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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 165
"Well, what do you want? Who are you?" the workman
shouted, going out to him. Raskolnikov went inside again.
"I want to take a flat," he said. "I am looking round."
"It's not the time to look at rooms at night; and you ought
to come up with the porter."
"The floors have been washed, will they be painted?" Raskol-
nikov went on. "Is there no blood?"
"What blood?"
"Why, the old woman and her sister were murdered here.
There was a perfect pool there."
"But who are you?" the workman cried, imeasy.
"Who am I?"
"Yes."
"You want to know? Come to the police station, I'll tell
you."The workmen looked at him in amazement.
"It's time for us to go, we are late. Come along, Alyoshka.
We must lock up," said the elder workman.
"Very well, come along," said Raskolnikov indifferently, and
going out first, he went slowly downstairs. "Hey, porter," he
cried in the gateway.
At the entrance several people were standing, staring at the
passers-by; the two porters, a peasant woman, a man in a long
coat and a few others. Raskolnikov went straight up to them.
"What do you want?" asked one of the porters.
"Have you been to the police office?"
"I've just been there. What do you want?"
"Is it open?"
"Of course."
"Is the assistant there?"
"He was there for a time. What do you want?"
Raskolnikov made no reply, but stood beside them lost in
thought.
"He's been to look at the flat," said the elder workman,
coming forward.
"Which flat?"
"Where we are at work. 'Why have you washed away the
blood?' says he. 'There has been a murder here,' says he and
'I've come to take it.' And he began ringing at the bell, all but
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