Further Foolishness

ned geography from Stoj, the professor, astrography from Fudj, the assist

instructors were enthusiastic. "If he goes on like

one. "If he continues thu

Stoj, shaking his head

d Fudj. "Let him wait t

girl that he had seen with Kwartz, inspector of police. He wondered why she had kill

uestioned hi

?" he said. "Is

his head, and w

hy," he said. And he trembled so

l the way from the Teknik to the house where he lodged he was thinki

ere were no trees upon the street and no children played there. And opposite to the house of Madame Vasselitch was

it?" Se

wered Madame Vasselitch, and she s

or golgol, the Russian absinth, made by dipping a gooseberry in a bucket of soda water. Then they would play cards, laying matches on the table and betting, "Ten, ten, and yet ten," till all the matches were gone. Then they would say, "There are no more

who were not wild. They were brothers. They lived in a long ro

yes. They had but little money. Madame Vasselitch gave them

as Halfoff. He was taller than the other and stronger. The other br

rs. The brothers were at work. Halfoff sat a

it?" as

said Halfoff, and there

study it?"

ussia," sa

ave you?" said S

Trigonometry," said Kwitoff,

it teach?"

!" said

ers looked at

him everything?

f. "Let him learn firs

en came to the room

ave him books. "Re

they?" a

are forbidden books. They are not allowed i

one," s

Kwitoff. "Carry it

one s

Serge, trembling i

s Pragmatism," s

bidden?" a

ers looke

to read it,

of them were forbidden books. No one in Russia might read them. Serge read Hamblin Smith's Algebra. He read it all thr

ened a new w

ften watched h

him everything?

d Kwitoff. "He

were blacksmith's tools and wires, and pieces of metal lying on the floor. There was a crucible and underneath it a

w?" said Kwitoff. The

m now,"

e from beside the flame and stood erect, f

r?" aske

rs shook t

they said. "That would be t

t?" ask

ly ask are you willing to help our enterprise wi

enterprise?"

"Only this: will you give your life t

lga Ileyitch. Only to save he

t," he a

," said Kwitoff gently, and

e month

hall find it." All the time he Thought of Olga Ileyitch. His face gr