Page:The Way of the Cross, Doroshevich, tr. Graham, 1916.djvu/40

24 invoice for it. But only half arrives. The fugitives have stopped the wagons on the road and taken away what they wanted.

At one of the points on the road I met a substantial local farmer.

He was selling unground oats.

No dearer than five copecks above the price of hay a pood.

—It doesn't matter how cheap it is, cried he in despair. The fugitives rob the wagons all the same.

At another point I was told of a local landowner:

—He goes about with a revolver. The fugitives have dug up more than a hundred acres of potatoes belonging to him.

There's no stopping people who've come to the end of things.

Near Gomel a by-road goes over a ravine, and the fugitives puilled the bridge to bits.