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Updated: June 14, 2025
Evelyn, however, took the jewels, and sewing them securely in a belt, fastened it around her own waist for safekeeping. No one doubted that the pretty child would soon be claimed. They soon discovered that her name was Rika, but more than that she could not tell them.
"What is the trouble?" she asked of the doctor, and glanced at the group before her. One low cry she gave; one spring, and little Rika was folded to her breast. The baby arms were close around her neck, the little face hidden while the Princess murmured loving names and strained the little form close to her heart. Warren was the first to speak. He turned to Ivan.
If he told her, as he thought be had, to "sit quietly" and await his return, she failed to hear him. So she took Rika by the hand and. "went, visiting." They sat down on the top step, and looked into the empty street, and watched occasional groups of fleeing Poles hurry past to the safety of the plains.
She could not hear enough about Rika and at every sound declared that the men must be returning, although Modjeska reminded her over and over that they were unlikely to return before dark.
When he entered, Professor Morris sat looking at him, with his eyes narrowed and a puzzled look on his face. Evelyn knew that look, and wondered what was passing in her father's mind. He sat quite silent, and after a little left the room. When he returned, he brought the Princess Olga, who was leading the little Rika as though she dared not leave her out of her sight.
We were delighted to entertain the little Rika. I am positive that my son will have them in safety somewhere, so you really need not worry. I do not." Evelyn suppressed a smile. She was quite sure her father did not worry. He was always ready to let someone else do the worrying for him. Suddenly a silver knob fastened to the wall dropped from its place and swung back and forth on a thin chain.
They met behind a truck loaded with boxes. Warren was shaking. "Did you see?" he asked. "Yes," said Ivan in a low voice. "Elinor and Rika, too! What are we going to do?" "I don't know," said Warren. "Just do what we have to do when the time comes. Don't risk them another hour. Elinor looks half dead. Keep out of sight and watch for a chance. Don't let the girls see you, any more than the women.
He dozes and smokes; aunt knits, with her feet perched upon a foot stove, never mind how hot the day; my cousin Rika and the other girls fish in the lake from the windows or chat with their friends rowing by; and the youngsters tumble about or hang upon the little bridges over the ditch. Then they have coffee and cakes, beside a great bunch of water lilies on the table.
The civilians' bungalows have a here-we-have-no-continuing-city look about them; their owners are constantly being moved, and pitching their moving tents elsewhere; but the Royles have been at Rika for fifteen years, and have made a delightful home.
It isn't easy to get beef or mutton in this part of the world, and when a sheep is brought to Rika it has to be carefully concealed, or Kittiwake ties a ribbon round its neck and claims it as her own, and terrible is the outcry if anyone dares to make away with her pet. There are two Royle children Kittiwake and Hilda.
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