Goodnight, prince.
- Goodnight.
Listen, Mr.Terentieff,
l believe
You speak in your manuscript
of your skeleton and wish leave it to the Academy?
You mean your own skeleton,
your bones you mean, isn't it?
-Yes, my bones.
- That's all right then.
- l asked for fear there should be a mistake.
l've been told there was such a case.
How can you tease him?
No, excuse me, it's a strange
way of this things.
''l shoot myself in the park,
so as not to upset anyone.
That's his notion
he won't upset anyone
if he goes down three steps into the park.
Gentlemen. Gentlemen. l.
No, allow me,
honoured prince.
ln the first place,
he must give up the pistol
he boasted about before us all,
and all the ammunition too.
lf he gives it up,
l consent to let him
stay the night in this house,
in consideration of his invalid state.
But tomorrow he must certainly
go about his business.
Excuse me, prince!
lf he won't give up his weapon,
l'll send at once to inform the police.
Mr.Ferdishenko, as a friend, will go for them.
- But he's going to shoot himself.
- He's going to shoot himself.
He won't shoot himself!
No, he won't shoot himself! He won't shoot himself!
Enough, Lebedev!
lf the prince study,
under the table,
is my bag, Colia will show you,
here's the key.
But on condition that tomorrow
you'll give me back my pistol. Do you hear?
Take the pistol,
but tomorrow you'll give me it back.
l do it for the prince, not for you.
Do you hear?
That's what he's been after, they should hold his hands,
that's what he read his confession for.
-What wretches they all are!
- Leave them. You're very weak.
- Hippolyte, Hippolyte, what is the matter with you?
- Enough.
Goodbye, prince.
- Oh God!
- Hippolyte!
Well, what is this?
- Good heavens!
-Ah? What?
- Did it miss fire?
Perhaps it was not loaded?
lt was loaded! But...
Can it have missed fire?
There was no cap in it.
l swear!
l swear, l had forgotten to put the cap
on the pistol.
l had forgotten to put it.
l was afraid of it would have shot in the pocket.
Do you understand? Shot in the pocket.
The caps? All the caps here, a dozen of them,
in the waist coat pocket.
Do you understand? Really.
l had counted on always having time to put a cap in.
l had forgotten it. Do you understand?
l had forgotten it.
Keller, give me the pistol
back!
The faint.
Go for a doctor.
Keep up the head.
- Careful!
- Let's go upstairs.
This way.
- Goodbye, prince.
- See you, prince.
- See you.
- See you.
Gentlemen, if any one of you ever once insinuates
in my presence
the cap was forgotten
intentionally,
and the unhappy young man
was acting a farce,
he'll will have to deal with me.
You wanted to speak to me
when the others had gone, didn't you?
Just so.
You see, prince,
for once in my life, l want to do
something absolutely honest
without any ulterior motive,
l think at this moment
l'm not quite capable of doing
anything perfectly honest
and you
too perhaps.
By the way,
are you going to the patient now
Yes.
- l'm afraid...
- Don't be afraid..
He'll live another six weeks,
and he may even get well here.
But the best thing
you can do is to get rid of him tomorrow.
Perhaps l really
did egg him on by
not saying anything.
he may have thought l didn't believe
he would shoot himself?
l've heard tell of such things,
but l've never seen
a man shoot himself on purpose to win applause,
or from spite, because he was not applauded for it.
And, what's more,
l wouldn't have believed in such
on open exhibition of feebleness!
You'd better get rid of him.
This gentleman is capable
of murdering a dozen people
simply as he read
in his explanation.
Those words of his won't let me sleep now.
You are
too anxious perhaps.
You don't believe he's capable of killing
a dozen persons now?
l'm afraid to answer you. lt's all very strange; but...
As you like!
As you like!
But don't you be one of the dozen
He won't kill anyone.
Goodbye,