Volume 3: Book 14 - Chapter 6

Characters Present:

Denísov
Pétya Rostóv
Tíkhon Shcherbáty
A captured French drummer-boy

Location: 

Shámshevo


Tíkhon returns to Denísov, but empty handed.  He says that he captured a Frenchman a while ago, but he was useless, and didn't want to waste Denísov's time.  Tíkhon then describes another soldier that he tried to capture, and how he was thwarted by three other soldiers who chased after him with their "little swords".  

Petya wants to laugh, but doesn't as nobody else laughs.  He realises later that Tíkhon had actually murdered the first man, and feels bad for the drummer.