Translated from the Russian by Rebecca Frank .· • 30 • THE OLD DOCTOR In a lifetime of seventy-five years and in a half century of healing the sick, Doctor Oreshchenkov had not raised him self stone mansions, but back in the twenties he had bought a one-story frame cottage with a small garden. He had lived in it ever since. The cottage stood on a quiet street. The street had a wide, tree-lined boulevard down the middle of it, and spacious sidewalks separated the house fr...
