Volume 5: In London and Moscow · Episode 23: Episode 23—the English
Chapter XIII
The End of the Story Stranger Than the Beginning
At eight o’clock the next morning Jarbe told me that the Charpillon wanted to see me, and that she had sent away her chairmen.
“Tell her that I can’t see her.”
But I had hardly spoken when she came in, and Jarbe went out. I addressed her with the utmost calmness, and begged her to give me back the two bills of exchange I had placed in her hands the night before.
“I haven’t got them about me; but why do you want me to return them to you?”
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