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When, following Katúsha, Nekhlúdoff returned to the men's room, he found everyone there in agitation. Nabátoff, who went about all over the place, and who got to know everybody, and noticed everything, had just brought news which staggered them all. The news was that he had discovered a note on a wall, written by the revolutionist Pétlin, who had been sentenced to hard labour, and who, everyone thought, had long since reached the Kára; and now it turned out that he had passed this way quite recently, the only political prisoner among criminal convicts.
"On the 17th of August," so ran the note, "I was sent off alone with the criminals. Nevéroff was with me, but hanged himself in the lunatic asylum in Kazán. I am well and in good spirits and hope for the best."