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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 81
"Yes; and I have business with her, too."
"Well, what can we do? Go back, I suppose. Aie — aie! And 1
was hoping to get some money!" cried the young man.
"We must give it up, of course, but what did she fix this
time for? The old witch fixed the time for me to come herself.
It's out of my way. And where the devil she can have got to,
I can't make out. She sits here from year's end to year's end,
the old hag; her legs are bad and yet here all of a sudden she i«
out for a walk!"
"Hadn't we better ask the porter?"
"What?"
"Where she's gone and when she'll be back."
"Hm. . . . Damn it all! . . . We might ask. . . . But you know
she never does go anywhere."
And he once more tugged at the door-handle.
"Damn it all. There's nothing to be done, we must go!"
"Stay!" cried the young man suddenly. "Do you see how the
door shakes if you pull it?"
"Well?"
"That shows it's not locked, but fastened with the hook! Do
you hear how the hook clanks?"
"Well?"
"Why, don't you see? That proves that one of them is at
home. If they were all out, they would have locked the door
from outside with the key and not with the hook from inside.
There, do you hear how the hook is clanking? To fasten the
hook on the inside they must be at home, don't you see. So there
they are sitting inside and don't open the door!"
"Well! And so they must be!" cried Koch, astonished. "What
are they about in there!" And he began furiously shaking the
door.
"Stay!" cried the young man again. "Don't pull at it! There
must be something wrong. . . . Here, you've been ringing and
pulling at the door and still they don't open! So either they've
both fainted or . . ."
"What?"
"I tell you what. Let's go and fetch the oorter, let him wake
them up."
"All right."
Both were going down.
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