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chandelier to the glossy wooden oor, added, “ e house is
being con scated for the use of the police.”

Leiby sighed. He had known all along that there was no chance
that they would be able to live in the house for long. He knew
that they should have dirtied and damaged the pristine walls
and perhaps broken some of the mahogany oorboards and
generally given the house a more neglected appearance, and
then, maybe, it would not have stirred Stefan’s jealousy.

Stefan waited a little longer to supervise the packing up of all
Leiby’s family’s meager possessions. Leiby bundled everything
into some large blankets and tied up their corners, while Stefan

Chapter 3strutted around the house as if it was already his own. It did not

even enter his mind to apologize to Leiby for evicting him from
his house, though he knew Leiby well from his days under his
Leibcoympemekanedd oinutthoef tfhoerensta.rrow window next to the door but in
the Sdtuesfkainnehssadofbteheenstaairfuwgeiltli,vhee, ceoscualpdend’t sfereomanyathpinrigso. ner-of-war
“Wchaomisp.it?H” heewasakseda. Ukrainian and the raging anti-Semitism
that had owed in his blood for generations had reached new
Whleenvelnsoinrtehpelyprwisaosn fcoarmthpc.oWmihnegn,ehveer oLpeeibnyedhatdheretwuirnndeodwf,rom
climmbielditaurpy oopnetorattihoensdrwaiitnhptiphee,ttrhoeonp,shliedhdaodwmnasdteeacletrhtialiyn, ctoatw- alk
likea, lafnewdinstgejpusstbbeehhininddetvheerymoynseteerlisoeu,ssgoutehsat.tNSotewfaLneoibryacnoyulodther
see hliikme-cmleianrdlyedanhdoswtiales spuarrptirsiasendctoousldeentohta“tahcceiwdeanstjaulslty”asyhoouontghim
boyinwthhoe abpapceka…red to be about ten years old, short and thin,
with dark eyes and a pale face. His clothes looked ragged and at
leasLt tewiboyscizaests blaarcgkerinthhains mhiisnsdmtaollthfreamrestnteimedeedh,eahnaddhmisesthSoteesfan.
werHe feulhlaodf ahrorilvees.d at the forest and was wandering about trying to

nd a partisan group who he could join, but they were all well-
Leibhyidldeedntahnedbtohyerientwoatshneohtoausliev,inligt tshoeulkienrossiegnhet. sAtofvteer ahnadving
heatweadlkuepdsoarmouenmdilfko.r hoenurhs,etswlioceadrma tehdicmk epniescuedodfebnrleyadapapnedared
slathfreormedoitutliboefrnalolywwheitrhe,jraimgh.t in front of him, and pointed their

egbuonys wstoralfiegdhtdoatwhnisthheeafodo. d hungrily and took great gulps of
the “mSpilyk,.stHope!”loSotkeefadnt,ootnaelloyfetxhheamusetned, r,oaanrdedLmeiebnyacoinegrley.dHheimburst
his ibnetdo. wild laughter at the sight of Leiby’s terri ed face, ordered

ehbimoytsolerpetmtohveeehnitsirweadtacyh,,wtaakkeinog uhpisobnolyottsh, eanndextot mtuornrnainrogu.nd,
Leibhyissbliaccekdthoimtheantroeteh.eLrepibieycewoasf pboresaitdiv, esptrheaatdhiitswenitdh hoaildacnodme.
heat“eIdhuavpeaapsoerctrieotnthoaftpIotcaatno steolulpo.nOlynctoe yaogauirn,cothmembaonydaert,e” he