144
The Way of the Cross
And on the shore stand peasants who push off the corpse from the land, make gestures, and cry out:
—Not for us. Float farther.
From Dovsk the main stream of the fugitives gushed forward, not towards Roslavl, but along the Kief highway.
And at the same moment, beyond Gomel, there moves forward to meet them just such a cloud of homeless ones as moved over the forests of Mogilef.
Roslavl has choked.
They have determined to send no more there.
The river has been turned southward at Dovsk.
And on that road nothing has been prepared.
Neither relief points where food is given out, nor medical help for the failing.
