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...birthplace. In a round-up of Macedonian peasants by Serbian police, she was beaten, saved from worse tortures only because the commander wanted her for himself. Released by the commander's son, she joined Macedonian raiders who operated over the Bulgarian border, found herself with Todor Alexandrov, most famed and mysterious of Macedonian terrorists. During a wild, cross-country flight, in a lull between battles, he became her lover. She lived in Sofia in a house that was always guarded, was trained to carry messages whose meaning she did not know, traveled as a lady of fashion...
...Milja persuaded Todor to give the organization the purpose it had previously possessed he was assassinated by enemies in his own ranks. Indifferent to her own fate, emotionally exhausted, Milja lived in Paris, saw her onetime comrades destroy one another in fights for spoils. To get her to run one last secret errand, V. M. R. 0. offered the only bribe that could attract her-the name of the man who had killed her lover. But the betrayals had become too intricate; the man named was not Todor's murderer but merely another victim of the ruling clique. Milja...
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...Drenoff, Bulgaria, was celebrated the funeral of Efrem Todor, peasant. The village priest stood by his coffin, said calmly: "And he leaves all his property to the Church." Angrily all Efrem Todor's relatives rose up, protested bitterly that he did no such thing. From the coffin came a loud groan, a sound of splintering wood. Efrem Todor sat up. The priest fled in confusion, the villagers cheered...
Seventy people watched and heard. One of them, a man, raved in anguish as though he would go mad. He was Stefan Todor, confessed "lover" and sole heir of 46-year-old Frau Kardos who was reputed wealthy. She had refused him any word of affection or consolation before she went to Death. Groaning and raving, he climbed at last into his sleigh, drove off to the mocking tune of jingle bells...