1+           -----                       -----   Total 1792 Total 1819    * August--the 8th month    + January--the 1st month of the year. of the year. 1 1 7 8 9 1 2 9             ---                         ---   Total 19! Total 19! Napoleon died on May Ilya Tyeglev died on 5th, 1825. April 21st, 1834. 1825 1834 5 21 5*                          7+           -----                       -----   Total 1835 Total 1862    * May--the 5th month       + July--the 7th month of the year. of the year. 1 1 8 8 3 6 5 23            --                           --      Total 17! Total 17! 

Poor fellow! Was not this perhaps why he became an artillery officer?

As a suicide he was buried outside the cemetery--and he was immediately forgotten.

  XVIII

The day after Tyeglev's burial (I was still in the village waiting for my brother) Semyon came into the hut and announced that Ilya wanted to see me.

"What Ilya?" I asked.

"Our pedlar."

I told Semyon to call him.

He made his appearance. He expressed some regret at the death of the lieutenant; wondered what could have possessed him....

"Was he in debt to you?" I asked.

"No, sir. He always paid punctually for everything he had. But I tell you what," here the pedlar grinned, "you have got something of mine."

"What is it?"

"Why, that," he pointed to the brass comb lying on the little toilet table. "A thing of little value," the fellow went on, "but as it was a present..."

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