husband of the Princess Pauline.


FOOTNOTES OF _THE QUEEN OF SPADES_:

[1: Said of a card when it wins or loses in the quickest possible
time.]

[2: Diminutive of Lizaveta (Elizabeth).]



VERA JELIHOVSKY


_THE GENERAL'S WILL_


I

It happened in winter, just before the holidays. Ivan Feodorovitch
Lobnitchenko, the lawyer, whose office is in one of the main streets
of St. Petersburg, was called hurriedly to witness the last will and
testament of one at the point of death. The sick man was not strictly
a client of Ivan Feodorovitch; under other circumstances, he might
have refused to make this late call, after a day's heavy toil ... but
the dying man was an aristocrat and a millionaire, and such as he meet
no refusals, whether in life, or, much more, at the moment of death.

Lobnitchenko, taking a secretary and everything necessary, with a sigh