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Updated: May 29, 2025
And in the dawn, which filled the dosshouse, a solemn stillness reigned over all. Long and silently they sat at the feet of their dead companion, seldom looking at him, and both plunged in thought. Then Tyapa asked: "Will you bury him?" "I? No, let the police bury him!" "You took money from Vaviloff for this petition . . . and I will give you some if you have not enough."
"He has punished me enough already in forcing me to have conversation with you . . . I will kill you on the spot like a fly!" He shook his fist in Vaviloff's face and ground his teeth till they nearly broke. After he had gone Vaviloff began smiling and winking to himself. Then two large drops rolled down his cheeks.
"But tell me, why did you make the acquaintance of your future neighbors like this through the law courts?" Vaviloff shrugged his shoulders and did not answer. "It would have been better to come straight to us and settle the matter peacefully, eh? What do you think?"
Vaviloff looked at his companion with his round eyes and shivered, as if experiencing an unpleasant sensation. "Pardon me . . . sign it? And why?" "There is no difficulty about it . . . write your Christian name and surname and nothing more," explained Petunikoff, pointing obligingly with his finger to the place for the signature. "Oh!
"Well, worthy descendant of Judas and Cain, tell us ..." "They decided" ... said Vaviloff, sighing and lowering his eyes. "I don't doubt it; how many silver pieces did you receive?" "Four hundred roubles ..." "Of course you are lying ... But all the better for me.
And Vaviloff felt that the Captain could and would ruin him with the greatest pleasure. He must needs bow before this power. Nevertheless, the soldier thought of trying him once more.
Vaviloff did not understand at all; but the Captain spoke in such a serious and convincing tone that the sergeant's eyes burned with curiosity, and, telling him that he would see if the papers were in his desk, he went through the door behind the bar. Two minutes later he returned with the papers in his hand, and an expression of extreme astonishment on his face.
"What shall we arrange, then?" asked Vaviloff, sadly and seriously. "Tell me your terms." "Well, give me the six hundred mentioned in the claim." "Won't you take a hundred roubles?" asked the merchant, calmly, looking attentively at his companion, and smiling softly. "I will not give you one rouble more," ... he added.
And when Vaviloff had received the hundred roubles and signed the paper, he threw the pen down on the table and said bitterly: "Now I will have a nice time! They will laugh at me, they will cry shame on me, the devils!" "But you tell them that I paid all your claim," suggested Petunikoff, calmly puffing out clouds of smoke and watching them float upward. "But do you think they will believe it?
Vaviloff looked after him and sighed, feeling as if he would like to shout some insult at the young man who was going with such firm steps towards the steep road, encumbered with its ditches and heaps of rubbish. In the evening the Captain appeared in the eating-house. His eyebrows were knit and his fist clenched. Vaviloff smiled at him in a guilty manner.
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