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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Of course I understand that from your point of view and from the view of nearly all the world Sonya Valesky is hopelessly wrong. But I can't see why she should be punished because she has a higher ideal than other people?" If Nona had only thought for a moment she would have realized that the world has always thus rewarded its visionaries. "But Sonya is not content to think in this way alone.
Yet Nona did not open it all that day or the morning of the next as she had a premonition that the letter was not an ordinary one. Either Madame Valesky was confiding her own history, or she was insisting upon proving to the American girl that she had at one time been a friend of her mother's. Really, it was this information that Nona both expected and feared.
Yet when one has seen the horrible, the almost useless suffering that I have seen in these few years I have been acting as a Red Cross nurse, well, one can hardly condemn a human being who believes in peace. Still, Madame Valesky is in reality more Nona's friend than mine." Pausing abruptly, Mildred again turned her face to look at the soldier beside her.
Five days later Nona Davis went again to the little wooden house, where, to her surprise, she had previously discovered a former acquaintance. But on this occasion Sonya Valesky did not open the door. Instead it was opened by the old peasant man whom Nona had seen before. Today he looked more wretched than stupid. His little black eyes were red rimmed, his sallow skin more wrinkled than ever.
Surely Sonya Valesky must have been upon some secret mission in the days of their first meeting on board the "Philadelphia!" Even then she had papers in her possession which she would allow no one to see. However, Sonya was too desperately ill to permit her nurse much opportunity for surmising.
"Of course, I know you have to do whatever you can for Sonya Valesky, Nona," she agreed unexpectedly. "In your position I hope I would have the courage to behave in the same way. I have only made a fuss about things because I was worried for you, but I have always known you would not pay any attention to me. Nobody ever does."
She, a woman of rare refinement and not yet forty, to spend the rest of her life working among the convicts in Siberia. It was as if she were buried alive! Suddenly it occurred to Mildred that she might ask the advice of General Alexis. She did not believe it possible that anything could be done for Sonya Valesky now, after her sentence had been passed.
Yet she never forgot the picture that Sonya Valesky made when she had a final glance at her. Four days later a few lines appeared in the Russian daily papers, stating that Sonya Valesky, a woman of noble birth, but at present a Russian nihilist, had been condemned to penal servitude in Siberia for life. She had been proved guilty of treason to the Imperial Government. Mildred's Return
Do not be too intimate with Sonya Valesky. Russia is not like other countries in times of war or peace. She has many problems, tragedies of her own to overcome which the foreigner cannot understand. Forgive me if I should not have spoken." Then before either girl could fully grasp what the young man's confused speech could mean, he had bowed, mounted his horse and ridden off. Out of the Past
Lieutenant Orlaff, this is my friend, Miss Meade." Barbara inclined her head, too surprised to do more. But as the Russian officer continued to walk beside them with his horse following, she soon understood where he and Nona had met each other. "Yes, she is an old friend, Sonya Valesky. I knew her years ago and then she went away into other countries." The young Russian hesitated.
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