job! You must
bid each other a hearty good-by!"

Musya and Tsiganok moved forward. Musya walked cautiously, slipping, and
by force of habit raising her skirts slightly. And the man led her to
death firmly, holding her arm carefully and feeling the ground with his
foot.

The lights stopped moving. It was quiet and lonely around Tanya
Kovalchuk. The soldiers were silent, all gray in the soft, colorless
light of daybreak.

"I am alone," sighed Tanya Kovalchuk suddenly. "Seryozha is dead, Werner
is dead--and Vasya, too. I am alone! Soldiers! soldiers! I am alone,
alone--"

The sun was rising over the sea.

The bodies were placed in a box. Then they were taken away. With
stretched necks, with bulging eyes, with blue, swollen tongues, looking
like some unknown, terrible flowers between the lips, which were covered
with bloody foam--the bodies were hurried back along the same road by
which they had come--alive. And the spring snow was just as soft and
fresh; the spring air was just as strong and fragrant. And on the snow
lay Sergey's black rubber-shoe, wet, trampled under foot.

Thus did men greet the rising sun.

THE END

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