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The Fifteen Hundred Roubles
Also known as fifteen hundred roubles, the other fifteen hundred, those fifteen hundred roubles, the other fifteen hundred roubles.
The fifteen hundred roubles are the half of Katerina Ivanovna's money that Dmitri says he kept hidden instead of spending at Mokroe a month earlier. He presents the sum as the source of the money found on him after the murder alarm. To Dmitri, keeping and then tearing open that hidden half marks the difference between being a scoundrel and becoming a thief.
IX-VIII. The Evidence Of The Witnesses. The Babe
The witness examination works against the fifteen-hundred story. Trifon, the peasants, and Grushenka all remember Dmitri speaking as if he had spent or brought three thousand, not merely half.
XII-IV. Fortune Smiles On Mitya
Alyosha's testimony recalls Dmitri striking his breast and hinting that he had a means of not being a thief. The hidden half-sum becomes tied to Dmitri's own anguished idea of honor.
XII-IX. The Galloping Troika. The End Of The Prosecutor’s Speech.
The prosecutor treats the fifteen hundred as an invented explanation for missing money. In his version, the story cannot stand against Dmitri's poverty, boasting, and sudden cash.
XII-XI. There Was No Money. There Was No Robbery
The defense turns the same sum into the center of a competing account: the money at Mokroe was Dmitri's saved half, not the stolen contents of the envelope. If that is possible, Fetyukovitch argues, the robbery charge cannot be proved.
Epilogue II. For A Moment The Lie Becomes Truth
After the verdict, Trifon Borissovitch tears up parts of his inn looking for the treasure the prosecutor imagined hidden at Mokroe. The search gives the missing half-sum a grotesque afterlife.
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