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And why did you invite the porters to go with you to the police

station, to the lieutenant?' That's how I ought to have acted if

I had a grain of suspicion of you. I ought to have taken your

evidence in due form, searched your lodging and perhaps have

arrested you, too... so I have no suspicion of you, since I have

not done that! But you can't look at it normally and you see

nothing, I say again."

Raskolnikov started so that Porfiry Petrovitch could not fail to

perceive it.

"You are lying all the while," he cried, "I don't know your

object, but you are lying. You did not speak like that just now

and I cannot be mistaken!"