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On
learning
of
the
place
of
confinement
of
the
woman
who
had
been
arrested
,
he
presented
himself
at
the
doors
,
and
passed
so
well
for
a
smart
young
officer
of
gendarmery
that
the
sentry
saluted
and
sprang
to
attention
.
"
Have
you
been
on
duty
long
?
"
asked
Samosvitov
.
"
Since
this
morning
,
your
Excellency
.
"
"
And
shall
you
soon
be
relieved
?
"
"
In
three
hours
from
now
,
your
Excellency
.
"
"
Presently
I
shall
want
you
,
so
I
will
instruct
your
officer
to
have
you
relieved
at
once
.
"
"
Very
good
,
your
Excellency
.
"
Hastening
home
,
thereafter
,
at
top
speed
,
and
donning
the
uniform
of
a
gendarme
,
with
a
false
moustache
and
a
pair
of
false
whiskers
--
an
ensemble
in
which
the
devil
himself
would
not
have
known
him
,
Samosvitov
then
made
for
the
gaol
where
Chichikov
was
confined
,
and
,
en
route
,
impressed
into
the
service
the
first
street
woman
whom
he
encountered
,
and
handed
her
over
to
the
care
of
two
young
fellows
of
like
sort
with
himself
.
The
next
step
was
to
hurry
back
to
the
prison
where
the
original
woman
had
been
interned
,
and
there
to
intimate
to
the
sentry
that
he
,
Samosvitov
(
with
whiskers
and
rifle
complete
)
,
had
been
sent
to
relieve
the
said
sentry
at
his
post
--
a
proceeding
which
,
of
course
,
enabled
the
newly-arrived
relief
to
ensure
,
while
performing
his
self-assumed
turn
of
duty
,
that
for
the
woman
lying
under
arrest
there
should
be
substituted
the
woman
recently
recruited
to
the
plot
,
and
that
the
former
should
then
be
conveyed
to
a
place
of
concealment
where
she
was
highly
unlikely
to
be
discovered
.
Meanwhile
,
Samosvitov
's
feats
in
the
military
sphere
were
being
rivalled
by
the
wonders
worked
by
Chichikov
's
lawyer
in
the
civilian
field
of
action
.
As
a
first
step
,
the
lawyer
caused
it
to
be
intimated
to
the
local
Governor
that
the
Public
Prosecutor
was
engaged
in
drawing
up
a
report
to
his
,
the
local
Governor
's
,
detriment
;
whereafter
the
lawyer
caused
it
to
be
intimated
also
to
the
Chief
of
Gendarmery
that
a
certain
confidential
official
was
engaged
in
doing
the
same
by
HIM
;
whereafter
,
again
,
the
lawyer
confided
to
the
confidential
official
in
question
that
,
owing
to
the
documentary
exertions
of
an
official
of
a
still
more
confidential
nature
than
the
first
,
he
(
the
confidential
official
first-mentioned
)
was
in
a
fair
way
to
find
himself
in
the
same
boat
as
both
the
local
Governor
and
the
Chief
of
Gendarmery
:
with
the
result
that
the
whole
trio
were
reduced
to
a
frame
of
mind
in
which
they
were
only
too
glad
to
turn
to
him
(
Samosvitov
)
for
advice
.
The
ultimate
and
farcical
upshot
was
that
report
came
crowding
upon
report
,
and
that
such
alleged
doings
were
brought
to
light
as
the
sun
had
never
before
beheld
.
In
fact
,
the
documents
in
question
employed
anything
and
everything
as
material
,
even
to
announcing
that
such
and
such
an
individual
had
an
illegitimate
son
,
that
such
and
such
another
kept
a
paid
mistress
,
and
that
such
and
such
a
third
was
troubled
with
a
gadabout
wife
;
whereby
there
became
interwoven
with
and
welded
into
Chichikov
's
past
history
and
the
story
of
the
dead
souls
such
a
crop
of
scandals
and
innuendoes
that
by
no
manner
of
means
could
any
mortal
decide
to
which
of
these
rubbishy
romances
to
award
the
palm
,
since
all
them
presented
an
equal
claim
to
that
honour
.
Naturally
,
when
,
at
length
,
the
dossier
reached
the
Governor-General
himself
it
simply
flabbergasted
the
poor
man
;
and
even
the
exceptionally
clever
and
energetic
secretary
to
whom
he
deputed
the
making
of
an
abstract
of
the
same
very
nearly
lost
his
reason
with
the
strain
of
attempting
to
lay
hold
of
the
tangled
end
of
the
skein
.
It
happened
that
just
at
that
time
the
Prince
had
several
other
important
affairs
on
hand
,
and
affairs
of
a
very
unpleasant
nature
.
