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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 131
oflf on the spree; he had come home at daybreak drunk, stayed in
the house about ten minutes, and went out again. Dmitri didn't
see him again and is finishing the job alone. And their job is on
the same staircase as the murder,, on the second floor. When I
heard all that I did not say a word to any one' — that's Dushkin's
tale — 'but I found out what I could about the murder, and went
home feeling as suspicious as ever. And at eight o'clock this
morning' — that was the third day, you imderstand — 'I saw
Nikolay coming in, not sober, though not so very drunk — he
could understand what was said to him. He sat down on the
bench and did not speak. There was only one stranger in the
bar and a man I knew asleep on a bench and our two boys.
'Have you seen Dmitri?' said I. 'No, I haven't,' said he. 'And
you've not been here either?' 'Not since the day before yester-
day,' said he. 'And where did you sleep last night?' 'In Peski,
with the Kolomensky men.' 'And where did you get those ear-
rings?' Iasked. 'I found them in the street,' and the way he
said it was a bit queer; he did not look at me. 'Did you hear
what happened that very evening, at that very hour, on that
same staircase?' said I. 'No,' said he, 'I had not heard,' and all
the while he was listening, his eyes were staring out of his head
and he turned as white as chalk. I told him all about it and he
took his hat and began getting up. I wanted to keep him. 'Wait a
bit, Nikolay,' said I, 'won't you have a drink?' And I signed to
the boy to hold the door, and I came out from behind the bar;
but he darted out and down the street to the turning at a rim.
I have not seen him since. Then my doubts were at an end — it
was his doing, as clear as could be. . . ."
"I should think so," said Zossimov.
"Wait! Hear the end. Of course they sought high and low
for Nikolay; they detained Dushkin and searched his house;
Dmitri, too, was arrested; the Kolomensky men also were
turned inside out. And the day before yesterday they arrested
Nikolay in a tavern at the end of the town. He had gone there,
taken the silver cross off his neck and asked for a dram for it.
They gave it to him. A few minutes afterwards the woman went
to the cowshed, and through a crack in the wall she saw in the
stable adjoining he had made a noose of his sash from the beam»
stood on a block of wood, and was trying to put his neck in
the noose. The woman screeched her hardest; people ran in. 'So
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