All the conditions of the encounter made by Stavrogin were accepted on the spot, without the faintest objection.

Only one addition was made, and that a ferocious one.

If the first shots had no decisive effect, they were to fire again, and if the second encounter were inconclusive, it was to be followed by a third.

Kirillov frowned, objected to the third encounter, but gaining nothing by his efforts agreed on the condition, however, that three should be the limit, and that "a fourth encounter was out of the question." This was conceded.

Accordingly at two o'clock in the afternoon the meeting took place at Brykov, that is, in a little copse in the outskirts of the town, lying between Skvoreshniki and the Shpigulin factory.