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Updated: September 1, 2025
And yet he had said that they were soulless these people that she had come to help! He would have condemned Bennie Volsky from the first but she had detected the glimmerings of something fine in the child! No despite his more tolerant attitude she knew that, underneath, his convictions were unchanged. She was glad that she had gone out upon her adventure alone.
She was tired of going out furtively of an afternoon to help these folk that she had come to help. She wanted to go in an open way with the stamp of approval upon her. The Superintendent had said, once, that she would hardly be convincing to the people of the slums. With the Volsky family to show, she could prove that she had been convincing, very convincing!
But she did not say anything of the sort to Mrs. Volsky Mrs. Volsky would not have been able to understand. Instead she spoke of something else that had lain, for a long time, upon her mind. "Has Lily ever received any medical attention?" she asked abruptly. Mrs. Volsky's face took on lines of blankness. "What say?" she mouthed thickly. "I don' understan'?" Rose-Marie reconstructed her question.
A delegation of the members came to Moscow, and were quaintly housed in a huge room in the Metropole, where they had put up beds all round the walls and big tables in the middle of the room for their deliberations. It was in this room that I saw Volsky first, and afterwards in my own.
She went in through the mouth-like tenement door it was no longer frightful to her with a feeling of intense emotion. She climbed the narrow stairs, all five flights of them, with never a pause for breath. And then she was standing, once again, in front of the Volskys' door. She knocked, softly. Everything was apparently very still in the Volsky flat.
There were yells of rage, and worst of all bursts of appalling profanity. Rose-Marie, standing there in the darkness of the fourth flight, heard words that she had never expected to hear phrases of which she had never dreamed. She shuddered as she started up the fifth flight, and when, at last, she stood in front of the Volsky flat, she experienced almost a feeling of relief.
Volsky, bending over the wash-tubs, straightened up as if she could almost feel the electric quality of the air, as Ella passed her, but Rose-Marie only held tighter to Lily as if, somehow, the slim little body gave her comfort. "I wonder what's the matter?" she ventured, after a moment. Mrs. Volsky, again bending over the wash-tubs, answered.
"What say?" she murmured dully. Rose-Marie eyed her over the top of Lily's golden head. After all, she told herself, in the case of Mrs. Volsky she could see the point of Dr. Blanchard's assertion! She had known many animals who apparently were quicker to reason, who apparently had more enthusiasm and ambition, than Mrs. Volsky.
She told herself that Bennie was learning to travel the right road that the Scout Club would be the means of leading him to other clubs and that the other clubs would, in time, introduce him to Sunday-school and to the church. She told herself that Mrs. Volsky was willing to try; very willing to try!
"Perhaps," she said slowly, "your idea about the Volsky family is a good one. We'll try it out, dear! There was a MAN, once, Who said: 'Suffer the little children to come 'Why, Rose-Marie, what's the matter?" For Rose-Marie, her face hidden in the crook of her elbow, was crying like a very tired child. It was with a light heart that Rose-Marie started back to the tenement.
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