Page:The Way of the Cross, Doroshevich, tr. Graham, 1916.djvu/90

 74 His wife died two weeks before the final ruin and he has three children, two very young, and a baby.

He had owned some land and was a farmer.

—He had paid 12,000 roubles for it.

The payment had been spread over seven years and all had been paid.

—He had only just begun to make a living.

And now "this had happened."

He had managed to bring away all his cattle. And four horses.

He had gone a long way.

But in Minsk province, where a continuous marsh extends for tens and tens of versts, an order had come to clear the high-road, and the cattle had been driven on to the marsh.

—My little son—said he, who had gone on in front with the cattle, ran back to meet me at a turn of the road, crying,