past. M
had lived there some months be- his name. It is Irving Cabot now. to the levirate marriage, Leah,
fore, but where he had gone, or He is in the wholesale produce herself, had seen two widows re-
business. Morris had a good word fused by their respective brothers-
why, no one could tell.
She wisely held her
Rachel, the guest, now became to say for him in a business way." in-law.
Rachel, the blood relative, the last Then, noting Rachel's bright eyes, peace, however, and tried to key
remnant of a long family line, and almost brown now, he made haste herself up to the hope of happiness
she soon accustomed herself to to add, "And Rachel-le, child, I in the heart of her niece. She
her aunt's housekeeping ways, shall go to him soon after Maarif. knew that Rachel had idealized the
helping immeasurably to make the It is a sacred mission." And he picture of Isras I and she prune -I
work lighter and the hours fly took her hands between his own, silently that the real man might
with her stories of all that had kissing her gently on her shiny in some way measure up to the
love and ideal placed in him by
happened since Leah and Samuel black hair.
All afternoon Rachel sang about Rachel.
had left the old country. Again
They sat there. arm in arm, 0 , e
and again she told of her enforced the house. She trilled through a
and hasty marriage, of her legal Russian love song with a quaint two of them, waiting in the twi-
but not actual wedded life, of the crooning refrain as she busied her- light for the last traces of the
months of anxiety and torture as self over her meager wardrobe. sun so as to again turn nn the
she had waited by the bedside of Leah had gone to early afternoon lights and cook the Saturday
this old man, her husband—waited service and she was alone in the supper. And as they rocked to and
for him to die. Again she men- house. She danced and skipped fro, cheek against cheek. sleek
who has been wid- black hair against fast graying
tinned her hopes and longings in hardly like one
owed only two months before. brown, they listened with hushed ,
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4 Standing before a mirror, she took breath for a step on the sair.
Ah, there it came now—a slow, 'I
down her heavy, long hair and
tried it, now this way, now that, halting step, a step which told II
until her fingers fairly ached with Leah everything and which gave
doing and undoing yells and braids. to Rachel a vague fear. They
Yellow eyes, with little flacks in waited as they were, Leah holding
them now, looked yellow eyes in Rachel fast in her arms, knowing
the mirror and seemed satisfied well that she would soon need to
with what they saw there. comfort her darling.
The story was not s long one
"I shall see him. I shall see
him," said one pair of lips up close and Samuel told it with tears in
Israel Kahatinsky, now
to the other pair in the mirror. his 1.y,
"My beloved—I shall see him." Irving Cabot, was almost unrecoz-
li And the lids suddenly closer over sizable as a Russian Jew, Inc said.
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the amber eyes as if afraid at the Ten years in the United States
J sudden depths they saw in their had entirely Americanized him,
even as to his manner of speech
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Leah returned, Rachel and surely as to his ideas Irving
I was still humming the qaint love Cabot, the business man, had
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it song and Leah felt happy at the merely scoffed. (Scoffed at the
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thought of her own youth and a
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"So, Rachel," his peaple had told of sorrow back in Russia. Those
her, "go to your uncle in Amer- eYes had reassures! her. Surely,
ica. lie will find Israel, your she had reasoned, no man with
brother-in-law, and Israel will such eyes, such wonderfully kind
right the death of his brother in dark eyes, would refuse to look
the eyes of God and our Jewish after his sister-in-law as it is pre-
scribed in the law. Surely that
law by marrying you."
And now, America. A crowd of proud chin would hold family pride
over everything. There was noth-
hurrying, jostling, pushing mor-
tals who spoke swiftly in a tongue ing to stand in the way, Rachel
now told her relatives frankly.
one did not understand. An inter-
Israel was unmarried. All they
minable wait, and many ques-
was find him. She had
Bons, oh, how many. But the had to do
his address. Uncle Samuel would
stout man at the end had been
kind; he had asked her only a few go to him that very day. Rachel's
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eagerness told her aunt and uncle
things in pure Russian and re-
peated them in English to another more about the state of her heart 0
than
any
of
her
words,
and
they
man. They had finally looked
through her small bundle and had nodded to each other as if in grati-
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fication at learning that, after all,
told her she might go.
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So this was the country she had their 20year-old niece was nor- 0 s• ♦
malty
young.
dreamed about, this pushing crowd
Samuel Levinson was the type of —
beyond. How could one hope to
man who cannot rest until what he respect to the handsome young R ussian love song beneath a Rua-
pick out the pious face of Uncle
has
to do is accomplished. Perhaps brother-in-law whom she had never stun moon.
Samuel and the sweet one of Aunt
Rachel trod on air. She was as
that is why after only three years seen but whose pictured likeness
Leah in all this hubbub. And yet,
sure of happiness with this kind
in
New
York his small dry goodsshe loved.
God must be with her, thought Ra-
eyed
. man whom she as never
"Surely, Aunt Leak," she spoke
chel, for weren't these arms about store below the apartment was a
seen in actuality as. she was sure
her those of the only dear ones she thriving affair even though he kept dreamily, her amber eyes seeing
that
there
is a God in heaven.
it closed from sunset Friday eve- something far off, "surely with
had left on earth.
Leah shook her head and said
"Darling Rachel-le," said the ning until sunset Saturday. Any- these eyes—he will care for me, I
tender voice of Aunt Leah, and one who doubted Samuel Levin- know. We will find him, won't gently:
"Darling child, the ways of God
And Leah
"How didst thou travel, little son's enterprising nature because we, Aunt Leah?"
one?" came now in deep Russian of the pious, bearded face he pre- would take Rachel in her arms and are strange. Be not over-expec-
sented,
would
be
fully
convinced
rock her gently to and fro, striving tent."
from the bearded face of Uncle
of it after one glance at his well to ease over the scars that being
Rachel's only answer was to
Samuel.
regulated store and his five-room an orphan and a widow must have throw her arms about Leah's neck
apartment, truly an ostentatious left on the heart of such a young and hide her happy face in Leah's
place for one only three years on a one. bosom. Leah caressed the soft
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It was about two weeks after black braids.
Accordingly, after fondly kiss-
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"Rachel-le, he may not want
Rachel's arrival, on a Saturday
ing his wife and niece, and proudly
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noon, when the table was set with thee ..."
donning his new long great coat
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Sabbath
dinner,
Rachel raised her head and
and new shiny black hat, Samuel
displaying tempting dishes of
Confidential.
set out to find Israel Kabatinsky, chopped liver and shalat, the looked at Leah with eyes not one
bit dimmed.
who,
according
to
the
Law
of
God,
Cad.
Cad.
chales awaiting the blessing of the
"But the Law is the Law of
was to marry his brother's beauti-
master of the house, that Samuel God," she spoke in a voice of a
ful young widow.
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Came gasping up the long narrow c hild. "And, surely, no man,
It was not until late in the eve.
least of all, my-1 mean, this
nine that Samuel returned, ex- flight of stairs.
"Leah — Rachel — I've found hansome, kind-eyed Israel would
hausted. It had been a fruitless
For, Aunt
search, he sighed regretfully, him," he juffed. "IRO Morris—in wish the halizah.
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