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vet across the paper; now, however, Anton Petrovich's hand shook, and the table heaved like the deck of a storm-tossed ship.... On a sheet of foolscap that Mityushin produced, Anton Petrovich wrote a cartel of defiance to Berg, three times calling him a scoundrel and concluding with the lame sentence: "One of us must perish."
Having done, he burst into tears, and Gnushke, clucking his tongue, wiped the poor fellow's face with a large red-checked handkerchief, while Mityushin kept pointing at the chessboard, repeating ponderously, "You finish him off like that king there—mate in three moves and no questions asked." Anton Petrovich sobbed, and tried to brush away Gn