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We’d pass and fetch the bread and paraffin on skis. till the kids develop up, I suggest. We’ll have a son or a daugh ter—whichever we please. for my part I’m ready to be a father. I’ve obtained an analogous feeling within me that i guess pregnant girls have . . . ” She didn’t get my which means and didn’t even examine the home, which had now passed by. She simply couldn’t wait to place her brain at relaxation and inform me what I knew completely good with no her possessing as much as it and used to be higher left un~ stated if we didn’t are looking to have hassle. I had by no means re proached her and had stored my emotions of jealousy in cost, even to a definite quantity proscribing my mind-reading powers—anything to maintain her alive and good— and the least she can have performed might were to attend a bit ahead of telling me approximately her affair with Boris. And what might she inform me that I didn’t comprehend already? All she acknowledged, taking part in it down a bit, was once that she had as soon as at the spur of the instant long past farther with him than he deserved and now regretted it bitterly. yet her timid, tearful phrases have been sufficient to fan the flames of my concepts and ship them off during this path. No faster had Boris’s identify been spoken than it happened to me that he may 87 FANTASTIC tales scarcely have allow us to pass similar to that, and that folks will be on our heels at any second. The night be fore, he had obtained relocating and denounced me to the authori ties, who will surely interfere and ruin every thing. the instant this notion crossed my brain I understood that unavoidable catastrophe used to be lurking someplace within sight and i had recognized approximately all of it the time, and i had basically been fooling myself through pretending that every thing used to be o.k.. “Please don’t get the inaccurate idea,” Natasha acknowledged, sob bing in my palms. “I love you and that i hate Boris! yet i believe I’m pregnant, and that i don’t comprehend who it truly is. Do no matter what you love . . . ” God, this used to be quite the restrict! What the hell did I care approximately her goings-on with Boris! Who cared which certainly one of us it was once? Hadn’t I been going to inform her that i used to be will ing to take accountability for her being pregnant, so long as she didn’t consult me approximately Boris and allure the atten tion of the 4 humans in uniform who have been now facing the educate, checking people’s records? they'd obviously acquired on after Yaroslavl and have been steadily getting towards us as they slowly moved via, checking up at the passengers. They have been now purely 3 automobiles away and, even though I couldn’t make out every thing at this sort of distance, I knew good adequate who they have been searching for and the character of the directions within the breast pocket in their leader, who, for a few cause, was once referred to as Sysoyev. And there have been 4 extra men—I had purely simply spotted this—moving up from the opposite finish of the educate and go88 The Icicle ing during the passengers with a fine-toothed comb. We have been within the heart. They have been final in from either side. “Natasha! cease crying! That doesn’t subject in any respect. yet inform me, why did you cell Boris in advance of we left? Did you inform him the variety of our compartment?