Raskolnikov hides the stolen pledges under a stone instead of using them, counting them, or even fully knowing what he has taken. The act exposes the failure of the imagined profit motive: the loot becomes a burden he can only bury.
Epilogue
The untouched hidden objects later support the idea that the murders were not ordinary robbery, even though they were legally bound to theft.
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