‘Exactly. And of the other two, one was nursing a baby and the other was, well, blonde in the Russian style. So where is the real Marfa Nikolaevna?’
‘In the prison. She must have been put in the wrong cart.’
‘We have been to the prison. We have checked all the prisoners who were readmitted that day. None of them’, said Peter Ivanovich, ‘is Marfa Nikolaevna.’
Porfiri Porfirovich frowned.
‘Are you sure? Quite sure? Who did the checking? You can’t rely on the prison officers.’
‘Novikov,’ said Peter Ivanovich. ‘He went over there and checked them personally.’
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