Page:The Way of the Cross, Doroshevich, tr. Graham, 1916.djvu/114

 98 Food is only given out to those who have certificates:

—According to the number of souls in the family.

Such certificates ought to have been obtained from the village authorities at the point from which they started.

—They did not give us them! We had not time to get them.

—Lost!

—We shall die of hunger.

—Your high nobility!

They come for everything, they come to make complaints.

—Your high nobility! Permit me to explain. The starosta advised me to wait for the Germans and not go away. I did not agree. He got angry and refused to give me a certificate. Decide for yourself! Show God's mercy, and give me one now.

The crowd surrounded another man,