commotion in the room.

"Splendidly punted!" said the players. Chekalinsky shuffled the
cards afresh, and the game went on as usual.

. . . . .

Hermann went out of his mind, and is now confined in room number
seventeen of the Oboukhoff Hospital. He never answers any
questions, but he constantly mutters with unusual rapidity: "Three,
seven, ace! Three, seven, queen!"

Lizaveta Ivanovna has married a very amiable young man, a son of
the former steward of the old Countess. He is in the service of
the State somewhere, and is in receipt of a good income. Lizaveta
is also supporting a poor relative.

Tomsky has been promoted to the rank of captain, and has become the
husband of the Princess Pauline.



Vera Jelihovsky

The General's Will


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