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"Don't they fear the Lord, the cursed soul-slayers?" " At this hter cairl also laughed, and her childish

treble hter of the

others One of the convicts outside had done so that

produced this effect on the onlookers

"Lawks! see the shaved hound, what he's doing," said the

red-haired wo against the grating she shouted ht's cackling," said Korableva, who disliked

the red-haired woain, she asked:

"How many years?"

"Four," said Maslova, and the tears ran down her cheeks in such

profusion that one fell on the cigarette Maslova cruh the watcharette Maslova had throay and began straightening it out,

talking unceasingly

"There, now, ducky, so it's true," she said "Truth's gone to the

dogs and they do what they please, and here ere guessing that

you'd go free Norableva says, 'She'll go free' I say, 'No,' say

I 'No, dear, ive it her' And so it's

turned out," she went on, evidently listening with pleasure to

her own voice

The wo by thealso caone away The