"Read the paper, Marusya," said I. She read the document in which
Serge assigned the house to Marusya. The two women looked at me
with glad surprise.
"How did you ever get it?"
But I had decided to keep the thing a secret from them, and I did.
When I was discharged from the hospital, the war was long over, and
a treaty of peace had been signed. Had they asked me, I should not
have signed it.--