He then turned from the Jew, who followed him, however, as closely as his shadow.

‘So I did,’ rejoined his friend; ‘but I have thought further of the matter since then. You distrust me in the business—you shall find her out yourself.’

‘Now then,’ cried that gentleman, ‘are you going to sleep all day, up there—’

The officer and soldiers who had arrested Pierre treated him with hostility but yet with respect, in the guardhouse to which he was taken. In their attitude toward him could still be felt both uncertainty as to who he might beperhaps a very important personand hostility as a result of their recent personal conflict with him.