family was
broken up
and
Markino
had not a
sen to
help him
in
realizing
his
ambitions.
One of
these
ambitions
was to
learn
English.
He
attached
himself to
a near-by
mission
school and
did
janitor
work in
order to
learn the
language.
At
eighteen
he had
still
never been
outside
the round
of a few
provincial
towns but
he had
made up
his mind
to go to
America. I
visited
upon one
of the
missionaries
to whom I
had more
