Page:The Way of the Cross, Doroshevich, tr. Graham, 1916.djvu/108

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The Way of the Cross

Then they are already "not muzhiks"; they wander over from this camp to the camp near the railway station.

And whilst they are encamped in the wood they go backwards and forwards between the relief points of "Northern-Help" and the Municipal Alliance.

I ask the fugitives about the relief points.

Some answer:

—Those that can help are half-hearted. They can't do much. There is a mass of people, and always more coming, and more coming.

The majority gesticulate impatiently:

—What use are the points? They offend everybody.

—Those who happen to be near the relief points profit by them. But we stand far away.

—It's necessary to take your stand at one o'clock in the night, and wait your