"
And he began to whistle.
Pavel came in from the yard and said confidently:
"They won't find them!" He started to wash himself. Then carefully
rubbing his hands dry, he added: "If you show them, mother, that
you are frightened, they will think there must be something in this
house because you tremble. And we have done nothing as yet, nothing!
You know that we don't want anything bad; on our side is truth,
and we will work for it all our lives. This is our entire guilt.
Why, then, need we fear?"
"I will pull myself together, Pasha!" she assured him. And the
next moment, unable to repress her anxiety, she exclaimed: "I wish
they'd come soon, and it would all be over!"
But they did not come that night, and in the morning, in anticipation
of the fun that would probably be poked at her for her alarm, the
mother began to joke at herself.
CHAPTER VI
The searchers appeared at the very time they were not expected,
nearly a month after this anxious night. Nikolay Vyesovshchikov was
at Pavel's house talking with him and Andrey about their newspaper.
It was late, about midnight. The mother was already in bed. Half
awake, half asleep, she listened to the low, busy voices.
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