Semyon,quot; anding, quot;you ay longer to taste your drink and to alk, because ell me eresting. But you understand I am un my family, and very anxious to find t move on, muco stay.quot;

    t pus  of  t;ell, you s. But before you leave, you must drink your vodka. Stand ake it, and do;

    all at once, and tood very close to ill. In , dirty fingers t seemed tiny; but it , and ill could smell tang of tale s and tains on t sick before he began.

    quot;Drink, ill Ivanovitc; t cried, ening iness.

    ill lifted tatingly so figo avoid being sick.

    to come. Semyon Borisovitc , and took ill by both shoulders.

    quot;My boy,quot; o intone a prayer or a psalm. Vapors of tobacco and alco came powerfully from o brush.

    ts cig, left, rig Baltiny clao  still. omac  move.

    Finally it  stepped back and pushed him away.

    quot;Go, t; ;go soutc;

    ill gatried to raig ts ook t of the village.

    s place. Baltop at one point, and laid tle; but ill made  he would never drink vodka again.

    And in te afternoon t of toer so broad it might have been a sea.

    Even from some  trouble. Puffs of smoke ing from beyond ter by the boom of a gun.

    quot;Balt; ;youll o be a daemon again. Just keep near me and c for danger.quot;

    o tskirts of ttle tos mud stains on toed, but as oing, of screams, and of t louder.

    And  last tco look a terfront, s of big vessels rose above tops.

    An explosion s of a nearby o the smoky air.