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- EPILOGUE
Siberia. On the banks of a broad solitary river stands a town,
one of the administrative centres of Russia; in the town there
is a fortress, in the fortress there is a prison. In the prison the
second-class convict Rodion Raskolnikov has been confined for
nine months. Almost a year and a half has passed since his
crime.
There had been Uttle difl&culty about his trial. The criminal
adhered exactly, firmly, and clearly to his statement. He did not
confuse nor misrepresent the facts, nor soften them in his own
interest, nor omit the smallest detail. He explained every inci-
dent of the murder, the secret of the pledge (the piece of wood
with a strip of metal) which was found in the murdered
woman's hand. He described minutely how he had taken her
keys, what they were like, as well as the chest and its contents;
he explained the mystery of Lizaveta's murder; described how
Koch and, after him, the student knocked, and repeated all they
had said to one another; how he afterwards had run downstairs
and heard Nikolay and Dmitri shouting; how he had hidden in
the empty flat and afterwards gone home. He ended by indicat-
ing the stone in the yard off the Voznesensky Prospect under
which the purse and the trinkets were found. The whole thing.
in fact, was perfectly clear. The lawyers and the judges were
very much struck, among other things, by the fact that he had
hidden the trinkets and the purse under a stone, without making
use of them, and that, what was more, he did not now remember
what the trinkets were like, or even how many there were. Tho
fact that he had never opened the purse and did not even know
how much was in it seemed incredible. There turned out to btv
in the purse three hundred and seventeen roubles and sixty co-
pecks. From being so long under the stone, some of the most val-
uable notes lying uppermost had suffered from the damp. They
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