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"How does he get hold of them?" asked Zossimov.

"Koch has given the names of some of them, other names are on the

wrappers of the pledges and some have come forward of

themselves."

"It must have been a cunning and practised ruffian! The boldness

of it! The coolness!"

"That's just what it wasn't!" interposed Razumihin. "That's what

throws you all off the scent. But I maintain that he is not

cunning, not practised, and probably this was his first crime!

The supposition that it was a calculated crime and a cunning

criminal doesn't work. Suppose him to have been inexperienced,

and it's clear that it was only a chance that saved him--and

chance may do anything. Why, he did not foresee obstacles,

perhaps! And how did he set to work? He took jewels worth ten or

twenty roubles, stuffing his pockets with them, ransacked the old

woman's trunks, her rags--and they found fifteen hundred roubles,

besides notes, in a box in the top drawer of the chest! He did

not know how to rob; he could only murder. It was his first

crime, I assure you, his first crime; he lost his head. And he

got off more by luck than good counsel!"