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"You wouldn't have supposed it, eh? Wait a bit, I shall take you

in, too. Ha-ha-ha! No, I'll tell you the truth. All these

questions about crime, environment, children, recall to my mind

an article of yours which interested me at the time. 'On

Crime'... or something of the sort, I forget the title, I read it

with pleasure two months ago in the Periodical Review."

"My article? In the Periodical Review?" Raskolnikov asked in

astonishment. "I certainly did write an article upon a book six

months ago when I left the university, but I sent it to the

Weekly Review."

"But it came out in the Periodical."

"And the Weekly Review ceased to exist, so that's why it wasn't

printed at the time."

"That's true; but when it ceased to exist, the Weekly Review was

amalgamated with the Periodical, and so your article appeared two

months ago in the latter. Didn't you know?"

Raskolnikov had not known.