All the peasants around here know that he had a lot of money in the bank and that he had been selling gold to the Government.

Here they were murdered." Ivan stepped to the stove, took out a flaming stick and, bending over, lighted a spot on the floor.
"Do you see these spots on the floor and on the wall?
It is their blood, the blood of Gavronsky.

They died but they did not disclose the whereabouts of the gold.

It was taken out of a deep hole which they had drifted into the bank of the river and was hidden in the cellar under the shed.

But Gavronsky gave nothing away.