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'Why didn't you say so at first? He put his hand in his pocket. 'That's my Party or rather the National Group in it, the Anti-Zionist faction. The stern Bundist laughed. 'No, he doesn't mean he's a J.E. even of the other faction. His father-in-law took his hand out of his pocket. David cast a rebuking glance at the Bundist. 'Why did you interfere?
Do you want to skin me, like your martins and sables? 'You are busy, interposed David, fretting at the waste of his day. 'I shall take the liberty of calling again. A telephone-book soon betrayed the Bundist's shop, and David hurried off to enlist him. The shopkeeper proved, however, so corpulent and bovine that David's heart sank. But he began bluntly: 'I know you're a Bundist.
But I was warned Herr Cantberg is always wrong. Good-morning. 'Stop! cried the youth. 'Go in, Reb Yitzchok; let me deal with this fire-eater. And as the corpulent man retired with an improbable alacrity, he continued gravely: 'This time Herr Cantberg was not more than a hundred versts from the truth. David smiled. 'You are the Bundist. 'Hush! Here I am the son-in-law. What news from Warsaw?
All explained elaborately that they had their own Party Funds, and what a tax it was to run their candidates for the Duma, not to mention their Party Organ. 'You see, said the Bundist, 'your only chance lies with the men of no Party, who have only their own bourgeois pleasures. 'Are there such? asked David eagerly. A universal laugh greeted this inquiry. 'Alas, too many! everybody told him.
More shrill cheers greeted this fiery counsel. The members of the Junior Bund waved their satchels frenziedly. Only the landlord's son stood mute and frowning. 'You don't agree with him, said David. 'No, answered the little Bundist gravely. 'I follow Comrade Berl. But this fellow is popular because he was expelled from the Warsaw gymnasium as a suspect.
'A godless Bundist! the owl explained between the deals. 'A Bundist! David pricked up his ears. From the bravest revolutionary party in Russia he could surely cull a recruit or two. 'Who is he? The owl tried to look noble, producing only a twinkle of cunning. 'Oh, I can't betray him; after all, he's a brother-in-Israel. Not that he behaves as such, opposing our candidate for the Duma!
'No, we are widening and fortifying the cellar also provisioning the loft. 'Samooborona? said David. 'Precisely and a far more effective form than yours, my young hot-head. 'Perhaps you are right, said David wearily. He went back to his Report. He was glad to think that the little Bundist had an extra chance. After all, he had achieved something, he would save some lives.
'I tell you, Nathan, that only in the Progressive Democratic Party, with its belief in the equality of all nationalities 'If you want a Party free from anti-Semites, David intervened desperately, 'you must join the Samoo 'I fear you will get no recruits here, interrupted the Bundist, not unkindly.
To be rid of him, the Bundist gave him the address of a man who kept aloof from Polish politics a bourgeois cousin of his, Belchevski by name, who might just as well be killed off in the Samooborona. But even Belchevski turned out to be a Territorialist. David imprudently told him he had seen his fellow-Territorialist Grodsky, who had half promised
'A what? said the fur-dealer. David smiled. 'Oh, you needn't pretend with me; I'm a fighter myself. He let a revolver peep out of his hip-pocket. 'Help! Gewalt! cried the fur-dealer. A beardless youth came running out of the back room. David laughed. 'Herr Cantberg told me that you were a Bundist, he explained to the shopkeeper. 'And I came to meet a kindred spirit.
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