26/43 "Why are such people allowed to kill ?" For some time Tsiganok had been looking sideways at Musya; now turning quickly, he stared at her sharply, straight into her face. Look, she is really laughing," he said, clasping Werner's knee with his clutching, iron-like fingers. "Look, look!" Reddening, smiling confusedly, Musya also gazed straight into his sharp and wildly searching eyes. The small cars kept hopping along the narrow rails. Now at a curve or at a crossing the small engine whistled shrilly and carefully--the engineer was afraid lest he might run over somebody. |