'Oh, yes,' they answered her, 'of course 'he's a fine gentleman, only he's a bad payer and when a man is that he's capable of doing everything that's bad.' 'You'll excuse me,' said the old lady, 'but I don't believe you: he's squandered his money but still he's a good man.' 'All right, madame, don't ask so many questions: you had better take a quiet walk along Nevsky Prospect or you'll find yourself leaving town very suddenly.' 'Oh, madame, a man who has a lot never has enough but the main thing is that he isn't used to paying and if you bother him too much he may make trouble for you.' Let him pay his debts and he'll still have plenty left.' 'Why is it impossible? His fortune comes to much more than he owes me and all the others. 'Well,' they would answer, 'you must get rid of the idea of things being all right for everybody-that's an idea the specialists* invented, but it's impossible.'Д«ut she, in her simplicity, still persisted. 'What consolation is it to me, gentlemen, that I am not the only sufferer? I'd much prefer that things were better for me and for the others.' 'Why do you want to go to all that trouble, madame? Better give it up! What can we do when he never pays anybody? If it is any consolation to you I can tell you that you are not the first and will not be the last.' Whoever the old lady turned to, gave her the same advice. Nor can I tell you exactly what should have been done with him the only thing I know is that the debtor had to be served with a writ and a receipt obtained from him-something that nobody, no official and no office, could achieve. Whatever they may have been, fate dealt kindly with him. I do not know anything about his connections and I do not think it matters. He was related by blood or through marriage to somebody in so high a position that he could not be called to account like other delinquents. It wasn't that the police or any of the court bailiffs were well disposed towards the debtor, they had long since had enough of him, were terribly sorry for the old lady and would gladly have helped her but. Petersburg to get justice.ДЄt first her efforts met with some success: the lawyer whom she saw was kindly and sympathetic, the court settled the matter quickly and in her favour, but when it came to the execution of the court order she came up against a snag, and such a snag that she was at her wits' end to know what to do. In despair the old lady scraped some money together, entrusted the invalid and the child to a kindly neighbour and hurried off to St. But time was passing, the mortgage would soon lapse and the poor woman, who had hoped to live out her life in her own house, suddenly saw the awful prospect of cold and hunger unfolding before her, her crippled daughter and baby grandchild.

Settling day came and went, the old lady sent letters to remind him of her existence-at first gentle reminders, then a little harder and, at last, abusive, with hints at dishonesty-but the debtor knew his business not one of her letters did he answer.

Petersburg in good order and then, needless to say, began that game of cat and mouse that is all too common in such cases. Petersburg.'ДЄt one time the old lady had known that gentleman's mother and had helped him for the sake of the old friendship he left for St. The financial difficulties from which the old lady had extricated him were the result of some momentary infatuation or carelessness at cards in his aristocratic club and would, of course, easily be set right 'once he arrived in St. The kindly old lady had believed him and, indeed, there was no reason not to, since her debtor belonged to one of the best families, had a brilliant career ahead of him and was in receipt of a good salary as well as a substantial income from his estate. The house had been mortgaged for fifteen thousand, all of which the young man had taken, promising to return it in the shortest possible time. Petersburg a little old lady, a landowner, who, to use her own words, had a most 'disgraceful case.' The fact of the matter was that she, out of her kindness of heart and her great simplicity, merely because she was sorry for him, had got a smart young society man out of trouble by mortgaging the house which constituted the entire fortune of the old lady herself, her crippled, bed-ridden daughter and her granddaughter. HannaДЄ few years ago there arrived in St. вЂњThe Enchanted Wanderer and Other StoriesвЂќ Genius has no age-it overcomes everything that halts

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