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Updated: May 17, 2025
He has dandled me on his knee when I was a baby. Till I was too old for it, I drank my milk out of the gold mug he sent me at my birth. And Pietr Ternoff has been murdered. Am I to break bread with you to-night?" It was a quarter to one o'clock before Ivan finally shut the door upon his guests the hand of none of whom had he touched in farewell.
Nevertheless I was forced to ask, because the entire Quarter is being searched for the man who, at twelve minutes past six to-night, shot and instantly killed Major Ternoff, assistant secretary of police, as he was driving, in his open droschky, through the Pretchishlensky Boulevard, from the public offices of justice towards his home."
Uncomfortable, shame-stricken, afraid, as they were, they continued to sit at the table of the man they had used, and to eat his food and drink his wine. Only once Sergius ventured to turn to him, saying; "You do not eat. This vol-au-vent is perfect." But Ivan, turning his grave, black eyes on those of the speaker, made answer: "Pietr Ternoff was my mother's second cousin.
As they went he sketched, in three or four vivid sentences the events following the shooting of Ternoff: the finding of the pistol-dealer, who had put the police upon the assassin's track; Burevsky's fugitive week; Irina's escape; the sudden discovery of the arrangements for Burevsky's departure an hour ago; then the return flight from the station to their own quarter, ending in this final stand.
Perhaps all save Nicholas Rubinstein returned at first out of a malicious curiosity; for Moscow still buzzed about the death of Ternoff; and Ivan's name had got itself mysteriously coupled with the affair.
"Father, it is that I want Irina's pardon. Listen! Sergius Lihnoff has been her undoing. Freed from his fanaticism, his fascination, she will be as dangerous as a baby. She always hated the treachery. Before that supper she even begged me to give it up, or to postpone it to Sunday a day when Ternoff wouldn't leave the offices at his hour. I am willing to give myself as guarantee for her.
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