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Updated: June 8, 2025
'Oh, I'll introduce you, if you let me off. 'You I don't ask for money, but your medical services would be invaluable. Milovka is in danger. 'Milovka to the deuce! cried Lerkoff. 'Our future lies not in Russia. 'I talk of our present. Do let me appoint you army surgeon. 'Next year in Jerusalem! replied the doctor airily.
The sun shone over the broad plains, and as David's train carried him towards Milovka, his heart swelled with thoughts of the Maccabean deeds to be wrought there by a regenerated Young Israel. But the journey was long.
He drew deep breaths of sea-air as he paced the deck, strewn so thickly with pleasant passengers to whom he felt drawn in a renewed sense of the human brotherhood. Rishus, forsooth! Milovka was to be the next place reddened on the map of Holy Russia.
Milovka, amid all its medievalism, possessed a few incongruous telephones, and one of these now started ringing violently in Dr. Lerkoff's study. 'Ah! he exclaimed, 'talk of the devil. There is a man who combines all the worst qualities of the Z.Z.'s and the Mizrachi.
The great guns boomed on hour after hour. When the bombardment was over, the peace of the devil lay over the Ghetto of Milovka.
The Jews of Milovka had begun to carry pistols like revolutionaries; they planned illegal assemblies in halls; was it to be wondered at if the League of True Russians grew restive?
'You and I, Ezekiel, will save Milovka. 'Alas! Ezekiel groaned. 'I drew a low number I go to fight for Russia. Fifteen thousand roubles were soon collected for the Governor, but even before they were presented to him the Rabbi, in mortal terror of that firebrand of a David, had rushed to inquire whether Self-Defence was legal, and might the Talmud-Torah Hall be legitimately used for drilling.
He had come to Milovka, he explained, to warn them that the Black Hundreds were soon to be loosed upon the Jewish quarter. But no longer must the Jew go like a lamb to the shambles. Too long, when smitten, had he turned the other cheek, only to get it smitten too. They must defend themselves. He was there to form a branch of the Samooborona. Browning revolvers must be purchased.
'I haven't come to give lessons in music, said David bluntly, 'but in shooting. 'Shooting? The landlord stared. 'Aren't you a Jew, then, sir? His oleaginous familiarity was gone. 'Don't you think, considering what has been happening, it is high time the Jews of Milovka learned to shoot? The landlord looked involuntarily round the room for a possible spy.
'Why, a pogrom is planned for Milovka! 'Impossible! Europe would not permit it. America would prohibit it. Did you not see the protest even in the Australian Parliament? Look on your calendar; we have reached the twentieth century, even according to the Christian calculation. David returned hopelessly to his inn. Here he saw a burly Jew warming himself at the great stove.
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