I wanted to keep him.

"Wait a bit, Nikolay," said I, "won't you have a drink ?" And I signed to the boy to hold the door, and I came out from behind the bar; but he darted out and down the street to the turning at a run.
I have not seen him since.

Then my doubts were at an end--it was his doing, as clear as could be....'" "I should think so," said Zossimov.
"Wait! Hear the end.

Of course they sought high and low for Nikolay; they detained Dushkin and searched his house; Dmitri, too, was arrested; the Kolomensky men also were turned inside out.

And the day before yesterday they arrested Nikolay in a tavern at the end of the town.