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A Night s
Lodging 297
Luka tries also to imbue Natasha and Faska
with new faith. They marvel at his goodness.
In simplicity of heart Luka gives his philosophy of
life.
Luka. I am good, you say. But you see, there must
be some one to be good. . . . We must have pity on
mankind. . . . Have pity while there is still time, be
lieve me, it is very good. I was once, for example, em
ployed as a watchman, at a country place which belonged
to an engineer, not far from the city of Tomsk, in Siberia.
The house stood in the middle of the forest, an out-of-the-
way location . . . and it was winter and I was all alone
in the country house. It was beautiful there . . .
mag
nificent! And once ... I heard them scrambling
up! ...
Natasha. Thieves !
Luka. Yes. They crept higher and I took my rifle
and went outside. I looked up: two men ... as they
were opening a window and so busy that they did not see
anything of me at all. I cried to them:
"
Heh there
. . .
get out of that "... and would you think it,
they fell on me with a hand ax. ... I warned them
"
Halt," I cried,
"
or else I fire "... then I aimed
first at one and then at the other. They fell on their
knees, saying,
"
Pardon us." I was pretty hot ... on
account of the hand ax, you remember.
"
You devils," I
cried,
"
I told you to clear out and you didn t . . . and
now," I said,
"
one of you go into the brush and get a
switch." It was done.
"
And now," I commanded,
"
one
of you stretch out on the ground, and the other thrash
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