The Red forces were pressing down hard on "Chief Ataman" Petlyura’s units, and Golub’s regiment was called to the front. Only a small rearguard detachment and the Commandant’s detail were left in the town.
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The people stirred. The Jewish section of the population took advantage of the temporary lull to bury their dead, and life in the tiny huts of the Jewish quarter returned to normal.
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On quiet evenings an indistinct rumble was carried from the distance; somewhere not too far off the fighting was in progress.
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At the station, railwaymen were leaving their jobs to roam the countryside in search of work.
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The Gymnasium was closed.
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Martial law was declared in town.
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It was a black, ugly night, one of those nights when the eyes, strain as they might, cannot pierce the gloom, and a man gropes about blindly expecting at any moment to fall into a ditch and break his neck.
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The respectable citizen knows that at a time like this it is safer to sit at home in the dark; he will not light a lamp if he can help it, for light might attract unwelcome guests. Better the dark, much safer. There are of course those who are always restless—let them venture abroad if they wish,that’s none of the respectable citizen’s business. But he himself will not risk going out—not for anything.
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It was one of those nights, yet there was a man abroad.
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Making his way to the Korchagin house, he knocked cautiously at the window. There was no answer and he knocked again, louder and more insistently.
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Pavel dreamed that a queer creature, anything but human, was aiming a machine gun at him; he wanted to flee, but there was nowhere to go, and the machine gun had broken into a terrifying chatter.
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He woke up to find the window rattling. Someone was knocking.
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Pavel jumped out of bed and went to the window to see who it was, but all he could make out was a vague dark shape.
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He was all alone in the house. His mother had gone on a visit to his eldest sister, whose husband was a mechanic at the sugar refinery. And Artem was blacksmithing in a neighbouring village,wielding the sledge for his keep.
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Yet it could only be Artem.
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Pavel decided to open the window.
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"Who’s there?" he said into the darkness.
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There was a movement outside the window and a muffled bass replied:
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"It’s me, Zhukhrai."
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Two hands were laid on the windowsill and Fyodor’s head came up until it was level with Pavel’s face.
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"I’ve come to spend the night with you. Any objections, mate?" Zhukhrai whispered.
Fyodor squeezed his great bulk through the opening.
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He closed the window but did not move away from the window at once. He stood listening intently, and when the moon slipped out from behind a cloud and the road became visible he scanned it carefully. Then he turned to Pavel.
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"We won’t wake up your mother, will we?"
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Pavel told him there was nobody home besides himself. The sailor felt more at ease and spoke in a louder voice.
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"Those cutthroats are after my hide in earnest now, matey. They’ve got it in for me after what happened over at the station. If our fellows would stick together a bit more we could have given the greycoats a fine reception during the pogrom. But folks, as you see, aren’t ready to plunge into the fire yet, and so nothing came of it. Now they’re looking for me, twice they’ve had the dragnet out —today I got away by the skin of my teeth. I was going home, you see, by the back way of course, and had just stopped at the shed to look around, when I saw a bayonet sticking out from behind a tree trunk. I naturally cast off and headed for your place. If you’ve got nothing against it I’ll drop anchor here for a few days. All right, mate? Good."
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Zhukhrai, still breathing heavily, began pulling off his mud-splashed boots.
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Pavel was glad he had come. The power plant had not been working latterly and Pavel felt lonely in the empty house.
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They went to bed. Pavel fell asleep at once, but Fyodor lay awake for a long time smoking.
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Presently he rose and, tiptoeing on bare feet to the window, stared out for a long time into the street. Finally, overcome by fatigue, he lay down and fell asleep, but his hand remained on the butt of the heavy Colt which he had tucked under the pillow.
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Zhukhrai’s unexpected arrival that night and the eight days spent in his company influenced the whole course of Pavel’s life. From the sailor Pavel learned much that was new to him, and that stirred him to the depths of his being.
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Driven into hiding, Zhukhrai made use of his enforced idleness to pass on to the eager Pavel all his passionate fury and burning hatred for the Ukrainian Nationalists who were throttling the area.
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Zhukhrai spoke in language that was vivid, lucid and simple. He had no doubts, his path lay clearly before him, and Pavel came to see that all this tangle of political parties with high-sounding names—Socialist-Revolutionaries, Social-Democrats, Polish Socialists—was a collection of vicious enemies of the workers, and that the only revolutionary party which steadfastly fought against the rich was the Bolshevik Party.
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Formerly Pavel had been hopelessly confused about all this.
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And so this staunch, stout-hearted Baltic sailor weathered by sea squalls, a confirmed Bolshevik, who had been a member of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) since 1915, taught Pavel the harsh truths of life, and the young stoker listened spellbound.
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"I was something like you, matey, when I was young," he said. "Just didn’t know what to do with my energy, a restless youngster always ready to kick over the traces. I was brought up in poverty.
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And at times the very sight of those pampered, well-fed sons of the town gentry made me see red.
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Often enough I beat them up badly, but all I got out of it was a proper trouncing-from my father.
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You can’t change things by carrying on a lone fight. You, Pavlusha, have all the makings of a good fighter in the workingman’s cause, only you’re still very young-and you don’t know much about the class struggle. I’ll put you on the right road, matey, because I know you’ll make good. I can’t stand the quiet, smug-sort. The whole world’s afire now. The slaves have risen and the old life’s got to be scuttled. But to do that we need stout fellows, not sissies, who’ll go crawling into cracks like so many cockroaches when the fighting starts, but men with guts who’ll hit out without mercy."
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His fist crashed down on the table.
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He got up, frowning1, and paced up and down the room with hands thrust deep in his pockets.
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His inactivity depressed him. He bitterly regretted having-stayed behind in this town, and believing any further stay to be pointless, was firmly resolved to make his way through the front to meet the Red units.
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A group of nine Party members would remain in town to carry on the work.
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"They’ll manage without me. I can’t sit around any longer doing- nothing1. I’ve wasted ten months as it is," Zhukhrai thought irritably.
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"What exactly are you, Fyodor?" Pavel had asked him once.
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Zhukhrai got up and shoved his hands into his pockets. He did not grasp the meaning of the question at first.
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"Don’t you know?"
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"I think you’re a Bolshevik or a Communist," Pavel said in a low voice.
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Zhukhrai burst out laughing, slapping his massive chest in its tight-fitting striped jersey.
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"Right enough, matey! It’s as much a fact as that Bolshevik and Communist are one and the same thing." Suddenly he grew serious. "But now that you’ve grasped that much, remember it’s not to be mentioned to anyone or anywhere, if you don’t want them to draw and quarter me. Understand?"
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"I understand," Pavel replied firmly. Voices were heard from the yard and the door was pushed open without a preliminary knock. Zhukhrai’s hand slipped into his pocket but emerged again when Sergei Bruzzhak, thin and pale, with a bandage on his head, entered the room, followed by Valya and Klimka.
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"Hullo, old man," Sergei shook Pavel’s hand and smiled. "Decided to pay you a visit, all three of us. Valya wouldn’t let me go out alone, and Klimka is afraid to let her go by herself. He may be a redhead but he knows what he’s about."
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Valya playfully clapped her hand over his mouth. "Chatterbox," she laughed. "He won’t give Klimka any peace today."
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Klimka showed his white teeth in a good-natured grin. "What can you do with a sick fellow?
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Brain pan’s damaged, as you can see." They all laughed.
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Sergei, who had not yet recovered from the effects of the sabre blow, settled on Pavel’s bed and soon the young people were engaged in a lively conversation. As he told Zhukhrai the story of his encounter with the Petlyura bandit, Sergei, usually so gay and cheerful, was quiet and depressed.
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Zhukhrai knew the three young people, for he had visited the Bruzzhaks on several occasions. He liked these youngsters; they had not yet found their place in the vortex of the struggle, but the aspirations of their class were clearly expressed in them. He listened with interest to the young people’s account of how they had helped to shelter Jewish families in their homes to save them from the pogrom. That evening he told the young folk much about the Bolsheviks, about Lenin, helping them to understand what was happening.
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It was quite late when Pavel’s guests left. Zhukhrai went out every evening and returned late at night; before leaving town he had to discuss with the comrades who would remain in town the work they would have to do.
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This particular night Zhukhrai did not come back, When Pavel woke up in the morning he saw at a glance that the sailor’s bed had not been slept in.