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"No, I've forgotten really. Or was it a dream? Wait a bit, wait a

bit! But what's the use of getting in a rage. If you'd drunk four

bottles yesterday as I did you'd forget where you were lying.

Wait a bit, I'll remember!"

Petritsky went behind the partition and lay down on his bed.

"Wait a bit! This was how I was lying, and this was how he was

standing. Yes-yes-yes.... Here it is!"-and Petritsky pulled a

letter out from under the mattress, where he had hidden it.