"Come," he said. "We must go back to work."

He glanced from face to face, and any looking with understanding at his
narrow countenance, his steady, dark eyes, and clean-cut nose must have
realized that they stood in the presence of that rare and indefinable
creation--a strong man.




X

A WARNING

It is a matter of history that the division of Poland into three saved
many families from complete ruin. For some suffered confiscation in the
kingdom of Poland and saved their property in Galicia; others, again in
Posen had estates in Masovia, which even Russian justice could not lay
hands upon--that gay justice of 1832, which declared that, in protesting
against the want of faith of their conquerors, the Poles had broken
faith. The Austrian government had sympathized with the discontent of
those Poles who had fallen under Russian sway, while in Breslau it was
permitted to print and publish plain words deemed criminal in Cracow and
Warsaw. The dogs, in a word, behaved as dogs do over their carrion, and,
having secured a large portion, kept a jealous eye on their neighbor's
jaw.

The Bukatys had lost all in Poland except a house or two in Warsaw, but
a few square miles of fertile land in Galicia brought in a sufficiency,
while Wanda had some property in the neighborhood of Breslau bequeathed