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"I don't kno should I know?" said Maslova, casting a

frightened look round, and fixing her eyes for a moment on

Nekhludoff "He asked whonised ht Nekhludoff,

and the blood rushed to his face But Maslova turned aithout

distinguishing hiain fixed her eyes

anxiously on the public prosecutor

"So the prisoner denies having had any intimate relations with

Kartinkin? Very well, I have no more questions to ask"

And the public prosecutor took his elbow off the desk, and began

writing sooing over the letters of his notes with a pen, having seen

the procureur and leading advocates, after putting a clever

question, make a note, hich, later on, to annihilate their

adversaries

The president did not continue at once, because he was consulting

the reed that the

questions (which had all been prepared be forehand and written

out) should be put

"Well! What happened next?" he then went on

"I ca a little more boldly only at the

president, "and went to bed Hardly had I fallen asleep when one

of our girls, Bertha, woke ain uttered the word _he_ with evident horror--

"he kept treating our girls, and then wanted to send for one, and he sent s