-Yes.
"Come on, then.
Охромов took folder under his arm, and led the way Jora ahead of ourselves black strokes. In five minutes they were in the inner courtyard of the building at a heap of garbage. Climbing on it, they jumped over the fence and found themselves in the streets.
In the car Охромов sat down in the back seat.
-Let's click on sorting, " he commanded Жоре, — if you do not know the road, I will show you.
-How do I know? surprised Zhora.
Come on, let's go.
George felt beside his seat cold barrel "Kalashnik," but decided not to its use. As if noticing this, Охромов warned:
-No nonsense!
To get to the container platform of the metro station былло or agree with watchmen, or neutralize them. Жоре second seemed more real and acceptable. But Охромов signaled to:
-Do not these cheap tricks. Do good.
They got out and walked to the booth, where sat the guard.
Inside were two young guys with a dog. When George and Охромов came, the dog rose to meet them. Охромов resolutely stepped forward and took from his pocket a document. Not giving the guards time to recover, he said Hello and waving in front of their noses crusts document, said:
-I have an order to check the contents of one container...let the paper, he extended his hand Жоре, and he догдавшись, handed him the paper on the container.
One of the guys took the documents and the consignment note, but immediately handed back Охромову. The second went to the table, on which stood the antediluvian telephone. To make a call, it was necessary first to twist the handle.
Noticing this, Zhora thought Охромов still booby and fool green, and that it was not necessary сллушать, and take the machine, Yes under the gun twist Molodtsov: it would be more fun.
Is not what we should be handled. This is in office, " said the first guy, stretching back of the paper. — There are discharged pass, and check what you want.
"Well, we should go for the gun"thought George.
This is the time the clock struck twelve o'clock, and, as though at a signal, a dog, a cross between a shepherd and дворняши sitting at the table with a telephone, growled at his master, the second guard, apparently decided somewhere to call. In the market of her felt a threat, and he stopped.
"What you дупа, очумела? surprised he asked the dog.
-You document seen, is beginning to be angry, asked Охромов, " do you have any fool know who matter have?
"I understand, guiltily отвнтил that, but without a document-you can't miss: the order of this. Suddenly you're thieves? They won, now at stuff manage.
-Do we look like on the thieves? You see for yourself! — outraged Охромов. — Would we be thieves, not in the same manner talked with you.
-To me, documents are needed. Skipping.
-A pass, you fool! — Охроов pale with indignation.
From our office...
-Yes you know what our office needs in the pass from your office?!
-Well, then let the paper from your Ministry...
You see, what competent watchman, we caught?! — he turned to the Жоре when looking in his eyes the support and approval.
Zhora only shook his head, thinking that the case begins to smell kerosene, and it is time to go for a gun.
"You ass, you know that we just did nothing doing? — Охромов waved in front of his nose guy forefinger, and he involuntarily, staggered backward. — And if something tackle something like this, secretly and quietly, to keep the state secret and not бспокоить people, to all state criminals, traitors and enemies were found and seized without much noise and dust.
Охромов pronounced every word abruptly, evil, and the guard involuntarily stepped back. George thought that command out well. Besides watchdog like mad and didn't want to allow their owners to the phone.
Young guards, apparently, in the end brought to handle confident attacks Охромова and the strange behavior of their dog, and they surrendered without any documents. I groped in my documents, they said the room loading area.
Zhora and Охромов came to the territory of container station.
-Where to go? "asked George.
-There — have shown them by the hand of the watchman.
Container stood uncomfortable, the doors to the adjacent containers. Жоре had to climb up on the crane, and run it, raise and expand a container. When he went down for the first time felt the butterflies in all States. Approaching the moment where he waited, and he feared the most. All those crimes which he had to take on a way to it, all the dangers that lay in wait for him on the road, couldn't hurt his nerves like a simple understanding of what it all behind, and now, at arm's length his dream, for which he, as in the maelstrom of head, rushed at all serious. When they opened the container, he almost choked from the only thoughts: "if everything I did was in vain that there have long been уженичего not?!"
But doubts it quickly dispelled. Due to open doors to sprinkle the manuscripts, books, folders.
-Well, finally, with a sigh of relief Zhora, slumped down on the damp, cold ground.
He reached in his pocket for the cigarettes and lit up.
"What then shall we do, my friend? he asked Охромова. — How to share become?
-I already told you: I need one little box. He is here, amidst all of this. He is not even a drawer, in fact, and this box.
"I understand you, " said George. — And you don't need anything?
"No, " nodded Охромов. — the rest of the stuff can take to themselves.
-Wow! What's going valuable box?! Diamonds, diamonds, or what?! Yes there may not be.
"Well you can't. But there is something more valuable... At least for me.
-What is it?
-When we find and see. Let's, for the work soon the dawn will begin. By the morning of the container should be closed, as was. They went for hard work. Soon near a container on the asphalt pad rose mountains of books and folders. Side to them perched heavy, though forged coffers of some documents.
-You can rent one of those?! laughing hippopotamus, kicking over the leg of one such box.
-No, thank you, stuck with them myself, " replied Охромов.
He was angry, sweating and tired. Sitting on a book pile, he wiped the sweat from his forehead and asked George:
"Look here, and here everything is or is something missing?
-How would I know? "he ejaculated. Anyway, before I have stolen this container, — there was all that had to be: the entire cache.
Охромов wearily looked at Jora, then at the boundless womb двадцатитонного safe and groaned as toothache.
-M-m-m, we tenth of not dismantled! And till the morning we should stop it all
-Tell me what you're looking for? "asked George.
Greg looked at him wearily, and care and, if not heard the question, he continued his thinking aloud:
-It is unlikely that she is here. Most likely he's already taken. Listen, Бегетов, you don't remember such black boxes with a strange pattern: the circle, and there is a five-pointed star, only she kinda flipped riding down, and around the star and her strange hieroglyphs, squiggly?
-I remember something like that, " agreed George, " I even thought profitable to sell this thing (it resembled a box), but only after could find out what сспособом it opens.
-So what? 't understand?
-Had not. Went to a wedding trip, and here and took me from under the noses of all. Honestly говорря, I thought it was some микросейф for the transport of diamonds, the more, something within cannon continued to play. Tried to split and failed. Not even found the gap between вернхней and bottom cover...
"I understand, " according to nodded Охромов. — Vain tried, poor fellow. This is really something like микросейфа, but not what you think. And open it can only initiate.
-What is this thing? surprised Zhora. — And чтоже such a precious lies inside?
-If you managed to open this black box with a star, you would be disappointed, very very disappointed. There is only thirty себебрянных coins, and copper ring, instead of a stone silver print with an ingenious узрчиком. You couldn't even sell these silver coins, because one of touching the uninitiated causes it to die. He begins галлопирующие hallucinations, and he dies of fright.
-What are these strange coins? "asked George.
-Yes, coins, coins, suddenly Охромов made a strange movement towards Жроы and frightening he added in a whisper. — Just bought Christ.
Zhora was stunned by a sudden идвижения and strange whisper Охромова.
-So what? — сапросил it a little later.
-Oh, nothing, " replied Охромов. — You, by the way, is not very easy, when I tried to split the box?
-No, not in time.
"Well done, " nodded Grisha. — You was not long for this world.
-And what?
-Oh, nothing, is a small, innocuous взрывчик, and you are not.
-A casket?
-That box? Casket will explode. Only harm she no. After the explosion it to be like chunks of coal, they must be only to gather in a certain place, and in some special circumstances... chick and she will again be unbroken-unharmed.
-What are you talking about nonsense, " said George.
-Okay, I warn you, " said he, rising. You'll find a box — to portray her in the American Embassy in the name of Mr. Ромоффа. This is a business card.
Охромов stretched Жоре card with Golden initials in Russian and English "А.Х. Ромофф".
-And where are you going? "asked George.
-In the evening I had a plane. To America. You need to prepare for.
Охромов withdrew. His form disappeared into the darkness. Zhora tucked the card in his pocket, and not knowing why, not even aware that makes, furiously began to dismantle "its waste paper" in search boxes.
By the morning of the container was empty, no boxes among the papers, folders, and books appeared. Zhora finally exhausted. He worked with such fervor never before in life. Download all back its forces he was not able, and therefore had to go, уговривать watchmen to after the change helped him cope with the work for a bribe.
The guard themselves refused to work, but found as if from under the ground got him three homeless people, who for three bottles of vodka agreed to cope with his misfortune.
Five in the evening the container closed. Zhora sent him home by filing in the office of invoices from the table Толстунина. Then he went to his hotel. The work has been done. You can go home. Again he was fabulously rich.
George went to his hotel, where she lived with Veronika Гладышевым, with the intention to take them out of there, having arranged a farewell to small gala dinner in a sign of good luck and fortune.
And Охромов, and his black box completely flew out of his head. Neither he nor she was needed, and the tone of the future again were made of grey and pink.
Chapter 24. (010). 010 -> 011 -> 09; 010 -> 09
Was a rare day when Veronica't want to sleep during the day. To him it seemed she already rather cooled and therefore, going into the room, just called him to walk.
-Go though Moscow's look, " she suggested lazy and bored eyes looking round the room in which the eye not for that was hooked except for that strange picture that Gladyshev himself drew and hung over the table to the side of the wide Windows of the loggia.
"Let us go, almost indifferent he agreed, shrugging his shoulders and began to dress, occasionally sighing heavily and grunting during зашнуровывания shoes.
-What вздыхаешь so hard, Gladyshev? — раздразженно asked Veronica. — You already tired of my company? Tell us now!
Her voice he caught dislike more than usual, and it led him to the final sadness. "How hard it is, however, communicate with someone who hates you", — he thought, but responded:
-No, — he added — just don't like when me so strongly recommanded.
-I that command you?! Her voice there was genuine surprise and indignation. — You that, Gladyshev?!
-Not командуешь, said he, bowing, " but we say... do You keep me on a short leash, you know? I like a dog you have. Gladyshev — in bed, so in bed, Gladyshev in a tavern — a tavern, Gladyshev walk, then walk. And I'm, you know, che lo century. I should have its own life, and if I, for example, don't want to see you, then you should not be together with me until I don't want..
"Ah, there you're as зваговорил — Veronika became pale, white as a sheet. She stood in the position in which you can usually follow most of swearing women, slightly widened her legs and подбоченилась, flashed a biting grimace, squinted and rushed in to attack. — Sleep with me lay — also on the team? Yes you Gladyshev, if you already started yourself with a dog compare, more expensive forlorn and hopeless tykes cannot be assessed. Don't make yourself a wolfhound. With you day and scared! Boys some vstretyatsya, глянут on your face, and it got brick asks!
-No wolfhound I can't korзa, offended Gladyshev.
-Do not interrupt me! I'm not done yet and don't give. Oh, you're a free man! Remember, Veronica took a step toward him, her whole form resembled angry cat. "Remember, you hear?! You'll be a free man when you do your life! And while the money is to you I give, or hippopotamus! Is it clear?! And so you must do what he bids you, or I!
She approached him one step. Gladyshev involuntarily stepped back. He had never seen her like an enraged and furious, and so unwittingly scared and afraid.
-But you treat me like I'm your property, your toy! he tried to defend himself. — So even the most bad parents do not allow themselves to behave towards their children.
-But what are you saying?! — передразнила his Veronica. — really? A little, then you saw the boy, then talking. You actually realizes his words?
-I, — he retreated to the wall and stared at her back.
"No, " she shook her long finger with a sickly bright red fingernail Veronika in front of his face. — You don't understand! Because you bought Gladyshev, purchased! Behemoth bought you and gave me that I was not bored...
-He does not know what we are doing! — shouted Gladyshev, and in the same moment Veronica, just Panther напрыгнула at him, pressed to the wall, grabbed his face from below the chin, plunging the bright-red nails into the skin on the cheeks and chin, and hissed, exactly snake:
"Listen you moron life, a fragment of happiness, not for you to judge! Look, what a bastard! "...we are doing" means? Maybe you're with me? — Let formulated as follows: are you with me are you doing! Used my friendly disposition, absence of the husband — don't do all seducers? Huh?!
Палльцы Veronica slightly tightened and the skin under her fingernails turned pale.
-Now imagine that he learns about it! Pray to God, so it never happened! — she even stronger nails raked in cheek Gladysheva, and from under them glistening drops of blood.
