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Show 13H 't‘tttC DARK t"()t{t'IS'l.‘ .\iikitiu looked at me. "You‘re tired." he said. "No. l‘m not tired." I answered Nikrrix 131- itselt' like an (who ot some other voir'e miles away. pene- trated rhnt to urv heart rather than.to my hram. . .\ttoi~ . "t shouldn't; sleep if t \\(‘t|t to hell. lint tire not a lazular'lu' that is not a headavhe. l r-Iltt'll a >n|ett that i.\n"t .a >tnell, 1.!" going to he :ivk and '\et t'm not going; to he sick ." "(‘ome out~i<l<xu he said. "and get rid of this air." We went out and sat down on a wooden hem-h that: hordered the yard. th‘t'ore us was the highroad that ran tron: the town ot' Swr *- into the very heart of the (‘:ti'patl:ian>:. As the «old e‘re)‘ faded we eouhl eateh the thin outline of those mountaim. taint. like peneil~lines upon the sky now washed with pink. covered in their nearer reaehes hv thiek forests, insulntaiuial. although they were close at hand , like water or ton): eloudx'. We eould see the road, white and clear at our t‘eet. melting into shadow heytmd us, and eatehing in wards this" was all strangely parallel in my mind with that earlier eom'ersation that l had had with 'l'rsan-hard Ht the And now a< t sit. here. :u >o nluternnt a plane. train. . . amonext men w «litt'erent. lilttrt‘ other two eomn hawk to mot: Yes. happy t know that one at h .l\t o happy ghosts. ' ' H"lliikii water lit-hind etasg, like musit- la‘hinil a :wrwn. .\.tl\l tinis Voiw' routes hark to me ilim lint \o {‘ltbl‘. ia'uterlon; l-ut w intimate. .\h. the tlltl‘\ttt|tt< that t wouhl ask tun: now it onlr l mieht haw thow morning hours «wet; warm}, "Yonire'a solemn man altogether. l‘nrwaril. lu'r.r|p~ a, t‘inelhhmen went m to In, and it Illa": lm only-wour tr‘n;I *utiliih. \o unlike our mwul< and n~r\e< hv whn'h we t.i.[ tail an t'in;_'li\h tutor liot' a year when Sky. didn‘t tt‘:!<'ll nn' murh: "all riehf' and "tank .\on The air was very fresh: a eoek hehind n10 welcomed the sun : the ('old hand withdrew from my forehead. Nikitin was silent and I, silent, also, sat there, almost a~leep, happy and tranquil. it seemed to me very natnral to him that he should neither move nor speak, but after a time he hegan to talk. I had in that early morning a strange, impression, as though deep in my dreams 1 "115 listening to some history. I know that I did not sleep and yet even now as T recover his quiet voiee and, l twlieve man): of his very words, in reminiscence those hours are rtlll dreamingr hours. T know that every word that he told lttt‘ then was true in aetual tart. And yet it seems to me that re were all slurnherine. the world at our feet, the sun 111 the Sky, the wounded in their tent, and that through the mist of all that Slumber Nikitin‘s voice, soft, na-asnren. ‘ . . through lltr'. ‘i'lt'w tip; tll‘tttl lwt'ort‘ we're halt \\a'\ the little misty pools the coloured retleetinm of the morn ing I": i, .\\':t4 a ":33. 1; tin it"x hri" ti ‘ h t‘vs- kept ' hut I think ot lttttl now :I* tli" r" (it i ' i" ‘ .‘ti:‘«\t ""1" in at] [he lltttm‘fup. t» -' sw'unWl tln . tout V ‘ l'' ‘ i , .» int 1-;-].nt‘l:}'tM . 11.4 "t ~ttll he \\'a\. .\nil l»\‘.\ la l.nt ll ‘ \v, 1 ti ,. \\ a ‘t \rri. l‘\t'llliiilt‘ Inan, hm nnaalx-Hitl l""‘t" " l" I ‘ ' , _, t'o"t‘» . . \‘,.- hin‘ a ttl lttltl \‘-l‘"T' ll" "Ad will will I it .t ‘ t a" o' t l. 'le "I : l4 will tt.z:‘l;ttlut" it"" ""1" " ‘ , ‘ .; . t tr it lt¢‘ til w ..i. "wlt'tl‘w'i‘vl ‘ ‘ ttil'lll'l .. ; M or t iiw m H ii i i i\., iti" "iiifliii‘ t v‘ i , \x‘r '. i , I". _ H i ‘ t, it I ‘ l . t ' ' w ' t l ' ‘1 'l ' i ‘ i' 'i i t , , it t "l , i H l it i ,1 I ' _ I t y " I t I. It i' V r1, I [v t ,- " \' l‘(, r ti'I‘i ‘ .l '1‘",th . l ‘l w itt‘iiii‘k . . ' 1 . ' ' t ' t |