Vanyusha did not approve of his theory, and announced that 'l'argent il n'y a pas!' and that therefore it was all nonsense.
Lukashka rode home, jumped off the horse, and handed it over to his mother, telling her to let it out with the communal Cossack herd.

He himself had to return to the cordon that same night.

His deaf sister undertook to take the horse, and explained by signs that when she saw the man who had given the horse, she would bow down at his feet.

The old woman only shook her head at her son's story, and decided in her own mind that he had stolen it.

She therefore told the deaf girl to take it to the herd before daybreak.
Lukashka went back alone to the cordon pondering over Olenin's action.
Though he did not consider the horse a good one, yet it was worth at least forty rubles and Lukashka was very glad to have the present.