# Diamond lady (англ)

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Natalya Patratskaya


Diamond lady


Chapter 1

A white convertible drove slowly past black cars. A graceful woman sat behind the wheel of a white car, she imperceptibly looked at the men sitting in black cars, hoping to meet her idol. Black and white leather jacket underlined its ambiguity. Black and white bag underlined jacket. The white part of the jacket favorably set off her horse tail. The black part of the jacket was wearing black leather trousers.

The smell of perfume burst from her car into the gasoline vapors of the highway. In one of the traffic jams, next to the white car, a black car stopped with a young man at the wheel. The eyes of the two hunters met, and they realized that they had found each other for this spring. Two cars drove on together. Cars like stuck together, it turned out the car-catamaran on the road. The young man and the girl held hands. One car was with the right wheel, and the second with the left. They held their steering wheels and talked at the same time.

The man's name was Apollo, he opened his spring adventure hunt in a cherry leather jacket and black leather trousers. Dissatisfied cars circled their side. Two hunters met on the freeway, but where is the game? Two cars together drove into the parking lot, as if they were glued together. Agnes and Apollo went out to meet each other. He was half a head taller than her, the size of his torso from waist to head was the same as hers, but his legs were much longer.

They got into their cabriolets, but their cars did not disperse. They drove with one speed, and it is very difficult in a busy spring city, when after winter hibernation all the cars got out. They stopped at another car park, where two cars could arrive at the same time, as if they were not two cars, but a catamaran convertible.

Apollo already knew that he did not want to continue to hunt for a woman from a white car, but he thought he did. He knew one thing and thought another. Agnes thought that this young man did not suit her, but she firmly knew what was appropriate. They again got out of their cars, knowing that they were absolutely suitable for each other in height.

- What do we do? - Apollo asked, playing a ring in front of the eyes of a young girl.

'We'll leave the cars and go by taxi,' Agnessa replied calmly, showing a large diamond brooch on the lapel of the jacket.

- Leave in different directions? - Apollo specified, never taking his eyes off the diamond brooch.

'To their homes,' the girl unexpectedly angrily replied, wringing a jacket in order to cover up the beauty of an open chest.

Apollo flashed a ring with a diamond, pulling out a cell phone. And here is the game! They again changed their minds about each other and decided that they could continue to hunt for such brilliant stones. Apollo called two taxis. But two taxis stuck together in one ... The drivers of the other cars were completely confused, and Apollo laughed nervously. Drivers of other cars stood at four cars and did not know what to do. Apollo called an emergency car, but two cars arrived and stuck together.

Agnes from the trunk of her car took out her shoes with heels, and even with a platform on the sole. Its growth has increased significantly. They walked and laughed. She looked closely at the diamond, but it turned out to be fake. He looked at the brooch and thought it was jewelry.

But the game did not bother them anymore! The sun shone in his eyes, and their growth was the same. They smiled at each other and stuck together in a kiss. How long have they stood, joined by one long kiss? Not at all. The cars were parked in the parking lot, and no one could separate them and evacuate them. No one could disassemble the car for parts, because the one who approached them, he stuck and fell asleep.

A terrible sight was inside the city. The city authorities have decided to make the roof over the cars and protect this strange place from people, birds and animals.


Detective Musin unwittingly looked out the window: it was snowing outside. The snow flew and circled. Graceful snowflakes, dancing in the air, calmly clinging to the long needles of the pines. Sometimes the needles did not hold the snowflakes, and they, falling from the needles, flew to the ground. The young man looked out the window of the house, located next to the jewelry store. Through the snowy shroud was visible entrance to the store, for which he unwittingly watched. People entered and left the store without attracting his attention.

Suddenly he felt a surge of attention to the young lady in a white fur coat with a red long scarf, tied under a collar. The ends of the scarf coincided with the length of the coat. She wore red mittens on her hands, and she was wearing a red pompon on her head. Such a bright girl made him rise from his seat and go out into the street.

In the brick tower, located next to the pine forest, located shop "Silver Hoof". He entered the store. The light of day lamps illuminated small shiny stones on rings and earrings. The girl was standing at the window with gold ornaments. She was uncontrollably attracted to her transparent stones in a gold design. She asked the seller to show the diamond earrings. The crystal edges gleamed on her palm so closely and ghostly that she put them on her earlobe and looked in the mirror.

Transparent edges, shimmering in the light of lamps, caused her a strange feeling that she knows how to find diamonds in this world. She never had diamonds in her house. But when she read about them in books or watched movies with a chase, she always thought she knew before any hero the answer to the question: "Where can I find diamonds?" She loved diamond detectives.

The girl thought for a moment and returned the earrings with small diamonds to the seller. She had enough money for earrings with tourmaline, which reminded her of Rowan berries.

Musin did not doubt that the girl would buy red stones to match the color of the scarf and pom-pom. Soon he again saw the charming creature. He had a burning desire to get to know her again.

Light snow sparkled in the rays of a street lamp. The girl spun on one leg with snowflakes, like an earring in her ear, when she checked whether she was there. Her bright fur coat in snowflakes turned into a sparkling miracle. He took a step toward the girl. She looked at him in surprise. He was wearing a dark short coat with a fluffy checkered scarf around his neck.

'Hello,' said the girl confusedly. - I saw you somewhere! I think I know you.

'Good evening,' the young man smiled. - My name is Apollo. If you saw me, it is not by chance.

- And my name is Agnes! And I invite you to the buns with tea. Buns are very unfashionable pastries, but they are great for mom!

- I will not refuse your invitation. Are you afraid to invite a stranger?

'I have a feeling that we have known each other for a long time,' the girl said slowly.

They entered the nearest entrance, climbed the stairs to the third floor, and stopped in front of a door studded with carnations with large hats. The door was opened by a slender middle-aged woman with a short haircut.

- Mom, meet, this is Apollo! - introduced Agnes young man.

- Nice to meet you! - smiled her mom. - Agnessa, you went to your friend Tatiana, and you came with a young man. How to understand you?

- I left the house, circled among the snowflakes, and Apollo stopped near me. Mom, we will sit in our house and never go anywhere, 'the girl replied, completely forgetting about her friend. - Apollo, take off the coat, we will drink tea.

They sat on chairs with curved backs, standing around an oval table covered with a tablecloth with embroidered satin pansies. There was a set of furniture in the room: a polished sideboard with crystal tableware, a wardrobe and a TV on the nightstand.

On a large flat plate lay fresh buns, sprinkled with powdered sugar. Agnes brewed fresh tea in a teapot, from the tip of which hung a metal strainer. Strong tea, she poured into white cups on saucers. Warm and comfortable in the room. On the black and white TV screen skaters flashed.

Just now, Agnessa looked at Apollo. Black thick eyebrows accentuated large brown eyes. Black and cherry-colored wavy hair was brushed back. She always liked such male hairstyles. Straight nose looked nice over large lips, warmed tea ...

Apollo looked back at Agnes: dark blond hair was lying on her shoulders, her large gray eyes were shining, a dimple was shining from a smile ...

"They don't look alike," her mother thought at the time.

- Agnessa, who is our guest? Whose clothes are hanging in the hallway? - asked the man who entered the apartment.

- Dad, meet Apollo.

The man undressed, washed his hands, changed his clothes and entered the room.

- Hello, Apollo! I am the father of Agnes.

- Good evening! Excuse me for the evening invasion, - Apollo shook his hand.

- Look, Apollo, do not offend our Agnes.

'I won't hurt,' he answered, and pulled his hand over the next bun.

- Mother, let's do something more serious than these buns. And Apollo will eat with us, but we do not keep vodka. Not allowed. And rarely indulge in beer.

- Yes, and I do not drink. My job requires precision: I am a grinder, 'said the guest.

- It's good that you do not drink. Good workers never drink.

'Apollo, come to my room,' suggested Agnes.

They went into the girl's room. The door closed behind them.

- Mother, and the guy is good! - exclaimed father Agnes.

- True, father. And I liked this guy. Agnes eyes shine. I feel that with this guy for a long time the novel will be delayed.

In the room of Agnes wallpaper and curtains were conspicuous in white and pinkish tones. It was clean, neat, decent. Apollo sat down in a chair with his hands on the wooden arms. Next to him was an oval coffee table, made of polished wood. On the table lay an embroidered napkin, a crystal flower vase.

'You know, Agnes, you are missing diamonds in your ears,' remarked the young man.

- Apollo, are you kidding? Why do I need diamonds? Me and tourmaline enough! I recently bought these earrings at the Silver Hoof store. I asked the seller to show me the diamond earrings. And involuntarily put them to the earlobe. I looked in the mirror: the diamond edges, shimmering in the rays of light from lamps, made me feel strange that I knew how diamonds could be found in this world.

'Agnessa, do you like diamonds ?!' So this is great! I like them too! - Apollo interrupted her with joy. - And tourmalines in your ears look like rowan berries. And I love the brilliance of crystal and diamonds. I love it when the glass is sparkling, 'Apollo said dreamily.

- I'll turn on the music. I have a new record with songs and a turntable with speakers. I already know almost all the songs from her.

- Do you sing songs with records? I never sing along with singers.

- I have huge books with reproductions of paintings. Would you like to see?

- I'll take a look. With you I can see the reproductions of paintings.

Young people began to turn a large book with reproductions of paintings, which depicted palaces, apartments, interiors, sculptures.

'Agnes, only diamonds will do for you,' Apollo repeated wistfully. He looked at the colorful palaces in the book and at the earrings in Agnes' ears. Cherry-sized tourmaline shimmered in evening light with a cherry tinge.

- Apollo, tourmaline is safer, but diamonds are great!

- Here, you already understand me. I will give you, Agnes, a diamond set.

'Say the same,' the girl said, closing the book with reproductions of the past.

So they said, confusing "you" and "you", and they were good.

- I have to go, go home far. I was in your area on business, - the young man rose from an armchair.

'I will escort you to the door,' said Agnes, sighing, she did not understand why she had invited a stranger home, but she was firmly convinced that she had already seen him before.


Apollo approached the pilot of a high-altitude helicopter and asked him:

- From what moment does the flight to the top of the mountains begin?

- From the idea of the designer, reproduced on paper. According to the design documentation, the meticulous workers assembled a high mountain helicopter. Now the helicopter is fully ready to fly. Pilots are dressed in new skin, a new type of clothing has been developed for pilots that does not interfere with human movement. We have stocks of food and water for two weeks. The connection is verified.

- Excuse me, but what do the members of the helicopter crew in the Snow Mountains intend to do? What is the purpose of your flight? Apollo asked with perseverance in his voice.

- Rumors say that there is dry ice on Snow Mountain, and we will melt it.

- You left the answer to my question. Mountain uninhabited, without amenities, for recreation is not suitable.

- Yes, I agree, on Earth, any place is better than Snow Mountain.

- Excuse me, but why do you need this top?

- What do you mean why? - the pilot could not stand it. - In the mountains, diamonds were found.

- Isn't it easier to mine diamonds on earth?

- So on the earth everything is seized, and in the mountains everything will be ours!

- Perhaps, you are really ready for the flight, and there is a reason for the flight. And you are not afraid of the long road, the difficult climatic conditions?

- If only there were no competitors! Mountain diamonds are harder than earth diamonds.

- Who makes you mine diamonds so high in the mountains?

'A woman is forcing me to mine diamonds!'

- It's like, sorry for curiosity?

- My beloved woman without a large capital does not allow me to come to her, and at least in two weeks, but I will be with her!

'Thank you for the interview,' said Apollo, and with great respect looked around at the new high-altitude helicopter. He knew well that the pilot would remember the last question, and not his question about the purpose of the flight.

Without departing from the helicopter, Apollo called his friend Fedor.

Fedor grinned:

- Take the diamonds when the helicopter returns from the mountains. Do we ourselves to fly to such a height? Apollo, well done, you did a good job.

The helicopter reached the top of the Snowy Mountains, landing was extremely successful. The helicopter team stepped onto the plateau, here everyone's steps were easier, but it was unusual to breathe. Equipment new design did not prevent to move in the mountains. Gloves on hands allowed to take small objects in hands. The helicopter significantly increased the speed of the top of the mountain.

The navigator shouted happily:

- Dry ice! It shines, and it seems that the snow shines!

Coming closer to the mass of ice, people found that some solid objects glitter. They took in their hands the brilliant stones, which turned out to be the size of a cherry, there were quite a lot of them in the ice captivity.

- How do diamonds hit the ice vein ?! - asked the pilot.

'The ice was once water, and diamonds were washed out of the rock sinks,' answered the navigator.

Crew members of a high mountain helicopter found diamonds practically on the surface of the Snowy Mountains. Diamonds had to be removed from the ice. It was probably the highest spike of lava in the distant years of the earth. A flashlight with an exceptionally bright ray lay in the hand of the pilot and obediently shone wherever he was forced to shine. The helicopter crew did not waste time on rest and collected diamonds. At the foot of the mountain they were not waited by the representatives of the Host of the Mountains.

Apollo in his earpiece heard the diamonds mined. He put an eavesdropping device on the helicopter during the conversation. Hardly hit frost by nature, but he did not notice. Breathing intercepted from the cold, he walked toward the wind.

And without visiting other planets, there are always unexpected phenomena where you live. The snow creaked under Apollo's feet and gleamed. Apollo walked and thought that jewels were best kept out of reach.

"Traveling with a ray of light is sometimes better than with a person," Apollo thought, wandering with a flashlight behind a pilot's case. He watched the flashlight beam and came up with a little fairy tale about him.

The beam is silent. The beam of light never bends, but can be refracted when moving from one medium to another. A proud ray of light slid across the freezing water, the polynya did not interfere with it, it could dive into the depths of the water cold.

The snow gleamed from the cold and did not notice the beam walking in the water. The snow sparkled and was proud of its importance, its impenetrable whiteness, that it could not speak to a ray of light. The beam was offended and burned a small hole inside the snow.

For snow, it was a needle prick. Both of them parted, displeased with each other. The ray was lost in the brilliance of snow, it simply was not noticed by anyone.

Then the beam decided to climb into the interior of the laser system, here its strength was so great that when passing through the prism, he left the pancakes. Such pancakes remain from a flat stone flying through the water. That ray liked it. The beam proudly appeared in one of the prisms of the laser system, passed through a ruby.

Lucky Ray went to seek happiness. When a beam of light looked at an ordinary street lamp, I noticed so many rays in it that I decided not to go to them.

The ray realized that at night it is more visible than during the day, and its importance increases dramatically, and during the day there is so much light from the sun that, like a grain of sand in the desert, it is not visible to anyone. Ray liked his importance in dark rooms, in which he was immediately noticeable, he penetrated space in them, like a thread, even though you hang toys on him, and then cut them with scissors with eyes closed.

Yes, a wonderful condition - to be an important ray of light in the dark. Another beam of light noticed that it can double, if reflected from a mirror or water surface. He was amused by his reflection in the mirror, and if he looked straight, he turned into a point that did not suit him.

And the beam continued its journey in space. The beam rolled with the headlamp of the car, illuminating the dark streets, so he drove to the station. Near the station were large trains, in front of them they had locomotives with powerful searchlights that pierced the darkness of the night.

Ray looked at the sky. Stars, how far they are, how to join them? The beam jumped, jumped on the spot and did not reach the stars. He shone a thin string of light, but no one noticed.

I looked at the beam at the distant lights of the city and flew to them, he really wanted light, a lot of light. Let other rays shine there, but he did not like being the only ray in the dark of night.

Ray wanted viewers. He noticed that many rays are covered with glasses and shine sadly and dimly, but they feel calm. The beam hid behind the tinted glass of the car and shone inside the cabin, did not squeeze it, did not notice it. "Interesting," thought the beam, "then I can hide if I need to." Suddenly, he noticed that the car, in the glass of which he looked, drove up to the theater. The theater formed small crowds of people and immediately disappeared inside the premises. The beam flew behind the people in the auditorium. The light in the huge chandeliers on the ceiling was extinguished, the hall plunged into dusk. The ray began to flicker on the spot, they began to squint at him, which, they say, shines

Fortunately for him, streams of bright rays descended on the scene from various sides. The lone ray became imperceptible. Viewers watched where the rays of searchlights shone. "So, the rays are smarter than people, since they obediently look in the direction of light," thought the ray and flew out of the hall.

On the main street a huge number of cars were catching up with their headlights. Ray decided to climb the highest house to be closer to incomprehensible stars. In the vast dark space of the night the city lay lit by streets and sparse windows of houses.

Outside the city darkness thickened. The stars seemed closer. The beam jumped and stayed in place. The snow on the roof of the house gleamed maliciously, he did not strive for the stars, he glistened and that was all.

Ray with the snow was familiar and did not talk with him about who is brighter. There are a lot of snowflakes and without it, and let them gleam in the darkness of night with a gleam of lights. The beam descended to the ground.

A lone passerby stretched out his palm to the beam. Ray did not refuse Apollo's outstretched hand. A hand pressed a bright flashlight button. Ray hid and fell asleep, he dreamed of gems and diamonds, which are so nice to play with.

The flashlight beam came across a helicopter cabin with people. The darkness of night, cut through by a helicopter and a flashlight beam, came to life. Apollo donned a gas mask, and when the crew members appeared from the cockpit, he enveloped them with a sleeping gas. People will still be needed, but now diamonds were more important to him. He snatched the airtight container out of the hands of the asleep pilot, got into the all-terrain vehicle that approached and was like that.

The people of the Host of the mountains discovered the members of the helicopter's crew only an hour later and were surprised that they were sleeping, barely leaving the helicopter's cabin. The owner of the mountains knew that this was the work of the team of Agnes, and was almost certain that diamond walnuts on the top of the Snowy Mountains were not found.

Agnessa and Apollo were sitting on the sun loungers on the wonderful beach. The hot country, located on the southern islands, still lived and breathed. Or was she helped to breathe? Islands sprawled in the warm waves of the ocean. Palm trees waving their heads. Vacationers came to the islands from around the world. Tourists Hot country sunbathed under the sun all year round.

Agnes lay down on the clean sand under the azure sky. She suffered that she was losing another day for finding a diamond the size of a walnut. The figure of the girl acquired a golden tan, and she herself became the object of desire of a beautiful man named Apollo. She decided that she was cool, and came to the islands washed by the fabulous ocean.

Apollo bought a wig instead of a Panama from the sun, so that others would not recognize it.

Fedor, after taking the mountain diamonds to the owner of the mountains, returned home and did not find Agnes. Yes, he did not find the ladies of his heart!

- Oh shit! - he said to the space and asked his mother Agnes on the phone: - Valentina Savelievna, where is Agnes?

- Agnessa in the hot country. She had seen enough of the programs about the last hero and left for the islands under the azure sky.

- Thank! - said Fyodor, and added to himself: - I will arrange a feature in the islands in the suitcase on the islands.

Without thinking twice, Fedor contacted through his channels with the hot country, the sunny land of the planet, and found out that Agnessa had become a tough peasant woman. The azure island of their love was in the center of a string of islands that went from north to south. The islands had golden sandy beaches on one side, and on the other, like city gates, were unsuited.

Fyodor had a thought: to shake her beloved, so that it would be disgusting for her to go without him on the sunny land. Even as a young man, he performed tasks in this part of the planet, and always kept his tentacles on the islands. He decided to make a small tsunami on a small island.


The submarine belonging to the Master of the Mountains was located not far from the coast of the island, divers with a small load periodically emerged from its sealed compartment. The main cargo was located opposite the island, where Agnessa was located.

The work so captured scuba divers that they wanted to make a wave on all the islands. The idea of the owner of the mountains captured entirely, and scuba divers received consent to place the dangerous cargo along the entire length of the island chain.

The excitement of the emerging fun captured the crew of the submarine, which slowly moved along the islands, facilitating the work of scuba divers. All installed underwater bombs were automatically controlled.

When all the dangerous goods were placed along the islands, the crew of the submarine with a clear conscience left the coast from the completed task and moved to a safe distance. It remains for the Boss of the Mountains to press the button and set all the bombs in motion.

Before launching the blast wave, Fyodor decided to look at Agnes again. Unfortunately for the inhabitants of the islands, a young girl was lying on the sand with her partner and had a lot of fun - this greatly upset him, he conveyed what he saw to the Boss of the mountains. Agnes, instead of looking for diamonds on which the life of the Master of the Mountains depended, lay on the beach!

Fyodor departed on a submarine and pressed the button on the control panel of the underwater plume of explosives. The submarine abruptly went into the depths of the ocean, although it was so far from the coast, but what the hell is not joking. The first explosion occurred in front of the island where Agnessa rested. Then the chain of explosions passed through the explosives. The underwater kingdom came to life. The plate of the stone ridge moved, a depression hundreds of miles long was formed, in which a giant wave originated. This wave went to the shore all its twenty-meter height.

What happened?

It's just water, wave. There is no guilty. Wines in the planet, it is in it there was a shift of underwater plates. But who knew that the tsunami will turn out so high quality! One hundred and fifty thousand lives and one girl disappeared in the waves of a warm and sweet ocean. Is that so?

A sensitive Apollo seemed to foresee danger, a couple of minutes before the wave, he took a jeep to Agnes at the airport. And to be honest, he was warned about the danger for the sake of Agnes, on which the immortal life of the Master of the Mountains depended.


Chapter 2

Travelers returned home from the ship for the upcoming ball. The owner of the mountains decided that it was time to present the mountain diamonds to the public at a ball. He thought that Agnes herself should appear in a diamond dress at the ball.

The idea of the Master of the Mountains was carried out by Fyodor, he said to Agnes:

- Agnessa, you need to sew a dress on which diamonds will be attached, very large diamonds. The fabric should be beautiful, but in places of seams it should be torn loosely, the threads should be very thin.

- Why such subtlety in places of seams?

- For safety. The price of your dress will be fabulously huge, it may be necessary to remove it quickly.

- I'm afraid of this dress!

- And that's not all, go to the best dance group and learn to walk in a dress so that it is not visible how you move your legs! Dress you will sew our seamstress, we do not need extra people to create a dress.

White-golden doors of the banquet hall opened. Numerous sparks shone dazzlingly in the doorway. Agnes smoothly, almost invisibly made a step into the hall. The uncrowned queen beamed with thousands of diamonds scattered over her dress. The diamond train was still at the door, and she had already entered the hall. The gait of the dancer from the famous ensemble, in which she stayed for a few days, has decorated her handsomely.


'Divine Agnes,' came a whisper in the hall.

Golden hair of a silk flock surrounded a beautiful and intelligent face.

- Ltd! - There was an involuntary exclamation of the public.

- Honey, you're lovely! - the Owner of the mountains exclaimed and continued: - Dear sirs, there is a novelty in front of you, diamonds from the Snowy Mountains!

- Amazing! - exclaimed her friend Tatiana, she had a scarf over her shoulder, covered with diamonds.

She looked wonderful, but in the background of Agnes she was somewhat pale. She was invited to look at the mountain diamonds in the rays of neon light.

The table met the guests with radiance of dishes. Everything on the table was brilliant and white: a table set, opaque glasses with sparkles, white fish, white wine in bottles with silver stickers, snacks, ice cream, cakes - everything looked like snowy peaks of the mountains.

- Honey, everything is easy, everything is for you, Agnes! - said the owner of the mountains.

On the snow-white stage appeared a singer in white shiny clothes.

'Prince Silver,' Fyodor announced.

Behind the singer, two steps away, there was a little singer and she tried her hardest to sing.

'Let her shut up,' said Agnes.

Veteran right there under the elbows removed from the scene. More concert did not interfere with food intake. The singer inserted the words "Agnes" and "The Master of the Mountains" to almost every song to the applause of bored eaters.

Fyodor in a black suit, with a diamond on his tie, jumped to Agness and invited her to dance to the singing singer. They approached the stage and involuntarily eclipsed Prince Silver. Fedor surprisingly well slipped next to the queen of the ball.

White garlands, white balls, white Christmas trees sparkled, but Agnes' dress of unearthly beauty blinded even more.

The owner of the mountains with a huge chain around his neck, on which hung a plaque with a large black diamond, sat importantly and was pleased with everything that was happening.

He managed to present diamonds from the mountains. He did not care at all that the pilots of the helicopter were left with nothing. It is important that Agnessa shines with diamonds. In moments of triumph, the Master of the Mountains had a desire to love a woman, he already anticipated the night of love with the Queen of the Ball. He found an erotic eclipse. The price of the night - diamond placers.

If the last kings loved ballerinas, the Master of the Mountains decided that the dancer was somewhere nearby, but she is more pleasant than a ballerina and she has slender, but not small, not skinny sizes. Love was dictated by a man. He decided to love or not, and did not accept rejection, he was infinitely not care what a woman wants.

Agnes was not accustomed to live in submission, but now she had no other choice, and in recent times she has always been guarded. So this dress in diamonds, she was ordered to wear.

How she was afraid of diamonds! She loved the outfits, brought them home, and the dressmakers came home. All masseuse services for her were organized at home. She did not agree to go to the ball in a dress with diamonds. But who will listen to her! The owner of the mountains said that it was necessary! It should be so necessary.

Behind the walls of the glittering white holiday stood a crowd of people in dark clothes.

- We will not attack people in the hall! Let them go out! 'We will all go our separate ways and observe,' said the helicopter pilot.

'We take Agnes in a diamond dress, we don't need the rest.' The scarf must be torn off Lisa, but do not touch her! - shouted the navigator of a high mountain helicopter.

Dinner ended with the singing of Prince Silver. The guards stood in two rows. Passing the improvised line of guardsmen, Agnes passed to the huge car. And at this moment there was a hitch. How out of the ground such a crowd of strange people was formed that no one understood anything.

In the car sat Tatiana, wearing a blond wig. Under a sable fur coat, diamonds did not shine, and the guards had already taken off the scarf, but this was not noticed immediately.

Agnes, like a feather, someone took through the crowd and put in a high-altitude helicopter. Only her dress continued to sparkle in the eyes of those present a brilliance that no one had seen. The team of the high-altitude helicopter gave Agnes the diamond dress to the Master of the Mountains, which pleased him greatly. Agnessu without a diamond dress returned home.


Agnes began to move away from his girlfriend Tatiana. They have lost the habit of each other lately. As soon as Tatiana called, Agnes answered:

- Tatiana, Apollo invited me to an exhibition of paintings located on Krymsky Val. We walked around the picture gallery with him. We were not lazy and visited the diamond fund of the country. We went to the operetta theater together. We went to the old drama theater, which is located behind the Bolshoi Theater. We even got to the Kremlin Palace of Congresses at the concert of the ensemble 'Berezka'. Do not be offended, but I have no time! Better come to our wedding!

After the wedding, Agnessa told Tatiana about her first love:

- Night magic holds us together. The thrill of touching each other is worth it to endure the difficulties of the first days of living together. We like gaming and light touch. Light kisses make us tremble. Desires are growing rapidly. The sense of reality is lost. Control of events disappears. Movement becomes paired.

'You have completely forgotten the feeling of caution,' Tatyana babbled into the telephone receiver.

- And who remembers about him at such a moment? Caution must be remembered before the touch of a man.

Tatiana listened tensely to Agnes and really wanted to get in her place. Elementary jealousy scraped her soul. And she found the opportunity to separate Agnes and Apollo! She asked her father:

'Dad, can you arrange things so that Apollo, Agnes's husband, comes to you for military service?'

- Daughter, why do you need this?

'To be there,' the daughter answered vaguely.

Apollo was drafted into the army after graduation. Half a year of study, and he is a border guard soldier. The border is always an active army. He had to climb the mountains. He was often rescued by the ability to navigate in any terrain. Behind his back constantly hung a firearm. In the mountains often had to move, using both arms and legs. The climate is mountainous, the air is ozone, and such a head is spinning.

Border post was located high above sea level. Next to Apollo was always a certain Denis. The guys are normal, but together it is always more fun to bear the service.

It cannot be said that there are many offenders in these places, but fate sent them lovers of mountain climbing. Fate sent to meet the border guards pretty girl, by urban standards simple, but by local standards that is necessary! Apollo immediately recognized the girl Tatyana.

He said to Denis:

- Denis, I will go to the rural cinema. Today shows an old movie. And the air I was wearing breaths.

But he did not leave.

Denis and Apollo approached Tatiana. And her eyes ran away: two identical handsome. The guys cheered up, began to talk to her. And she seems to speak the same language, but everything is somehow strange for them. And so they liked her, that they wanted to walk alone with her.

She also told them:

- Guys, they will scold me at home if they see border guards in the company. My father serves on this frontier post.

The demon has moved into the guys. They lost their heads because of Tatiana. Leave quickly passed. The boys and the girl agreed that if they were released the next weekend, they would definitely drop by her. She agreed. She will not say no to the two soldiers!

The service at the border guards went more fun. They go to the mountains and dream about meeting with Tatiana. They would now detain the intruder. Between the border guards went hostile, they began to argue among themselves. Apollo wondered how it was that Tatiana quarreled so quickly.

With a weapon to climb the mountains is difficult, but necessary. The soldiers' legs were filled with strong muscles, and they themselves became stronger. I noticed Apollo through binoculars, as if someone was crawling through the mountain: a beast or a man, you will not understand at once. Soon the dark spot rose to its feet. It became clear that a man across the border from that side is going to this one.

Apollo warned Denis about the intruder. Together began to wait. Interestingly, the offender also noticed them. He waved a white scarf over his head. The guys did not have the right to shoot the white flag. They went to the violator, followed hands with a white handkerchief, suddenly deceived them and would shoot them. Carefully they approached each other.

The guy turned out to be strange, he had nothing in his hands, only a white handkerchief, but he kept saying:

- Tatiana, Tatiana ... - and showed himself that he was going to Tatiana.

The border guards realized that this guy and Tatiana were talking across the border, and they know each other since childhood. Tatiana recently stopped showing up at the border, so the guy from the other side of the border went to the border guards to find out what happened to the girl. The guys also understood that the father does not let the girl out into the street.

"Oh, what it came to," thought Apollo, whose service was coming to an end, thought with longing, and he said aloud:

- With Tatiana everything is fine. We owe you as a trespasser to bring to the outpost.

'I understand you, but they will be looking for me at home,' the guy with a big accent sighed.

The guys also wanted to see Tatiana, but for this the intruder had to be taken to the destination. The guy gave up: there are two of them and they are armed. The border guards handed the guy over to

And the captain said to them:

- I am well acquainted with the detained person: this is a local pendulum. His name is Mach. He always walks at the border from that side. I do not know what to do with it. I know that he loves my daughter Tatiana. You guys haven't fallen in love with my daughter yet? It is better not to, - and the commander of the outpost continued to say: - take him to where you took him. We warned the pendulum for the last time.

Mach asked the guards to take him to Tatiana. He really wanted to look at her, say two words to her, and then leave completely. The guys themselves wanted to see her. They went to the blue-eyed girl with blond hair up to her knees.

Girl on the issue as a traffic light at a crossroads in the city. Tatyana, seeing all the guys together, didn't know what to do: be happy or not.

- Mach, be a man, stop risking! They can kill you by accident. Not everyone will deal with you! Or just stay on this side of the border.

- Tatiana, will you marry me? - asked Mach, it seems, not the first time.

- Oh, Mach! 'I don't want to be the tenth wife in your harem,' she dismissed him.

And happiness was so possible. After this incident, Apollo again drew attention to Tatyana. And she noticed it. He missed Agnes so much! And here, next to him, was her friend, in whom everyone fell in love, but he was never red.

Tatiana and Apollo met by chance in the mountains. At the head of Tatiana sounded the words of Agnes that Apollo is a good lover even for his own wife.

Envy demanded implementation!

On a small flat platform, located between the rocks, there was a girl and a young man in uniform. They were talking. Their eyes glowed. The lips were burning. Young organisms required association.

He touched her hair. She took his hand. He kissed his hair. She touched his lips to his hand, then to his face. He hugged her easily. She clung to him with his whole body. Convulsions went through their bodies. They both lay on the grass between the stones. Their hands penetrated each other's clothes.

Apollo wrote a letter to Agnes that he would not return home, as he has an urgent business in another city. Agnes from this news in the soul was born a wave of emptiness. And her mother buzzed her ears to everyone she knew about her son-in-law, who did not return to her daughter from the army. He really did not return, but went to work at the Diamond Plant.

The plant at this time received an order for a hundred orders. The authorities of the country decided to mark discoveries in science with diamond orders. The factory received a batch of high-quality diamonds. This plant, like the main bank of the country, was not mentioned in the mass media. Workers went to the workshops and went out in a stripped form. The new batch of diamonds was so good that everyone who worked with them had a strange desire to reward themselves personally for their achievements in science and technology.

Crazy heads thought about how to remove hard stones from the plant, and the workers and comrades-in-arms did not agree among themselves. Everyone thought: 'I'll take one diamond, no one will notice right away.' But the humor was that twenty people immediately thought so. It is clear that diamonds were protected and issued one by one. One diamond processed, hand over and take another.

And yet, there was some irresponsibility with regard to the diamond currency - not all and not all was fixed at once. At that time there were no surveillance cameras at every turn. People just worked on every line. Diamonds caught hard. The tool had to be changed if it fell into disrepair. Normal production situation. People carried diamonds in their ears, in immodest places, in the mouth, in their hair. Sometimes they were simply caught. For especially large-scale embezzlement, the death penalty was threatened, but even this did not stop desperate heads.


Apollo, still in his childhood, shoved bones from cherry into the nostril, when they made cherry wine at home. Parents were scared, took him to the doctor. The bone was pulled out, but soon a new object appeared in the nostril. Apollo had a decent nose and a desperate temper of character. In the sciences, he did not shine, but he had a cunning mind for non-standard solutions.

Traditionally, diamonds removed from the factory were hiding in the simplest clay and were fixed in any place for temporary storage with the help of clay. Everything was thought out at the factory: how to guard and how to handle. Those who sold stolen diamonds, sooner or later came across the eyes of the competent authorities, for which they received firing or grating.

Therefore, only honest people without bad habits were constantly working at the plant. Apollo - a bright man with a straight and beautiful nose, would immediately fall under the supervision of guards, and his life would be short. At the plant, after a new batch of diamonds came for orders, raids occurred behind raids, and yet they could not find diamonds removed from the factory. Some diamonds disappeared without a trace. The largest stones remained in place, did not find diamonds the size of a cherry pit.

Apollo came to the factory immediately after the army and training at the diamond face grinder. In the army, he became friends with Denis, his father once worked at the Diamond Plant. A year and a half of service at the border made friends guys. Apollo found everything related to diamonds from a friend. Even before coming to the plant, he knew about all the crime that surrounded the production of diamonds. He immediately decided that he would work well and would not steal diamonds. But he constantly trained his nostrils at home on the wearing of cherry seed.

Diamonds did not differ smoothness. They would hurt his nose. Therefore, Apollo shoved plasticine balls into his nostrils. The ball was fastened to a thin strong thread, the thread was fastened in the nostril with special glue to the hairs, and the ball itself went into the nostril deep enough so that it was not visible from the outside. Workouts and workouts every day to avoid unnecessary reflexes when inhaling and exhaling with foreign objects in the nose.

In early childhood, Apollo accidentally broke a glass ceiling on a lamp. A night lamp included his parents in the room so that he would not disturb them at night. The broken ceiling was glued together with glue, and the little boy noticed that the light around the room from the ceiling had become more disturbing.

After the army, he processed ordinary glass at home like real diamonds. From the glass diamonds Apollo made himself a nightlight. He was amused by the play of light around the room. He had a dream: to make a diamond lamp. The vein of the jeweler was sitting in it. And he set about implementing the plan. He carried the diamonds from the factory in his nostrils, at home he took them out of the bowels of the nose and said nothing to anyone. And glued a diamond lamp. Order made. Several diamonds disappeared without a trace.

Apollo remembered how he met his wife and made her a promise that he would give her diamonds. He brought the Agnessse diamond lamp for the show, saying that he made the lamp from glass. She felt the brilliant shine physically and could tell from the glass. She breathed on the diamond edges, and the steam instantly evaporated from their surface.

A night of mutual love - and Apollo went to the Diamond City, giving Agnes a diamond set: earrings and a ring. All three diamonds were cherry bones in size. Soon Apollo was very sorry about the gift Agnes made. He had a feeling that he donated diamonds in vain. But he really wanted to fulfill the old promise.

Agnes placed the ring and diamond earrings in a golden straw box. She and her husband lived in different cities: she was in the capital, and he was in the Diamond City. She told a friend at work about her diamonds. Women told their men and acquaintances.

Less than a week, a straw box with diamonds disappeared. Agnessa reviewed the entire contents of the cabinet and found an old newspaper with her portrait in which she touches the lips of a frozen rowan tree. Next to the newspaper portrait were earrings with tourmaline and an old Apollo camera.

- Tatiana, my diamonds are gone! Apollo gave them to me, and they disappeared, 'Agnes told her friend on the phone.

'Agnessa, I didn't even know that you had them!' Contact private investigation, it is located next to the Silver Hoof jewelry store. They will find your diamonds. For the money, of course, - said Tatiana.

Agnes quickly got dressed and went to the agency. Detective Musin looked great: blond, of medium height, of average fatness, young and perky. He said he would help find missing jewelry for a fee.

That is the great privilege of private investigation! Even the great Sherlock Holmes did not work for nothing and took payment for his work. Moreover, he hid a diamond or a black pearl in his safe just because he found them! The fact that Holmes returned to their owner, was not mentioned in the books.

Agnesse was sorry for the diamonds. She herself did not have time to put them on, and they have already disappeared! Sadness to a toothache encompassed her whole being. What will she tell the detective? And nothing to say. Diamonds lay in the box, which was in the closet with perfumery. Why? Agnes always looked in this closet five times a week, but there were no two days off because she was not beautiful! On weekends, when she went shopping, someone had tracked her down. Jewelry had its price, but she did not want to give out her husband.

Musin, looking with steel eyes at the metal doors in the apartment of Agnes, came to the conclusion that he worked professionally. Everything was clean and in place. He asked to show the keys. One key can not be fake.

- Agnessa, who came to you lately? Have you noticed anything suspicious? Who of your friends could take them? - Musin asked.

- Movers brought upholstered furniture. One mover out of the apartment. The second loader with a shaved head did not go anywhere until he set the furniture in place.

'Agnessa, did you leave the room?' Loaders disappeared from your sight?

- Yes, I opened the door to the first loader when he returned.

- And what was the second mover doing in the room?

- He jerked at my appearance from the cabinet and put his hand in his pocket.

'The loader can be found in the furniture store,' Musin said, walking to the door.

- Are you leaving already? Asked Agnes nervously. - So you will not find diamonds?

'I promised to take Zoya's assistant for one thing, I have to pick her up,' Musin replied evasively.

Detective Musin looked into a furniture store. He asked about the loaders who brought the furniture to Agnes. The loaders he needed were away. The furniture seller replied that a shaven-headed man named Georges was working in the store, his fate with a raid of transgressions. He is a strong man, works well, so they keep him. He, in turn, promised not to misbehave.

Agnes had a void in her soul. Diamonds were for her pocket monument to her husband. She lived with him a little. More and more apart lived. She practically did not know her husband's relatives. It cannot be said that the years of loneliness always complacently influence a woman.

The female organism of Agnes continued to work and demand physical love. Sometimes she was twisted in such a way that even climb the wall, to such an extent her body needed a man. She reviewed the newspapers, they offered women's services. Men were not offered to women. One evening an interview with a brisk journalist with an older woman was shown on TV. The question of the journalist sounded like this:

- Please tell me what to do to live long?

- Need to love yourself! I repeat, we must learn to love yourself!

Agnes remembered the answer of an intelligent elderly woman: "You must love yourself."

The woman's answer shook her. She thought for a long time how to understand him? In what way to love yourself? But I did not understand.

Musin met Georges with the skinhead loader and asked him:

- Georges, did you take diamonds from a client?

Georges hesitated and rustled in his pocket.

'Show the contents of your pocket,' Musin said emphatically.

The man took off his jacket, shook the straw out of his pocket. Diamonds in the dust was not.

- Georges, where are the diamonds? Ring and earrings ?! Cried Musin involuntarily.

- It would be better if I did not get involved with this straw, - answered Georges with sadness in his voice. - The box stood in a conspicuous place, apparently the hostess forgot to remove her. I took the straw box in my hands, but my paws are strong. In his hand, the straw crumbled. And then the hostess returned from the hallway. I did not throw the dust, put the garbage in my pocket. And at home I found a ring and diamond earrings in the dust.

- Georges, where are the diamonds? - Musin asked with anguish in his voice, his eyes gleaming with anger.

- Diamonds are at home. What am I going to carry with them to work? Still losing, - muttered Georges.

- What do we do? We are going for diamonds immediately! - raised the voice of Musin.

- Do not give me away in the store! Fired How will I live? - the skinhead loader whined.

- Good. We will go to the mistress of the diamonds. You will repent to her, pay for the broken casket, give away the diamonds, - suggested Musin after a minute of silence.

- Oh, how I liked her! - with enthusiasm exclaimed Georges. - The mistress of the ring and earrings I really liked! She's beautiful!

Musin looked at him in surprise, but his choice was approved.

Musin, Zoe and Georges arrived to Agnessa.

- Forgive me, be my wife! - Georges blurted out unexpectedly for everyone and handed Agnes the ring and earrings.

In his huge palm diamonds looked like small stars. Agnes broke out: she liked a cool man.

Zoe looked at the diamonds. Mussin looked surprised at the new couple. He had a suspicion about the origin of the Agnes diamonds.

Musin asked Zoe:

'Zoe, did you see the Agnes diamonds?' Did you see them well? Anything strange noticed in earrings or ring?

- Yes, I have well considered diamonds, such rarely come across. You know, they look like handicrafts, they are not real.

- And I thought so. The shops sell diamonds no larger than a grain of wheat or poppy dew in general. And she has three stones of the same size like cherry stones. Suspiciously, where could Agnes take such luxury? She lives alone. My husband went to the army, so no one else saw him. She, truth, said that he came.

- It is necessary to check the husband of Agnes.

- Do we need this? - Musin replied indifferently and mockingly looked at Zoya.

- But we need to know more than necessary! - Zoya was indignant. - We may need this knowledge to justify private activity in front of the state.

- Zoe, and you are a smart woman! Well, we will check Apollo Arkin. We must find his way out of the army. What was with him in the army is unknown, but he did not return home from the army. Where has he been all this time?

- Well, I will try to talk to Agnes. And we need to take money for work on finding diamonds.


Chapter 3

The door of Zoe to the apartment of Agnes was opened by Georges.

- I'm to Agnes. I have to take the money for the work, 'Zoe blurted out, feeling that she had come at the wrong time.

- Zoe, thank you! You helped me so much! Said Agnes with a benevolent smile that Georges never left her face after her arrival.

- Agnes, I need to talk a little bit with you. Desirable without witnesses, - said Zoe and glanced at Georges.

- Go to another room. We'll talk there, 'Agnes said, leading Zoya away from the man.

- Can I take another look at diamonds? I liked them very much, Zoya asked and immediately grabbed a death grip on diamonds as soon as Agnes opened a beautiful painted treasure box.

In her hands, the transparent stones seemed even larger and attracted by their magnificent brilliance of the faces.

- Agnessa, how did the diamonds come to you? Sorry, but I also want such magnificence! - exclaimed quite sincerely Zoe.

- Oh, better not ask! On the day of our acquaintance, my husband promised me to donate diamonds, but I didn't believe him, but he took and presented a whole set! Apollo said that he bought diamonds at the Silver Hoof store.

- Where is your husband now? What is his profession? Where does it live? Who lives with? - Zoe asked questions, as if not hoping to get an answer.

- I would know where he lives, so I would have gone to him a long time ago, but he does not tell me. I do not know who and where he works. He does not send money to me, 'Agnes yelled to justify her lonely life.

- Apollo - cutter. Agnes is a deceiver, - the parrot spoke about his beloved master, sitting in a golden cage.

'Agnessa, the parrot says Apollo is a cutter,' Zoe said.

- Oh, traitor! Yes, he worked as a grinder, once said the word "cutter".

- Does the diamond cutter work? - asked Zoe.

- Oh! He works as a diamond cutter! 'I didn't think about it,' said Agnes thoughtfully.

- Apollo can make the same diamonds for me? Your diamonds have a very interesting cut.

- I do not know. We did not talk about diamond processing. If he comes here again, then I will ask him, 'Agnes mumbled. - Yes, here's your money, I'm sorry for not giving it away right away.

- Goodbye, Agnes! I hope that the next time you meet with your husband, will you remember my request?

'I will try to help you,' Agnes replied, closing the door.

Zoya went outside and got into Musin's car.

- Musin, you are right. In this business with diamonds, there must be a lot of interesting things hidden. Agnessa's husband works as a diamond cutter, but where it is unknown.

- So you need to find out where in our country diamonds are processed! Do diamond factories! All jewelers we can not get around in a lifetime.

'Well, I'll find out about the factories,' assured chef Zoya.

In order not to suffer from the struggle with his own conscience, Apollo got himself entertainment - admiring his appearance. He collected the diamonds he brought home to decorate his own person. Having made a diamond lamp, he decided to make a diamond set for himself: a cross, hoops on his wrist, a hoop on his head. Sometimes he took smaller diamonds.

In the evening, having tightly closed the windows with curtains, he turned on the light in the crystal chandelier, put a diamond cross on his chest, diamond hoops on his wrists and performed a diamond dance. He hung big mirrors on one wall of a single room. He preferred music without words. Jazz music sounded more often in the room.

Diamond sparks reflected in the mirrors, a diamond lamp radiating magnificent light. He needed a spectator, he needed a silent spectator! He went to the society of disabled people and looked out for a girl who could not and could not speak. He told the chairman of society that he needed a silent girl to do his homework.

The girl was blinded by the brilliance of diamonds and crystal, but could not talk about it, she understood that it was her job: to look at the dancing man, clap her hands, clean the apartment and sometimes cook food. The work was simple, so the girl felt completely calm.

She decided that the man performs the shaman's dances, just sparkles with it. Apollo was pleased with her calmness, which she displayed at the sight of the shining rays of diamonds. He never drove home to himself. The girl was the first to see his diamond dance.


At the Diamond Plant, they were wondering about the loss of diamonds the size of a cherry pit. To search for the missing diamonds have connected the competent authorities, checked all the people working at the plant. There were no results.

And suddenly a long-awaited call sounded in the director's office:

- German Petrovich, private detective Musin is talking to you. Didn't a cherry bone-sized diamonds disappear in your factory?

- What?! Repeat! I understood correctly? Are you talking about cherry-sized diamonds? - happily exclaimed the director.

- Yes. I ask about cherry-sized diamonds!

- Dear you man! For any information on this issue we guarantee a large award! Come on! Immediately! You will miss a passport do not forget to take with you!

- Zoya, you have to go to the Diamond Plant, located in the Diamond City. Let's go together? - addressed Musin to his partner.

- No, I will do business here, and you go alone, everything is almost clear.

Musin was allowed to go to the factory and escorted to the director's office.

- Mr. Musin, lay out everything you know on the question of diamonds the size of a cherry pit! Do not conceal your knowledge from me, 'the plant manager asked.

- German Petrovich! The fact is that in our city a single woman, Agnes Arkina, lost three diamonds the size of a cherry bone. There is a chance that her husband Apollo is a diamond cutter.

- Agnes ?! It can not be! Apollo Arkin works for us! It is clean as a glass! Not a single detention. He has a wife Agnes, I learned all the data cutters. Oh, a mountain from the shoulders. But how does he endure diamonds? He was never suspected! He was not glowing anywhere! Did not sell! Did not participate !!!

- I do not know this. And Agnes knows little about him. She said that on the day of her acquaintance he promised her diamonds and presented her.

- Specify when he promised her? - anxiously asked German Petrovich.

- He promised her to donate diamonds before the army, before he started working for you.

- So, he has long been all over! Well done man! And we break our heads! - the director said and leaned in the direction of local communication: - Verochka, immediately call me the chief of security of the plant! There is work for him!

'German Petrovich, I will call the chief of security,' came a female voice.

In the office of the plant director entered the head of security. The director addressed him:

'Captain, Musin works as a private investigator.' He found three diamonds the size of a cherry pit. Talk to him.

Musin with the head of the plant security left the director's office.

The plant manager put a pill under his tongue, leaned back in his chair, took off his tie.

- Verochka, open the window! He shouted, undoing the collar of his shirt.

- Now, German Petrovich! Do you need a doctor? - with fear asked Vera.

- No, I already feel better. Do not let anyone to me for about twenty minutes.

- Well, German Petrovich! - Said the secretary and left the office.

The director thought for a moment and remembered that as a child his friend stuck a cherry seed in his nose. It was an association with the size of the diamond.

- Vera, call the captain!

'They haven't left yet.' Now he will come to you, German Petrovich.

- Captain, you were not looking for diamonds in your noses? - the director addressed the security chief with a joking smile, holding his hand on the left side of the chest.

- No, German Petrovich! What kind of joke? You feel bad? Call a doctor?

- I feel good! Substitute the cutter Apollo Arkin! Toss him diamonds the size of a cherry bone, and then look for them in his nose!

'It will be done,' the captain smiled and left the office.

Oh, what a woman was sitting in front of Musin! Silver woman. No, she was not covered with gray hair. Dyed black hair waves around the ears. On eight fingers out of ten, silver rings and rings flickered.

Musin wanted to raise her black curls, he was sure that she had silver in her ears too. The divine smell of perfume enveloped a silver woman. Perfume with the smell of freshness! What a taste! He did not want to leave the reception room. It would have been sitting in the exciting waves of spirits! But he got up and went out: he no longer had affairs in the director's office, they paid for his work.

A fresh wind eclipsed the smell of perfume and disappeared into space. Musin went to the store, bought a silver hare and a silver chain. He put the chain around the hare's neck and returned to the silver woman. Vera smiled, picked up the hare. Seeing a decent silver chain on a hare, she laughed and put it around her neck.

- Thank! I liked your gift!

Passed a couple of days. The captain invited Apollo to the steam room after work. Plasticine flowed from the sinuses of the nostrils, and the diamonds fell into the palm of the hand. No other diamonds were found. Apollo was dismissed from the factory and exiled to the settlement.

At Agnes home fell solitude. Her husband Apollo was sent on a business trip to the Cold City, where the diamonds on the trees do not grow.


In the Cold City, more precisely in its vicinity, the same berries grew, behind which the house went to the Apollo forest. Cranberries, lingonberries, blueberries always keep the health of the northern inhabitants of the country. Dried, salted mushrooms are white meat on a winter day, a magic wand of all feasts.

The deep river is a pleasure to ride in motorboats, and fish on the table. Flour, sugar will be brought - and you can live in the northern region. Still, vodka would not be brought to these healthy places, and the police would be engaged in another kind of activity.

Gas workers and oilmen, residents of the Cold City, often worked on a rotational basis. They left for a couple of weeks to new jobs, then returned home for two weeks. Fishing for men is a pleasure.

For the coolest men, hunting for meat is a pleasure and food extraction. Although you can have pets and do not run through the taiga for animals and birds. One thing is to say: there is something for men in the northern region to do in order not to be hungry and cold.

Lespromkhoz - it is like Magnitka mountain: if there are trees of necessary species nearby, then the forest industry enterprise justifies itself. They exhausted local reserves - and there was no profitable mountain.

The people are not without oddities: some leave these places in the cities, and from large cities people come to rest in the Cold Region, then they will come again and again. You look: turns into a local resident.

In the Cold City there was a police station, and in some villages there were no police officers. Musin, working as a district police officer, fixed the settlers. Apollo liked him, so he left him to work as his assistant. Letters from various cities of the country from wives of miners came to the police station.

Here is an excerpt from a letter from a woman: "My husband left for your city to rest, but forgot to return. What did you do with him: mushrooms, berries or fish-bird? Husband brought you cranberries from you, but returned home, and now you are lost for months, half a year at home we do not see him. "

In such cases, Musin tried to find a go-go berry getter and found, and Apollo helped him. But it was not always possible to return people from these reserved places, people got used to it and did not go home. Freedom felt the joy of generous nature and forgot about everything in the world.

Cold City is a small town by big concepts. In it, people traveled with gifts of nature from villages and villages, from distant places. To large cities far, closer to him. Hence, the city was not deprived of business people.

The buyers of the gifts of nature always liked to come to the city, it was possible to fight with them, it was possible not to touch them. Buyers have always been willing to pay off. Musin was known as a principled policeman, and his retirement would be freedom for buyers, dealers and many more business people.

However, the people respected the policeman Mussin, and his jokes, jokes, knew by heart:

- I spent a minute by the river, once shot, and drags a duck.

- In the house cranberries and lingonberries? You live without knowing the hard times.

- In the river fishing rod dived, immediately sank with a fish.

Is it really so? The cold region - the water region, washed by the seas-oceans, crammed with rivers, lakes. Is this a town-like paradise? What to protect in such harsh conditions? Fish in the river? So it is much more in the lakes of the region, and even more in the sea-ocean. The land of forests and water, the edge of pines, spruces and birches.

Here are the pines and cut down the local timber industry enterprise, and the birches in the northern terrain do not differ in height. To live in the village, you must have modest requests. Although in such places are secret millionaires! Why not? There are no high society evenings, luxury cars are not needed here, more all-terrain vehicles are appropriate here. And people save money.

And such was the call Musin from a woman:

- Musin, I need security, I saved money, help me buy a car.

And it's not a joke.

People worked, got used to a modest life, and life in recent years in the Cold Region has become better. The wages of the gas industry workers and the oil industry increased, and again they, like geese, drew to the south - spending money. Houses are built in southern cities in order to warm bones in old age. But the trouble is: they will go there as if on vacation - and again they are pulled into the frosty waters of the region and into the taiga.

Musin has a new job: guarding the rich beggars. It is difficult to guess who is rich, who is poor. But no, no, yes, they also ask Musin, along with Apollo, to be guards in houses that are not always seemingly worthy of protection. Musin did not violate his principles and guarded. It would be possible to put security devices for the countryside, and they are put.


Quail - drunk - cause Musina - calm down. Calm down. The people of the policeman, while in a drunken state, especially esteemed. The policeman can cope with many cases for private payment, and maybe in good conscience. Solid character, honest look, the conscience of the Cold City - policeman Musin. Helping ordinary people ...

And how to determine: a simple person or a rich man? Justice seek? In what? The life experience of Musin suggested that people who are constantly looking for some kind of justice, when they find her, do not know what to do with it. There are people who constantly resent for any reason, but experience says that Musin will not add to the bad character of people.

Small business flourished in the Cold City. All need licenses: shooting, fishing, picking berries. In the Cold City, the development of technology was not particularly involved, more and more oil, gas, mushrooms, berries, fur, fish.

Apollo gorged on local berries for the rest of his life.

The computers got to the cold lands, first of all they were put into the bookkeeping to cheat money. And people also wanted to play-work for them, but there was a time - there were not any in the stores. Apollo out of boredom decided to take a new toy. And how to take away a computer from the bondage of the accounting, so that no one would notice the loss of himself?

He spent a long time at home in front of the mirror, changed his appearance, thought out his outfit. Belly pulled in profile viewed himself. He looked at his TV. Finally I thought: he will have a TV instead of a monitor. And he needs a keyboard and an iron box. Decided - fulfilled. Apollo swirled among the accountants, and hid in a pantry.

Itself understands: not to take everything away at once. The box is big and heavy, this is where the floppy disks are inserted. I decided that he did not need diskettes, but he needed overseas boards. He opened the box and decided that he would take what instead of brains. Apollo hung the keyboard on his back, took the board in the bag, hung it on his stomach. He decided that he would create the guides for the boards at home.

In the morning, when the accountants put on make-up, Apollo slipped out in a raincoat, slightly plump. The bookkeeper did not immediately miss the keyboard, the computer was in place. Then they look, but there is no system unit. Called Musin.

'Musin, we have a strange thing missing here.' Part of the computer has disappeared. One is, and the other is not, - said the woman, whose computer is gone.

Musin himself had not mastered the computer at that time, but had heard about him. He scratched his clever head and decided that only a local craftsman could create such a trick. And the golden hands of masters can be counted on the fingers. They will make them from a tin can, at least for a computer case, even for any device. And everything will work, oddly enough.

Policewomen Musin asked the women in accounting if they had not seen a strange man or acquaintance. And those in one voice:

- Not!

Mussin decided to bypass the local radio amateurs. But the children were the first to talk. One guy runs and shouts: "And we have a computer!" And who screamed? Moussin went to Apollo, but he did not have time to hide the stolen goods, and he was very keen on tinkering the guides for the boards. Musin forced him to return the computer to the accounting department and asked him not to commit thefts anymore.

Oh, and here is the important call from the first-aid post from Zina's medical assistant:

- Musin, help, with a young woman gold was removed!

- Where? When? Say more, please!

- The first case occurred with a girl. She walked off the train, broke her heel, sprained her leg, the guy at the train station helped her up, and the ring quietly removed her finger. She came home, the granddaughter of old man Kharitonovich.

- Who quietly took the gold?

- Specialist.

- And now what happened?

- With the last train went Agnes, she came to our town to your assistant Apollo. So, a peasant of an indefinite appearance caught up with her, began to tear her earrings from her, and rudely so, her ear was a little torn. Agnes got angry and began to defend herself; she was wearing a light coat. In the mud they fell, fought. He took off her earrings with diamonds and a diamond ring. A strong man. And the coat was - a lump of dirty cloth, even throw it away. Musin, think of who could do this, and the town is small, everyone knows everyone.

'Zina, you puzzled me well,' Musin said.

- Musin, do not cry the blues, you have an assistant Apollo, and so you know everything in our region more than anyone.

An experienced policeman and search is not necessary. Zina at the station pulled the ring from the roadway, it is difficult to find him, it seems, not a local guy. Those who broke the diamonds from the ears of Agnes and took the ring - you need to think about it.

One of the visitors, who came for the berries, but there is nothing to leave for. Out of desperation, such people go to all. No, to work in the forest industry, the trees would be chopped, the road would have earned.

Agnessa is also good: to wander in diamonds without a familiar companion at night, I could tell Apollo about my arrival, and there would be a whole coat, and gold with diamonds would have been there. And the thief, if he did not leave already, he will find, and left - he will not find. I gave the thief gold to the conductor, and look for fistulas in the wind in the field.

Another call:

'Musin, they found a drowned man in the river.' The fisherman abandoned the line, but she caught on to something, he thought that the snag was an unknown man, a golden ring was worn on the little finger of the woman.

"Here is the criminal," thought Musin and called the assistant nurse Zina.

- Zina, call the granddaughter of Kharitonovich, we are going to recognize the gold. It was found.

'Already found, Musin?' Here, thanks to you!

"Who dropped the guy in the river? Really himself?" Thought Musin, although he knew that this task would be more difficult, but they would decide simply: the drowned man himself was guilty.

Musin in the Cold City as a call man: raise, find, give, calm down.

Telephone call:

'Musin, the man has been knocking on the door for two hours, what to do?' 'A man is breaking to Zina, but they are not letting him in,' said her neighbor.

- Isn't it he who drowned the peasant with the women's ring in the river?

- Musin, and how can we know? Fedor is now breaking the door. So you come.

- Fedor? I know this. And you can't figure it out without me? Okay. Food

The voice of Fedor from behind the door:

- What, the policeman called? Zina, what are you, just this one? I am a policeman myself!

- Fedor, we called the policeman Musin, because of you, we have already changed the door, but you will not break through this door, but everything is scary.

Fedor's scream:

- Everything, I faded, be!

- Baba, Fedor ran away? Asked Musin through the door.

'Run, darling, run,' Zina replied, opening the doors to Musin.

- Tell me in more detail: what, why, where, how?

- Fedor arrived by train, goes to the platform, and a man with a ring climbs into his car, and he knows the ring, he bought them, we don't have any more such rings in the city. The ring flashed into his eyes. Fyodor did not know what to think, maybe the girl gave him his gift. Oh, Fedor was angry! He grabbed the guy by the collar and dragged to the river. On the shore, they found out the relationship, found out, and the newcomer fell into the water, and the water was cold, swallowed, my dear ...

- So Fedor killed the visitor?

- And who knows, who knows?

- Yes, you can not figure it out right away. I have a letter, I was looking for a woman of my peasant, he looks like a drowned man by all signs, 'Musin said.

- What is being done on this world! 'It's a pity a woman, but a man is not,' said the neighbor.

The problem arose with the ears of Agnes. Coat had to throw out. Diamond earrings are gone. Her broken ears hurt. Cones on them began to grow. Bad with ears. She remembered the words of the mother that it was impossible to pierce her ears ...

Sits silent. Agnesse's ears were sewn up in the first-aid post, but they hurt a lot. Sits and thinks that gold with diamonds will no longer wear! And such indifference in her appeared to everything in the world from her own pain, from ears that had been spoiled forever! On her ears grew bumps instead of lobes. Scary to watch. Her hair cut and covered her ears.

Musin found a letter where a woman is looking for a man. Reread. And in the eyes of him were the sick ears of Agnes. He wrote her a letter to her, they say, they found a drowned man, who looked like the one described in the letter, did not write only about the fact that he attacked the woman and removed the gold.

Cold in the village. We decided that the corpse will wait until the arrival of the woman.

Baba quickly arrived after receiving the letter. She recognized the drowned man, it was her husband. The woman did not insist on conducting the trial. Having learned the details of the incident, she said that the man was cocky. I asked to help bury him here, where he died, so as not to bring home, not to bring up the whole thing there again. It was felt that from the peasant of this she really got it during his lifetime. The case was closed.

Fyodor came to his senses and told Musin that he was innocent, they both bathed in the river, but he was local, he was accustomed to cold water, so he swam. A visitor quickly disconnected from the cold, and even water swallowed. It was evident that he could not be pumped out, so he did not pull him out of the water. Yes, and very cold.

The town is calm.

Fedor died. And you know how? Fedor, a shirt guy, bought another bottle of vodka at the kiosk, walked, pleased with life, joked with her neighbors. Came home, put the bottle on the table. Mother put him dinner and went to the store. On the way I chatted with my neighbors. It happens to everyone! Came home - Fedor dead in the hallway lies a layer ...

Healthy man. At the morgue, they thought a bit what to write in order not to spoil the biography. Wrote a clever title about a blood clot. And it must be said, half a year ago, the fortune-teller of her mother told that something would happen to her Fedor so that she was ready for anything.

Alien man, it seems, was not quite a simple man. They avenged him. Mother Fedor talked to the policeman. Musin decided that the newcomer was an authority in his city, his wife was very afraid of him, so she refused to take them to her city. Musin clasped his head.

Mother Fedor told him:

- So, the vodka was poisoned, they did not find the bottle of vodka at home. A neighbor told me about the bottle, who had seen Fedor with a bottle of vodka. Fedor did not buy vodka. In the morgue do not write that he was drunk. He opened the bottle in front of me, I gave him dinner and left.

Musin began to pester questions. What was in the absence of mother Fedor? Who detained her dear? Who came to them in her absence? Why did Fedor lay in front of the front door? You can not raise all the questions if you look superficially: everything is clean and smooth, there are no guilty, and there is no person.

He sighed and went to the five-story house on the fifth floor, to the familiar. Who would know how high the fifth floor is with respect to small houses! From the fifth floor, as with a TV tower, you can see the whole district, the whole town as on a palm! If there are also windows on two sides of the house, then you all know, you see everything.

People stuck to the pipeline - you can see, fought on the banks of the river - and you are aware of the event. Man pulled a computer out of accounting - and you saw a strange man. And you are silent.

What to say! Life will not give, since anyone knows about the apartment observation. 'My hut is on the edge, I see a lot, I don't know anything,' nobody canceled this principle. But Musin knew this quality of the fifth floors and, if necessary, gradually clarified the necessary data.

- Kharitonovich, it's me, Musin, open the door, you need to talk.

- Musin, where are you going? Give people a break!

- Kharitonovich, I pray with God the God, open the door! Shouted Mussin.

-Ah, to hell with you, come in! - grumbled Kharitonovich, opening the door.

Two friend-foe sat in two old tattered chairs. Apollo remained standing at the front door.

'Tell me what you need,' said Kharitonovich.

Musin briefly described the situation with Fedor.

'You know what I tell you, Musin?' I saw a stranger at Fedor's house. You know, I'm retired. My legs walk badly, so I look out the window out of boredom. Why did you notice him? The stranger went into the house empty-handed, and went out with a bottle of vodka and chatted with her, it seemed she was half empty. And Fedor came into the house with the same bottle. And on the bottle, I have a bright look.

- Well, thank you! And the man did not recognize?

- Not. Not ours, it is similar from a distance to the alien.

Here is an observation post!

- Kharitonovich, do not give you vodka, and take cigarettes, you like these.


Chapter 4

Musin came home, mechanically swallowed food and sat down in his favorite chair. He was in such a detached state that no one approached him. He suddenly thought of two dead men because of a simple gold ring.

Moreover, the broken ears of Agnes were in such a state that it was scary to watch, and with each passing day the scars on the ears increased. But were they really making earrings or was it just a fight? Or was the attack on Agnes with a different purpose? What happened?

Interestingly, someone who drowned in a river has never taken other people's things before, and his wife says that he left home with a lot of money. That he had to be looked for in the village, and she had no thoughts, he was driving with money for a new car, he worked in a car-care center.

Could rob him and put on a train to the village deadlock. There is one railway junction, where his ways with money crossed and another way, where he found himself without money. She said that she wrote letters to many cities along the way of her husband's train.

I wrote just in case because there was another coincidence: in the train where my husband was traveling: they killed a man who was very similar to him. She wrote to the village quite by accident, someone pushed her to this letter. Mussin thought about all this and was very tired of such information rushing at him, and decided that everything must rest.

No, it's time to sleep. The nights are long enough.

In the morning Musin went to the medical center. He said that he constantly thinks about the latest thefts and murders, but has not yet drawn conclusions. He was struck by the beauty of the wife of the drowned man. How did such a beauty still come to them, not afraid of the road? Strange. Everything is strange. Musin decided to speak with his granddaughter Kharitonovich again, because of her, everything happened: the men died because of her ring. The girl came to the office.

- Honey, can you remember once again that terrible evening? - Musin asked.

- If I knew what happened! It was dark, there was one, I know everyone here, they know me, but it was not far to go. Two men approached me. The one that drowned did not suit me. A peasant guy approached, with a short haircut under a cap, he was wearing a padded jacket. And he did not need gold. The first was taken aback by the sharpness of the second. The second pounced on me! He needed me, as if he had not seen women for a long time! And I have Fedor, why do I need someone else?

- Drink some water, calmly speak. The one in the cap, the repeat offender is famous. His name is Fedor. He is wanted. He always needs slaves. The aliens were robbed by his friends, but they were not released, they decided that a specialist in car repair could be useful.

- This man in a cap attacked me. He climbed to kiss, I began to escape from him. He got angry, a vengeful such a man. With two hands, like a ring, I still twisted my leg, the pain is hellish. He climbed up after that once again to me, and I ran from him in tears to the side. He ripped off his coat. I fell. He fell on me and tore off the ring, then got up, called me a stupid woman. They say that the horse is unbroken, then he gave the ring to his partner, and let me go.

- Everything becomes clear. Fedor left with diamond earrings and Agnessa's gold ring, and the newcomer with your ring caught the eye of Fyodor, they seemed to be leaving together. Everyone had their own ticket in the form of gold. And Fedor Fedor and reassured, - suggested the policeman Musin.

He thought that such a solution put everything in its place. It is necessary to write to the woman that her husband is innocent, he is a victim. It was in such a Cold town, rich in events, and Apollo spent two years of exile.

Agnes' ears are overgrown, but the bumps on her ears remain. Therefore, she was sad. Pampered and inaction equally badly acted on her. She fully felt the absence of Apollo. She did not know with whom he weaves intrigue, but without him it was noticeably boring. The head was squeezed by drowsy indifference, it was necessary to go out of emotional emptiness.

Agnes for a while wanted to live near the Kremlin. Ten minutes from the Kremlin, in the house of former officers, there were huge apartments, by the standards of apartments of the 20th century. Passing the Taganka Theater, passing along the Garden Ring and turning right, Agnessa hit the house on the embankment of the Moscow River. What did Agnessa forget there? Here, people changed the apartment, and her apartment was arranging them with something. Her apartment is small with low ceilings, their apartment is huge with high ceilings.

Lying a little, they gave two rooms for her apartment, and then they themselves received a large apartment, and she, in an intermediate way, in the chain of exchange. Two huge rooms of twenty six square meters, concealed a huge ancient closet, which the owners did not want to take away, it is very heavy, antique. And in the second room, in two cages, birds lived and looked out of the window at the Moscow River. Agnessa thoroughly forgot about this apartment, and yesterday ...

A stylistic businessman with a warped face like a great black and white singer from across the ocean, showed a bird in a cage, on a television program, and the apartment was so familiar! She also recognized the wardrobe, which she didn't want to inherit and did not participate in the exchange. She had dreamed of this exchange for ten years, she woke up with horror: did she exchange or not? Then she looked at the low ceiling and calmed down.


Outside the window, winter reigned. Snow flakes circled above the ground. In the age of high speeds and information devices, it is best to feel the speed as you roll down the mountain on a sled. And cell phones for fast communication easily fit in the pockets of sweatpants, to which the snow does not stick.

Agnes always attracted shooting films. One day she saw an ad for admission to the Institute for Television and Radio Broadcasting. Her certificate was good. Nobody interfered with the preparation for entering the institute. She entered the evening department of the institute to receive a second higher education, and during the day she worked at the company Sensual Instruments. Her husband Apollo was absent for a long time.

Denis Turin worked in television. After a modest wedding with Tatiana, he became a passionate and loving man, so he was loved by women all over the country, and sometimes in personal contact. Agnes has become another hobby of a famous man.

Once he saw gorgeous legs under a short skirt, which increasingly began to meet on his way through the corridors of the television center. He could not stand the female bait and offered to drive the owner of the gorgeous legs. She agreed. He got so carried away that he drove with the beautiful lady to the forgotten stadium.

White frosted snow surrounded the car from all sides. Inside the car was warm. One can imagine that they are in space: no lights are visible. Denis was driving the car. Agnes sat next to him. They drove around the city and drove into an abandoned forest stadium. We drove in a circle and stopped on the opposite side of the entrance. The couple wanted to talk about their problems.

Hands began to penetrate unobtrusively into the conversation. Hands touched hands, neck, climbed under the jumpers where it is warmer, where it is cozier. The legs did not lag behind, and as if by the way, one legs found the other legs.

Lips were third in this game and, naturally, met each other. One language penetrated into the neighboring mouth, the second language came into the mouth to the first, they exchanged affection with language. Two mouths, having experienced the joy of intercourse, closed. And the lips work like a battery of energy.

But the hands increased their activity and began to penetrate into the cosmic depths of human clothing. It seemed to the hands that they were meeting too many clothes, and they began to take off the excess. The most forbidden places of the human body are well covered with clothes on a winter day, but hands are omnipresent. And the bastions of clothing give up their positions under the hands of two loving people.

Denis reached the forbidden places first. Agnes did not lag behind, she studied the strength of the belt on his trousers. Love in the car at an abandoned stadium was frankly mad. They were insatiable.

But it all ends, especially physical love. The seatbacks in lowered form served as a bed. A kiss after love is brief, like gratitude. Hands have already lost interest in the partner and are engaged in their own clothes. Legs move away from each other. The seat backs are upright.

Two innocent sitting in the car. He touched the car from the spot, and she obediently left the abandoned stadium. The lights of the city flickered in the distance. But the romantic date at the stadium did not happen immediately, there was some kind of prelude.

Agnes recognized the forest stadium behind the windows of the car; it was here that she saw the stunt performances. She thought that in former times the stadium was flooded with water, and the local population received free entertainment. Adults and teenagers put on their own or other people's skates and clothes and went to the rink. People rode around the stadium circle and were happy if the lights were in the corners of the stadium and the music sounded.

More often in the stadium they played football. Such a stadium could be used for skydiving. In the summer, mothers with strollers sat on the stadium benches and sunbathed. Forest stadium was built in the old days, on it the stuntmen, who put several cars in a row and raged on their motorcycles on their roofs, could easily demonstrate their zeal. This stadium was used very rarely.

It was such a fun time when clothes and shoes were sold at the stadiums, then the once popular stadiums earned money by renting space for market trade. Not all stadiums were empty, and Agnes loved to go to the stadiums-markets, sometimes she was lucky with purchases. Especially the stadiums were rescued at a time when money was tense in the family. The more money there was in the family, the more good shops she went to.

Two weeks passed.

- Agnes, are we going? - Denis asked briefly by phone.

'We're going,' Agnessa agreed with excitement in her voice.

- I'm waiting for you in the car.

Agnes quickly got dressed and left the house. Denis, all handsome, was driving the car. White mohair vest under a black gorgeous hair, laid by a famous hairdresser, beckoned with his comfort. You understand, winter. The car drove into the darkness of obscurity.

On Agnessa, a mohair jumper made of blend yarn glittered. Mohair and mohair are well connected. Love in the dark cars on a country road promised to be passionate. The oncoming car lit up the headlights and spoiled the whole mass. They quickly threw things on themselves and pretended to be on their way.

Denis chose a place for the next date in an abandoned apartment.

Bright new coat fell on the chair.

- New coat? - Denis asked and grinned.

'I bought it today,' Agnes answered happily.

- Wait for me. I will come soon, - said the man and disappeared behind the door.

Agnes walked around the apartment in which, if anyone lived, it was rare. In the kitchen were old wheels from the car. On the gas stove stood a wretched ancient kettle. It is unlikely that people ate or cooked food here, if they did it, very long ago. In the only room was a bright plywood cabinet. In the corner was a metal bed with balls on the backs. Round wooden table did not violate the museum wretchedness. She looked at the snow-covered park outside the window.

The door opened slowly. Denis appeared in the smell of snow and freshness. In his hands was a gentleman's set: champagne, sweets, bananas. That's right, there was no food in this strange apartment. Agnes found cups, boiled tea.

The bed was kind of in place, but it creaked godlessly. Lovers of secret love had to go on a hard surface - the floor. Yes, without champagne love exploits in a forgotten apartment would be impossible.

The phone rang. Apollo's quivering voice asked:

- Agnes, when will you come home?

- Soon.

An enigma for a young lady was a home phone call. How did a husband, who was not at home for two years, find out where she is? The mood of Agnes fell somewhat. She looked at Denis.

The joy of successful sexual docking bloomed on his face. His hair stood up with joy. He gently smoothed them and became more beautiful. Ba, and maybe he had enough to champagne? Maybe a male elixir? A lot of joy radiated the face of a young man. Strange Denis did not notice Agnes after the meeting.

The personal life of Agnes outside the company gained momentum. It took a couple of weeks.

- We are going? - Denis asked by phone.

Agnessa agreed.

Denis drove a hundred meters and stopped.

- Take off your clothes! He ordered, smiling. And evil added: - We will get a wolf ticket with you.

- And why is that? - surprised Agnes, taking off her clothes.

- We are under the windows of the building. Here people walk, and you only have boots and hair, 'Denis said.

'Yes, but what a body!' If I could praise him. Let's drive away from the lighting.

- Ha, so I have separate shoes from me, than I will press the pedal! You understand: the pants are not a skirt, do not take them off your head.

Behind the window of the car flashed the silhouette of a little man. Almost without bending, he looked into the interior of the car: a small light above the door was burning inside. People sitting inside the car, he was familiar. Tisha grunted and turned a corner of a dark building.


A loving couple was busy with a very important thing, being in a car with tinted windows. Twenty minutes later, the car slowly drove away from the road and the lighted building, she got up in a dark place. Five minutes later, a girl who looked like a dragonfly because of a thin waist flew out of the car. Agnes waved to Denis and rushed to the car:

- Denis, where is my glove?

- What are you, Agnes, I did not take your gloves.

- Look, look, dear! Glove new, kid, what do I, again, buy new gloves?

'You know, I threw a handkerchief out of the window, and your glove flew away with it.

Agnes, waving her brown hair, waved her hand in farewell and quickly left the car. She walked and thought: "Why is it so unlucky? Or is it lucky? The main thing is that no one should notice me next to Denis, especially Apollo, he will certainly do something."

Agnessa came home and called her friend Tatiana:

- Tatiana, I have a new love. Do you know him! He is shown on TV. Just do not give me your advice, I myself know that I am not doing well.

- Agnes, I generally keep quiet. Yes, he is famous! Why do you need such love?

- He is so good. We have such a passion with him!

'I'm afraid for your hobby,' Tatyana said and heard telephone beeps in response.

Tatyana Agnesse didn't have time to say that Denis Turin was her personal man, she didn't tell her friend about this, and never invited her to her home.


Agnes was doing her own business, but on the way she moved onto a passing car, at the wheel of which Georges sat. Suddenly a big driver fell on the steering wheel. The car lost control. In desperation, Agnes looked at the road, at the steering wheel under the fixed driver. She was scared, scary, wanted to howl and live! But how to survive? How?!

She is a small, frail woman who cannot drive a car! His foot pressed on the pedal, but his hands did not move! Agnes, seeing that the car was rushing along the road hidden among the green foliage of the trees, more and more crookedly and obliquely, desperately tore off the man's body from the steering wheel and tried to change the movement of the car, she had it badly, but it worked! The road was empty, no one could help her, but no one interfered.

How much she rode, she did not know, but a red cross appeared on her way. Medicine was next! She hit the brake pedal. The car stopped at a silver poplar guarding the entrance to the hospital complex.

The medical brothers took the man to intensive care with great difficulty because of the decent size of his body, increased fat. He did not come to himself. She got into a passing car and found herself in that situation. What she found on her, she did not know. She broke into the intensive care unit. She took off on a man dying of a heart attack, as reported to her by a nurse.

She shook the perishable body, showing no signs of life, and screamed in a terrible voice:

- Georges, live! Live, Georges! I want you to live! Live! Hear, live!

Agnes did not look at the doctors, who believe that it is no longer possible to revive the dead. She began to give him artificial respiration. She breathed mouth to mouth. She screamed at him. She began to beat him on the cheeks, no one interfered with her, considering her actions useless. But she beat. Screamed at him like a spell:

- Georges, live! Listen, man, breathe!

She was breathing instead.

And he sighed, as if she had punched a lump in his throat. Doctors came to their senses and began their duties. Agnes was removed from the ward. And she decided that she would learn to drive a car.

The driver's name was George, he was a former guard. What to do, apparently, at all times the main occupation of the men was military affairs. Everyone knows that women came from the peasant's rib, therefore, Agnes must be more developed than the peasant Georges. So, but if Georges is a peasant and is not descended from humans, then he is immortal! And the doctors were people and did not know that true men do not die! One could argue that there are no men for a long time! Sorry if they were, then some of their descendants will certainly remain in the human world.

What to do, after the incident with a peasant who obviously had more than one millennium behind him, Agnessse had to master the subtleties of driving a car, which was very useful in her strange life.

Georges has since become Agnes's friend in life. As far as she remembers, there are always problems with him: he seems to be with her, and he seems not to be; whether he is a friend or not; but not a lover and not a husband. With him, she could not be in the same apartment for more than an hour, and sometimes ten minutes was enough. Georges at times annoyed Agnes, but she could not get rid of him.

The next day Georges appeared with a glove:

- Agnes, I walked along the linden avenue. Look: Denis's car is going, and from it the gloves are flying. I stopped. On the road, the glove flashed silver threads. I picked up the glove and brought you. I remember seeing such a beautiful glove with you. Have you been with Denis?

"Lucky - not lucky," thought Agnes and said:

- Georges, Denis just gave me a lift to the house. It happens to everyone! Thanks for the glove.

- No, I do not believe you! Where were you yesterday? But if you do not want to speak the truth, do not answer.

Agnes recalled that in the summer with George went to a clear lake to catch crayfish. He ate the crayfish with a sense of feeling he was drinking bottles of beer. She decided to cajole him:

- Georges, you want a beer? I know where the crayfish sell. Let's go to you.

He smiled:

- We go for crayfish and beer, my car is not far from tinted windows.

The crayfish turned red. Beer cold. Georges kinder. And in Agnes there was an annoyance: she did not like beer. She remembered Denis, with him it is easy without food, without drinks and everything is very sensual, but here there is one digestion.

- Georges, I left! Thanks for the glove, 'said Agnes and walked to the door.

'Hey, don't you dare open the door!' Lock you break! Shouted Georges and opened the door himself.

Agnes rushed between three lights: husband Apollo, friend Georges and lover Denis. Besides them, she had an unknown admirer, in the sense that she did not sleep with him. It was a small, nondescript man with a face covered with pock marks.

A small man Tisha for several years watched the chiseled figure of Agnes. He knew her passions and hobbies. He lived in the next doorway of the house and worked with her in the same building. Tisha tried to coincide with her in time for leaving and coming home.

A little art of a little man. He dressed decently, but he never had a car. The little man knew about her big men. He did not have a family, he did not drink, he was entertained by Agnes' hobbies.

Between themselves, the neighbors called him Tisha. Once at the granny, his neighbors on an entrance, Tisha's cat was gone. Tisha, having learned about the loss of a cat, thought a bit and found a cat in the next house, very similar to their house, on the same floor. And he became a granny Tisha. From Grandma Tisha learned the news about Agnes. He was respectful of Granny, who paid him information. She knew about his unrequited love for a young neighbor. Granny didn't count his attention to a woman and for love, but Hush played up.

A car with tinted glass stood at the entrance door. On the phone, Denis agreed on the time Agnes left work. She came out of the entrance door, hit the open doors of the car. It is clear that time is precious. It is difficult to live beautiful women, everything must be in time. It's good that they didn't take her to a firm like Leisure. Apparently, this service found that three men from a young lady is enough.

Denis Turin quickly drove away from the building and pulled along the highway to the city center. He was driving not just to the center, but to houses where the first floors were lined with cobblestone and granite. Through the tinted glass Agnes could not see, or so it seemed. Denis brought Agnes to an elite house located on the avenue.

She had a feeling that there was someone else in the apartment besides them, but the door to the second room was closed. She also had the feeling that he had turned on the invisible camera. She heard a click, but then decided what it seemed. No, she did not arise and did not ask anything.

On the parquet floor, Denis threw white faux fur, soon Agnes figure stood out beautifully on it. Inspired by what is unknown, the man showed everything he was capable of. The woman echoed him, fascinated by his virtuoso love. A strange feeling arose in the soul of Agnes.

Cool love with elements of physical education exercises captured on film. And rightly so: from the next room they filmed their great love on a small camera, and looked at them out of simple curiosity. Home Denis Agnes took, but did not drive because of safety and laziness. And she drove home herself.

The paths of sex tapes in cassettes are difficult to predict. One copy of the tape came to Georges. That's why he was a friend of Agnes, because he was a lazy man sexually, and his lover could be called a stretch. He gave all his masculine power for the pleasure of drinking vintage wine and beer daily and constantly. From the tape with an amateur film, he came in such astonishment that, opening his mouth, he did not close it for a long time.

Feelings of envy and hatred for Denis erupted in the soul of Georges, he had to get a bottle of vodka, calm down and come up with a plan for revenge. Soon there was an accident on the road, she was shown on television. The cause of the accident was established. The famous man, who was driving a dark limousine with tinted windows, did not die, he was saved by an airbag.

Agnes saw an accident on the road in the morning on the TV screen. She left the house all in tears. Neighbor granny was taking out the garbage and sympathized with crying. Agnes posted everything to the first listener of the sad news, of course, hiding some of the information.

Granny immediately called Hush, who was ready to leave the house and run after Agnes. Tisha thanked Granny for valuable information and promised her to bring fresh bread.

After the accident, Denis's limousine was transported to his house by friends. No, he did not live in an elite house, where Agnes drove. Agnes he then said that this was an apartment of his acquaintances, and he was given the key for a while. He lived in a simple area, in an old high house, located next to the cinema. In the house there was no hot water, there were columns for heating. Denis's spare apartment looked worse than his limo. A wrecked car was installed near his house, and he was taken to hospital with injuries. He was visited by Agnes.

Tisha caught up with Agnes and asked jokingly:

- How are you?

He got lucky. She greeted him and said that today they showed on TV, as the person she knew almost crashed into a car. She knows him, he lives in a house located next to the cinema.

Hush was pleased with these words. At work, he took a business trip on business and went to the cinema. He knew the area well, quickly found a cinema, went around the house. From a broken familiar car I guessed where the man of Agnes lived.

Tisha walked around the remains of the car, which had damaged the side door from the driver's side. The glass was broken, but somehow strange. The door was pressed inward, but the heart of the driver was not torn by ragged edges. The car could be restored, so she was brought to the house. Silence had the idea that Denis was framed, but who? His gaze focused on the tinted windows. Strange they were. Tisha went to the car, began to pick up the fragments. Interestingly, the glass is broken, but it did not crumble by peas.

'The film,' Tisha thought, 'maybe it's a secret?' The worker could apply the film on the glass of the car, but in the service station they checked the film after applying the transparency. They were responsible for their work. The film was applied to the glass from the cabin side, and here - two layers of film. Who else could have a hand in an accident?

Soon Tisha saw Georges standing next to the entrance, next to him was his huge car with new tinted glass. The man wiped the windows with a dry cloth from the outside, depicting terrible employment.

At this time, Agnes, all of herself sad, left the building and went to the side of the stop. Georges did not catch up with her, he decided that it would be necessary - it would do, and he would wait until tomorrow or the day after.

At home, Apollo told Agnes that a neighbor Tisha had come. He was looking for someone who tinted windows on Denis's car. The neighbor did not blame the worker, everything is checked and recorded in the service station. They do not tint twice. Tisha was looking for someone who tinted windows from the outside, and for some reason was looking for Agnes, and told everything to her husband.

Here is what Agnes told Apollo:

- Denis left the house early, it was still dark outside. Attention to the glass in the car because of the total darkness did not pay. He drove along the highway, through the glass did not see anything.

Apollo has already managed to tell all this to the granny-neighbor, while she was walking home in the evening, and for the lump of butter she said everything again Hush.

Tisha, as a home detective, almost understood everything, but something in this story remained in doubt. If a worker applied one film, who applied the second film and did it at night and right on the street? He knew that Agnes still has a friend Georges. He saw him at the entrance, he stood there like a beacon without a siren. Where George lived, Tisha did not know, and decided to track him down after work, when he would hunt Agnes.

Georges appeared the next day at his place of waiting: fit - not fit. For the tape on the tape, which captured the love of Denis and Agnes, he took revenge on Denis with a second tape on the windows of a dark car, but said nothing to her. It was pasted by his people.

Agnes went up to Georges, but did not get in the car with him, but moved aside to talk. Tisha with a lean face inadvertently approached Georges' car and immediately noticed that the film on the car was new, the same as on the Denis glasses from the outside. How did he put it? And how smartly invented everything? Tisha sighed and went to the granny to buy butter.


Chapter 5

Life is so interesting, but Agnes was not laughing. She was attacked by a terrible feeling of guilt, it all seemed to her that Denis had an accident because of her. About the tape on the tape where she was without clothes, she still didn't know, so she had no reason to be angry with him. Denis brought in the life of Agnes natural love that no one else could give. It was something extraordinary.

Tears attacked Agnes. She could not stop the tears, because she did not investigate the cause of the accident on the road. She did not even know about the double film on the windows, but she felt that Georges didn't manage without this accident.

Georges stopped waiting for Agnes at the exit of the building. She ignored him completely. He nevertheless met her and told her about the tape, he wanted to bring Agness back to life and turn against Denis.

He succeeded!

Agnessse was ashamed of the film with sex on white fur. Burning hatred for Denis was born in her soul. After that, she seemed to say goodbye to him and returned to life, to work. As a sign of gratitude to George, she came to him with his favorite wine and snack. Wine has done its job.

Agnes lay and recalled. She did not remember Georges with a bad word - she remembered how he could bring truffles in kilograms, then instead of sweets she brought a whole clip of bottles with varnish of all colors and shades, otherwise she simply brought mascara to the unthinkable colors. No, she did not take offense at him and did not even believe in his indirect fault in the accident. He was one of those men who loves a woman, while there is a rival, it consoled his vanity. Physical love with him did not work.

She realized that the people of Georges had spoiled the brakes in Denis's car, which was driving at great speed along the first slippery morning road. The car turned around and carried into the oncoming lane, but he was once again lucky: there were no cars on the oncoming lane, they were standing at the traffic lights and only picking up speed when one of them hit Denis's car. In the accident he was accused of crossing two solid lines, he himself suffered a little, and crushed the car.


At the time of thinking of Agnes, Denis called and said:

- Quickly go out, I really missed you while I was in the hospital.

Agnes jumped out to her beloved man, got into his renovated car. They quickly drove, but did not reach. Heavy rain, solid rain stopped the car. Denis drove away from the highway in the direction of landings. Wonderful and turbulent streams of water flowed through the windows. What was left to make the two impatient? Love each other, without departing from the shower.

Denis had a lot of money in the heyday of his work on television, and he wanted more money, but no one should have known about it. All the viewers of a huge country fell into his power. The management of the TV channel treated him very well, everyone made money on it.

Popularity generated revenue by offsetting huge advertising deposits in reports. And these contributions were in his sports bag. Tennis rackets were sticking out of the bag, and under them were two money cases, but no cases. Criminals generally like to select cases, even if they have a void or just a book. Denis is clever, but a failure in the memory of elementary things always nests near the big mind.

The sports bag attracted the attention of Detective Musin and his assistant Zoe. Denis was under their secret supervision. Even from afar it was noticeable that in the bag there were not sneakers, but something heavy and level, like standing bricks.

At the time when small firms were organized, it was easy to turn the creation of another company into which funds for advertising on television flowed. And once all the money in cash was received by Denis. Good girl. Where did he want to hide with the money?

Denis decided to go to Agnes home. He knew that Apollo was not at home. The meeting at the stadium could please once, but then I wanted home comfort and love on the bed. Agnes knew what she was going for and knew about Denis's popularity, but she wanted money or popularity on which to make money.

A women's jumper called 'Don't touch me, I'm covered in diamonds' modestly hung on a wooden frame. Tatiana asked to show a sparkling miracle. The jacket miraculously scattered lay on the counter. Near the diamonds were glass of good quality, but how they shine in the light of neon lamps! And the New Year was so close!

When a red sparkling miracle appeared in her hands, she noticed a black miracle. A black knitted jumper was trimmed with diamonds of glass the size of a cherry bone. He flickered so tempting! But Tatyana thought that Denis had no money again, and she did not have enough money for this glass bead.

Little Vlad was spinning at the hem of his mother's coat and reaching for plastic machines. He was interested only in cars or pistols of all calibers. The woman could not resist and bought her son toys. She looked at the sparkling jumpers good-bye and took a deep breath.

Denis, before the arrival of his wife and son, shifted the bills in thick bundles. At the first sounds of the key in the keyhole, he threw money into a gym bag, put a sports T-shirt, tennis rackets on top and zipped the bag.

The son ran into the room with joyful shouts, spinning toys in front of his father's eyes. Father nodded his head, cheated. He kissed his wife on the cheek, saying in passing that he was going to the gym, and disappeared through the door.

Tatiana, twisting her long hair in a bun, went to the kitchen to cook a modest dinner. Her husband again did not give her money for family expenses. Poor food reserves are not inspired for cooking. She put a pot of water on the gas stove, took out macaroni and two sausages for her son. Mayonnaise wasn't happy with freshness, its remains were white on the bottom of a glass jar. Tea, drying, two sweets completed the meal.

She did not complain about life. Last time she did not work, but sat at home with her son. The husband was the sole breadwinner of the family. He did not spoil her attention. She felt with all the fibers of her soul that her husband had a new woman, and already guessed who she was! Why are there! Tatyana knew, she was almost sure that it was Agnessa!

It is understandable, Denis is a famous person! Tatiana diligently avoided transmission, her nervous system could not stand it. She watched TV a little. When Denis had a talent for television, his growth was amazing!

After a couple of years, he became the leading television channel. His big head earned the people respect. He was always with his wife, his wife. Her hair was decorated with a long braid hairstyle. They were a good couple, they had a clever son. There was love, but life was covered with solid problems.


Agnes checked Denis's sports bag. At first glance one might have thought that he took his things from home and moved in with her, but the weight of the bag struck her. The presence of a huge amount of money surprised, then delighted, then she wondered how you can take them.

Denis, a man with beautiful eyes, but she loved Apollo. True, the difference between them almost did not feel. But because of the film with sex, she firmly harbored a grudge against Denis. Agnes did not want to carry the bag out of her house, so that Denis did not think that she was involved in stealing money.

She decided to take the money from Denis by someone else's hands and not in her house. Denis lost caution. His love has blinded. Agnes gave him a stormy night: she tried, she loved, but with thoughts of big money. He decided to leave the bag until the evening at Agnes, and then carry the money to the house of his wife Tatyana.

At home, Denis was ready for a cache, and not one. Immediately leave the money in the house, he could not, he felt shadowed. And the man decided that it is better to think that he is an ordinary womanizer than a big thief. Denis went to work in the television center, and the bag remained in the storeroom at Agnes. He is not a stupid person, he didn't take all the advertising money, he left some for work.

Advertising should have been going on, and not all the disappearance of money will immediately appear, and not everyone constantly checks each other's financial affairs. He had time to think about the further road of currency.

At a time when computers and their derivatives were not, Denis created a new television program. People liked the entertainment program. The popularity of the television presenter reached incredible heights and began to disturb him. Then he gave the transmission to his friend, and he decided to take all the power on the channel.

Denis wanted full power over all the people through the television screen. He was such a man. And the money that lay in his gym bag seemed insignificant to him.

For Agnes, the money in Denis's sports bag in her house seemed huge, and the desire to take possession of them filled all her thoughts. She called her friend Georges. After all, she immediately realized that in this case the best thing is not to shine. She needed to stay good for Denis, and taking money at home was stupid: he will know who took it.

Professional guard Georges agreed to stun Denis, take the bag and hand the money over to Agness in the car. Apollo, the husband of Agnes, that day returned from the Cold City.

Denis took a bag with money from the house of Agnes and, as a traveling husband, went to his home, where he prepared a cache for money. At the entrance of his house, a strong-looking man rushed at Denis's bag with rackets. Denis began to resist. Then the man stunned him with a fist on the head. Denis fell.

The murder of Denis in the plans of George was not included. The guard was wearing a mask that easily turned into an ordinary men's hat. Georges took out the rackets from the bag and put them next to Denis, and with his bag he slowly left the entrance.

The blow of Georges was stunning. Denis fell against the wall and was still breathing. Therefore, Georges with a relatively clear conscience left Denis abandoned, leaving no trace of the crime.

Apollo was already waiting for him in the car. Agnes was not around. She was at the observation post and watched the entrance to the entrance. Agnes saw that two more men entered the porch, who briefly stayed in it and went out into the street.

On the way to her home, Tatyana saw a big man with a bag that looked like Denis's bag, but did not attach any importance to this. At the entrance she saw her husband lying on the steps of the stairs without moving and forgave him all the sins of which she only knew or guessed.

Tatyana immediately realized that her husband was dead. There were no tears, she didn't scream, but she stopped for a moment, then she touched Denis's pulse. Pulse was not. Forces left her. She fainted.

Musin arrived with his team and photographed the corpse.

Georges divided the money into three equal parts: himself, Agnes, Apollo. Amazingly, there was no conflict. Apollo, Georges and Agnes, dividing the money, parted in three directions.

Apollo's nervous tension dramatically increased his appetite. He hid the money at home with his mother. Then he called for food delivery at home. Within an hour, he was brought two pizzas in large boxes, on which something was crumbled and poured with melted cheese. After eating three huge pieces, he realized that he ordered more than he could eat. He overcame a dream.

Agnes hid money in different parts of the apartment. She felt sad that the affair with Denis came to an end. She got used to him. The fact that her lover died, she learned from the news on television. She decided to remain silent about the money, but she was not going to deny the connection with him. And if the money is dirty, then they will not look for it.

Georges lived without a splash of conscience, he had such a job, and for him the fight was normal. He came home, ate, drank, spun and drove to his dacha, where he knew where to put the money. Outwardly, everything was sewn-covered. The guard was paid green and their exchange for rubles was a usual thing for him.


The whole Cranberry region watched further events. Denis was buried as a hero. Huge crowds of people followed the coffin through the puddles of melting snow. And money? About the dead do not speak badly. Musin wrote volumes on the investigation of this case, and all of the forest. You can not talk badly about your favorite television presenter.

For the people, Denis remained a bright person in the history of the country. In the television center, the death of Denis Turin was a highlight. All the journalists of the world received additional work and rushed to cover the events of his life.

Agnes looked with horror at the stream of news from the television screen. If she did not know the cause of the television presenter's death, she would have thought that television journalists killed him so that there was something to write about.

Journalists seemed to hear her thoughts and sunk to Agnes. Love of Denis and Agnes in the stadium someone noticed or saw them together at the entrance to the city. A journalist came to her accompanied by a film crew. Agnes was filmed for the whole country and the whole world. She became an iconic figure in the life of Denis.

Denis Turin's last love - it sounds bright! The popularity of Agnes for one day has become huge, she was tried in all parts of the country and the entire globe. She had no time to think about the hidden money, she entered the role of a historical figure and favorably gave herself to shoot.

Tatiana stayed in the shadows, she actually loved the deceased husband Denis and spoke about him with great difficulty. She was in a state of trance, she needed a psychiatrist, not journalists. She is tired.

Musin knew that the first blow was dealt with a tremendous force to a temech, but he was hit with a soft object and not at all with rackets. It could not be his wife, who first went to her dead husband. It was a strong man, very strong. The investigation worked, but everyone was sure that the murder could not be solved, although they did not speak out loud about it.

It is difficult to find a fist as a murder weapon: it will not be thrown away, it must be sought along with the owner. You cannot call the master of the fist stupid, he himself will not appear in tears at Musin, the fist master is very strong.

We needed an elementary motive for the murder. But everyone believed that Denis was a holy man, they did not notice him in frauds with money, they did not find the jewels in his two women.

What could be taken from a simple television presenter? At first glance, nothing. At a second glance, we can say that the killing is contractual and is associated with his new job, more precisely with a new position, to which he has practically not begun.

That's how good Denis was! Raised his sports career, his university studies, his love of family. He was a good Denis. The investigation was conducted so as not to say anything extra. People slowly began to forget Denis Turin.

Television gradually took over twice stolen money for commercials from Agnes, and immediately a steady silence was established around it. She again remembered Georges, this coward did not spend money! She went to him without warning, enveloped him with love and promises that she would remove him in the video if he helped with the money.

She said that with her share of the money she gained fame as a writer and director of cool videos, and now with his money she will make him the pet of the whole country and the world.

And George could not resist. The commercials started spinning around them again. He had been so afraid of everything for so long that he had opened up like a tea rose flower. Agnes used all his positive qualities to advertise products, not forgetting to pull advertising money stolen for the first time by Denis.

Ha. The money ran out. Georges was not needed. Agnes went money from advertising, invisible debt to customers has been eliminated. She took her place in the advertising chain and was in her place. Apollo became her right hand. Georges is quite happy.

When money came from the third source, Mussin, who was in charge of Denis's business, decided that the secondary robbers of advertising money paid for themselves. He had an order to find criminals, and he found them, but it was impossible to dishonor the sunny name of the country - Denis Turin, so everything was done quietly.

For the first time, Agnes Mussin discovered the purchase of an expensive car and began to unwind the case for a thin thread. He gave Agnes the opportunity to make commercials, then she pulled money from her partners. They were watched, but not touched.

The investigation revealed that Denis was stunned by a punch, but he would have remained alive. He died of a second strike on an iron bar that was sticking out, bent away from the stair railings. Prut plunged into his temple when he fell. It is impossible to say that Georges is not completely guilty, but one cannot deny the chain of events during the fall of Denis.

Musin was doubly clever in his conduct of this world famous affair. The guard Georges was not touched, since at that time he was guarding very important persons, and there was no direct or indirect evidence against him. Finding a replacement for this bug was difficult. People of such a plan as a security guard, after a perfect attack on Denis, served their superiors with redoubled energy and thirst for a blow was quenched not by an important person, but by a famous person. He was monitored, but not arrested.

Mussin reported on what was happening with the alleged abductors of the television channel's advertising money, and then everything went on instance. Above on instance, we were pleased that everything had been safely completed. For stealing such big money, Denis would have a tower, and so he got the tower himself. The money returned to the place, and the people remained a pure hero.

Apollo returned home, he lay at home and dreamed out loud so that Agnes heard him sigh:

- Where to get the money? How good it was with the money!

'Apollo, but we have the money,' said Agnessa.

'Agnessa, what's the money?' This is a salary, not another's treasures!

- Oh, well, when all is well!

- And we will live with you in this small apartment, honest ones!

- You are so handsome! What are you thinking about! Why do you need money?

- Your legs are beautiful, I love your legs ...

Apollo's hands explored Agnes's legs and stretched higher and higher, flirting with her. She reached out for him with her whole body, the vibrations of her body intensified, they tuned in to the wave of love in a huge bed. Passed sensual emotions. There was a pause before the next love.

Agnes absentmindedly looked at the cherry box. A cherry-colored wood cosmetic box stood languidly at the computer, she hid within herself everything that does not decorate the table, but decorates a woman's face.

A casket is a very reasonable thing on the women's table - it pleased the eyes, especially since it was a gift from Apollo. He decided to lead a sedentary life and decorated the life of Agnes as he could. He also did not want to burden her with cooking and periodically ordered food to the house.

Life always seeks to take a quiet course between two people. Apollo on the computer preferred to play with people, he should at least command someone, because in reality his commander was Agnes.

Neighbors burst into the quiet life of a respectable couple asking:

- Give money, how much is not a pity, a lonely granny died.

But they did not take much, they even gave the change.

After the neighbors brought food in the box. After a pizza box, a neighbor flew in tears and said that her husband drove to the customers at the Moscow railway station, and his local taxi drivers beat up and punctured the tires, but he was driving to his customers. The neighbor ate a big piece of fashionable pizza and left to console her husband.

There was silence, which was interrupted by a question:

- Apollo, leave the child?

- Agnes, what are you talking about? We have many years!

- The second age of motherhood and fatherhood ...

- How will we live? You make money, and I only help ...

- We have known each other for a long time. Life is empty with you. Let's give birth to a child, and I have money.

'What money?'

- And you will not be bored if I answer?

- You can't be bored from money.

- It happens. I saved money, did not spend and again restored, I have a lot of green papers. If you noticed, I did not buy villas and apartments. Giving birth? The term is already three months.

- Come on! Why are you silent for so long?

- I was afraid that would not hold.

After six months, a box with baby wipes appeared next to the cosmetic box. Six months later, a nanny appeared in the house. Agnes began to go to work, create commercials. Modern woman. And Apollo? He was constantly nearby, if not at home, but increasingly at home.

The nanny once noticed where the home safe is and where she gets her salary. Having made a little effort, she found out the safe code. Another two days - and she emptied the safe, waited for the owner to come, told him that while the child was sleeping, she had to go to the store, and went out forever. Apollo from the heart naked with his little daughter Angelina before the arrival of Agnes.

Agnes quickly realized why the nanny was missing, and looked into the empty safe. Life has become more complicated in the blink of an eye. Money for nannies was no more. For the first time Agnes became depressing from hopelessness. The figure after birth has somewhat deteriorated, and it was not easy to work: the milk flowed through the clothes.

The last script was unsuccessful. The money from advertising seemed to have shrunk and passed on to other people. Everything in life was going against her. Apollo was not indignant yet, but he frowned more and more. My daughter Angelina had a lot of problems. Agnes bit her elbows that she had taken a nanny, and at the same time she understood that she could not do otherwise.

- Apollo, sell the car?

- Agnes, we will sell your car.

She paused, realizing that the golden time of luck had come to an end. She did not have anger, but she was empty in her soul.

Agnessa Ivanovna was left with little daughter Angelina without money. She sold the car, spent the money more than economically. Apollo did not appear, he lived with his mother. Children's dairy kitchen rescued: if the child did not eat all the dairy products, then she baked cakes from them, went to the store rarely, bought the most necessary products.

Angelina grew up a calm girl, she was already crawling on the floor, then began to rise and walk, holding on to objects. Agnes with all her heart stuck to the child. Soon she recorded the daughter in the queue for the nursery. The head offered to take the child earlier if Agnessa works as a nurse in the nursery.

Agnes worked in the nursery, and the daughter was next to her. Her figure began to improve, very often with the children it was necessary to bend over, without a gym, she became slim. My daughter behaved well in the manger, because my mother was nearby.

At the kindergarten, Agnes spotted the Apollo car. He was waiting. Agnes approached her daughter's father. He almost did not change.

- Agnessa, I'm sorry! Take me to your place. I feel bad without you.

'Take it,' and she got into his car with her daughter.

Apollo brought three bags of food she had forgotten about. My daughter jumped on her father's lap, climbed around his neck, and both of them were happy. Agnes was preparing dinner from food, but not from children's dairy residues, and sighed calmly: the idea of a new scenario appeared in her head.

Everything is so simple, when it is good after it was bad, but well doubly, because the family was united. Agnes breathed freely: Apollo was at home, Angelina grew up, they called her from work, congratulated, hinted that they were waiting. She endured the most difficult period of testing a woman for strength! On March 8, the tea set is popular: acquaintances come, relatives remember, run in, congratulate, drink a cup of tea and run farther, but in the heart of the visits calmly.

'Agnes, I have news for you,' said Apollo. - You see, I'm not so lazy, but working with you taught me something. I earned you a car ...

- Apollo, and maybe we will manage with one machine? I'm afraid to drive. I had a fear for myself and for my daughter. Renew this apartment and your clothes, everything else later.

- I agree.

Five years after the death of Denis Turin. A new television program was made about him, and unknown facts from the biography were collected. Musin knew a lot, but his information could not be spoken to a wide audience. In front of the television camera, files of cases were written in connection with the murder of the television hero. Constantly on the screen showed footage from the life of Denis.

Agnes was watching TV, not taking her eyes off the screen. And quite by chance she had the idea that not all Denis's money was known to her. 'He should have had either money or jewels,' said her soul. She felt that it was time to go to the coveted stadium, that it was there that you can get a new impulse of thoughts.

- Apollo, give me a car! I will try one ride around the city.

- Well, but do not drive! Drive carefully and not through the main streets.

Behind the wheel Agnes felt like a man. She told a lie that she did not want a car. She really wanted to. But not now. At the stadium, she stopped there, where Denis's car was standing during their first love. Out of the car, she looked around. Oak, which grew outside the stadium field, when viewed from the driver's place, seemed interesting.

Oak with a hollow turned out to be a real handsome man. Agnes bypassed him from all sides. In one place on the bark was cut with a knife "Agness", in another place "Denis". The inscriptions were hard to read, but they could still be read. Agnessse became terribly interesting. She wanted to go after her husband and connect him to the search. She did just that, almost running, ran to the car, got behind the wheel and drove home.

At home, Agnes told Apollo everything. The husband understood the wife from half a word. They took their daughter Angelina with them and all three of them went to look at the oak in the stadium. Daughter finger kolupala oak bark. And the parents examined the wonder of nature from all sides, which they usually did not see at all. And found. Between the words "Agnes" and "Denis" there was a small hollow. The big hollow was out of the way and below, everyone who felt like it, especially cats and cats, climbed into it.

Inside the small hollow, carnations were impacted, as if someone was joking or distracting the eye. In one place, a piece of bark was pinned up. Agnes showed Apollo a strange place, took her daughter and went with her to the stadium. Agnessa and her daughter dove into the back seat.

Apollo grabbed the pliers from the car and took the bark off the nail, underneath it was a niche in which was a wooden pencil case that looked like a knot. He threw the case into his pocket, broke in chips from the broken bark, sprinkled debris inside the small hollow, and abruptly stepped in the direction of the car.

As soon as they left the stadium, an elderly man with a dog appeared on it.

At home, Apollo opened the pencil case. Five clean diamonds lay in the pencil case.

- Agnes, look!

- What do we do? She asked.

- While silent. Now comes a new wave of noise, you will again be shown on the screen.

- So what is the joy of diamonds?

- Stay human. You can't put diamonds in the safe, he has already let us down. Put the diamonds in the jar with salt. Nurses will not hire.

Snow, lush and wet, peacefully breathed in the smell of the approaching spring. Agnes looked at the television center. She got the idea that the elevator is not working today. And exactly, the elevator did not work.

Slowly climbing up the stairs, she thought that she would be offered to write a script for a hidden advertisement for diamonds, which are always in advertisements in the second or third plan. They say about one thing, but you need to look at another. And for sure, she was offered to make a commercial with diamonds.


Chapter 6

Agnes shuddered at her new guess: what if diamonds were placed in an oak for advertising? No wonder the man with the dog appeared at the stadium. No, it's scary to think so.

The diamond brilliance of Agnes was now well known, diamonds need wise illumination of the edges so that they play in a certain way. The task pleased and scared. She was afraid that she would not stand it and bring home diamonds to the shoot, as she used to bring her secret money, and not only hers, but also Apollo and Georges.

Oak was spinning in her head. The diamonds in the oak hollow would look very nice! So she harmed herself and helped. Advertising is a fleeting phenomenon, but leaving a deep imprint on the minds of viewers due to frequent repetition. Prices of advertised products on the screen are always higher than non-advertised ones.

Naturally, Agnes said what diamonds should be advertised, but she thought that if you remove your diamonds next to the proposed diamonds, the effect will be much higher. Those that lie in the castor, and the size of a larger, and the faces are perfectly fulfilled. Own hand lord. Oak diamonds were taken on film.

The video came out great, when it was received asked a question:

- Where does this miracle come from?

- From the salt shaker.

Everyone decided that Agnes was a joke, and she took diamonds from a jeweler for filming. Therefore, she decided to get rid of five oak diamonds for family safety. Apollo naturally agreed. The movie about diamonds was on the screens. Agnes brought her value to the jeweler. She played openly.

The jeweler immediately determined that it was this divine beauty that did not descend from the screen. The jeweler gave a very decent price for diamonds made of oak, as he himself decided that he would make a jewelery, and a golden cross would be better, and sell it more expensively.

The cross with five large diamonds was so piercingly good that the jeweler offered it to a high church dignitary, and he bought it. Agnes calmed down, she thought that now she was free. In the starting house, the couple bought an excellent apartment. A little bit more, and they moved into a new apartment, now they did not keep money in the home safe, but immediately let it go.

Agnes could not live alone, she was too young, but after being shown repeatedly on television, she had problems with men. They began to be afraid of her. She changed her appearance and decided to call a former friend.

Georges was very happy about the call, but in it after theft of money, inner cowardice appeared. He was afraid of everything in the world and refused to meet with Agnes. He spent money modestly and did not fall under suspicion to anyone. Agnes realized that George was afraid of everything, and did not blame him. She was bored. She bought a modest dark limousine of imported appearance and began to conquer the roads of the city.


One day, Agnes drove into an abandoned stadium and got quiet behind the wheel, then threw a bouquet of flowers outside the window, which she had previously bought, and left her past. A stone fell from her heart. Agnes would not have organized an attack on Denis if she had not been angry at his pornographic film with her participation !!!

She came to life again. At one time, she and Denis got to know each other better during the filming of the commercial, it was she who wrote the successful script for the commercial. This commercial was very much loved by the people, it was repeated by people as an anecdote.

The channel management turned to Agnes with a request to write a couple of scripts for commercials. She was shown what to advertise, and how to do it, she had to determine for herself. With passion Agnes took up the case. She sat at the table and wrote scripts, occasionally glancing at a blooming tea rose in a white cache-pot. She wrote great scripts.

Having rotated in a society which was engaged in shooting of these commercials, she heard several times the remarks that the money allocated for television advertising had disappeared somewhere. Part of the money Agness began to invest in the production of commercials for their scenario. Advertising was canceled. Agnessu noticed. The management again turned to her for new scenarios, which during filming pulled money out of it.

"That's it! It's time to take care of yourself," she thought, and went for a facial massage. A month of work on her own person rejuvenated her for five years, otherwise she already felt that the men had transferred her to the class of invisible women.

I found a period of reading for her, she bought modern novels and read them from morning to evening at any free moment. The general calm came after a period of reading, and she felt the strength for the next feats in life.

Apollo accompanied his wife to the fitness club, he did not go to cosmetologists, and, like a dream, he repeated the actions of his woman regarding reading books, but he read detective stories, and she read love stories. After reading the books, both of them went over to their computers and wrote what came from their rested heads.

Agnes films were played on television, they were acquired by other countries, films were translated into other languages, and she wrote something new. This was her hobby.

Once in an interview she was asked a question:

- Agnessa Ivanovna, how did you become a screenwriter, if there is information that you work at the Blesk company? Why is your name associated with diamonds and Shah Mach?

- Dear journalists, my life is very diverse, and from the scenarios I went to work on the creation of commercials, and then the films.

- And education?

- Two institutes.

- Sorry, we did not know about it.


Unnoticed by themselves, after talking about a black diamond, the parents of Agnes decided to take on a job as a student at the Apollo Technical Institute. The young man attracted them with his extraordinary personality, and Aghness's father needed an assistant.

Through Apollo, who knew everything and about everyone, they came to Fedor and invited him to work as a diamond cutter. The guy did not resist, he understood that such proposals did not appear every day.

Agnes was glad that her father would have a good helper, with whom she never met for the time being. The fact is that the parents of Agnes created the company "Shine" for the processing of diamonds. Therefore, she was not indifferent to the brilliance of diamonds.

Fedor came to the office and immediately fell to the court. He quickly understood what his job was. No one doubted his honesty, he had the ability to attract people to himself, if he needed it. The student really wanted to work with diamonds. Apollo and the chef sat at the neighboring desktops and worked, sometimes talking about their lives.

Manager Boris brought a new batch of diamonds and waited until the end of the story with a black diamond, which he didn't like, because he distracted the chief from his diamonds. Diamond-lit cell phones looked great, and customers began ordering diamonds for lighting one after another. New entertainment began to bring significant revenues.

An ad for a diamond-backed cell phone was sold all over the world. Apollo was happy, the income did not go around him and his harem of employees, and Agnes again depended on him. She was increasingly tired of the radiance of stones and fear of everything in the world.

Tatiana belonged to those rare women who do not change men. She had only one man, she suspected him of treason, but if it were not for television, she would not have known. She did not differ in curiosity, but her external data were quite decent. And where was Denis looking? Apparently, he was attracted by the ardent Agnes, the complete opposite of Tatiana, a bit of a cold woman.

Financial assistance has come to an end. Tatiana had to think about work. The last years during the life of Denis, she did not work and raised her son. There is nothing worse for a woman than a hundred percent guardianship of a man, he blocked her himself.

He died, and she was left with nothing. She graduated from the Institute. After she gave birth to a son, she still worked, and then got stuck in household chores and lost her sense of time. It was then that Denis turned up an independent woman Agnes.

Tatiana went to the television station to get a job. She lived from the television station is relatively close. They took her illuminator. Light on the set is always needed. Lighting devices were constantly warming up, it was warm next to them. The lamps in the lighting fixtures were constantly overheating. Tatyana did not immediately learn not to burn her own hands when working with lighting equipment. She learned to control the light and mood on the stage, met with manufacturers of lighting equipment.

Over the years, floodlights of all types have become more perfect and warmed less, but this has made their cost steadily grow. Tatyana fell in love with her hot and light shop, and they stopped talking about her that she was Denis's wife, but simply fell in love with a worker who worked perfectly with searchlights of all types. The boy grew and remembered his father less and less. Tatiana did not marry and did not bring the men home.

In the shooting of the new program was attended by a handsome visitor Boris from the snowy city. He became interested in Tatiana and, if he did not participate in the shooting, he approached the control panel of light effects. Tips about coverage and questions about privacy erupted from it. Accidentally learning that Tatyana was the widow of Denis Turin, he paid even more attention to her.

Money to money. Tatiana started repairing the apartment. She threw trash out of the house with the help of her son and freed the balcony. She examined the stains on the walls in the room after she had removed the furniture. One spot between the balcony and the room was through. The wallpaper in the room at the spot seemed to be glued after the rest. She called her son. Together they began to consider strange spots. Under the wallpaper was white putty. It was easily removed. Under it was a flat piece of cardboard. Under the cardboard was a niche. In the niche was an iron box in a plastic bag. In a rectangular box tightly bills.

Tatyana Petrovna and Vlad amicably looked at the treasure.

- A gift from your father, - only said Tatyana. And she fell silent. Then she asked: - What are we going to do?

'We need to think,' answered Vlad.

The money in the house was very necessary, everything required updating up to the clothes.

'Vlad, write what you need and don't tell anyone that we have found the money,' said Tatyana quietly.

- I don't understand? - importantly answered son.

They bought everything they needed. Tatiana took up her appearance.

Tatiana has always been the opposite of Agnes, she again had a flash of either thought or memory. She suddenly clearly realized that Agness was guilty of the death of her precious Denis. Directly or indirectly. She decided her lime.

Tatyana remembered very well that on the day of Denis's death only men entered the entrance, but all these were men whom Agnes always led! Here is such a simple thought visited her head.

She basically did not watch the films of Agnes. Somehow she could not stand it and watched the film Agnes. In one of the main characters of the film, she recognized by a vague memory of a man who left her door on the day of Denis's death. The man she remembered the huge growth and decent size in all directions. But he walked from the doorway so calmly that her thoughts did not arise about his involvement in the murder of Denis.


Denis was killed on the landing in front of their floor, and they did not live on the first floor. So, a man could go from any lower floor, and not necessarily from their floor, and not even from their entrance. She had never had an associative memory for this man. The man walked with a bag. Now she scolded herself with all her might! In his hand was a sports bag, the same as Denis was!

How many years have passed, and suddenly everything has come to mind! And then she was in such a deep trance that she could not remember anything! But the memory perked up at the sight of a huge man on the screen! She remembered from the film that his name is Georges.

Tatiana was ready to run and call Musina, but did not know where to start. She had nothing to say to Musin, except what she remembered. The money she found with her son at home was put on her. But what if the money comes up when asking about what Georges did in their house on that terrible day ?!

The investigation over the years has not advanced. The investigating authorities said practically nothing to Tatiana. She went in a simple way and decided to consult with Vlad. The son said that they would not say anything about the money found in their home. And he also remembered the actor, a very cool man, but he didn't know what to do with suspicions. And he offered his mother to turn to Musin, who was leading the case of the murder of his father Denis Turin.

Tatiana went to Musin. He was extremely surprised by her flash of memory. He remembered films with Georges, as the scripts were written by Agnes, and he was always behind the scenes behind her, but there were no hints of Denis in her films. Tatyana carefully avoided the topic about Denis. Musin noticed and thanked him.

Musin has many questions. How to get to Georges? How to catch on it? From what end to unwind this business? He decided to collect all that is known about George, a thought suddenly appears. He quickly learned that he had long worked in the protection of an important person, that in fist fights he had no equal. Boxer in the distant past ...

Bounce with a soft object - fist !!! Musin was surprised at how simple things began to take shape, and for so long nothing loomed! But what did George take from Denis? What was in the bag? Why were there tennis racquets on the landing? Or maybe Georges threw them out of the bag? What else was in the bag? If a sports uniform, then why such a big man things are not their size?

Mussin knew about the money that Agnessa spent on the set. From where the money came to her in three streams, he did not fully know. Could suggest that Denis left her some decent amount, which he withdrew from advertising money. His wife Tatyana did not shine with money. So you have to find out if Georges had the money. And what is the connection between Agnes and Georges?

Agnes, not knowing about the flash of memory in the depths of Tatiana's head, decided to take a break from the scenarios and her participation in the productions. She read where and how much is the rest. I came to the conclusion that the sea in small countries is cheaper than on the home coast. In the country of tea roses they promised a quiet rest and the sea 400 meters from the boarding house.

She took Agnes daughter Angelina and went to rest. The promise of the sea was conditional. Yes, indeed, the boarding house was not far from the sea. He was standing on a mountain, but without booths that ride from top to bottom of the rope, 500 meters turned out to be not so close. Especially with a child who, like a donkey, did not go where he was led.

The sea and the sun paid off, but the food with a lot of simple local cheese was not always pleasing, although the food for two females was not a factor of sadness. Agnes pleased perfume, based on the petals of tea rose. She always loved the smell of roses, so she bought a lot of little trial perfumes in an oil version. Pleasant gift in the frosty winter to any woman.

We were lucky with the weather: one week was rainy, the second was blinded by the sun, but Agnes and little Angelina had time to tan in the natural sun.

Gorgeous guys plowed the sand of the beach, among them were those who could be removed for certain services. Men at the sight of a woman with a small daughter lost their indifference, they were simply drawn to talk to the girl's mother, although most often they started talking to their daughter.

And such entertainment brightens life. The plane back and forth travel company guaranteed, the flight was normal. Agnessa and Angelina returned to their home from the country of tea roses to her own husband and father.

Musin, as an experienced man, looked at Agnes after a rest and once again realized that Denis had good taste and a purse for such a magnificent woman. He did not want to interrogate Agnes: there was such a charm in her that he would like to talk about love and nightingales, and not about Georges, whom he still remembered about diamonds in straw.

Mussin spoke to Agnes in official language:

- Agnessa Ivanovna, do you know a man by the name of Georges well? And before filming the movie you knew him. He is not an actor. Why did you choose him? How did you get it? Who was familiar with him before his participation in your films?

- Georges is a very interesting type of man and quite rare. Such men like spectators. Yes, he starred in a number of my films. Apollo ... - and then Agnes realized that she had said too much.

- Apollo? What is the connection between them?

- Apollo practiced for a while with the guards in the same hall, where he met Georges, who remained in the guard of an important person for a long time.

- Tatiana Petrovna of Turin, after seeing your film, came to the conclusion that on the day of Denis's murder she saw Georges, who was leaving her door. She remembered a large man also because he came with a bag, the same as Denis's ...

- So many years have passed ...

- And thirty years is not the time. And now it's only seven years.

- Seven years do not count, as the title of the book of the great writer says ...

- Get away from the answer.

- I think and do not know what to answer you.

- Could Georges punch Denis in the head with his fist and take the bag from him? Is he capable of that?

- Completely.

- What was in the bag?

'Money,' said Agnes mechanically, as if under hypnosis.

- Did you put Georges on Denis?

- Yes I. From all these thoughts, I'm tired. Denis had a sports bag with which he was constantly shown on the days of his memory. The sports bag was full of money. He left the world famous bag in my house.

- Just ask for the right amount of money you could not you?

'I didn't tell him that I looked in his bag.' I tried to move the bag and could not. Then I looked inside the bag and saw the banknotes.

'Everything is guilty,' Musin concluded. - What do we do?

- And you can not forget everything? Apollo was driving and drove Georges from the crime scene.

- I know that you invested your money in shooting your first scenarios. Money was taken from this bag?

- Yes.

- You were three: Apollo, Georges and you? - Musin asked.

- Apollo was third when sharing the money. But I pulled the money to Georges for shooting commercials, that is, I returned to where Denis had taken him from.

'Noble of you, if it were not for Denis's death,' Musin remarked.

'Georges Denis did not kill,' retorted Agnessa.

- Did George want to kill Denis? Was it in your plan?

- No, Georges had to stun Denis and pick up the bag, he would not voluntarily part with it.

- Why did Denis die? I can not understand this!

- Georges did not calculate the blow or Denis fell the wrong way ...

'Agnessa, but smaller fingerprints were found at the crime scene than Georges's.' Was there an Apollo accidentally there?

- Apollo did not enter the entrance, he sat in the car and waited for Georges.

- And where were you at the time of the attack on Denis?

- At the entrance of the house opposite.

- Have you seen everyone who entered and left the doorway?

- Yes.

- If Georges only stunned the victim for the purpose of robbery, then who could have killed Denis?

- I repeat: Georges was in a mask. To kill Denis in his plans was not included. He only frightened and stunned him. Georges has a shot worked out.

- complicity in the robbery of money stolen by Denis. Remember who you saw from your post of observations? What is your smell?

'Tea rose,' Agnes replied mechanically, trying to recall the man who had entered the porch after Georges. He was familiar to her, so she did not attach importance to the fact that he entered the staircase.

Agnes re-summoned Musin, apparently he really liked her. They sat on both sides of the same table. Outside, the sun was shining.

- Agnes, not everything is clear to me in the case of Denis. I have a strong belief that someone has finished it! What do you say to that? For some reason it seems to me that you know the answer.

'He could have hit in the fall and die,' said Agnes mechanically.

- So everyone thinks. Do you remember who entered and left the entrance? Maybe someone saw a friend? There is an opinion that there was a double attack. It seems that another attack was made on Denis, but there was no money with him. There is an assumption that he was looking for diamonds. His pockets were all twisted. Looking for valuable, but not voluminous.

- Tell you the truth?

'Try, Agnes, to tell me the truth.'

- Denis had diamonds, but I learned about this quite recently. In the porch, after Georges came out of him, a couple of minutes later two slim men entered. I didn't leave my place of observation right away and saw that they soon jumped out of the entrance. The men were dissatisfied with each other and quickly turned the corner of the house.

- Men can remember to compile their verbal portraits?

- I will start with earlier events. Denis and I had love at the forest stadium in his car. Five years after Denis died, I arrived at the stadium, put the car in the place where the car was on the day of love. And from the place of the driver I saw an oak tree. I went to the oak and saw two names carved on the bark: "Denis" and "Agnes". Between the names in the small hollow I found diamonds. They were probably looking for them at the entrance of Denis. Someone knew about them five years before me.

- Simple as that! Agnes, where are the diamonds? Will you return them to the state?

'I will,' said Agnes, and thought that she would give a few pieces from her collection.

- Why did not you say before? - continued to ask Musin.

- The answer was formed after your questions. After two men, Tatyana entered the porch, and at that moment I left the place of observation.

- Agnessa, with you five diamonds to the treasury. Sign the protocol, 'Musin said, pushing the protocol sheet to Agnes.

- Why five diamonds? Are you letting me go for five diamonds ?! - indignantly asked Agnes.

- A less than five diamonds he could not be. Yes, but how to find out who those two were who finished off Denis? You are constantly moving away from this answer.

- It seems to me that these were his colleagues or acquaintances from work. I had met them in a cafe before.

'Could you recognize them?' Agnes, rather, they were visitors, if they worked for you, you would never forget them.

'I don't know, but I'll try, it was all so long ago,' and then she thought that one of them was somehow similar to Boris. - One, I think, I know. This is Boris, he starred in my last film.

- Everything is strange with you, however. Did you have something with him?

- Not. He lives in the north. Here was during filming.

- I need to talk with Boris. Give him the coordinates. I will go north. Agnessa, after my arrival we will continue the conversation. Do not leave the city.

- Good. I can leave?

- Yes, I will sign your paper.

And they parted for a while.

The snowy city littered Musin with a summer midge. A flock of midges rotated near stunted trees. Boris stood on the threshold of his apartment, located in a two-story house. Musin immediately drew attention to the male beauty of Boris.

- Boris, did you participate in the attack on Denis seven years ago? It is believed that you and your partner finished off the stunned Denis Turin in the stairwell.

- It was the case, but I did not kill him. My guard was with me, - quickly answered Boris, in his head the balls for the videos came from an unexpected visit. He shook his head, his brains fell into place as far as was possible in this situation.

- Boris, your guard killed Denis? - Musin asked.

- Denis bought from me several large diamonds, but paid off with a 'doll.' My guard helped me get my money back. Denis asked for forgiveness and said that he would have the money on April 1, that he was checking us that he was ready to buy a large batch of diamonds. Here we are on April 1 and went to him. Denis himself appointed this day. The deal was supposed to be very large.

- Why, then, so much crime in your actions?

- Who knew that a famous person in the country would behave this way? We have our own methods of work. We took the elevator, went out on its floor, heard a stifled moan, looked down. Below on the stairs against the wall was Denis. He held his hand on his teme and looked at us. We went down to him.

- Where is the money? - I asked Denis.

'The money was stolen, but they stunned me,' Denis whispered tightly.

- You are a greedy man, Denis! If you have a lot of money, you would have walked with a guard, 'I commented on Denis's words. - Diamonds are not ours, but the firm won't pat us on the head for the shortage. Denis, what to do with you?

- I say the truth, the money was taken along with the bag. A big masked man hit me in the head with a fist, and I turned off, 'Denis said quietly.

'The guard was upset that there was no money again,' continued Boris, 'he grabbed his breasts in Denis's hearts and began to rock him with such hatred that he accidentally hit the metal bars of the stairs. One rod was sticking out, he dug into Denis's head. Denis lost consciousness. The guard pushed Denis away from him. Denis fell his head on the stairs and went limp. We realized that it was all over with us, and quickly left the entrance.

- What to do with you? - Musin asked. - The robber on the robber.

- To work out the missing money, because of the 'doll' of Denis, I worked in advertising, starred in a movie with Agnes Arkina. I returned the money to the firm, now I am again the manager of the diamond firm.

- Where is the guard? What's his name?

'Guard Zack.

- He was sitting?

- Not. Simple guard diamond company.

"Diamonds for diamonds," thought Boris, diamond company manager. Mussin took material evidence from Boris in the form of diamonds and did not alarm the guard. He left the town of Snow in peace.


Chapter 7

Boris, in joy, that the case was covered up, ordered from the jeweler a diamond drop on a gold chain for Tatiana. It was with this gift that Boris appeared in front of Tatiana's eyes and hung his present around her neck. She knew the least about Boris's involvement in the murder of Dennis, so she screamed in surprise. She, seeing that she was hanging on her chest, smiled and kissed Boris on her soft shaved cheek. Next was the script of the love relationship of two satisfied people. On a fluffy bedspread.

At home, the son noticed that his mother had a diamond glitter on her neck.

- Mom, class! Do you already take diamonds?

- Boris presented.

- And the hedgehog is clear that he is.

- Can we marry him?

- Mom, are you kidding me? No I do not agree.

- Maybe I'm kidding, but maybe not.

The situation is simple and complex at the same time. Everything connected with the murder of the famous Denis Turin was known. People after years of negligence began to pronounce the fact that they were silent for seven years. They wanted to speak out, wash off their old deeds or buy off.

Musin invited Tatiana for an interview. He told her that with suspicion of Georges in complicity in the murder, she was completely right. Georges was really the first to deliver a stunning blow to Denis's head, but the blow was not fatal.

On the landing two disassembly occurred, after the second disassembly with two other people Denis was injured in the temple from hitting the metal rod of the railing.

- Events evolved so that Denis himself broke the law. Before the second group of people, Denis was guilty, so it's better not to raise this case, - said Tatiana Musin. - The punishment of people will entail the disclosure of not quite beautiful things Denis, and his bright image before the people fade.

Tatiana herself had long guessed that Denis was not a crystal clear person, and she didn't want to make a new noise related to his name. With Musin, they agreed to silence. Life is so beautiful that blows to the head, direct or indirect, is a permanent affair.


The park, located next to the house of Agnes, is blazed with autumn colors. Huge maple leaves circled in the air and fell to the ground. She lifted her head, looked at the yellow leaves with the crimson stroke of autumn, and smiled. She felt good in the cool air of the fading park. She walked slowly, absorbing the artistic mess of bright foliage.

Agnes walked through the regular park and descended to the river. Swallows were flying low over the water, pecking past insects from the surface of the water. Very soon they will fly away to winter hut in Africa. The park will remain without the song "Vit-Vit". They built their nest, raised offspring and with a clear conscience could rest, but they had a long flight to rest areas, and before that it didn't stop them from eating.

Agnessa adored the autumn park, she made her last walk, knowing that she would return here with the swallows, not earlier. The wind increased. The foliage spun in farewell dance, pushing the girl to new affairs.

Yes, she was presented with a beautiful dog. But who? Apollo. Now the smart dog was sitting in the chair and watching the girl.

Agnes knew very well that Lika (as she called the dog) did not like this little chair! You can not stretch his legs! She loved a cozy upholstered sofa to the height of a man, with soft armrests, with a soft back. Lika was a pampered and proud dog.

Lika loved to eat from the table. A table for her stood in a small room, on this table they put different bowls, beautiful enough for a noble Lika. Food for her Agnes cooked specially, and the bones she delivered to order. Lika recognized those people who recognized Agnes. If Agnes said that this man is his, it means hers. Lika was not averse to take a walk with a beautiful hostess. She walked smoothly, but sometimes forgot about her posture and flexed her long and thin body. The color of her gorgeous wool was beige with a tint; it looked like short mink fur.

In some places, fur-covered leather gathered into folds. The folds of it did not spoil, but only decorated. Lika was not afraid of shots, she was accustomed to accompany the hostess everywhere, even at the shooting range, where Agnes shot at the plates.

She also considered the hostess car to be her home. Lika imposingly lying in the back seat of a huge limousine and looked out the window from the bottom up. She was a little tricky and didn't like to be looked at from passing cars. Lika was not lazy.

The best trainer worked with the dog. With him, she studied all the commands, all the rights and duties of the dog. Everything is nothing, but her life was very tense and minute by minute, like children-geeks. We walked with her, we studied with her at home, she was trained on the playground for dogs of good breeds.

How Lika sometimes got tired! She wanted to lie down on the couch and stretch her legs! And she was taken somewhere again. And now Lika was sitting in the chair, otherwise Agnes could have made her lie on the floor. Although on the floor, if there is a beautiful carpet with a high pile, it is also not bad, but if they give a bone-toy, then it's not boring at all. But it is also a good idea to lie down and chew on a chocolate-plate for dogs: and you rest and eat.

Lika loved Agnes faithfully and silently. She knew who cooked her delicious food. Oh, the main thing in the love of the owner is not to show your love for her guests. The hostess must always see that she loves her most. Otherwise it is impossible. Lika didn't like small apartments in high houses. They had to go into a narrow dark booth, the doors in the booth were closed, and the booth was going up and down.

Lika loved cottages in two or three floors. In such houses you can run up the stairs. Next to this house, you can run or walk without a host. Still, she was a purebred dog and loved the freedom that occasionally fell to her. Agnes got used to the dog and sometimes commanded her delicate voice in a beautiful and large dog, preventing her from sitting in her chair for a long time.

The dog is simply gorgeous, with a rich skin, but she was afraid to take her with her to the swamp. Agnes had one drawback: she didn't like to talk on the phone, she managed with a computer network. It always seemed to her that it is better to invent someone else's life than to live in real life with all your thoughts. Yes, it is far from strait to divide the continents or to break other people's families.


Tatiana came to work. Her control panel of light and color stood under the ventilation grille above her head, from which the March cold wind blew godlessly. At her request, the grille was closed, but there was a slit in the eyes.

The actress on this day was renowned and nervous, it was fabulously difficult to please her, and it was impossible to dump thirty or forty years from her age without a big scandal. The light was constantly falling, not the way she wanted. Tatyana was tortured to a severe headache. The actress was shot with her fourth youth on stage.

At home, the son started a discussion about the money. Seeing his mother, he rushed to her with the words:

- Mom, you did not say about your conversation with Musin!

- Vlad, George was really next to your father, but he did not kill him, but a coincidence. The case will not be re-raised.

- Mom, and our money? You did not speak about them?

- No, I did not say. And our money. Say what you need, and we will buy, and now I will sleep. Very headache.

They went into rooms. And everything was quiet. Tatiana drank pills, ate a little and lay down, closing her eyes. Through the slumber came a deafening phone call.

Mechanically through a dream, she picked up the phone.

- Tatiana, I love you! I miss! I arrived, - Boris said in a cheerful voice.

Musin left him alone, and from this he was just happy, and for complete happiness he did not have enough of the wife of his former business partner.

- Boris, can not today?

- You can, Tatiana! Will see you tomorrow! I will find you.

She hung up. Sleep interrupted. Tatiana went to the kitchen. The son ran out on the smell of ready-made food, they sat down at the table.

- Mom, who called? Boris? What does he want from you?

- He wants to see me.

- It will cost. Mom, today I danced in ballroom dancing competitions! It is a pity that you did not see me. I dance cool, but I need new costumes.

- Will you new costumes, let's go to the studio and order.

- No need to order, there is a store, but it sells excellent rags.

- Well, we will buy a suit in the store, but every other day.

- Clear! Mom, do you have a meeting with Boris again ?!

- I guess.

Agnessa brought five diamond wheat to Musin. He looked at them with his experienced eye and immediately determined that diamond pshenka was not from Boris's series of diamonds. His diamonds are completely different, a different light and quality, but they don't look a gift horse in the mouth, and he let Agnes go in peace, and with her and her accomplices, without even causing them. This was Musin's method of earning extra money.

At home, the Musin of diamonds made up a daisy: in the center was a large diamond from Boris and five petals from Agnes. Thinking with his clever head, he went to an acquaintance jeweler to order a brooch called "Diamond Daisy".

The jeweler looked at diamonds out of the corner of his eye and easily knew where such luxury had come from. He learned five wheat from Agnes and a large diamond from Boris, but he tactfully kept silent, and for work and for gold he set his own price.

Musin thought. He wondered from whom else to take material evidence to recoup the work and gold. He offered the jeweler to pay for his work after making chamomile. The jeweler did not argue, he agreed to wait.

Musin went through the people in the head from the team of Agnes, and he really wanted to call Georges. He came. Musin told him everything he knew about him.

Georges quietly asked:

'Where is the evidence?'

- You were seen by two people at the crime scene, if necessary, they will confirm everything at the trial.

- Is there an opportunity to break up beautifully?

- Easily, Mr. Georges! From you a material evidence in the form of those notes that you took from Denis's bag.

- I don't have all the money. How much would you like?

Mussin called the amount that the jeweler told him, plus transportation costs for a trip to the north, which someone had to pay back in cash.

'Mr. Chief, yes without problems,' and Georges took out a pile of bills from a bag on his stomach, but his stomach did not decrease much.

Musin let go of Georges in peace. It remains to think who to give a diamond chamomile with gold petals. He wanted love and home happiness, and he intended to make an offer to a woman. He would have enjoyed giving Agnese a daisy, but she was busy.


In the films of Agnes Mussin liked Tatiana very much. 'And if not to make a proposal to Tatiana Petrovna herself?' Thought Musin in order to fully sense his own power over people. 'We must look at her connections in this matter.' I thought - I did. Spying on Tatiana led to Boris. 'All his people are in this diamond company, and there are no free women,' Musin thought about them for the last time and decided not to give a daisy even to his faithful assistant Zoya.

Mussin summed up his work and came to the following ...

The diamond lady Agnes Arkina has seven friends, but one of them, whom she loved very much, dies. And he was very fond of big money, and he had so many of them that he carried them in a large gym bag. Naturally, this money was withdrawn from him: first Apollo with Georges, and then Boris, to whom he owed money for diamonds and paid him with a money 'doll.'

Denis was killed almost by accident. One hit, the second hit, the staircase was defective. The firm "Blesk" produced diamond jewelry and indulged in the release of diamond bullets. What else? Agnessa and Tatyana are constant rivals. Constantly in this story there is a diamond oak or a salt shaker with diamonds.

Life begins with everyday life, and ends with a fairy tale. There are monogamous people. There are bigots. And there are such strange ladies like the diamond lady Agnes Arkina. She does not do anything wrong, but it can not be attributed to Monogamous. She does not violate the peace of society, but home detective Musin is constantly with her. She does not change men for money, but her men change with the help of other men. Is the diamond lady an adventure? No, she is a good mother and wife. How does this get on in one woman? She's just a diamond lady ...

For the television program, Vlad was given half an hour of airtime, from which he personally was on the screen for about three minutes, but this was quite enough for sustained popularity. He has more than enough fans.

After such a good deed, Agnes had the feeling that Denis forgave her for the meanness with money in his bag, she bit her elbows many times, that she was tempted by his money and the men finished him off. It was a stone in her soul, and now he let go.

Spring drifts gradually shrunk from the moisture leaving them, as life shrinks when forces gradually leave it. Drifts shimmer wearily in the sun, fatigue also comes to the human body. Spring. Forces in humans will begin to appear later: with the first grass, with the first foliage.

At this time, pop stars were released in batches from television dungeons to the big screen and the audience auditoriums. Gifted young singers and singers became pop stars and crowded more mature idols of the scene. It is difficult for years to keep the attention of the audience, and very few succeed.

"The main thing is not to hold a grudge in the soul and to fulfill its main duties," Tatiana thought so after Boris called when he told her that he was invited not to star in the Agnes film, but to work part-time at her company Blesk. And why always with her men appears next to Agnes? Interestingly, she will take away from her Boris, or will it cost her men?

The manager of the diamond company lived in two houses: one house directly in the north, where diamonds were mined, and Tatiana had a second house. Her son Vlad did not let them get married. Vlad could not cancel the appearance of Boris, because he kindly supplied him with pocket money.

Mussin did not prevent Agnes from living at home, the criminals were discovered, and to her were questions of a different order. And Tatiana? Leave her alone, even if she herself suffers from her jealousy, which you can't take to business. Yes, and to whom to be jealous?

Agnes increasingly pondered the question: where to take the financial score in any form? She reread the detectives in the hope of finding a wise idea about getting random money. Working with commercials, she felt that the money from work was crawling into someone else's pocket. Green longing enveloped her completely inventive mind. On the catcher and the beast runs. At the moment of despair came the news that the aunt died, whose copy was Agnes.

Agnes did not resemble her mother, and she didn't look particularly like her father. But my paternal aunt is something. This is a copy of both the way of thinking and character and appearance. Or rather, Agnes - a copy of his father's sister. Externally, the aunt can not be called rich. She lived almost all her life. Not spent a lot. To myself, few people let into the house.

Heir in the will for thirty years was listed as Agnes. Auntie worked in party organizations. Through the party worker quite well. It was the second person in the city, that is, the deputy of the party leaders of the city. She was not a secretary, but she did not have a secretary either. Cabinet was. Through it, the city sold and bought real estate. Serious was a woman. She was feared and respected. She did not allow strangers into her affairs, and therefore the secret rich trusted her. She did not betray them. They did not consider her a decoy duck.

Aunt lived without a lot of personal expenses. All her soul remembered the searches in the apartment. Her apartment, at first glance inspectors, was devoid of all signs of luxury. She had only a service car, with a silent chauffeur. My aunt's cottage plot was small: the usual six acres in the collective garden. The house is brick. She never stayed in it for the night. Sleep went home. She had diabetes.

Morning began with a spoon of sunflower oil. Rarely ate candy a day. In her house a bottle of vodka or wine could stand for twenty or even thirty years. The aunt's clothes were such that, according to her, no one would take them off, they would not wear other clothes. Things sound, but without ornaments. Where did the aunt have money? After all, should have been her money? Should! But where? What inheritance awaits Agnes?

Agnes knew very well that the aunt especially appreciated the casket, outwardly nondescript. In the box lay jewelry. The box had no double bottom, but there were legs six by six centimeters in height, three centimeters high. Heels kind of. In these heels and lay what auntie had accumulated so that it was boring to live. From the box in the heels were small holes, plugged with small corks. Four piggy banks.

In the legs of the box were ... correctly, small diamonds the size of a grain of millet. Once in a war my aunt was saved from famine by millet. After the war, she collected her millet - a diamond. Such grains were sold, they were not particularly chased, such diamonds were found in stores, these millet diamond grains had an almost honest biography.

Auntie took bribes with such brilliant seeds. She had a hollow on the desktop, she threw a diamond seed into it, and a rich and business person received permission from the city authorities to buy anything. Business people bought a diamond seed, which disappeared in the cache of the table, and then in the legs of the box. Not once did people rush into her aunt's office to check for bribes, but they never even found the ruble in her office.

The aunt was reputed to be a woman of crystal purity in the party structure of the city. Agnes with honors buried her aunt. The city authorities did not refuse to help. A good article about her appeared in the newspaper. She managed to take the box from her aunt's apartment, and sealed everything else, and six months later everything became the property of Agnes. At home Agnes for a long time did not have to study the box. Quickly she found the stubs on the legs. In her hands were four handfuls of brilliant millet. Soul calmed down. Agnes wished her aunt to be in paradise.

'People love their health, which is why many people wear amulets of all types. The most important amulet for diseases is the cross,' thought Agnessa, after watching the placer of small diamonds. She was not lazy and went around the outlets where they sell icons, crosses, books with a cross on the cover. She found out which shape of the cross is in demand and who is in charge of selling the crosses. Agnes drew a cross with all sizes, placed diamonds on it and went to a familiar jeweler.

The jeweler approved the idea, he knew that of all jewelry, the most worn by people is a cross on a chain. In the first batch made five pieces. Crosses were sold to cool businessmen: they had sins and money. So they continued to make crosses in lots of five pieces, but at the same time Agnes did not want to part with all the diamonds. She cheered up. She had fun because her income exceeded her efforts to earn it.

Money came, and she went to the city, where there is a lot of sun and sand. Long ago it was, and there was already that jeweler, but she had a diamond firm, a weight in an elite society.

Quite unexpectedly, Agnes's father engaged in collecting small castles from small stones, emboldened, suggested to Agnes to make a diamond lock of small diamonds.

I looked at Agnes carefully at the crafts of my father, remembered that small diamonds were left from my aunt, his sister, and suggested that her father make a small castle of rough diamonds the size of a millet.

My father took the task seriously, looked at the stones for a long time through his glasses, but not ordinary ones, but made in the form of a mask for two eyes. Surprisingly, the castle grew from day to day and rose higher and higher with its miniature turrets. Once Apollo even came to look at the creation of an elderly man who, without embarrassment, picked up the smallest diamonds, looked at the edges created by nature and random processing at different times, and glued a ghostly lock. Apollo was delighted with the diamond castle, he himself was drawn to work.

Boris arrived with a new series of diamonds and handed over all the little things to Agnesse's father. Suddenly, my father was on the crest of universal interest. They started talking about the castle, the news flowed to other countries. Potential buyers asked to send photos of the new treasure of the world. The castle was removed from all sides, there was an offer to make its sale to the world auction. For the castle, they made a foundation with illuminated bright LEDs, the LEDs were lit according to a certain program, a small board with a microcircuit was in the foundation of the castle.

Turn off the lights and turn on the lights. The light, refracted in the facets of the castle, blinded by its unexpected beauty. All those who worked were present when the lights were turned on under a magnificent lock. Exclamations of delight merged in the noise of pleasure. Apollo came to the conclusion that it was a nightlight for strongly chosen people, but he kept silent.

The castle was given to the auction. In the hall turned off the lights and turned on the lights. The hall froze, then slammed deafeningly. They sold a diamond lock at a price that is quite impressive, close in price to whole diamonds. My father received a new set of small diamonds for this, now he decided to make a model of the solar corona.

Life is not without love. Agnes was fascinated by a beautiful actor who was often seen in music videos. The actor has become known to everyone by the clip in which an elegant singer sang, and he followed her along the painted city. The actor drove Agnes crazy, she wrote scripts specifically for him, sitting next to a blooming tea rose. His black hair and bright blue eyes struck down millions of women in the country, and Agnes was next to him and provided him with work in commercials, and provided him with material financial support. A handsome man paid Agnes love, while she had money. And the money ran out.

Agnes almost fell in love. Yes, who! In person from the Snowy city. He was filmed on the next set, and she refused to act in her video! How it hurt his refusal! True, Agnes saw his gaze on Tatyana, who was sitting at the controls. The eyes of Tatyana and Boris met. Agnes flashed the thought that between them there is something. Recently, she noticed that Tatiana has become a better look and dress. Why did it happen? And here is the answer! Agnessa is another man of Tatiana who was very pleased ...

She decided to meet with the manager of the northern company "Vityaz". Agnes suggested that Boris extend his vacation for a month due to filming in a commercial. She said that financially he would get a decent big score. The man thought. They decided to celebrate the postponement of work and the beginning of new shootings by visiting the world championship in figure skating at the main stadium of the country. On the day of the demonstration performances, the stadium was full. The people loved demonstration performances and very little came to the school.

After the spectacle, Agnes offered to give Boris a lift to his rented apartment located near the school stadium. Boris has already said that the house is located next to the school. Agnes took it as a sign to action. Say what you like, and she knew love. Boris instantly felt the difference between the shackled and shy Tatyana and the stunningly reckless in love of Agnes. She went into the lead and worked all that is possible and impossible.

Slim and tanned (in the rays of a tanning bed), she was a sorceress on a fluffy bedspread next to Boris. He was shocked by her love! Tatiana just disappeared from his head. Agnes as a new mistress gave Boris a diamond cross as payment for after-hour work on the set, which will begin tomorrow. She anticipated success. The man was good in all respects. Agnessa jumped out of bed, saying that she urgently needed to go home ...

Agnes was distinguished by her integrity of character, she did not change men and did not pay attention to an imposing man. She was surprised to read in the media about the merits of men, especially not understanding anything. Therefore, she turned to a very attractive woman who had a couple of husbands and one lover.

This is what the wise woman answered, or rather Tatyana:

- All three of my men differed in their merits.

- And which of them was the best lover? - asked Agnes, blushing.

- Who? - the woman asked. - I would know which of them is the best, would not change. The first husband was my first man, I thought that the form of his dignity in the form of a popsicle was the only one for all men. I was comfortable with him in sex while there was love between us. When love began to pass, his dignity of medium size turned into a giant snake for me, which I hated. Then I was friends with a handsome man who had a strange dignity. With him it was nice in the first moment, then everything disappeared. We didn't go further than friendship and soon parted. My second husband possessed powerful weapons, but he was not a passion in himself. And his dignity at any instant could turn into a deflated ball. Who was better? Rather, with what? With passion, with love - all the virtues are beautiful. And without love, it turns out a candy wrapper from a popsicle, a piece of paper from a cake and a deflated ball ... A man turned out to be a good little one. He stands firmly on his powerful legs. He built himself a house, bought a large apartment and twice reduced the number of rooms in it, due to the removed partitions, which he himself removed.

It so happened that in her mature years, Tatiana got rid of men and relatives, she made herself a one-room apartment and lived relatively calmly.


Boris realized that Agnes was not his woman, and invited Tatiana to a piquant restaurant for two people. She agreed, because she was sure that they would talk about diamonds. They sat on the balcony at the table. He told her about how to mine diamonds, because he was the manager of the northern diamond corporation "Vityaz".

She picked up a decorative pistol from her purse. Her nails, painted like pictures, looked good against the background of crafts. The thin nose was beautiful and flawless. Full lips smiled affectionately and innocently.

Boris lit a pistol adorned with iridescent stones. The craft was unusually good.

And he himself was a handsome man with well-laid hair on his head. He had a large ring with a black diamond on his left hand. He himself was wearing a black jacket and a dazzling white shirt, accentuated by a white tie. He smoked a big, big cigar. The couple sat on the balcony of a very famous actress, containing a homely restaurant for two.

From the height of the tenth floor the view of the city was wide and natural. The food was served by a famous actress, her head was decorated with a magnificent hairstyle of hair, brightened to a silvery white. The restaurant brought her more permanent earnings than film roles, which she had rare or second-order, when she needed a beauty without age. In the theater she did not like to work.

A small marble table and two chairs stood on a spacious balcony with walls covered in antique wood. In the opening of the balcony door there was a sliding table with food and drinks.

- Tatiana, are you satisfied? The impressive man asked a beautiful woman.

- Boris, I am pleased! There were many famous actors on this balcony! But how can I prove that I was here?

- No problem. I will photograph you with a cell phone, a camera is built into it.

- It is reasonable, but I have to take pictures next to actress Zinaida Blik.

- Wonderful! - Boris said and photographed two women.

Almost immediately, he showed them a photo on the phone. Tatiana smiled for another reason, because she is now with a famous actress in one shot! The actress smiled at the money that Boris handed her for participating in the shooting. She saw in the hands of Tatiana a beautiful lighter in the form of a pistol. She wanted to light up. She brought her cigarette to light to the cigarette lighter.

Tatiana pulled the lighter trigger.

Portrait of the actress from the wall fell to the floor. A pistol instead of a flame for a cigarette spewed himself a diamond bullet that disturbed the portrait. Boris apologized for the second function of the gun, paid the money for the damage and quickly left the apartment with Tatiana.


Chapter 8

Zinaida Blik lived alone and did not even keep a dog. The door slammed shut behind the guests. The couple quickly left the entrance, got into a taxi that was waiting for them, and drove off in an unknown direction. The next couple of guests came to dinner with the actress the next day. They called, knocked. No one answered them. And they left. The actress was sitting alone, she was still in shock or in a coma from Boris's shot at the portrait.

Agnes Arkina came to the actress on the fourth day. They were assigned to shoot. She made a video with a famous actress, and she was interested in her visit. The door was silent on knock and calls. Agnessa made a cell phone call, in response to the apartment, she squealed a phone. Agnes suspected some trouble. She called a neighbor, who replied that the actress had not seen the last days.

On the phone, Agnes called Detective Musin. The door to the apartment was opened in the presence of neighbors. The door to the balcony was open, an actress was sitting next to the door, in her hands she held a whole cigarette and looked at the sky. On the balcony were visible signs of the feast of two people. Agnes noticed the brilliance of the diamond next to the actress, she quickly grabbed a pebble. Musin wanted to take a stone from her, but she said that she knew where this stone was used.

- Musin, such a stone was on the handle of a pistol, our company carried out an order to decorate a pistol-lighter.

- Excuse me, but where do you know everything from? And if you know everything, then did you introduce the guests to the actress?

- I'm afraid that I am.

'I, I,' mocked Agnes Mussin, 'I need to call the doctor to bring the actress to her senses.' She is still a young, dear, beautiful woman. You saw it yourself.

After a ballistic examination, Musin learned that he had fired a pistol with an extraordinary bullet, more precisely a sharp diamond crystal. Musin again called Agnes.

'Agnessa, you are worried about Musin. Could you come to me and as soon as possible?'

Agnes got into the car and in fifteen minutes was in his office, where three more men were sitting. They all looked at her closely as a savior angel.

'Agnessa, tell me everything you know about the gun,' Musin asked, 'or better yet, draw a gun.' They will show you a weapon that looks like him.

Two men approached her with photographs of pistols very similar to Musin's pistols. She chose two incredibly similar pistols, but without stones on the handle. They brought her a real gun, she looked and said:

- The manager of the northern firm Vityaz, Boris, shot me from a pistol, as Tatiana Turina told me. The lighter pistol was made for her, there was a double secret in it, which she knew, but did not know, Boris. It was possible to light a pistol or shoot with diamond beams. Bullets sharpened from real diamonds. The gun could work as a lighter, press the button - a lighter, the trigger - a gun.

'Yes, an interesting weapon,' said Musin, who appeared suddenly with a photo of two women, 'while you were drawing and watching the pictures, a man named Boris came and said that his friend Tatiana almost killed the famous actress, but he was very hard to be silent and he brought a photo. Agnes look at the photo. Is it Tatyana next to the actress?

- Yes, it is she. But the actress is alive, she has a shock, and the bullet hit the picture.

'Fine, but not very good.' We do not delay you anymore. Thanks, 'Musin said thoughtfully.

Agnes came out of Musina with the thought that there was more than enough chance in her life connected with precious stones.

This story had a strange continuation, it was picked up by physicists, they also wanted to eat. At the time of studying lasers, physicists had decent bread, and when lasers became widely used, they were quite expensive and for some time were less popular. In lasers, grown crystals in the form of a rod, for example, a ruby, were used. Diamonds and their derivatives were used in lasers. So, from a grown solid crystal, Agnes was asked to make a series of bullets according to her drawing.

Musin wanted a new car, and he still had acquaintances who were pulling the news of the criminal world out of him. The pistol with diamond bullets seemed interesting to them. The sharp crystal bullet penetrated well into the soft tissues of man.

Agnes was brought from a certain institute rods of semiprecious stones, very hard, they did not pull diamonds, but they were transparent and transmitted light no worse than rubies. From these rods had to make a series of bullets.

She had machines for processing such an order, but she had to hire grinders to work at any convenient time. The order for the manufacture of pistols was given to a small arms enterprise. A new gun for modern aristocrats spread to elite clubs, the price for it grew.

- Shoot diamonds - it's piquant! - said the ladies and bought a gun.


Georges had a daughter, Jeanne. When the girl grew up, the situation became more complicated. Jeanne liked Apollo, who lived next door to her. So, he existed advertising work, known for the news on television. Sometimes he went to the Sea Country for business. In the next trip, he took with him his girlfriend Jeanne, who liked him very much.

He ruled the ancient country of King Albert. All kings married girls from rich and famous families, which was not always a good effect on the strength of royal blood. The blood was weak. The young king quite accidentally saw a pretty girl with long hair tail walking past his castle. She really liked him.

'Bring me that girl,' the king told the guard.

- Yes, Your Royal Majesty!

Zhanna was surprised that she was stopped and asked to enter the ancient castle. She went to the king himself! He was extraordinarily attractive. King Albert invited the girl to a luxurious ball, which was arranged by his family.

Jeanne was not frightened by the king himself and agreed to attend the ball. Apollo did not mind, because he had the opportunity to visit the palace.

The ball in the ancient castle of the country has always amazed with its stiffness and ancient roots of ceremonies. The girl was wearing a long dress. Her hair was tied into a huge tail. She was charming.

King Albert did not depart from a young and attractive girl, especially since the hair on her matched the royal fashion in neighboring countries. He fell in love!

The king's constant partner at the balls, the Duchess of Hell, bit her lovely, sleek elbows. She did not know how to remove a new favorite from the king! Constancy was never given to her for nothing. Around the king forever trudged intrigue. She vigilantly guarded her power over him.

The laws of the country did not allow the king to marry the duchess because she was not a girl. The law of the country read: the king has the right to marry only a girl! King Albert was convinced that Jeanne was a girl, but this had to be checked behind the scenes, and not to him, but under the guise of an innocent medical examination. The girl was checked by doctors and confirmed that the girl is innocent.

Began preparations for the wedding. Unequal marriage surprised the whole world of competitors of a famous country. But at the first glance at the gorgeous haircut, the girls all fell silent and considered the king's deed the only right decision. The wedding of high-level ladies has always appeared on all television screens, since this event is very important and significant.

The wedding crown with real diamonds on the bride's hairstyle looked so natural that she asked in all the media in the world. Artists began to draw the spouse of the King of the Sea country, photographers took pictures, took pictures of all kinds of mobile phones, printed in all magazines and newspapers. Zhanna quickly became a symbol of the country and another Cinderella from a fairy tale.

The reporter Apollo arrived at the royal wedding. He managed to meet with Jeanne, who became the princess of the Sea Country. The sleek and beautiful face of Apollo appeared very close to the face of the princess. This was sometimes his job: to be a well-known person, against the background of which they were shooting another commercial with non-essential goods. What did he gain from this? His company received new orders.

A beautiful male face is much more than a beautiful female face, as it is less common. Men are beautiful, but just less sleek. Apollo was very pleased with the trip. His face immediately appeared in the next commercial, and that was enough for him for a new furniture for a new apartment in the tower.

Princess Jeanne was now under special media attention. Unfortunately, after she gave birth to the king of the heir, her life began to deteriorate rapidly. King Albert lost all interest in her thanks to the steadfast tricks of his former permanent partner Duchess Ada. The Duchess, the smartest woman in the field of weaving court intrigues, incited journalists and photographers from all over the world to princess Joan.

Joan's life turned into hell. Son grew up. And she was not careful enough to choose acquaintances among the men who were sent to her by the Duchess of Hell. Princess Jeanne continued to talk to Apollo on a mobile phone, and once she could not resist and met a fabulously wealthy admirer, the young Shah Mach. She inadvertently left her husband's mansion. Immediately shots of her alleged treason appeared to King Albert through the efforts of the Duchess of Ada.

Princess Jeanne gained immense popularity among the people of the Sea Country and the whole world because of the constant filming of her life. But she was rapidly losing power over King Albert. And it was dangerous for her life. She was slightly arrogant in popularity and lost her sense of caution.

The king is a king by birth, and she is a girl from Cranberry Land! She would read books on the couch, and not to engage in charity. Double bottom philanthropy: on the one hand, a good cause, on the other hand, a reason for popularity. And when you read a book, there is no harm to anyone, including popularity.

Princess Jeanne did not have enough modesty. She chose her new favorite, the Shah of the Sandy Country of Mach, so she decided to change the palace in the Sea Country to a palace in the Sandy Country. She began to meet almost openly with Shah Mah. King Albert was divorced from the princess Jeanne, who never reached the rank of queen.

Princess Jeanne was always under the vigilant supervision of the people of the Duchess of Ada and the special services of King Albert himself. Her life was in danger, but she did not notice. Shah Mah knew everything. She met him. Jeanne under the guise of a maid with fake documents was taken from the Sea Country to the Sandy Country. She came to southern paradise.


Interest in the Sea country without the beautiful princess began to fall. The Duchess of Hell began to claim the role of the first lady of the Sea Country. No one objected to her, since King Albert had an heir, and now he was free to marry even the duchess.

Apollo in the Maritime country is no longer allowed. The Duchess of Hell was not going to act with him, because he lit up with the princess Zhanna! Therefore, Apollo went to the Sandy country with one goal: to play in a video near Shah Mach. Thanks to his extraordinary appearance and natural charm, he entered the palace together with a television crew on the pretext of television filming for an information program.

The luxury of the palace was counted in a large number of rooms, an exorbitant number of carpets and small courtyards with trees and fountains. The divine wives of the Shah, unable to move outside the palace, considered it a blessing to meet new people in the territory of a giant palace, if they were allowed to do so by the shah.

Shah launched Apollo to his wives for one reason: he was very handsome himself, which meant that his wives would have a desire to love a man, that is, his - Maha. Apollo was shot with the Shah against the backdrop of his palace. He completed his task. Shah gave him a couple of wonderful carpets.

Apollo began to visit expensive stylists, cosmetologists, massage therapists, tailors. Bought a new car. He rotated in the higher spheres, attended fashion evenings, was a recognizable figure at all events, and gradually became a stranger to Joan.

The main palace of the Sandy country was a paradise against the background of the sand behind the fence of the palace. Jeanne saved her life, but she was unbearably hot in the Shah's apartments. She became one of the many women of the mansion. Wife without a license. Princess Jeanne faded against the backdrop of the flourishing Shah of Mach. She changed her role again, but she got a little bored.

Sandy city enjoyed constant popularity among tourists. In this city, the rule of Shah Mah. Apollo, from his sources, knew in which mansion Jean lives, and wanted to conduct his own investigation, because of her advertising career in the Maritime country ended. In the sandy city reigned hell and the sun. In the morning it was still possible to move along the narrow streets, but during the day it was unbearably hot, and he preferred to lie near the air conditioners.

The hotel with a pool and palm trees was surrounded by a fence, there was nothing behind it except sand. Apollo did not immediately figure out who to introduce himself to, so that he would be allowed into the right palace. He decided that he would tell the truth: because of the disappearance of Princess Jeanne, the power in the Sea Country passed to Duchess Ade and he was no longer allowed into the country.


Apollo met with Shah Mach and, through a translator, told his story. They allowed him to see the princess Jeanne. She was very happy to meet a man from a former life. Local life was a burden to her. She asked Apollo for one thing: that he take her from this sandy city. And he was tired of living rejected by advertising companies, and he decided to make a new round of his popularity, because his beautiful face was asking for all the television screens of the world.

Apollo decided to bring Agnes, Joan's girlfriend, to free Joan from the Shah Mach palace. Agnes understood his desire, she reminded him about the protection of the palace with experience of thousands of years. The task of liberation from the palace was difficult. She advised Apollo to take the gold rings.

Apollo put gold rings on his fingers and changed into a woman. He decided to spend a couple of rings on bribing guards, and he succeeded. He entered the palace with women's goods through the gates into which various suppliers passed into the mansion.

Soon Apollo and Jeanne found themselves outside the gates of the palace, where Agnes was waiting for them in the car. The car was local, it was rented. Documents on the princess Zhanna were made in advance, tickets for the plane were purchased. The young people from the mansion immediately went to the airport.

Princess Jeanne in the role of the maid left the Sandy City. In the plane, the stewardess recognized her, but decided to remain silent, she did not raise the alarm. In the palace, the alarm was raised not immediately, the harem he is a harem: the shah Mach does not like everyone at once.

Apollo brought Princess Jeanne to her father's house, gave her a rest, bought her clothes according to local weather and informed King Albert about her. The king missed the princess. The Duchess completely tired him. King Albert decided to meet with the princess Jeanne. Gentlemen of the journalists always followed him, and they arrived at the house where Princess Jeanne temporarily lived. Apollo treated King Albert with rare blueberry wine.

The meeting was recorded by journalists. Instantly sensation sold out across countries. King Albert himself thanked Apollo for saving Princess Joan. The maritime country became popular for a whole week, and Apollo received a dozen proposals for filming, and his company received orders.

In addition to the advantages, there was one drawback: the TV journalist immediately came under the supervision of local authorities, they were very interested in the meeting between the king and the princess. Apollo told them:

'I helped Princess Jeanne to leave the Sandy City quite by accident, because I had been there purely for work before. I assert that I did not cooperate with the special services of other countries.

He was checked and released with the wish not to get into the affairs of other countries.

Apollo noticed Shah Max, he saw in the news program the meeting of King Albert and Princess Jeanne. His special services noticed the face of Apollo. Two employees of the Shah approached the television journalist and offered to return the princess to the palace. Apollo had a headache from all the world-class problems that had arisen.

For the first time he realized that fame is bad. They talked with him tactfully, and only because no one fully understood who he was. He had a funny thought, he told the messengers of Shah Mach:

'Gentlemen, the Shah himself must go to the Sea Country and talk to the Duchess Ada.' She will be glad to help him. And he will get the princess Joan in his mansion.

The messengers of Shah Maha bowed to Apollo and went majestically to communicate wise counsel to their lord.

In the Maritime capital was the best stadium, but rather a tennis court. The most important tennis tournament was held on this court. Here won silver items with a diamond notch of a very large size.

The presence of spectators on the court is an integral part of the tournament, moreover, among the spectators one could see many outstanding people. Shah Max decided to use the sports arena and invited the princess Joan to the court.

Any love leaves a mark in the soul of man. Princess caution did not differ and arrived at the court at the request of the Shah Mach. Smart people know that they are shooting the game and the spectators on the court. Naturally, such outstanding spectators as Princess Zhanna and Shah Mah immediately got on TV screens, the tournament was broadcast live.

King Albert was not in the tournament that day, he appeared on it on the day of the final for the presentation of prizes to the winners of the tournament. He was surprised to find his ex-wife near Shah Mah.

- And this is my wife ?! Exclaimed King Albert. - Hell!

The Duchess appeared promptly.

- Your Majesty, what happened? You so long did not want to see me.


- Hell, Jeanne again with Mach! She disgraces me all over the country! To the whole world! See for yourself on the screen, the cameras are constantly shooting them, but they don't notice it!

- Love is blind, they see only each other!

- What should I do, Ada?

- You did not listen to me and did not notice my love for yourself ...

'Hell, may Joan leave for the Sandy City again.' She broke my heart! Wrong!

- Mach is happy to take Jeanne away, because she never became a member of your family, she is only an ex-wife ...

- Yes, they thought up correctly that the wife becomes a princess after marriage, and only five years later becomes the queen! Hell, let them watch the game, we will not disturb them, but she will not return to my palace. Close all the doors for this pair !!!

- Yes, Your Majesty!

The Duchess of Hell handed over the order of King Albert to protection. To be honest, it was she who came up with the meeting of Joan and Shah Mah on the court.

While Joan led a nomadic life between the king and the shah, Apollo led a nomadic life between countries. Shah Max invited Joan to return to his palace. She, burning with disagreements in her heart, did not know what to answer. Here she had a child and her ex-husband was the king, but the child was always with nannies and professional educators, and Albert was very cold to her.

She did not feel herself at home in his palace, and in the palace of Mach she did not feel that she was the only wife. She lacked the feeling of her home from the moment she married.

A man came up to Shah Mahu and said something quietly. Shah Max told Princess Joan:

- I was told that there is an order from King Albert not to let us into his palace. What do you say, Joan?

- I do not care...

Shah Mah said a few words to his man. At the exit from the court, the machine was waiting for Shah Mach. Without going into the palace, the cars drove to the airport.

Apollo from the evening news learned that Shah Max had taken Princess Joan to his Sandy City.

After seeing the news, Agnes told Apollo:

- I will not save Jeanne anymore, let him sit in the palace of Shah Mach.

After a while, Apollo was again at the center of international events. The Duchess of Hell married King Albert. Apollo and the lady were invited to the celebration, he invited Agnes, Jeanne's girlfriend, as his lady.

Agnes has always been a big lover of cosmetics. After a first look at the Duchess of Adu, she came to the conclusion that she did not sell hair dye, makeup and there are only hairdresser modest hairstyles. It united, in her view, the Sandy City and the Sea.

Why? The task of these countries is not to demonstrate their women, and if they are shown to the general public, it is very modest. In the last film, which she watched from the Sea Country, the main character was so modest that it was simply impossible to watch the movie - after watching the film for a couple of minutes, she switched it.

Agnes went to a wedding celebration for the sake of sporting interest. Apollo went to a holiday in order to get into the news of the Sea Country. The role of a handsome man is always more modest, but more popular. Who knows Apollo? All who turn on their televisions.

Shah Max among the guests noticed a pair of Apollo - Agnes. She really liked him. As a collector of female beauty, Shah Mach could not take his eyes off another companion of Apollo.

- Is this the new woman of Apollo? - asked Shah Mah from his quick guard.

The guard silently nodded and bowed to his master.

- Call me such an independent woman!

'I obey and obey,' the guard bowed his head and, backing away, left his master.

'Woman, my master calls you to you,' said guard Agnessse.

'Let's go, the guard of her master,' said Agnes and, turning to Apollo, added: 'Apollo, are you coming with me?'

- No, I can not miss the opportunity to get into the news footage.

- As you want. Do not lose, Apollo!

Agnessa approached Shah Mach.

- Woman, I like you. I know that you are a free woman. I am ready to take you with my new wife.

- Mister Max, you already have many other women. I am not for you! You never come to me.

'Woman Agnes, you will be filming our clips with us.' I'll pay all your shots.

Journalists ran up to them and began to diligently record and record a conversation for television news from the Sea Country.

- Mr. Mach, I have to refuse you. I have a man. He is my family. I have a job. I love my climate. I'm in a sandy city hot.

- Woman, for one night with you I will pay for one of your videos about myself and you. I came without my wives. They are cold here.

Journalists with curiosity stretched neck and face.

- I am not against one meeting. But I love secret betrayals, and with you, Mr. Mach, everything becomes known before.

- Woman, we have a small mansion here.

'We're going,' curiosity pushed Agnes into the shackles of Shah Mach's love.

A string of cars left the wedding ceremony in the direction of the country house of Shah Mach. In the cold climate, weeds are not needed, therefore, the witnesses of the new love could wait outside the walls of the sleeping hall.

Instead of a bath, Agnes offered a small but magnificent pool. Shah Max made her a water company. He turned out to be a slender muscular man with somewhat dark skin that adorned him very much. Dazzling male smile struck her with cordiality.

"Yes, such men are worthy of a harem," thought Agnes, to whom the line in his harem would never have reached, and said:

- Mach, you are beautiful!

'I'm glad you like it, my charming snowy sun.'

Agnes was a young woman, but seemed to be the same age as Shah Mahu. His accompaniment was surprised that he chose a woman so mature by their standards, but no one said out loud.

Agnes, slim and light, shook Shah Mach with her belly dance performance, and then with her love. In bed, he usually commanded, but here it was the opposite. She owned a technique of love, either from nature, or from reading the relevant literature in the field of love.

He felt like a student next to her and was terribly glad that he had persuaded the Snow Woman to love with him. Agnes in love was like a golden fish in water: she dived, emerged, changed positions, twisted and echoed all the movements of Mach so subtle and passionate that he only moaned from sweet moments.

There were practically no kisses, but the passionate love of two worthy partners was born. Agnes transferred her experience to the harem. He gave her many new pleasant moments in the dance of love and pleasure. They broke up as peaceful people. The funny thing is that Agnes had no experience at all, it was her first magic.

Apollo knew that Agnes was always right. The girl left with Shah Mach, so it's necessary, he will not be worse off. Indeed, shortly after the departure of Agnes, a laughing woman approached him and said:

'Sir, my lady awaits you.'

Madam - this is little said. Apollo was waiting for the queen of the Snowy Mountains - Mirra. The kings were practically alone at the wedding, and he was invited to entertain them, knowing about his outer beauty and unpredictable behavior and that everything he had seen would turn into a commercial.

Apollo appeared before the eyes of a blonde without age. He saw her on the news and knew that she was the queen of the Snowy Mountains. The blonde with her adventurous behavior was no different, but the wedding of two extraordinary people is drawing upon the feats of those who are on her.


Chapter 9

Queen Myrrh's face was familiar to Apollo from recent television news. She decided to choose him for a personal conversation about life. The modest mansion allocated for it was distinguished by its brilliant purity and whiteness.

The house has been renovated using all the latest materials and technologies. The winter garden, a table for two, two armchairs, the chirping of birds - this is perhaps all that surrounded Queen Mirra and the handsome world-class Apollo.

Apollo was a pleasure to watch. It was easy to talk with him. Communication with him is a rest. He pacified his presence. He slightly lazily attracted active women to him. He did not immediately rush with kisses and confessions. He missed the first half.

At the wedding, the Queen Myrrha was alone, that is, without her husband, whom she respected and kept at home with herself, but preferred to go to receptions alone. She knew that the people loved one of the royal couple, and decided that the people should love her, not her spouse.

The beauty of Apollo was amazingly tempting, he was not an obsessive gentleman, he stood with dignity, which the queen's spouse had much less. Apollo did not play, he was so by nature. The hand of Queen Mirra froze on the arm of Apollo completely by accident. She gently ran her fingers over his wrist. Her hand stretched higher in his hand, as if she were climbing into the mountains.

The plastic cufflink on a snow-white men's shirt shone in a magnificent frame. She took out the cufflink. On a man's tie, a barrette with three balls glittered. Queen Myrrh, with a smooth gesture, pulled out a barrette and released her tie.

'Come with me, Apollo,' said the queen, and led him into her bathroom. - Take off your stuff and go swimming, nobody will take your things.

The marble bath was filled with pink foam and rose petals. The water was bubbling under the arches of the marble hall. Queen Mirra entered the pool in a pink peignoir, light and transparent.

On Apollo sparkling silver swimming trunks. His figure, polished by the gym and massage therapists, tanned in the solarium and in the Sandy Country, was gorgeous against the backdrop of rose petals.

In a pink cloud of cloth, a woman descended into the bath. She covered herself with foam with petals, she took off the transparent fabric and put it on the edge of a huge bath. Apollo was in no hurry to the queen. It is lazily located on the opposite side of the bath-pool.

The woman, pushing off from the edge of the bath, swam a couple of meters in the rose petals without a single movement. She slid on the water. Then she gently ran her hand over the arm of Apollo from the elbow and above. With a slippery movement, she grabbed his neck, ran her hand along his back from top to bottom, and turned her hand to his stomach and chest.

Apollo listened to the movements of the woman and did not even respond to her with a muscle. Queen Mirra hooked up her second arm and hugged him by the torso. Her hands went up again. She embraced him like a precious vessel, and involuntarily pressed her body with his whole being.

Apollo relaxed, ran his fingers over her shoulders, his hands went down the body of a woman. He felt a very dense and tender body, obviously masseurs and cosmetologists of all possible directions worked on it. Queen Myrrh to the touch in the foam was very pleasant. Petals stuck to the body and became a water ornament.

Two in the petals of roses examined each other's bodies. Suddenly, engulfed in mutual impulse, they pressed against each other, and his lips dropped to hers. Apollo plunged into the magic of love without any laziness, he liked this insinuating woman, who gently and imperiously seized him with her whole being.

At the time of the flash of feelings, she pushed off from him and swam two meters on her back to her peignoir. They turned out to be two. She took one, threw it on her shoulders and quietly left the bath.

Apollo out of the bath. The woman called his hand. Both entered under the stream of rain - a shower was constructed in such a way that the streams from the ceiling flowed down like rain. Peignoir hung on the wall. The figure of the woman was covered with jets of water. She sparkled in the water like a polished sculpture.

Apollo stood under the stream of water and did not approach her. She looked at him once more with her gaze and approached him. His trunks had two steep bows from a narrow edging. The woman tugged at the tips of the edges, and the triangle of fabric was at their feet.

Behind a wall of water glory under two soft towels, a couple found themselves in a pleasant bedroom. Towels hung on their hooks. The round bed attracted two people prepared by the water idyll. They dove into bed. The study of the bodies continued.

Lips turned into a magical overture. Both calmly and correctly tortured each other with feelings. They approached each other. They liked each other and happily merged into a single happiness for two.

Both went into two different souls: one was cherry, the second blue. Two bathrobes were waiting for them on the side tables. In the robes they sat down at a table and drank a glass of tart wine. They again moved away from each other.

When Apollo dressed up to her plastic diamonds, the queen Mirra handed him one more - a ring with a square diamond.

- We are not familiar anymore. You are escorted, - and the queen disappeared behind one of the many doors.


Apollo lay motionless at home and did not react to anyone; he was still with the queen of the Snow Mountains, Mirra. Stupor lasted a week, then he began to talk, and gradually a wandering smile appeared on his face.

Soon Apollo went to the princess Jeanne to distract her, talk to her, if possible, write a script for an advertisement for their products - and forgot about them. Princess Jeanne in a harem has grown old, but not so much in appearance as in her eyes there was no revival. She was like frostbitten among hot sands outside the palace of Shah Mach.


Jeanne and Apollo talked about life. She cheered up and asked to take her out of the palace to walk around the city. Shah Max allowed them to do everything, but forbade him to leave his city. Princess Jeanne put on jeans, a blouse, disheveled hair and, happy from freedom, jumped out of the gates of the palace. Most of all she wanted to swim in the sea, and not in the pool.

The sea was lapping with long, flat waves. Jeanne and Apollo entered the water and were satisfied with life and freedom. Then they lay on the hot sand and enjoyed the sky, the sea and the conversations.

For three days they quietly walked to the sea, on the fourth day two men stopped next to them. One of them was from the Sea Country, he was sent to the former princess Jeanne, King Albert. The second man was from Cranberry Land, he had questions for Apollo.

Freedom stopped smiling. King Albert asked the princess Joan to come to him and their son, promising after the visit to let her go where she wanted. She was invited to talk with the help of well-wishers of all stripes. Jeanne and Apollo fell and realized that it would be better for them to sit in the palace by the pool than by the sea ...

Shah Max rescued. As it turned out, his people were watching them, but they were not approached for the illusion of freedom. Princess Jeanne, of course, would like to meet her son, but she knew the Duchess of Hell and knew that they did not expect her there and would not be allowed to smile at happiness. Apollo told his friend that he is like a magnet for iron, that the work itself finds it. Joan was asked to return to the Sea Country, but she hid behind the walls of the palace of Shah Mah.

Apollo and Jeanne came to the open pool, drank a sip of wine and laughed: they had nothing to lose! Shah Mah was busy with his wives, children, his country, and he did not care for them. Apollo returned home and realized that the story of the shahs and queens was left behind ...

Agnes watched the transfer of the black diamonds, without taking her eyes off the screen, and only managed to prepare a vegetable salad during the break. What interested her in the most expensive stones? While she was looking at large black diamonds and did not know in the course of the transfer that they were artificial, she did not believe that these black buttons were diamonds.

Real diamonds lived with internal fire, which only intensified during the filming, and their substitutes made from cast iron wastes looked more like a set of mirrors.

A real diamond is transparent, and artificial ones show up the darkness of the dots, and how they are bought for millions, Agnes was completely incomprehensible, but very interesting. She bought tabletop grinding machines so that the grinder would choose which is better.

The machine with software control simplified grinding work when cutting diamonds, and he came up to work. Everything that was connected with the shining stones, for some reason, always overgrown with crime, and therefore they were hidden more often than they were worn by themselves, such glaring injustice constantly resented Agnes, but she could not change the picture of life.

And still black diamonds are good, they have a lot of hidden nobility! And where to get them, and especially those millions of bills that they cost? Agnes burst into flames herself, like a black diamond: at least look at this miracle of miracles. Is there a black diamond in the Shah Mach collection? But what if he changes the set of diamond jewelry for one black diamond? The idea of setting the price for a black diamond in ordinary diamonds seemed to her extremely interesting and possible.

Agnessa contacted Shah Mach and, in a joking manner, offered to exchange finished diamond products for his black diamond, if there is one. And oh joy! Shah Mach had a black diamond! He agreed to the exchange, because he has many wives, he still has daughters, everyone needs diamond earrings or rings, and a black diamond lay in a safe without work.

Strange people brought Agnes a black diamond home. They took away from her ready-made diamond jewelry, which were produced by her parents' company. The appearance of the people, the envoys of Shah Mach, was so vague that they did not remember, their business being invisible and not attracting the attention of others when delivering great values. It means that they were shaved, washed, neat, and dressed in the average fashion of the countries through which their way of suppliers lay. How and where they transported the jewels was their business of life.

Agnes stared at a black diamond for a long time. It was possible to make a male ring or a female brooch from it. "What to make of it and for whom?" - she thought about this, looking at the black gorgeous diamond, which untreated attracted to itself with incomprehensible power.

The idea came as always unexpectedly: you need to make a ring for King Albert, whom she remembered. True, this will not please the Shah Mach, and maybe nothing, and he will give another black diamond. Or make a brooch for the Duchess of Ada? Who else could buy such a miracle? Businessmen? Why not? Agnes called accountants. She wanted to know if there were any customers worthy of a black diamond.

While discussing the candidacies arrived Apollo. Seeing a black diamond, he shouted without thinking:

- Agnes, I buy it! I like the black diamond!

- No, I'm not selling it! Give us the opportunity to make a black diamond out of it! Give me a look at this beauty!

'Agnessa, no question!' Make a diamond black diamond, and then make this ring on my finger, and I have a guard, he will monitor the safety of me and the ring on me.

- It's good. Apollo, I have the ratio of the price of a black diamond to the price of an ordinary diamond, if the price suits you, then consider that we agreed.

'Anything you say will suit me.' I take it! And if you still find the way to black diamonds, then take them for sale. I have trusted clients for diamond deals.

- Apollo, that's great! - exclaimed Agnes. 'We can begin processing it today.'

Apollo himself was impatient to hold a black diamond in his hands.

- Everything, and now everyone quickly dispersed and keep quiet about the black miracle. Let's call it "Black Brie"!

- Agnessa, I agree! - Apollo exclaimed and asked: - Is Brie a diamond?

Agnes shook her head in agreement.

Apollo shuddered, as if Queen Mirra had touched his hand, shook his head and smiled.

So Shah Mah reminded himself. Agnesse received a letter from him, he reminded that he would like to see a movie about his life, and you can still make a couple of his wives. The film is an advertisement for the whole Sandy Country. She bit her lips, because she had already spun up the shooting of the film for advertising the products of the company "Blesk", and they were returning her by the ear to the southern sun.

Mach - he is everywhere a shah, he radically crushed women's independence of decisions. She thought and replied that she would write a script about him and his women in the light of the last days, but for this she had to stop filming a completely different film and come to Sandy City to clarify the details of the script.

Shah Max replied that he was always glad to see Agnes. She asked Apollo to call again to all the participants in the filming of the film and said that everything was postponed at the request of the Shah of Mach.

Apollo approached Agnessa:

- Agnessa, I have a request: do not cancel the shooting of the film. I have cherry-sized diamonds. Because of them, I was in exile in the Cold City, and they sent me there for one diamond, which I found when I left the factory, I did not want to remember the others for a long time, but it was time to use them.

- Apollo, how many years have passed! And where are they?

- It's funny to say, but I hid them in a fluorescent lamp. In my desk lamp, one lamp does not light up - this is a dummy. Inside the lamp is covered with white paint, a white capsule is inserted into it, and diamonds are hidden inside it. The lamp quickly understands. You just need to know what to disassemble.

- And if the lamp broke?

- Excluded, the lamp is covered with a protection cap.

- Yes, but selling diamonds is dangerous, they are all the same for you.

- I agree, but do not forget: I worked for three years as a diamond cutter, and they were processed quite differently from the way they were processed at the factory. I redid them all, a long time ago, but you can sell to Shah Mach.

- How?

- Agnessa, fly to the Shah?

- And how will I take them?

- In the lamp. She has a modest size, say that you are taking a lamp with you, you are used to working under it. Like, you have a challenge from Shah Mach, you must write a script on his order.

- It is dangerous, but I will try, although I will not be enough for two films.

- And you write scripts, other people will remove. Do not break apart.

The people of Shah Mach met Agness at the airport. Oddly enough, but her lamp was not touched, the metal in it did not ring. Shah was surprised by the courage of Agnes and the diamonds in the lamp. He laughed at her resourcefulness for a long time and bought the whole lot.

Agnes had not written anything for a long time, but after she saw the brilliance of the processed black diamond, she again wanted to write a script about the black miracle. She came to life and cheered up. She was always animated by diamonds and new dreams of a new film.

The desire of Apollo to buy a 'Black Brie' seemed strange to her, but then she decided that he probably had a client. She took the maximum number of diamonds from him for a black diamond - she should have a profit from the transaction. He paid for the insidious product with a diamond pure stone.

Soon, in the magazine "Diamond News" Agnes read that King Albert had a ring "Black Brie"! That's who Apollo sold the ring to! Her first thought was made by another person! It is curious, and how he quickly appeared and on time! So who does Apollo work for?

Apollo knew the main thing that Agnes could not be fooled by fake stones, she felt stones without devices, and with one breath determines the purity of the stone, so he asked on television to start a film about fake and natural diamonds. Agnes film, of course, looked. After listening to the film, he listened to her words, he had to hear her opinion and reaction, and she spread everything to the accountant. Apollo again checked Agnes on the knowledge of real diamonds.

He himself could have punctured, but she could not, so after she said that "Black Brie" was a real diamond, he bought it immediately and made good money on it. He was recognized in the diamond world as an appraiser of diamonds - a title both honorable and dangerous to the point of madness. A beautiful diamond, and black is simply gorgeous with its brilliance of faces.

Agnessu surprised Apollo. While she was surprised at his actions, he came out of the next room, shining with diamonds. Diamond bandages glittered on the wrists and on the head.

- Apollo, where did you get such a miracle?

- It has always been, but I did not show you, and now look what I am!

Agnes in the black business decided not to get involved. A young son of Shah Mah came to her and said that his father asked to make a lot of small diamonds for him, they are needed for cell phones. She looked surprised at her son Maha:

- Why do we need diamonds on cell phones?

The translator translated the answer:

- For his women, Shah Max decided to make phones with diamonds, diamonds inserted into the locations of the LEDs.

The young man showed the LED that diamonds will scatter light on a cell phone just above him. Agnessa was slightly surprised and delighted with the order. Life was entering the diamond channel. Her mood has risen, which means that everything has become good. Apollo proposed a new type of diamond cut for LEDs, and everyone agreed.

"Shah Mach is smart," thought Agnes and showed the diamonds that would go to fulfill the order.

Somehow, quietly, Jeanne returned from the Sandy City. She withered, faded after her foreign adventures.

Apollo saw Agness after a trip to the Shah, but not so much that he did not recognize her, but without much joy. Both of them have subsided somewhat. After some time, they called from the shah and said that his wives wanted diamonds on a platinum chain. Called from King Albert, he urgently needed diamond pendants for the Duchess of Ada. They called from the Queen Mirra and urgently demanded that Apollo himself come to her.

Agnes constantly picked up the phone. Suddenly, the company of her parents became all needed!

The queen of the Snowy Mountains Mirra made herself a mirror bedroom: the walls and ceiling of the bedroom were covered with mirrors. Her figure was not perfect, but the mirrors were made clever. As a result of digital processing, ideal people with recognizable faces were reflected on all mirrors.

Queen Myrrh, seeing on the screen the forgotten face of Apollo, decided to try the bedroom in action. It so happened that the conversation from her was transferred to Agnes. She understood who required Apollo:

'Apollo, Queen Mirra summons you.'

- What does she want from me?

- That you know better!

- When to go?

- Your things have already been collected.

- You don't need me?

- Come back.

Shah Max called Agnes and said that her diamond voice returned to him a string of love, and they are no longer young, but miracles happen on New Year's holidays. Customers came to the company from King Albert. Her new look was immediately transmitted to King Albert himself as a video. He asked to urgently execute the order for diamond pendants and deliver to him personally. Agnes made sketches of diamond pendants, coordinated them with customers. This was her homework.


Agnes came up with a flashlight with an x-ray beam that set off a diamond among the pebbles lying in any place. The diamond glows when hit by an x-ray beam. That is what she lacked before. After re-reading the encyclopedia with the largest diamonds in the world, she came to the simple conclusion that diamonds are twice as light as iron, that they can be measured in centimeters and grams. If the largest diamond at 3300 carats weighs 600 grams, then everything else is smaller. From 55 carats, nominal diamonds begin, which are periodically reworked, from which they decrease in size.

It is clear why in the 16-18 centuries the jewelry industry flourished: because the technical innovations at that time lagged behind the manufacturers of luxury for high-end units. The palaces were decorated like caskets. Science moved into second place, resulting in luxury for units came out on top. She also had a question: why is a new science complex made in the form of a butterfly? And the answer appeared: a butterfly as a symbol of a new science, which should make luxury for all units for units.

The jeweler, who worked with diamonds of the company "Blesk", which was led by Agnes Arkina, was killed and robbed in his apartment. Its doors with four locks and plastic triple windows attracted the attention of the burglars, who walked around the city, looked at the windows and at the number of locks in the doors. If there were more than three locks, then the thieves began spying on the landlord.

Through pensioners walking near their own porches, and through a fake old woman, they learned that a modest jeweler lives in an armored apartment, who does not even have a car.

The word "jeweler" acted upon thieves without fail, they decided to follow the chosen object. Strong man with piercing eyes, who loved women, and was a jeweler. Previously, he worked at the plant with metal, but gradually switched to a personal business. He worked as an accountant who settled all his affairs on taxes and other securities.

At the jeweler's house there were five working safes, each with jewels or money. Safes were located in the closet. The jeweler's desk, made under the secretary, was closed with one hand movement in case of urgent need. The rest of the situation in the apartment looked more than modest. The visitor's room seemed decent: mirrors, leather sofas, a table for jewelery, a TV set and leaves of artificial flowers.

There was a certain system among the bureaucrats: Grandma for intelligence among retirees, a beautiful woman for a jeweler with real money to buy jewelry. And she herself was all so dear! The system of theft was simple to ugliness: a smart woman would come to make an order for a piece of jewelry or buy a ready-made piece of jewelry. She was nervously holding a pile of money in her hands and asked to show what the jeweler had already done. She said that his work was recommended to her by a friend from the television station.


The jeweler lost control of himself under the gaze of a woman who had hypnotized him with requests and looks. Always secretive, he opened the closet doors in front of a beautiful stranger, uncovered safes and exposed all the best that he had.

The lady, when she felt that there were more than enough open safes, said that she took three items: a diamond cross, a diamond brooch and cufflinks for her husband. After that, she said that she needed to call her husband, who was waiting for her in the car to negotiate such expensive purchases.

The jeweler, as if under anesthesia, lost the sensation of life, he heard that he immediately took a lot, and opened the door to the "husband" of the woman. This is how it happened this time. Two men broke into the apartment, one of them twisted the jeweler, the other sealed his mouth with tape. The men were wearing masks. And all three of them, together with the woman, began to clean the safes.

If the twisted jeweler lay quietly, he would have survived, because the burglars are not killers. A jeweler like a snake crawled to one of the buttons that connected the apartment with the alarm. Communication buttons were located in different places of the apartment and at different heights. The jeweler wanted to press the nearest button with his nose. He crawled to the button and began to put pressure on her nose.

The movement of the jeweler was noticed by a woman who, faster than men, cleared the safe; she shouted to the peasants to look after the jeweler.

One of the burghers furious at the sight of a button at the jeweler's nose and shot him with a pistol with a silencer. All three of them grabbed the loot and rushed out of the apartment.

The bell rang in the guard, an observer called the brigade, which got into the car and drove away on a call to the jeweler's apartment. The door to the apartment was ajar, cabinets and safes opened. The jeweler was still breathing, he was beaten more than once, but he was a viable person. They called an ambulance. The jeweler was taken away.

A whole brigade from the criminal investigation department arrived in the apartment, they did not find a single fingerprint, except for the jeweler's prints. There were no neighbors on the street, everyone was watching the new series and went out on the street after six in the evening, and there was not even seventeen hours during the robbery.

The jeweler did not survive, to whom a bullet hit the organs important for life, his hands tied, did not prevent the shot from behind. One safe was not opened, but it was opened by the craftsmen from the criminal investigation department, there were diamonds for work, the thieves took the finished products and money.

Agnes about the death of the jeweler was reported by his neighbor, with whom they sometimes met. Often Agnes came to this house, she understood that everything was going against her. She could not believe that someone accidentally killed a jeweler and robbed, because this is a serious blow to its financing! She felt that events had occurred that could hurt her in her jeweler's career.

And she made a decision: until she was discovered by a neighbor's tip, she needed to leave the country, and immediately! She did not know what it would give her, but she really wanted to disappear. And what if those who came to the jeweler come to her?

Agnes thought about leaving Musin approved. "Where to go?" - she thought and decided that she would go to the Sandy City. Far away, what to do? She still had money after the last movie.


The investigation into the jeweler Mussin was very serious. They took a large amount of diamonds from the jeweler, and therefore members of the security group were promised a good premium, but on the condition that Musin would reveal the robbery, which was burdened with murder. And people worked.

Musin knew that the main supplier of diamonds was the man of Agnes - Boris, more precisely, it was not profitable for her to kill a jeweler. And who benefits? Who hated the jeweler or Agnes? Who could send little bureaucrats to a jeweler, a modest man and unreachable for society?

The diamond lady is a person known in the diamond world. Who is she disturbing? To competitors? Who wanted to deprive her of the source of funding films? Roads led to the world of cinema and advertising. The world is bright and full of ghosts. The detective picked up everything, but the jeweler turned out to be as clean as a good diamond.

"How did Tatiana feel about Agnes?" - Musin wondered. This moment seemed to him interesting. The situation began to appear. He found out that it was Tatyana who set bombs on the jeweler, but they did not notice.

Tatiana wanted to remove Agnes and the jeweler's lime from her path, or at least scare her, but everything turned out better. She received a tip-off on the bosses, who worked in the area where the jeweler lived.

Domushnikov she was able to send a jeweler to the house, and those who saw the fortress apartment showed the excitement of the hunt and overdid it, killing the landlord.

Tatiana seemed beyond suspicion. Mussin informed her that Agnes had disappeared from the city. Tatiana's happiness doubled. Here it is, the revenge of a woman! It turns out that Agnessa was hiding from Tatyana's revenge? Is very similar. Here are women! And who is to blame? Burglar house. The group of bureaucrats was calculated with the help of Musin. They took them quietly, along with a beautiful woman and grandmother-looker. They all lived in the same apartment, I must say, a rented apartment.

Diamond products do not sell quickly. The product was worth the money, so the buyers of diamonds on the street did not roll. Kush took a big, but could not sell. Domushniki were angry at themselves for killing a jeweler, and they were tormented by the question of how a jeweler sold his goods. It was with this question that the security organization took them and won their prize.

Life transparently hinted: "Agnes, be careful." All her acquaintances were depressed in memory of the jeweler, everything was so easy with him in terms of selling and making diamond jewelry. He was like the eighth wonder of the world for the whole diamond cohort.


Chapter 10

Agnes looked at the sky: what if a meteorite with a diamond filling flies by? But the sky did not bring such surprises to it, although it is claimed that diamonds come to the surface of the Earth either from space or from the bowels of the Earth during a volcanic eruption, or they are created artificially.

Agnes was well aware that time was going forward. The diamond industry is in a hurry ahead of time, and it has hopelessly lagged behind with its stories. Life is like the Moscow Ring Road: five lanes in one direction, five lanes in the other direction, then you need to get off on your own road in time.

Attempts to quarrel and put up with Tatyana made no sense. They were bound together by soul strings stronger than relatives. The period of jealousy over the years has passed, it means that the period of love has passed. They now worked in different places and occasionally called back.

Tatyana's personal life was clearly defined by her concerns for her son. The positive behavior of a woman sometimes negatively affected her appearance. She looked a little worse than can and should be at her age. Son grew up. And she fulfilled one of the principles of pedagogy: children should not have free time.

Vlad spent all his free time with horses. His passion lasted five years. He traveled by train to his favorite horses and painted the heads of horses. But once the passion for horses was interrupted once and for all. After the horses, Vlad took a great interest in playing the guitar, went twice a week to classes at the house of children's creativity.

From the first class he went to a music school and played the accordion. From the fifth grade, he traveled alone by bus to school with a mathematical bias. Walking around the house he practically had no time.

It is difficult for a woman to raise her son in all respects, he needs an example of a man at home. Vlad served as an example grandfather. My grandfather at the dacha grandson mastered the basics of gardening and gardening. This is a very useful thing for a settled life in its climate zone. People without dachas are constantly looking for entertainment in other countries or other parts of the country. People who have cottages and personally grow the garden and garden, lead a more calm, sedentary lifestyle.

One abandoned cottage where the house burned down was turned into a small stadium. All country children came to this site and played football, and bicycles were put on the edge of the site. Bicycle - a favorite form of transport at the cottages. The plot was gradually trampled and used in the evenings as a dance floor.

Vlad brought his accordion here and extracted music from it. The crowd of summer residents was happy with lively sounds.

After the summer dance, Vlad pulled on ballroom dancing. He grew up a slim boy. He was gladly taken to ballroom dancing. Tatyana had to order specific clothes for him, which required money or the application of her hands. One day, a son brought her money. He performed in a movie theater before the film. He was paid for dancing. Tatyana Petrovna almost cried, so long ago no one gave her money to live outside of her own work.

Snowy areas continually showed on television screens from a very interesting point of view: they could not remember that they had winter, and they never engaged in fuel procurement for a short summer. It was from such a snowy area that a very handsome and inquisitive man came. Boris's face was manly and weathered.

He took part in the shooting during his vacation, and he had a two-month vacation. In two months his face grew lighter, softer, and he also went to the beauty parlor. Boris became more beautiful and finally liked Tatiana. Among her acquaintances, she did not see such an attractive and entertaining man. Tatiana and Boris were sitting together at a table in a cafe. The man gently stroked her fingers with his rough fingertips. A woman wanted this rough man. Boris touched his lips with his hand, a weak wave of desire ran through the stagnant organism. The man felt a change in the woman, she did not resist, she responded with all his being. A dinner together dramatically advanced their relationship. Tatyana did not expect from herself, but three short words came out of her:

- Come to you ...

- Good.

Boris rented a one-room apartment for two months, and a man and a woman came to her. He had a bottle of good wine. He set the table. Tatiana looked out the window. Outside the window was a school stadium. On the school stadium rolled two strollers of young women.

She turned to the man:

- Boris, I'm scared.

- Tatiana, what's wrong with you? It's okay! Take it easy. Relax.

- My son will lose.

- Vlad will not lose you. He is already big. We lost one and a half months and many years! I have two weeks to go to the North. I offer wine with bananas ...

He approached the woman, hugged her and said:

- Tatiana drink two sips for safety and mood!

- Come on, Boris, let's drink!

Two sips relieved the stress of conscience, which was very disturbing when crossing the border of love.

-I'm gonna take a shower. Now I will come, - said Tatyana and disappeared into the bathroom. She looked at herself in the mirror and realized that a fall was inevitable.

A bed covered with a fluffy bedcover softly enveloped her body. It was getting dark outside the window. Soul light. Love flared up on long-extinguished coals.

Mobile phone chimed in the bag:

- Mom, where are you? I called for work, you are not there.

'I will come soon,' said Tatyana to her son.

- I spend? - Boris asked her.

- No, not yet. I'll finish it alone.

The next day, Agnes appeared on the set and offered Boris to act in an advertisement. Tatiana, watching the opponent, thought that she could again take away her beloved man, and sighed from the hopelessness of the resistance.

Boris refused to shoot, saying that the vacation ends. Tatyana understood this with her heart and calmed down. I won't give it up, she thought and with habitual movements she touched the buttons on the control panel.

Boris dreamed of Tatiana, a woman of average male growth, with an average female figure and a cascade of curls on her head. She was sometimes a living and cheerful creature. She grew up with her father, whom everyone feared, and in the shadow of his power she could afford not to fear for herself.

Agnes thought that with her husband Apollo she had a little boring love. As he lacked packs of money, she lacked passion. Marriage they wore a guest character. He asked for a cake in bed. She brought him his favorite food, let her be comforted, while she herself took the chewing gum and chewed it in time with his chewing. Something in their relationship required novelty.

And she came, a novelty.

At work, Apollo had a girl with a bare navel, it was summer. This navel seduced Apollo. An attraction arose between them, and he brought a new passion to an abandoned stadium. But the stadium rejected it. An old man wandered around the stadium with a dog. The dog picked up a dried bouquet with his teeth and yelled in the direction of his car.

Apollo realized that love at the stadium was not for him. The stadium rejected it. He did not have a desire, he did not want to love a woman, his body stood on the brake. There was a feeling that here is an invisible graveyard of passion. It dawned on him that this is good!

It means that Agnes has only him, and he will return the whole home to a girl with a bare navel. Apollo drove away from the stadium, away from his constant jealousy, which suddenly disappeared, because Agnes was not jealous of anyone. He only now realized this and fully realized. He took the girl to her house, asked for forgiveness that he had been carrying for too long, but it was necessary ...

Apollo bought a bouquet of flowers, fresh and fragrant, and came to the house where he practically lived with his wife lately. Agnes, seeing the bouquet, shuddered and kissed him. And suddenly between the current went! They have a desire for love on the threshold of the apartment. They threw off their clothes, went into the shower, got up under the stream of water.

Love, swift and passionate, passed through the cells of the bodies! They felt what they lacked so much!

- Honey, we will have with you a new apartment! We received a good order, it is a lot of money!

- Agnes, I want to sleep.

The next day, Apollo from Agnes went home to his mother. Mother met her son with relative joy, as his grandmother occupied his small room and dug her with a lampad. Granny was a devout woman, she always prayed, except for sleep. Apollo had to occupy a large room, and his mother went to sleep in the kitchen. That's what a naked navel is at work! But in fashion.

Apollo's request sounded nice:

- Agnes, tell the girl that I am free from you.

- Apollo, when you get to a serious relationship with her, then we will separate.

- I'm used to you.

- And get used to it.

'Agnessa, she's quite simple compared to you.' You do not understand how I live with my mother. My blanket is falling, my legs on her small couch do not fit, and she does not allow to buy a new sofa.

- But now you have a big room.

- Yes, but my mother wants to drive me to the kitchen to sleep.

'We have even more and more people,' said Agnes.

- Agnes, then go live with me. We'll send granny home. Her house is empty, and you and I will live in a large room, and my mother will live in a small room.

The tremendous quality of people is to leave their homes and apartments and climb to close relatives so that everyone can feel bad. And about the girl with a naked navel forgotten.

At lunchtime, Apollo and Agnes safely walked by the water in the rays of the August sun next to the sports club.

- And you lost weight.

- You have misunderstood it.

- But you kicked me out. I'm used to you. And you call me stupid! Okay, I will live with my mother at home.

- But you now have a big room.

Lunch was coming to an end. We had to go to the workplace. By himself, Apollo was not contented with the thought that she would be his only and unique, in general, Apollo addressed the ladies of all ages the same way: "Hello, darling!" He did not memorize female names. Apollo became unwittingly watching Agnes, so that at the right moment he would be near her by chance.

The work of Agnes in the company "Glitter" was strange: she did that, I do not know what.

Agnessa Ivanovna, Apollon Petrovich and their daughter Angelina decided to go to the pool, but it turned out that her daughter had grown out of a bathing suit and shorts. While Agnessa Ivanovna was collecting things for three, Apollon Petrovich and Angelina went to buy a swimsuit. They bought a swimsuit, a pair of glasses, short shorts instead of sports, but the chains on them are dark. Okay, they have collected things, and here the daughter says to her father for some reason: "Well, you!" Apollon Petrovich got angry, screamed, said he would leave this house tomorrow, but went to a sports club.

Agnessa Ivanovna and Angelina were the first to leave the house. Apollon Petrovich came out last, the door closed and disappeared. Go, think, where did father go? They come to a sports club, and he sits on a bench and waits for them, and tells them that he will not go to the club, they say, go, bathe and sunbathe. He carried his belongings himself, then threw them at the entrance to the building and disappeared.

Mother and daughter worked on the simulators, but the daughter showed such a notorious laziness that the mother regretted that she went with her. Angelina basically pulled water from a plastic bottle instead of being engaged. They went to the pool, the water was very cool, and the daughter swam well, at a speed twice the speed of the mother. From the cool pool they went to the sauna, warmed themselves, then went to the pool, then again to the sauna, and only after that they left the sports club.

Upon entering, they were told that they had found things that had been standing near the entrance for a long time. People thought there was a bomb. We looked, and these are things for a sports club. Angelina took her father's things, Agnes Ivanovna took her things, and they went home. They came home, and Apollo Petrovich was on the landing, he forgot his keys, Agnes Ivanovna had the keys, just when they left, he went down the stairs and did not go with them in the elevator.

The man stands and does not react to them, they went home, and the man stands on the landing, and only twenty minutes later he started to call to the house, even though the doors were open for him ...


Tatiana Petrovna's son, Vlad, was going to go to the cinema institute; by that time he was sitting well in the saddle, danced well enough ballroom dancing, could play the guitar and sang in a very pleasant voice. Tatyana Petrovna was one of the first to find out about recruiting young talents for the contest. Across the country, the best voices were collected, but the best were a very abstract concept. She turned to Boris to help him pay for a vocal tutor, the master of his craft took decent money for singing lessons.

Ten days of training made Vlad an excellent singer from Vlad, according to his relatives. The guy's charm was from Denis's father, and his mother's voice. In life, Tatyana Petrovna was just embarrassed to sing, there are such invaluable people.

Vlad came to the stage of the competition and conquered the hall with the first sounds of his voice. The competition was broadcast throughout the country. SMS flew in support of Vlad. He won the competition effortlessly.

The girls soon sang his simple song. Poets and composers reached out to him, he was offered new songs, they began to call him to the evenings, he was called to various cities and towns. Tatyana Petrovna clutched at her head: what did she do ?! But it was too late. Vlad got on the wave of pop fame, his song sounded on the radio and on television. He was offered to make a clip, but they asked for a lot of money for his production.

And where to get them? Boris simply did not want to give money, he offered Vlad to help him in selling diamonds among pop singers, thereby recouping the cost of a tutor. Vlad for the money was ready to give his mother to marry him, so long as he gave money for the clip. But Boris did not retreat, he needed a diamond trail among pop stars.

Boris gave Vlad the first diamond and told him to tell everyone that he won the contest because of the diamond - this is his talisman. And what do you think? Young contestants, who were still fighting for fame, began to shake their parents, asking them for money for diamonds. Vlad began to fall on the current concerts of the capital, he hung the diamond on the black lace, his shirt was always unbuttoned, it became his distinctive feature.

Jeans, heavily torn, with a huge amount of rhinestones for diamonds, set off a real diamond. They began to buy diamonds one by one, sometimes two. Boris rubbed his hands from pleasure. Vlad received the necessary amount of money for the first clip. After the video, his popularity grew so much that he began to receive decent money.

The mother repeated only one thing to her son:

- Vlad, go to the cinema institute.

Vlad has his ears laid, he didn't hear the support, he was swallowed up by concerts. Found a sponsor. Vlad has his own LLC, the main value of the company was himself and his voice. He organized concerts, provided work with new songs at music studios, which were rented for his rehearsals. Diamonds were his left commodity. Vlad invited Angelina to his company. At concerts, they performed together. Vlad sang. Angelina was dancing.

Tatyana Petrovna did not know whether to rejoice or grieve about this. The son began to receive more than her, and she ceased to be an authority for him.

Agnessa Ivanovna went to the concert of her daughter. Angelina was still a teenager, and already began to bring money home. So the mother decided to see how her daughter earns money. Angelina went to ballroom dancing with the blessing of her grandmother, with whom she spent her childhood, since her parents were often not at home. Mother liked the concert, but she told her daughter that she continued to study at school and think about the institute.

The concert was broadcast on television. Agnes sat not far from the camera, she was constantly shown among the spectators. Georges watched the concert on TV. He saw Agnes among the spectators. In his soul something sank, something long forgotten. He still worked as a security guard, three days later. He had time, but there was no money, there was no filming either. He wasting the evening alone. He also noticed on the young singer a good diamond, the kind that Agnes loved.

Georges decided to find out where the diamond is of considerable size for a young singer? What was his surprise when he found out that the singer is Vlad, the son of Denis Turin, a once-famous TV presenter! Oh, now he has a desire to rob his son. The task is not easy. Georges made a reconnaissance at Vlad's firm, he smelled about Boris's diamonds, which again surprised him incredibly. All of his people, everyone has diamonds again, but he doesn't have it - unfairly!

At home, Vlad faced Boris, a constant admirer of his mother. But now Boris, the manager of the northern company "Vityaz", wanted to get a capital residence and an apartment in addition. Kind Tatiana as a true woman did not agree with everything. Vlad now lived separately and did not interfere with his mother. Boris remained living in her house, but another male began to encroach on his territory. Tatiana temporarily settled with Boris on the Cote d'Azur Mediterranean. She left the firm. Nervous shocks associated with diamonds, they are somewhat tired, and the money was.

Boris chose the expensive coast, after the North and the capital it was the best place on Earth. They rented various rooms, sometimes entire palaces. They had servants. Vlad did not disturb them, he became an adult. Tatiana was constantly busy with her appearance. For some time her face shone with youth, her legs were covered by a long light skirt, but open arms betrayed her head.

The arms in the upper part, in the center between the shoulder and the elbow, are traitors to the woman, wrinkles are concentrated there. Boris and Tatiana made a film about their respectable life on the Cote d'Azur. And when she looked at him, she was horrified by her own hands. They overshadowed the tiles at the cafe where they loved to eat. The beach behind was not as pleasing as the wrinkles on the hands were terrified. Tatiana decided not to please Agnes with such a film, but to act in a thin blouse with golden threads.

The film fell into the hands of Agnes, she and the film crew arrived on the Cote d'Azur. But now Tatiana was ready to shoot. What she did and for how much is unknown, but her hands shone with youth. The filming of the paradise life of television host Denis Turin's widow was televised with great success. Travel companies inflated prices on the Cote d'Azur, and Tatiana and Boris had to rent a modest house high in the mountains. Here it is, pay for popularity!

While Tatyana and Boris lived on the Mediterranean Sea, they did not interfere with Vlad, but their return did not make him happy. For the time being, they did not care whether they were married or not. Vlad began to expel Boris from his home, and he left. Tatyana grappled with Vlad in a verbal squabble. She whipped her son with words, the son pushed her twice, showing who was the boss. They parted full enemies.

Angelina and Vlad got married when they had grown to this happy moment. Angelina turned out to be an extremely hard-working woman in the absence of Agnes Ivanovna. The apartment required repair everywhere. It was necessary to restore window frames, change part of the pipes in the apartment, change floors, change faucets, stove, furniture and a lot more.

Vlad was only amazed at all the numerous works that were carried out in his apartment. Angelina suggested sterile cleanliness and order. She differed modest needs, went with a smooth hairstyle, but was sweet and pretty. He was pleased. He was fed, clothed, loved, and everyone around him was constantly getting better.

"We must live by the law, if possible," - so thought Agnes, pursuing her hobby that she knew and loved. She completely missed her own problems, and if there were not enough of them, she would invent them both for herself and for everyone she knew. The time has come when movies began to be shot in large quantities, the time of stagnation has passed. Equipment for filming has improved significantly. Computer processing of materials simplified many stages of film preparation. Actors are better dressed, they now looked better on the screen than ten years ago.

The studio appreciated the technical innovations in cinematography, and the studio was appreciated by people. And so, when everything became so good in the world of cinematography, Agnes moved away from filming, plunging into the world of diamonds. Agnes on the history of diamonds has developed an internal immunity, but the adventures of a beloved man are more precious than the diamonds themselves.

She froze at the TV screen when she saw the name of the writer: it was only yesterday that she discovered her at a publishing house, and she was already under the knife, spending money and health for the sake of ghostly beauty, and all this on the first channel. This is what a warehouse of books makes her go for a similar promotion!


What if you unleash a snowball of love back? In this snow coma will be found and the grass is green, and the leaves are fallen, and the sand is sea, then river. In the days of Tatiana's youth, there was no sex advertising. The TV slightly increased its black and white screen and did not overflow with all the colors of the rainbow. There were no calculators, counted on slide rules, accounts and on metal calculators.

Why such a preface? Nothing in his youth Tatiana did not distract from study and training. They were in love, but they rather defined sympathy than love. She was an interesting girl with a long blonde braid, smarter, more read than the guys around her. She was physically strong from endless training on skis, on yalah. So to whom such a person is able?

All her positive qualities deviated from her all sorts of fans. The guys even argued on her, she was such a rock. Those who approached her in terms of strength, did not fit in mind. Who was relatively intelligent, he was for her physically weak. Besides, she was almost beautiful.

There were guys who tried to catch up with her, but could not. She singled out one from the crowd, the other, but she had love. The body, tired during the trainings, did not feel any special anxieties from excess fluids. But there is her majesty Destiny. And Tatiana found a young man who was taller, stronger, smarter, more insistent and more experienced in love. He won her year, and he won. At this fate put a big point.

Denis already occupied a leading position on television, and from home to the television center there were only a few stops on the train. Appeared apartment closer to the television center. So why did Denis need love at the stadium with a foreign wife?

If Denis had Tatiana and a child, then Agnes had a beloved man with adventurous inclinations - Apollo. Agnes was beautiful: medium height, but with a very nice appearance and feminine figure. Such women are not allowed on the catwalk, they are already being dismantled without advertising.

On the network, Agnes read that a famous woman was attacked after a live broadcast on the radio, where Apollo was already recommended by her flower business buddies. Agnes has knocked in her head that the politician was killed shortly after he gave an interview on the radio.

That's a coincidence?

Apollo told Agnes everything he saw and heard, so it was arranged. There was a simple idea that the politician was tracked down and killed immediately after radio transmission, and the killers had no preliminary plan.

The shells were different, because they fired two pistols.

The official version of the assassination policy is completely different, but Agnes was interested only in his own version of all events.

Agnes at work presented a blooming flower in a beautiful pot. Camellia bloomed and looked great. The beauty was too good to carry her home. Agnessa left a flower at work. By this time, all the flowers presented on March 8, have safely faded and dried. The flowering flowers in the pots have one peculiarity: they drop buds if they are rearranged.

Flower sold, therefore, he moved. There is a beautiful camellia and blooms the second day. On the fourth day, a pair of buds turned dark. They were removed from the flower. In short, a week later camellia threw off the buds, which never blossomed, and the beauty of the flowers remained only in the photo. Put the flower aside. Let him rest.

Not far from Agnes sat Tatiana, a very calm woman, and suddenly she roused herself:

- Horror! And this is in my house!

- Tatiana, are you talking about? - asked Agnes.

'Found information about the killer, look at his face.' Cruelty. What cruelty!

Agnes came up and looked at the neighbor's computer: a very dark person was visible on the screen.

- What happened, Tatiana?

'The operatives came to my house.' They asked for a crowbar. Vlad gave them a mount.

- What for?

- They opened the door below the floor. There was a crowd, they were looking for the killer.

- Whom did he kill?

- He killed and dismembered two women. The first killed because of jealousy. The second one accidentally saw him kill the first one. He killed her as a witness.

- How long has it happened?

- I do not know. They were found frozen into the ice of the river. He walked by and saw a terrible sight.

A conversation between two women was heard by their boss:

'I heard about this murder!' The men said that the killer was searched for two weeks in all forests. The police on the ears stood.

- And how terrible was the last weeks in the forest! No one is in it, one creak of trees, 'said Agnes loudly.

'Now it will be calm,' said the chef.

Agnes sat down in her place, the work should not be forgotten, it must be done.

When they work in the office, silence is worth an hour or two. Tatyana jumps up first and goes around flowers. She waters them and sits down. The chef gets up and leaves for ten minutes. So the day passes. Agnes first gets up for lunch, she eats quickly and goes for a walk, sometimes Tatiana goes with her. On the day of questions for the first person of the state, everyone sits in their seats and listens to questions and answers.

Television announcer flashed stones in his beautiful ears. Agnes looked at the announcer's earrings carefully and did not hear what she was talking about.

Happiness is an illusion of a certain state to which one can strive, but it is impossible to exist in it for a long time. Is it possible to call the inspiration of creativity happiness?

The last thing a person writes in a state of euphoria from success, most often inspiration comes as a way out of this situation, from which it is impossible to get out. Simply, to forget something, you need to write about it, then brains are released for the next stage of life.


Chapter 11

Working in a team, Agnes did not have an elementary ability to pull the tongue, it was always necessary to work in silence. The first years she often cried now from a happy family life, sometimes from mistakes in work. If we now analyze her family life, then it can definitely be called happy. But she could not understand this through constant overloads.

When Agnes was hired, she was asked one question:

- How will you behave in conditions of a large crowd of people in a small area of the hotel? Will you stir up quarrels or extinguish them?

What did Agnessa answer? She does not remember, but she was hired. They worked for ten years, until new relations in society spread them in different directions. The chief died, they were born with him on the same day with a difference of fifteen years. He was a handsome and intelligent man, tactful and charming. Agnes attended his funeral, he turned into a mummy. Holy man.

When Agnessa herself re-read these lines, she roared for an hour with sobs. In the evening, she met a woman with whom she constantly talked. Her answer surprised me.

- It's good that you cried, your tear ducts were flushed, it became easier for the eyes.

Happiness for the eyes turned out to be next to grief. You never know where you will find, where you will lose. A clean, wrinkle-free face was pleasing, the huge eyes of Apollo with white whites were fascinating. His bored look told that he was tired of Agnes. He is today with a beard and a mustache, elegantly implausible with a black tie against a black shirt. It plays the rhymes of properly selected clothing. He is tall, handsome and handsome. It will suit a huge bedroom with a bas-relief bed. He is worthy of luxury, and only a star with a portrait could give him luxury.

People Agnes ceased to recognize, so she has changed recently and frowned more and more.

- Agnes, what have you come to ?! Are you a woman or a policeman ?! Are you at home! At home you are a woman!

Agnes of the last strength changed into a short robe, combed her hair and went to the kitchen.

- And what, dinner is not ready yet? Why do I come home and do not find food on the stove?

Agnes took out a pistol from the pocket of her short robe, put it to the temple of Apollo:

- Apollo, you went ... - and pulled the trigger.

But it was her dream.


Next to the frozen fountain was a large artificial spruce tree with parallel branches arranged in a circle.

A flock of urban crows nestled in the center of the spruce. Without this Christmas spruce birds have nowhere to hide. And I didn't want to sit on ate so many grounds.

A man stopped under a fir tree, he took out a folding table from his huge plastic checkered bag. On the table placed the finished trough: so it seemed to the birds sitting on the branches ate.

When people approached a person and gave money, he opened the transparent cover. People looked at the brilliant food and retreated. The birds agreed in their bird language, if a person opens the feeder, they will fly up with the whole flock and take brilliant food from him.

The man opened the transparent cover of the feeder for the next customer. The whole flock of crows flew to him. They quickly snapped up shiny objects and brought them to the Christmas tree.

The merchant looked at his tray - it was completely empty. The last buyer was so frightened by a flock of crows that he was silent for a long time, then dialed the phone number of the exit television group.

TV crews arrived quickly. They took a camera merchant. It turned out he was selling gold in the wrong place. News immediately went on the air. Everyone who watched the program went to the town square. A huge crowd of people gathered.

The only policeman on duty in the square called for reinforcements due to the huge gathering of people at the artificial spruce. The task of the police was very simple: do not let the public take apart the spruce for golden souvenirs.

The ravens lost interest in gold objects and lowered them onto the branches, and golden rain of imported gold fell from spruce.

The people tried to raise gold rings, chains, bracelets. Police tried to push the public away from the golden spruce. The merchant froze in place, mentally drawing a line under his life. Gold was not his, he just wanted to quickly sell gold products in a public place.

The last buyer jumped on the folding table, shouted, waved his hands, urging people to give the gold to a street vendor. People were very busy, many crawled under the tree on their knees in search of gold.

The crows' golden feast immediately went on live news. Those who sat at home, laughing heartily at the television screen. Among those who laughed was Agnes, until she recognized Apollo in the merchant. She looked at the man on the folding table. 'What is Apollo doing there?' The first thought arose. 'Why did he need gold? An adult man on a small table among a crowd of people on his knees! And there's something in it! It's a golden advertisement! The people will see enough and buy gold, we would get there with diamonds! "

Soon Apollo with a casket of transparent material stood at the folding table. He showed the operator diamonds in a transparent box. Diamonds hit the air. Apollo opened the box of pride in himself. Two nimble ravens grabbed a diamond and sat on a spruce.

Agnes looked at the TV screen as the diamonds left the armored box. The camera showed increasing frenzy under the spruce. People expected diamond rain. Crush was incredible. Now she only thought that Apollo would survive in this crowd. Five minutes later Apollo called her, she had already forgotten his voice.

'Agnessa, a good advertisement for diamonds,' and went the beeps ...

Orders came in from all directions. Tatiana called her son Vlad. He took orders and gave for review to Boris. From the country of Tea Rose received a large order.

Vlad sat in the chair of Agnes:

'Yes, how much gold one had to scatter to sit in that chair!'

At this instant, the daughter of Agnes Ivanovna, Angelina flew into the office:

- Vlad, are you in charge here?

- Today I!

- Then I like you!

- And if the case?

- It's not about that!

- Speak quickly! Curious.

Angelina, glittering with New Year's nails in front of Vlad's nose, sat in a chair for visitors, put her legs on the leg, twirled her boot over the table, then became serious beyond recognition:

- Vlad, everyone is gone! Mother and father. You see, they left, but there is no news from them. Border none of them flew.

- kidding me?

- Seriously! They are not! You do not know where they disappeared?

Boris entered the room:

- What is it about?

- Parents are gone! - and Angelina repeated her words.

- What do we do? - asked Vlad.

- I dont know!

'Let's check the telephone connection,' Boris suggested.

- How?

- Vlad, call here by phone from your cell phone.

Vlad rang the bell, his voice changed, so Boris heard an unfamiliar voice.

Angelina picked up the phone, listened to Vlad, then said:

- Someone clever set up all. It was not you?

- Not we! - the men answered in chorus.

Other customers began to approach the room. Customers demanded the return of diamonds in any form. Vlad went to the hidden safe, he knew the code. The safe was empty. Customers began to shout in every way.

- Quiet! - growled Boris.

The audience was silent.

'Go away, we all know about your diamonds.' People are gone! Find people - find diamonds. Not the crows took them away!

Things roared worse than Boris. There were no diamonds in the office.

- this is something! - Angelina exclaimed. - To summarize: diamonds at Fedor.

Agnessa Ivanovna and Apollon Petrovich entered the office.

'Boys, diamonds from Fedor, he emptied the safes,' said Agnes. - Do not cry, we must look for him. Firm is empty.

Apollo ran out of the office, got into the car and went to look for Fedor. The notorious Fedor was in the country. He sat in a chair by the table on which all the diamonds lay. He fingered pebbles like mushrooms.

Fedor looked drunken eyes at Apollo:

- Apollo, did you show up ?! I will not give you diamonds. Or ransom come on! Because of you, I was left without a car. I sold the car while I was suing you for dismissal.

Apollo looked at the wretchedness around Fedor and suggested:

- Change diamonds on the car. Will my car work? She stands in the yard.

Fedor ran to the window. He liked the car. They made an exchange.

- Fedor, you understand, I must be taken to the office with diamonds.

- Agreed.

After some time, Apollo and Fyodor appeared on the threshold of the office. They brought diamonds. The Apollo car was handed over to Fedor by proxy. The audience laughed. A sigh of relief passed through the office.

Agnes kissed Apollo and said:

- I won't let you go anywhere!

- I will not let you go.

At this time, Musin came to the office.

- Oh, everything in the collection! All your people. Who is there to punish? Diamond firm - and without advertising! So, do you know who killed Georges with a Christmas garland?

'It would be interesting to know,' said Agnes.

- Vlad killed Georges! By his order made Christmas lights. His motive is serious: Georges attempted on his father! In general, your office can be surrounded by a grid.

- Is a diamond for freedom a weak one? Asked Apollo.

- Not enough, I'm still young.

- We will give you a sign "The best detective of the country"! We have just developed it, - said Vlad.

- Now that's enough. Let's give a diamond now, and the sign will wait. In fact, I will not leave this thing so! - Musin showed his principles.

Tatyana was offended by the conclusions. She knew something that no one of those present knew. She really wanted to protect Vlad and Boris, but for this she would have to expose her beloved. What to do? It all happened a long time ago when they were young. Consequences of the feminine boast of Agnes.

The next day, by chance or on purpose, Angelina and Vlad came to the office of their parents.

- Mother, well, boredom in your office! - Vlad said to his mother Tatiana Petrovna.

- Mommy, is it true, what are you doing here? - Angelina asked Agnes Ivanovna.

Agnes and Tatiana looked at each other and said nothing, waiting for the questions to continue.

- Well, gentlemen, diamond! - Vlad continued. - The fact is that there is a terrific order for a sleepy company.

Everyone looked at Vlad with interest.

- Here, already woke up! I was joking, - said Vlad and was silent.

People sighed and gave up on him, then turned away.

- Yes, nobody needs your diamonds, don't you really understand that! Shouted Angelina.

Agnessa Ivanovna looked at her daughter with conviction.

Apollo Petrovich looked at his daughter disapprovingly.

- Why did you come here? To spoil our mood? - Apollo Petrovich asked Vlad.

'No, Angelina and I came up with a diamond of happiness,' answered Vlad.

- More details, please! - Apollo Petrovich asked.

- Dad, you know that because of large diamonds, people die, so people are generally afraid to buy them. They are frightened by stories, - spoke Angelina. - We propose to release a small piece of jewelry, made by the type of stud for the ears. All the jewelry is the size of a button, or rather a penny that looks like an eye: there is a ruby in the center, small diamonds are around, and the last ring is made of diamond crumbs!

- Angelina, but who will buy this nonsense? Where to wear it?

- Are you stupid? This is a miniature flag! In our country, there are no patriots? Everything will cost a little. All the fun! And what an effect! Embed into society through advertising, and all. Mama. Long time ago you didn't shoot any advertising. We came up with a clip!

A week has passed. Agnes as a premonition that Tatyana would not work, therefore she left herself. She looked at the abandoned production, in silence at the reception, at silent phones. Her week was not here, and everything died out right up to Tatyana. Soon came Boris.

Agnes sat in her chair - and the phone rang, a new customer appeared. Polished cutters came. Appeared in the office customers. Life began to spin. The preparation for the new film was spinning, but Agnes got the idea that she took it for nothing, even though she got the money, and everything worked out well with the actors. She began to rush between three cases, between two men, and Tatiana felt some kind of overwork, not worse than. Apparently, forgiveness of two hares and two hares, and in adult years one hare is not always under strength.


Agnessa Ivanovna felt freedom. The woman thought about diamonds. She madly wanted free diamonds. Here is a modest desire for a diamond lady: to receive from space a hundred carats.

Become a geologist? But she did not like to roam cross-country in the Far East. Go to Africa? It's hot there. Suddenly fall in love, but there will be no power for love? We must look close, close and preferably with a share of laziness. She just needed to fall into the astral state, to understand who and where hid the diamond treasure, and she was not warned about his finding ...

Of all his titles, Agnesse liked the diamond dame the most.


Apollo Petrovich didn't want to work at his wife's company, he was tired of obeying her. Could not and did not want. He was depressed, no worse than his wife Agnes Ivanovna, staring at the mirror hanging in the bathroom. The mirror croaked by his appearance. He doomed sighed, he wanted something new, crystal, transparent, so that the soul began to sing.

His soul did not sing. Men's longing for former campaigns dimmed from disuse. He decided to put himself in order, climbed on a stool, but unsuccessfully reached for hair dye and fell. He felt bad, his heart ached, laziness began to move. And nobody was at home ...

Nurse Nina and a tall man approached the elevator of a multistory building at the same time. Glancing at the hero, she thought that she had met Dr. Lux for nothing, so many stories happened because of him that I don't want to recall. Here is its floor.

Nina regretfully left the elevator with the hero, he went to the floor above. It is a pity that this is not her house, but another call to a bed patient, otherwise she would have met him once more. Nothing at all: they stood in one elevator together, but in the soul it was so nice!

The patient was caught not harmful, silent. Nina gave him two shots, prescribed by a doctor, and left the apartment. Above the floor were heard alarmed voices reaching the shout. Nina decided that the status of a nurse gives her the right to inquire about what is happening there. She slowly began to climb the stairs to the next floor.

The bogatyr stood next to the girl who pointed to the door and repeated:

- Vlad, I will not go there! I'm afraid!

- Angelina, are you afraid to come into the apartment with me?

- I'm afraid!

- What happened to you? - asked Nina. - I am a nurse. I was here on the call downstairs. Here, I heard the screams and went up to you.

- If you are a nurse, so would go on the next call, and we ourselves will understand! The evil girl exclaimed.

- Angelina, do not make noise! Let the girl look at your father. Suddenly he is still alive.

- Okay, nurse, go to the apartment, he is in the bathroom.

Nina entered the apartment, walked into the bathroom, the apartment layout was known to her. On the tile next to the cast-iron bathtub in a strange position lay a man. His pulse was barely caught. In his hands he held a bag of laundry detergent. It seems that the man stood on the edge of the stool and removed the powder from the top shelf, but could not resist and fell, hitting the opposite side of the cast-iron bath. In older people, legs are unreliable comrades for such home tricks. The nurse went to the site:

- Why are you scolding? He breathes weakly, help move the man on the bed.

The bogatyr jumped into the bathroom, took gently into the arms of Apollo Petrovich, who became heavily relaxed, and with difficulty carried him through the narrow door of the bathroom. A weak moan escaped the victim.

- Girl, call an ambulance! I will give your father a shot, he will reduce the pain shock. He may have internal fractures, no external damage, only abrasions on his face.

'She brought you to my head,' said Angelina to Nina, irritably, and began to dial a phone number, but not fast, but Agnes Ivanovna's mother.

- Mom, then dad fell in the bathroom. He is still alive. He has a nurse shot. Come and take him to the hospital, 'said Angelina and moved away from the phone.

Apollon Petrovich fell asleep after the injection.

Nurse Nina left the apartment, with regret leaving the bogatyr Vlad. She liked him even more, she felt his energy field even in such a nervous situation. She left the doorway and went to the clinic.

After twenty meters the hero caught up with her:

- Girl, you forgot your tools! - and the hero handed Nina a bag.

- Well, thank you!

- Can I pass a little with you?

- I'm not far from here.

'It's not far, but it's nice to go with you.'

- You do not wait in the apartment with an accident?

- Do not wait. There all life is an accident. Angelina called me to move her father, but she did not let me into the apartment. I could have rearranged and passed it, but it would have been violence! Thank you for helping out. What is your name?

- Nina. I still liked you in the elevator.

- True?! And you immediately liked me. Can we still meet?

- What is your name, lord bogatyr?

- So the hero! I am a big man without addictions. By the name of Vlad. So how about a meeting?

- Now I'm at work, free in the evening.

- Great, do you have any hobbies?

- There are no special hobbies, so I don't know why we should meet.

- "X-club" fit? I hope I inspire confidence? I have not taken the girls yet!

- Then check it out! It's not late at eight tonight?

- Agreed! - shouted the man and, turning sharply, went back.

Agnessa Ivanovna sat so quietly in her room that Apollon Petrovich lost a sense of reality. Silently she went to her husband and realized that he was very ill. Called the doctor. A nurse, Nina, appeared with the doctor. The doctor left the nurse to look after the patient, prescribed injections.

Nina sat in a chair in the patient's room and set up to while away the time. She was sad. Apollo Petrovich had everything except his health. She had nothing but her health. Nina remembered the bogatyr Vlad and was surprised to find that her ward looked like Vlad like two drops of water, but of different ages.

- Apollon Petrovich, sorry, but do you happen to have no son Vlad? - quietly asked Nina.

Apollon Petrovich turned red to the ears.

- My daughter's name is Angelina, she has a husband, Vlad. But he is not my son.

- And I would say the opposite. You and Vlad are unusually similar to each other.

- Do not joke with a sick man! - loudly said Apollo Petrovich.

- What are you sick! You are already talking. And I definitely like you.

- Thanks for this, dear girl! 'I like women to like them,' said Apollon Petrovich, and shrank from the next bout of heartache.

Nina stopped joking and made an injection. Both fell silent.

'Nina,' said Apollon Petrovich again, 'I probably stand with one foot in heaven or hell.'

- Why do you think so? You will still live.

- Lord! Is Vlad - my son ?! Cried Apollo Petrovich with despair in his voice.

- What's wrong with you? I just asked.

- Crime is it! If Angelina is my daughter, and Vlad is my son ...

- Are you out of your mind, sick? I'll call your wife now.

- Do not call. Let me figure out, while still alive. You see, what's the matter: I served on the border, where Tatiana's father served. She is Vlad's mother. We met her in the mountains. A certain Denis served with me. He almost died because of me. He really liked Tatiana, but everyone liked her there. At that time I could love and not worry. I was strong then. You see, the girl was strong. We met Tatiana one weekend and went together in the mountains. There are some mountains there. This and that. Embraced. Fell on the weed between the boulders. At that time, Denis was above us. He was on watch, and Tatyana and I were in disgrace. Tatyana startled, jumped up, the dress shook off. She looks at Denis and is silent. Denis broke the chain. Ran wherever they look. Soon we heard him cry. He fell into the gorge, but managed to cling to the cornice, so he survived.

- Apollon Petrovich, calm down, drink some water.

- Where to calm down! If only in the next world. But Tatiana then all in the pants went and limped. She told me that she has a boyfriend, his name is Denis. Because of him, she once fell off a mountain, but he saved her. Denis promised to marry her. And I was right there, I took advantage of Tatiana, a woman who made her Denis before. Interestingly, she was friends with Denis, but she was not a woman! I was very surprised then! Yes, she didn't tell me anything. Tatiana was then all lame, it later stopped limping. She suffered a lot of pain, hoping that Denis would marry her. And Tatiana gave herself to me, the monster of the human race. Yes, I was a man, I wanted very much love. I fell in love with her once, here is how I confess before I die, and she has been silent all her life. Then my wife Agnes love started with her Denis. All to one. Denis died. That's how bad I am.

- Do not slander yourself, do not, - soothed the sick Nina.

- What is not needed? We must separate brother Vlad and sister Angelina so that they are not husband and wife. Children, thank God, no.

- You talk to Tatiana. Should I call her? The heart will become easier.

- Call! No, I'll call myself, since such a thing.

Apollo found the name of Tatiana in a cell phone, called. He was answered by her trembling voice:

- Apollo, what happened?

- Tatiana, come to me, I'm dying.

'Don't mess up, I'm on my way,' said Tatyana's strong voice.

Indeed, she quickly arrived. Agnes in surprise missed Tatiana. Apollo asked everyone to leave the room.

-Tatyana, honey, say: Vlad is my son?

-Your.

'Why did you let the kids get married?' They are my children! Shouted Apollo indignantly.

'You wanted me to tell everyone this?' - Tatiana asked mockingly.

- Oh, so you hid it? It is necessary to dissolve my children. Come on, my friend's days of harsh, let's tell everyone the truth.

'This news will be smashed to the whole world.' What are you really drawn to?

- With a heart is bad. Here, the nurse was assigned to me. She said that Vlad is like me.

- Brought her hard on my head.

- Tatiana, what are you talking about ?! My children are married !!!

- Collect everyone and announce! - Evil shouted Tatyana Petrovna. - What did you want? You left me.

- I did not know that Vlad is my son! You never let me know about him. Call Agnessu. We say to her.

'Yes, she will have to say so,' the woman reluctantly agreed.

Agnes entered the room with surprise when she was called. The news that Tatiana and Apollo had a son, Vlad, jarred on her, but she withstood chewing gum in her mouth.

Called Angelina and Vlad.

Angelina, having heard that her husband - her brother after her father, took the pills from her father's table and sent them into her mouth, then went out without words.

Vlad was very happy with the news, he even kissed Nina on the cheek for revealing family secrets. He laughed in the eyes of everyone and jokingly said that now he was marrying Nina. Then he got angry, screamed, and suddenly sat down next to his father.

- Apollon Petrovich, are you my father?

- Why not?

- And I have no children.

- Will be from Nina.

- Nina, will you marry me?

- Easily, but I'm older than you.

'Parents, meet my bride after the divorce,' said Vlad and left the room, but soon returned. - Parents, you are due for moral damage! Where do we live with Nina? Angelina will stay in the apartment. And I?

Angelina entered the room with a blank expression on her face.

- Angelina, what's wrong with you? - asked Agnessa Ivanovna.

'Mom, I didn't have time to wash the face mask from egg white.' Skin tightened. Now washed away, but the face is still strained. Yes, even your news. Break away the older generation.

- Angelina, so you divorce your brother?

- Excuse me, my many parents! Where is the evidence that Vlad is my brother?

- Angelina, this is my fault. I kept silent, - said Tatyana Petrovna.

- Could you still be silent? - fiercely asked Angelina.

- Angelina, we will divorce, we will please the public, - said Vlad.

- We will rejoice! Divorce! And who will I stay with?

'Daughter, come back home,' said Agnes Ivanovna.

- Where can I find a diamond man? I know I'll take Boris from Tatiana Petrovna.

'He is old for you, Angelina,' Vlad said quietly.

- But diamond.


Chapter 12

The next day, Vlad was alone in the apartment where they lived with Angelina. He suffered from his new position. He was the son of a famous television host Denis Turin. He became the son of Apollo Petrovich Arkin. This news was scratching at the heart. He was in public with Nina, portrayed the brave grenadier, and remaining alone, he went mad with anguish over Angelina.

Before Vlad was a bottle of strong drink, he drank. The doorbell rang. Vlad went to open the door with a large glass of brandy.

- Apollon Petrovich, what fate?

- Hello, Vlad, have not seen each other for a long time. Put a cup in place and stop drinking.

- What do you want me to do? I - general ridicule!

- You now have Nina!

- She is a simple lady and an old lady in comparison with Angelina.

- Angelina is your sister.

- Isoveriya. Whether you are a father or not, that is the question.

- Father is half. But I will not drink. And you leave the glass alone.

- Would you like to make fun of those who have not laughed at me?

- burst into tears. Marry, Vlad, on Nina.

- Bored with her. Apollon Petrovich, where have you gone! - said Vlad and left alone a thick glass with cognac.

Angelina, to quickly forget the story with Vlad, took a plane ticket to East Island. She arrived at Nautical College with a concert. What did she know how? To dance, to draw jewelry, to be a wealthy daughter and wife. On the East Island, she absolutely had nobody and nothing. There was a strong wind and its complete unsuitability for the given conditions of life.

Cold. Wind. Wet snow. Angelina was sitting in the lobby of the college, her eyes were wet. Past in the form were nice young cadets. Gradually, she stopped crying. A young lieutenant, a college teacher, approached her.

- What happened? Why are you crying?

- All is well, I'm not crying anymore.

- Your concert will take place in any weather. The cadets did not leave the sea because of the weather, everyone is here.

- Thank you, I'm good. Sorry, so, fleeting memories of the past. I have costumes, beautiful and light. And you will not show me where you can change clothes before the concert?

'You are being escorted,' said the officer and stopped the cadet, entrusting him with the care of a beautiful lady.

The cadet took off to the seventh sky with happiness from one glance at Angelina. Such a beautiful girl - and next to him! The lieutenant returned, he was also attracted by this weeping, unusually beautiful girl. Together they took her to the dressing room - a small nook with a mirror.

Angelina had her own concert repertoire, she herself created light costumes for each dance. Once she spoke with Vlad. But life has made its own adjustments. Vlad stopped singing, he was engaged in business or starred in films.

Angelina, in order not to lose her form at all, danced and rehearsed new numbers. Vlad did not allow her to dance with partners. She gradually got used to dancing alone and creating her own repertoire. Sometimes she performed with concerts. The assembly hall of the college accommodated all cadets who were unusually slender in the hall. From striped collars pleasantly ruffled in the eyes. The girl began to forget about the troubles. Yes, what did she forget about? I forgot, and all.

The hall was full of young people. Officers with their wives sat in the front rows. The lieutenant, who accompanied her to the dressing room, sat alone. She liked him, and it warmed her. Outside the walls there was a wind. In the hall there was music from her discs. She danced to her soundtrack, but how! Angelina shone with real diamonds, which few people guessed. Her dresses were made of fabulously expensive pieces of fabric with small diamonds. Her movements were honed in the dance hall.

A slender, curvaceous blonde shone on the stage with magnificent movements accompanied by excellent music. Money for the performance seemed conditional, but for her the audience was more important than the payment. What will happen next? She did not want to think about it. She absorbed the energy of a young male interest in her own person and danced better and better.

The audience appreciated her dancing, they clapped in an organized manner, inspiring a dancer on an island of eastern wonders. After the concert, the lieutenant approached Angelina. He glowed with happiness, as if all her diamonds had entered him, and had come out through the radiance of his eyes. Angelina smiled in response, her tears disappeared. Suits were in a bag. Nobody saw them.

- Angelina, will you stay with us for a long time?

'Until the airport works.'

- So, you will live a few days. My name is Nikita.

- Have you lived on the East Island for a long time?

- I was not born here, but I studied here. He graduated with honors, so I was left a teacher in college.

'Do you know everything about your father?' I knew almost nothing about my father, even though he lived next to me.

'What do I know about my father?' His name is Dr. Lux, to be more precise - he is a doctor of technical sciences. There was a time when, as a teenager, he and his friend came to study in the seafaring, but his friend ran away from school to his home. My father continued to study alone, then he worked and studied. He met my mom when she was finishing school. She was not even eighteen years old when they succeeded me.

- Nikita, and the father is alive?

- Yes. He lives in the city. We will not remember this more, okay?

Angelina invited Lieutenant Nikita to visit her, although where to herself? She thought, then gave the phone number of their parents. After the departure of Angelina, Nikita began saving money for the trip, he did not drink at all, did not spend money, his dream was to see a charming girl in a diamond dress again. He saw her before.

Angelina decided to get the right to teach English at the Nautical College, where there is a specific language. She found a teacher, finished her nautical words, passed exams. Language she knew before, needed crust. She got them. Nikita made her a call from college, and she returned to East Island. Together they began to teach in college.

The weather at the ocean is always varied, but Nikita, whom she loved, lived next to Angelina. She got cold from the news that she was married to her own brother. She liked to live with Nikita, she liked everything, except for the inconveniences on the island, which every day began to increase. She hardly understood how she flew on this island East. She had a thought, and did not she move to Alaska? It is very close to Alaska, many times farther to the hometown.

Agnessa Ivanovna missed without Angelina, most of all she wanted her daughter to return home. She was ready to howl like a wolf at the moon because her husband was a traitor to her love, and because a friend turned out to be a traitor to their friendship, but most of all she wanted to howl because she was alone as a finger.

She had a dream, as if she was left alone without a rocket stupa, which Tatiana grabbed, leaving her old stupa with a broom. Yes, she sat at the broken trough, or rather at the broken stupa. Then she thought that she had the only friend - it was a stupa. Agnes smiled, clapped her hands, and an old, broken stupa immediately flew up to her. This stupa still served its ancestors and now returned.

New Baba Yaga sat in a chair from the stump of an oak tree, legs tucked under her. She stretched her arms out in front of her and spread her fingers, then sharply clenched her hands into fists and straightened her fingers again.

- I transfer my power and knowledge to Angelina! - Baba Yaga breathed out. After these words, she shrank even more.

Agnes felt some kind of force that went into it and seemed to have raised above the ground.

'I want Angelina back from the East Island while the volcanoes are sleeping!'

On the East Island volcanoes and Angelina started up. She raised her head, she painfully wanted to go home to her mother. The girl looked out the window, the trees waved foliage to her in agreement. Lieutenant Nikita could not stop Angelina.


Tatiana quickly felt her power in the firm "Glitter", owned by Agnes and Apollo. Oh, she loved to humiliate everything that came from the opponent. If you listen to her telephone conversation with any of the interlocutors, it always turns out that she is the best, she is the most industrious woman, and lazy people and alcoholics live around her. Her property of serving herself from the best side did not have.

What, for example, did she do on summer vacation? Tatyana Petrovna worked as a spray gun. She painted her own dacha from the outside and from the inside, of which she was terribly proud. She painted the shutters on the windows in three colors.

Another person in the country would be engaged in a garden, and she painted everything along with a fence. Periodically, she argued with a neighbor in the country, but, realizing that quarrels do not color a person, she strengthened her neighbor's observations and came to the conclusion that she was abusing alcohol. Consequently, in a quarrel with a neighbor, the neighbor herself is to blame, who on a drunken bench comes to hysterics, and Tatyana Petrovna, in this case, is good.

About pets.

Tatyana Petrovna kept only cats, which she fed with meatballs, made with her own hands from fresh meat. As a result, after six months, if we compare a cat and a cat from one brood, it turned out that her cat is four times larger than a kitten born to him on the same day as a single cat.

Who kept the house Agnes Ivanovna? Naturally, the dog, which fed water and dog food, and the breed of the dog was so miniature, that it was not necessary to walk with it, and in size it was smaller than a fluffy cat.

So who is better in choosing pets? Of course, Tatyana Petrovna. The cat does not bark for any reason, it is quiet. And from the point of view of Agnes Ivanovna? The dog is better, she is ahead of events for a couple of seconds, she feels the guest outside the door and warns the hostess by barking, especially at night.

What is the difference between them?

Tatyana Petrovna is a physical worker, she doesn't need domestic workers, she herself washes, t, cooks, repairs, knits, from morning to evening, and her hands are constantly in motion.

Agnessa Ivanovna in any free minute writes, composes, but she does not speak about Tatiana Petrovna about such work, she keeps it secret.

Tatyana Petrovna has a son. Agnes Ivanovna has a daughter.

Are Tatiana Petrovna right if her son is from Agnes Ivanovna's husband? So which of them is right, who is to blame? Better not to think about it. Oh, the most important thing: Agnes Ivanovna was the mistress of her husband Denis.

Yes, one more moment of interweaving of two rivals: Tatyana Petrovna's second civil husband, Boris, was once Agnes Ivanovna's lover, now all interweaving between two women is pulled to the surface.

Boris never ever lived with Tatiana Petrovna. He went to the north, and then, as at the base, he returned for the transfer of diamonds. He was so comfortable.

Tatyana Petrovna did not object, because Boris did not bother her much. Once in his absence, she united her apartment and Vlad's apartment. In one large apartment of three rooms, Tatyana Petrovna, Vlad and Nina now lived.


Manager Boris came from the north with a diamond product. At home there was only Nina, Vlad's young wife. During her life with Vlad, she became like him: stouter, got stronger, quit her job.

Tatiana Petrovna did everything at home. Nina had only one job left - to eat. She did this wonderful from morning to evening and from evening to morning. There was a feeling that she was eating during the period of her work as a nurse, when she was starving and was ready to carry out any assignments.

Nina was friends with a cat. Both of them on Tatyana Petrovna's cutlets were heard to the sides. Boris for the first time saw Nina, a woman with delicate skin, so closely.

The skin on her face was stretched to the limit. Open arms were incredibly full and resilient. At home she wore breeches and a sleeveless T-shirt. Legs are thick, embossed, wonderful, in one word.

Boris was surprised to swallow saliva:

- Excuse me, who are you?

- Nina, Vlad's wife.

- It seemed to me that you were a slim woman.

- And so it seemed to me, but then I looked at myself - and I could barely get into the mirror. Tatyana Petrovna cooks well, she is very good at everything.

'I agree with that, but I'm not fat?'

- So you are traveling all the time, and I sit at home, I don't go anywhere. Vlad said that he needed a home woman.

- It is clear that you are sitting at home with the cat. Where is Tatiana Petrovna?

- So now she is the main one in the company, and Agnes Ivanovna makes a movie!

- Didn't you take me? Previously, she took me to the role of lovers!

- And now Apollon Petrovich in this role.

Boris paused, absorbing the information received.

- She wrote me off the expense! Not expected. She hasn't done any commercials, films for a long time, and here you are: making a film - and without me! Nina, am I no good for the role of a lover?

- Why not? You are an extraordinarily handsome man!

- Do you like me?

- Highly! - fat woman exhaled, biting off a piece of homemade pie. - But I'm lazy. I'm too lazy to live with Vlad. I will not change him.

- Here is the answer! Let's be faithful from laziness! This is generally similar to the motto!

- And I am so. Don't you eat a pie? Fish pie is delicious!

- Give me a pie, I will get fat with you, since they don't take me to the movies.


Tatyana Petrovna came home from work, and there Nina and Boris were waiting for her, a cat and unwashed dishes. There is nothing left of the cake. She waved her head and lay down.

- Tatyana Petrovna, are you sick? Asked Nina, alarmed.

- Tatiana, something happened? - asked fed Boris.

She did not answer. The cat climbed onto the bed, she chased him away.

Boris went to clean up the leftovers from the table. I looked in the pan. They were empty and dirty from the leftovers. He looked in the fridge, but it was empty. He left the apartment, grabbing his wallet. He went to the nearest supermarket, bought the whole cart products. At the exit from the store, he put the purchases in four bags and brought them home.

Tatyana Petrovna lay in the same position.

- Tatiana, I bought groceries. Do you call a doctor?

She shook her head.

- Boris, sit down next. I feel bad. I feel very bad!

- My dear, where did you sin? Where are you so bad?

- Yes, I'm generally holy!

- I know this, holiness in you is more than enough! Why bad?

- I do not know. Since Agnes left me in the office instead of herself, it's getting worse every day. Believe me, I can not walk! It's me! I'm laying! The dishes are dirty, and I'm lying!

'Nina will wash the dishes and make dinner.'

- Yes, I never forced others to work in my house! This is my home!

- Your home, but your health is not yours. Lie down. We will do everything. Tomorrow I'll go to the company.

- I can not go there tomorrow, my leg refuses. It hurts me to go!

- It's amazing how you walk at all?

- Always went. Me, jinxed or Agnes's place is not mine. But I'll think that I won't go to the company, I'm letting my leg go. It is worth thinking that I will be the head of the company - the leg squeezes so that tears in his eyes appear.

- Lie, you will command me, but do not go to the company. Agnessse Ivanovna, I myself will say that you feel bad. She will find you a replacement.

'Will we sit with Nina at home?'

- No, you still have a cat.

- I can not stand it!

- Why are you united apartments?

- I wanted the best.

- Who lives in your old apartment?

- Apollo.

- Well, at least their own.

Tatyana Petrovna sighed and went to the kitchen.

Various stories pursued Agnes Ivanovna long and hard. Romantic adventures had their roots or some pattern. She tried to live normally, but it turned out that her life consisted of fantastic elements, which in ordinary life could not be, but they were.

Where would she get the next hero of the novel? And where is the mezzanine, which forgotten the jewelry? This is what the inimitable Agnes Ivanovna puzzled over, looking at the skies from the window of the house.

A certain Dr. Lux was giving a lecture ...

'The facets of science, like the facets of gems, are very specific: both are amateur, either abstruse or rich, in one word, extraordinary,' Dr. Lux told students in the audience at an introductory lecture, dressed in an unchanging gray suit, widespread among university professors.

It so happened that Dr. Lux never took bribes for his work with students, always went about in just one suit, and looked elegant at the expense of a smart, handsome face. He was so honest inside and before himself, before members of his family and society as a whole, that he seemed holy in life. Students met his appearance in any audience by standing up from their seats, and no matter what he said, they listened with silent adoration. All the teachers and students were in love with him a little.

One student in love with him after graduation went to the North to mine diamonds. In those days, the money was bad, they paid for the work with anything, but not with money. For his work, Dr. Lux received diamonds for scientific purposes. Becoming the owner of a handful of rough diamonds, Dr. Lux changed a little, hid, began to distrust himself and others.

That is why Dr. Lux looked into the company "Shine". He brought an order for processing a series of diamonds for lasers. The edges of the diamonds were clearly defined in his drawings. The scientist did not entrust the diamonds to his assistants and decided to follow the fulfillment of the order himself.


Mrs. Agnes Ivanovna Arkina had no benefit from state orders, except for one: the general tax was reduced. The company became partly state-owned, at least for the duration of the order, as if the state itself became a roof.

With a good mood, she discussed all the tasks with Dr. Lux. I must say that the official director of the company was Agnessa Ivanovna, this raised her in the eyes of the doctor. She noticed his views and thought that there were no doctors of sciences in her biography yet.

Doctor of Technical Sciences Lux decided that Agnes is a free woman. He could not have imagined that the diamond cutter was her husband, and there were no marking rings on her. The doctor of sciences, possessing a great mental potential, did not always possess big money, his books were known only among specialists of a narrow field.

In Agnes, Lux saw the wit and charm of a woman who does not look at him with adoration, but looks with slyness and crafty mystery when accepting an order, or so it seemed to the doctor. Most of all he wanted to reduce the cost of processing diamonds. Agnes knew what the doctor wanted and deftly manipulated prices.

As a result of negotiations, the doctor decided that the director made a discount to him. And at that time, she was surprised to see an ancient tie on an old shirt, a twenty-year-old suit, so she wanted to ask: "Bridal, do you have a family?" But she asked:

- And you look good for your age! When will you retire?

- I am retired, but I will work ten years after retirement, but I will not pull it anymore.

- It is interesting, and the policemen retire early.

- So, we are not subject to comparison.

The order of Dr. Lux was performed out of turn, and he stopped coming to the company. Agnes thought that communicating with him brought her some satisfaction from work. Then she got bored and thought that Angelina was right when she said that nobody needed diamonds. She looked at herself in the mirror and decided that she would not do anything with her appearance.

Only the old suit of the doctor of technical sciences stood long before her eyes.

Soon an incredibly large woman came into the office. She was wearing a beautiful fur coat made from very expensive fur. Her hair was surrounded by a gigantic hairdo rather pretty face. Diamonds glittered in her hands and ears. She sat in a large chair.

The woman looked at Agnes:

'Excuse me, but who is Agnessa Ivanovna here?'

- I.

- Are you the director of the company?

- Yes.

- Are you my husband's quadrille?

- And who is he?

- Dr. Lux!

- He brought us his order, we have already completed it.

- Agnessa, do you have a husband? My name is Sophia Lux, so you know ...

- I have a husband. He is currently working in the next room.

- Okay, I will. I have an order for your company. I need to make a pair of rings. The fact is that on my fingers in the shops rings rarely sell. Here you have diamonds for rings, they must be turned into diamonds and placed in white gold. I want white gold rings with diamonds. Do you have a sample ring or catalog?

- Of course, we have catalogs, but we can make rings according to your outline or a verbal description of the jewelry.

'Here are the diamonds,' and the big lady handed the red box.

Agnes looked at the diamonds and immediately saw that they were the same as in the order of Dr. Lux. She wanted to ask: "Why don't you buy a new suit for your husband?" - but asked:

- When should I complete your order? Will we have time to make new sketches?

- Make sketches. Is there enough week?

- More than. And the week of manufacture.

'Agreed,' said the gorgeous woman in diamonds and rose from her chair.

In the office for a long time was the smell of her soulful perfume, which is difficult to erode.

Gold reduces the transitional resistance between a man and a woman, for this reason, rings for people are made of gold, which is why Dr. Lux bought a certain Nina gold tracery ring.

Silver increases the surface conductivity, so to enhance the sensitivity of the skin, the man put silver spoons and forks on the table.

Bronze increases the life of the rotating parts of the mechanisms, and Dr. Lux set a bronze candlestick with a flickering candle on the table in the hope of a long relationship with Nina.

The Christmas tree glittered in the corner of the room with a huge number of small lights of a garland, competing with candles in bronze in a claim to mutual understanding between a man and a woman.

Nina entered the sparkling twilight of the room, fragrant fluffy spruce. She felt her perfume smell completely clogged with the smell of a young spruce. And her shimmering dress sparkles less than the tree in the corner of the room. Nina did not like rivals and disliked the forest beauty. She frowned.

Lux, trying to please her, gave the young woman a malachite box with one gold ring.

Nina looked at the small box, at the simple yellow ring and put a gift under the tree with the words:

- Green - to green - and straightened next to the tree, adding: - I do not wear simple gold rings!

Dr. Lux invited Nina to the table, which was in the New Year's Eve in the center of the room under the crystal cascade of the lamp. Nina looked at the silver spoons and forks and said:

- Why is the old stuff on the table? New could not buy forks?

The man thought for a moment, took the silver spoon and put out the candles in a bronze candlestick with it.

Nina commented on his actions:

- I put out the antiquity - light a chandelier, even though it is old, but it was your candlesticks!

- They are bronze.

- It's still old. What are you salads put that for the severity of them?

- Crystal salad bowls, than you didn't like them?

- Hand off, plastic plates easier.

A deep breath escaped from the chest of someone else's husband, but he said nothing.

'Lux, why does this heavy bottle stand on the table?'

- Champagne, in honor of the New Year.

- Will you drink it? From these triangular crystal wine glasses?

- Yes, I like to pour champagne into a crystal glass in the last minutes of the old year.

- Nonsense! Opened a tin with a drink by the ear and drink! Easy and no need to wash.

- Nina, why do you need me? I'm heavy and old! This I used to you when you came to me as a nurse!

- Nonsense! Does your couch stand you up? And let it stand, I'm not going to charge you! You are older than me by a lot of years, I counted on the calculator, but I forgot.

- Sorry, Nina, why did you come to me?

- Freak! You are famous! I remember your name from school, it was in all the books that were lying around the apartment. I painted your face with a marker in the textbook! I will be known thanks to you!

- What is it like? What is famous?

- Yes, I will write any nonsense, any publishing house will print it, if you recommend it to them! And I will receive a fee from him up to a hundred years!

- Would you go home, girl!

- What more! You have a lot of old stuff here, but I'll leave everything and go! No way!

- You forgot, I have a son. You have a husband.

- So what? Where is he? You sit with me under this lantern!

- You seemed to me such a nice girl!

- And you pecked? Old you, old, but I did not miss!

- I was wrong, I can hold you to the door.

- Not! New Years is soon!

The doorbell rang. Dr. Lux went to open the door. Nina rushed under the tree, took a malachite box with a ring. Two hairpins with rhinestones pinned hair into a high hair, white tender neck opened, underlined by curls on the back of the head.


Chapter 13

Dr. Lux returned to the room with a young man:

- Here, son, look, your father again made a mistake in choosing a woman, and you say ...

- Dad, why is she bad? Cute girl.

And indeed, in front of the men at the table sat a pretty young woman with a high hairstyle, with a smart forehead, with attentive eyes.

'Good evening, son of Lux,' Nina said calmly.

- I have a name: Nikita. And your name is Nina? We will be familiar, - said Nikita and sat on the empty chair next to Nina.

- Nikita, do not get carried away! She doesn't like everything here! - said Dr. Lux.

'Everything is just wonderful here!' I like everything very much! The young woman said gently and loudly.

- Happy New Year! - Nikita said solemnly, raising his crystal glass with bubbles of champagne.

- Nikita, why did you come to me? Why aren't you Sophia's mother? - asked the father of his son.

- Father, anything can happen in our life. I'll live with you! Mom sat on a strange diet. She wants to be slim, like Agnessa Ivanovna, the owner of the company "Blesk".

- Familiar desire. Live with me. I did not like Nina, so it does not hurt. Okay, Happy New Year!

- Happy New Year! - Nina picked up and loudly touched her glass of Nikita's crystal with crystal.

At this moment blessed by all people the doorbell rang. Lux as the master of the house went to open the door.

Angelina burst into the apartment:

- Nikita, you got me! It is necessary to come and call the New Year! They drink themselves, but they don't give me anything! Glass to me!

She was given a glass. The chimes struck the last time. Angelina managed to drink her glass with everyone.

- I managed everything! Now listen: he ... - and Angelina showed her finger with a long fingernail with drawings in the direction of Nikita: - He left me!

- Angelina, I did not throw you! You yourself flew off the East Island.

- It was a long time ago, - said Angelina, - and today we celebrated the New Year in a restaurant. Nikita left me alone!

- Not one, but with your man! You haven't left him for an hour!

- And if Vlad forcibly restrained me!

- Do you need him?

- It is better not to touch! He held me for an hour at gunpoint because of jealousy of Nikita!

- Here, father, such a cunning woman I have, she only has to write detective stories at restaurants!

- Vlad kept me in front of him, like a shield, so that those he feared would shoot at me!

- Angelina, I did not see a pistol in his hand!

- He had a pistol in his jacket pocket!

- Why not trousers? You covered him like a snow tree!

- As held, and danced. Oh, here the girl is sitting, but they didn't introduce me. Nikita, did you run to her from me? - Angelina changed the topic of conversation.

'Angelina, this is Nina, my girlfriend,' Dr. Lux said peacefully.

'You're old, really, famous, but I thought she was with Nikita!' Wait, I saw her somewhere! Well, of course, she is my ex-husband's future wife!

- Woman, lie further about the gun! - threateningly, like a weapon, said Nikita.

- I, when I saw that Nikita was not there, slammed my knee into his personal pistol. Vlad bent from the blow. I clutched at him with my claws and scratched hard. He clutched his face. I ran away. By the way, downstairs are waiting for payment for my fare!

'Show your nails, you must have the victim's skin under them, then I'll go pay for your journey,' Nikita said.

Angelina showed him her hands. Nikita found the remains of alien skin under his nails, got up, went out. There was a yellow taxi car in the yard. The taxi driver took the money over the counter and drove away. A square dark car drove into its place, five people jumped out of it.

One of them shouted:

- It's him! His woman robbed me! Behind him!

Nikita in one suit shivered involuntarily, then shrank under the pressure of his strong arms.

Master of strong hands said:

- Man, lead to your woman, she took the gun from our man.

'I saw her, but she didn't have a pistol.'

- If you quit, let him show, otherwise we will order it. The gun is valuable, customized.

- Isn't it better for her to come down here, my father is there, he has a heart ...

- Do not pull the tires, drive fast !!!

Nikita entered the porch accompanied by two men. The door to the apartment was ajar, no one behind it closed. All three of them fell into the apartment and were numb: there was a terrible mess in the room. The Christmas tree glittered on the floor with its lamps, crystal salad bowls looked out from under the tablecloth and also on the floor, not far from there were wine glasses, there were no people in the room. But no one came out of the door! Nikita did not see anyone!

Then he noticed that the door to the apartment on the next floor was open. Steep stairs in one corner of the room led to the second floor of a two-story apartment. It was possible to get to the second floor through the entrance door, but on the floor above, therefore the inner door was rarely used. Lux's wife lived here, Nikita's mother, Sophia, but Dr. Lux didn't maintain a relationship with her lately.

Three men on a shaky ladder climbed to the door in the ceiling. The first to climb out was Nikita. The apartment was empty, there was no visible defeat, but there was no Christmas tree, there were no signs of a holiday on New Year's Eve!

Nikita's persecutors became so interested in the events in the apartment that they forgot why they were going.

One man patted Nikita on the shoulder:

- Yes, with such a wife you have a great life. Where do you think your woman is now? We would have her in the team! We would all lose each other.

'Already lost,' said the second, looking out into the courtyard, 'our car is not in place.'

The door of the apartment was ajar, and the men went out onto the landing. There was no sound in the entrance of the old house, they descended from the third floor to the street. Silence. The snow covered the tracks of the cars.

- Man, go home! We will have time to find your woman, and now let's go catch the car to the restaurant - and they are gone.

Nikita went up to the second floor. The door to the apartment was closed, he went up to the third floor, but even there the door was locked. He knocked. Called. Nobody opened the door for him. In his pocket, Nikita found a wallet full of money, he went down to the street. It was not desirable to go in a suit on a winter night city. The old three-storey house stood alone behind an iron fence; there were no houses nearby. He looked up, there was no light in the windows.


Nikita decided to call the apartment on the first floor. Called.

A skinny old woman opened the door for him:

- Honey, what can not sit at home! Tea New Year in the yard! Al lost? I live here in the eighth decade, but I have not seen such helpmen in my house.

There is nothing to do, Nikita went to the old woman in the apartment.

'Sorry to bother you, I'm Nikita, the son of Dr. Lux.'

- The Lord is with you, Nikita, I did not recognize you! What happened? Why don't you go to father or mother?

- It was, they all disappeared somewhere.

- That's the trouble! So after all New Year's Eve! In the morning there. Let's go drinking gulls.

Nikita sat down at a table covered with old oilcloth. On the table in a vase there was a pine sprig, on it were hung several threads of glass beads. The room was an old tv. Nikita had a feeling that he got in another time, then decided that everything seemed to him.

- Nikita, take a mug of tea, I have nothing alcohol.

He picked up a large aluminum mug that burned his hands. He quickly put the mug on the oilcloth.

The room smelled of grass and dust.

- Grandma, tell us about yourself!

- No, everything is said about me, retold. One day and night here. So you will leave soon, but my life will remain with me.

- Then I will go! Thank you, I am warm. It seemed to me that people appeared at the top.

- Go, look, and there is no one - come back.

Nikita was alone in the stairwell. He shivered and began to rise again to the second floor. The door was ajar. The man carefully peered into the apartment. Angelina, Nina and his father were sitting at the table. The apartment was all in place.

- Nikita, and why are you so long with paying a taxi driver? - asked Angelina.

- Where were you? - Nikita asked and looked at the tree: she stood on the spot.

- What are you talking about? We are sitting here and waiting for you.

He looked at the ceiling, the door to the second floor of the apartment was closed.

- Where's mom?

- Are you small?

- Where is she?

- Nikita, your mother has not lived there for a long time. Have you forgotten? She is not! She died of exhaustion, did not let anyone to her, wanted to lose weight and died.

'I don't remember,' and he touched his head, there was blood on his arm, 'look, blood!'

- And this is serious! - Angelina shouted and looked at the back of Nikita.

- Where is the gun? - Nikita asked her.

'What other gun?'

- The one that you took in the restaurant.

- I did not take.

- You're lying!

Angelina went to Nikita.

'Nina, someone hit him hard on the head, you need to call an ambulance,' said Angelina.

- No, I can handle it. I have everything for dressing in my bag.

- And who are you?

- I am a nurse. Have you forgotten?

'Where did Lux find you?'

- I - the district nurse, came to him to do injections, and met.

Nikita was laid on a sofa with a bandaged head. Nina made the injection. He fell asleep. The women sat at the table. The three of us drank for good luck in the New Year and for health. There was a knock at the door. Dr. Lux went to the door, looked through the peephole: there were two men in the entrance.

- Who are you? - asked Dr. Lux through the door.

- Nina you?

- Yes.

- Let him come out.

- Nina, this is for you.

- I'm coming.

Nina went to the door, looked into the peephole:

- Fedor, why are you following me?

- Nina, come out, kindly ask. Come out!

- I'll get dressed and go out to you.

- We are waiting for five minutes, then break the door!

Nina got dressed and went out to the men, but they took her by the arms and brought her into the apartment.

- Look, she already has a wedding ring appeared, and yesterday was not! - said Fedor.

- Fedor, Nina earned a ring from a doctor overnight or for injections.

- Guys, do not be rude when you danced with you, then took off the ring just in case.

- Fedor, and this is Angelina, who hit you with her knee?

- Here and her man, whom you hit your brass knuckles!

- Fedor, we sit down at the table, they left all the food with you and me.

The men sat at the table, quickly poured vodka into wine glasses, and drank in one gulp. Angelina in a fur coat sat on the edge of the sofa, on which lay Nikita.


Angelina took out a gun from the pocket of her fur coat and stood up against the chewing men.

- Fedor, your gun was found! - the second man was delighted.

- Eat and shut up, - said Nina, - Angelina will not joke with you!

The next day, Angelina entered the X-Club and approached Vlad's table.

- Vlad, can I sit at your table?

- Sit down, Angelina, do you see the second engagement ring?

- Married, but not officially.

- For the son of the famous Dr. Lux - Nikita? Then why did you come here?

- Look into your eyes and say that Nina is a good girl!

- The intercessor has appeared! I have not committed any wrongdoings.

- I did not come to you, I have a meeting here.

- With Fedor? And the second husband is sitting at home?

- Don't touch him! Hi, Nina!

Fedor entered in the hall in a green tie over a pinkish shirt. Nina and Fedor sat at the opposite end of the hall. She put the package in front of him.

- Keep your gun.

- Hush you!

- And then we do not know here!

- Because and quieter. Thank you for returning. Just tell me, why did you marry this Vlad? He was married to Angelina!

- For convenience. His dad bought us an apartment, and I drove into it! The apartment is great, the situation, again, for five! And with you only a restaurant for two, and we had nowhere to live. And we have a serious relationship with Vlad.

- This is you right! My life is rough. Got used to And why did they need a nurse?

- Funny! Medicine in the house - a huge power for life! The physician must obey, and the nurse herself obeys. Very convenient for diamond people.

- For which people?

- For people with a good base for life.

- I can not understand. Have you eaten? Then blow from here, people come to me.

Nina approached Vlad, not knowing what would come of it. The X-club included three men of strong appearance, each wearing green clothes. They went to the table Fedor, he gave them a package. His partner pulled a pistol out of the bag, tilted it over his hand, pushed something away, and diamonds fell on his arm.

- Fedor, all in openwork. Angelina did not know about diamonds and did not shoot. Carry them to Agnes Arkina for processing. Her former mother-in-law is dancing and his eyes are already aiming at the brilliance of diamonds.

'Vlad is here with Nina,' Fedor faked him.

- Not to go with us to Angelina, I already know everything.

In the evening, Mrs. Agnes received a new batch of large-sized diamonds for processing. Without the glitter of greed in her eyes, she gave them to her husband for processing.

Apollon was waiting for Agnes at home. They had to go to the pool in the evening.

- I will not go to the pool, everything hurts me! - Apollo said plaintively, crawling diagonally on his bed.

- We will go. In half an hour and go.

- Not! I will not go! My legs hurt after a workout. I was barely moving today.

'After the pool, the muscles will not hurt,' Agnes assured him.

- Can I lie in the bath?

- Well, only with salt, and then lie down for ten minutes under a blanket.

- I agree.

Agnes washed the bath because they were putting a drinking cup for the cat, then sprinkled salt, poured foam and water. Apollo after the bath least wanted to lie under a blanket, I had to force him. After the procedures, his muscles ceased to hurt, and he sat down at the computer, but he had someone from domestic animals gnawed the wire in the headphones.

In the morning, Agnes picked up a phone book, searched for computer repair services. All firms started working at 10 am, the day was Saturday, and only in one place they started working at 8 am. The clock was 9 o'clock in the morning. She called, she was asked:

- Headphones are expensive?

- Yes.

- Come.

Agnes took the headphones, put them in her bag. She went down the stairs, went out into the street, went to the bus stop. The bus brought her to the area where she was not yet, but thanks to the map in the phone book she found the house right away. I went into the staircase, climbed to the right floor. The door was opened by a thin man. She entered the narrow hallway. She smelled of abandonment.

She entered the kitchen, where the master spent her.

On the one side of the kitchen was a once expensive set of kitchen furniture. Closer to the window was a table with a computer, and pure music with lots of violins sounded. Agnessse offered to sit in a broken chair. The master examined the headphones:

- Previously, the wires were copper, and now the cobwebs, covered with a thin layer of copper. Such products are difficult to repair.

Agnes thought that soldering the two wires would not be difficult. The master disassembled the headphones completely, cut off the connector. He brought other headphones, cut off the connector from them, put them in place. The connector did not catch on. He soldered it. The music creaked with all the fibers of a long-gone composer. The chair under Agnessa finally collapsed.

Master told:

- I was a big manager in one firm, in my time I graduated from the institute, I was getting good. Mother got sick, I went to her with all the money. And where she lives, hostilities began. I went to war, especially since I was born there. He fought for almost a year, I was wounded. My mother did not recover, but they fired me from work, and I have nothing to pay for her treatment. So I need this part-time job. I love to repair electronic products.

He spoke while he cleaned the wiring. Agnes looked at the headphones completely disassembled:

- I have a workout, I have to leave.

- It will be ready in the evening.

Agnes left the master - the military - the engineer - leader and just an elegant and interesting man with the thought that he would not collect the headphones. The violins still sounded in my head. When she went outside after a workout and called, she heard:

- Come, ready.

She went for the headphones. They really worked, and the master was in awe of the purity of the sound in the headphones.

Why is life beautiful? Agnes comes out in the morning one of the apartment, and the floor below faces a neighbor, and now she descends the stairs with an excellent male in the prime of life. Power is felt in his every movement. He is beautiful, God forbid, to be so beautiful. But on the street a dog was waiting for him, and he left with her.

She comes where she went, and meets another handsome man, and feels that he feels her today, although she is busy with another thing. Perfectly. Only he began to tell himself that he was old and fat. She returns home and meets another representative of the same generation, and he calls her by name and no middle name. That is the life when life is lost when the type of Apollo husband is lost. Before these words, the next brake will appear.


Dr. Lux came to the office of the company, he sat in a chair where his late wife once sat, wiped sweat from his forehead and said:

- Honey Agnessa Ivanovna, why did you take Nina from me?

- God be with you, Dr. Lux! However, - and she waved her hand, - there is a sin, and even some, and it is a shame to tell. The whole truth about Vlad your Nina spun, now we can not twist.

- I heard the news about Vlad, but he stole Nina from me. It is clear - he is young, but what should I do?

- To live, what else is left for you.

- What to live? I am a pensioner, without a wife, without Nina. But I, my dear, left diamonds.

- Well, what will we make of them?

- Sell. You do it better than me.

- Do you need to make jewelry from them?

- Yes, not without it, they are industrial, but I need money. No one needs my devices without me. I'll sort them out and get some pebbles.

- Guess, bring.

- They are with me.

Business conversation was interrupted by a visit by Boris.

- Agnessa, my respect! Do you accept the goods?

- Boris, be a man, return Tatiana to work! I am not angry at her, let her come and get to work.

- Thank. Tatiana completely wore out of Vlad. Such news! He barely survived from her. Will you accept the goods?

- Without Tatiana, no, call your half!

Boris went into the next room and called Tatyana, what they were talking about - it doesn't matter, but she appeared at work in about twenty minutes. Apollo arrived at her office.

'Hello to an honest company,' said the culprit of the recent events.

- Hello, Apollo! There is work for you, I have come on time, 'said Boris.

- And I do everything in time.

'Especially the kids,' Agnes prompted.

'Agnes, don't be sad, like a wasp, let me come to my senses with the joyful news,' Apollo said nervously.

Apollo and Boris went to the workshop.

A team called Abordage was sitting at a glass table in wrought-iron chairs. There were last minutes before the operation to remove the governor of the region. Through the glass of the table one could see the movements of the arms and legs of people whose actions were often inadequate.

Mr. Fedor was sitting at the head of the table and with anguish looked at the cluster of right and left hands under the glass. The task had to be completed in a couple of hours, the deadlines for execution were given to them tough, they depended on information about the governor's movement in space. Fedor once again checked the chain of actions of his people. All clearly answered about their functions after the event relay reaches their point of residence.

The governor has been constantly in a nervous state lately, if he was who he was before, he would just get drunk on beer, and so the position made him be sober.

The question is, why there is a huge number of institutions for training administrators of all levels, if the head of the region is elected a person far from power? So who was the governor before? Oh, bastard fat man! He starred in commercials for beer advertising.

The people loved this ad, loved the fat man for his naive face, for his ragged phrases, which can be continued over a beer. His face loomed on the mini-buses. Bright advertising reported that he was losing weight from radio broadcasts. The people are so used to the face of the actor that when the elections offered him a candidate for governor of the region, they all chose the fat governor as one because he knew everything by sight, and there were rumors that he was local.

The region began to appear in the country's news on the most important television, journalists loved to show the fat man. Breweries were getting fat from incomes, wine and vodka concerns were offended by this. The people - the most favorite customer of the concern - changed their drink! The representative of the concern went out to the team of Fyodor, a big fan of chips in bags that are convenient to eat on the road.

Mr Fedor kept a team of strong swamp ghouls to perform inadequate assignments. The team was well trained in various private security schools, had the right to bear arms, had the right to drive cars. The sober team sat at the glass table and chewed the chips out of the bags, squeezed them with juice, and did not frown on such food. After the meal, the team sedately dispersed to their cars, and everyone went to their parking places before the operation 'Boarding on the freeway'.

The governor of the region was not used to sitting in the office building from the morning until the evening. He was accustomed to overload and rest, and he was not suitable for monotonous long work. It was not for him. Cranberry region was huge, it was quite possible to go on official business on official vehicles, but he did not want to go anywhere. He did not want to travel through his everyday life region, he was dragged beyond these places to more civilized regions or at least home. He loved to go home and was proud of it.

Information about when the governor of the region will go to his home, and not to the service apartment under the administration, was reported to Fyodor. He chose the day, prepared the team. He was rushed, but he loved to do the tasks the first time and worked hard for them. On the route of the governor in every interesting point was a man Fedor. Each of his ghoul could have his own team. The team man himself paid members of his team from the money allocated to him personally. Pyramid.

What happened along the path of the governor? One ghoul in gasoline to the governor poured a strange substance, which gradually dissolved in gasoline, and after a certain period of time the car stopped. The brakes of the ghouls were damaged so that they failed not immediately, but gradually. On the way to the governor's car, all other cars were driven away by people in uniform. On the way, only the wading ghouls of Mr. Fedor rode.

The nervous governor went to his house with a sauna, where he could have a drink and relax. Two of his guards were sitting in the car. The driver drove the car calmly until the engine began to sneeze, as if from a cold. Then the car flew forward, not listening to the brakes.

At airplane speed, a huge car was driving along a deserted road. Behind one turn, Fedor's car cut him down, no, not himself, but his ghoul from the team.

From a minor shock, the governor's car flew off to the side and crashed into a concrete wall that was never in this place! After that, the ghouls quickly dismantled the concrete blocks and loaded them with a truck crane into the approaching dump trucks. All cars disappeared from the highway. In the governor's car, only one guard remained alive. He came to himself, looked at the cemetery around, was surprised that the car did not explode. I tried to get a cell phone, but my hand did not obey, and he lost consciousness.

The movement in this direction was blocked within two hours. Two hours later, I drove through a small, decrepit car, a thin peasant got out of it, looked at the accident, slipped into the car and drove away. In his village, he went to the post office and, by long-distance telephone, reported an accident on the road. In the road service, they were not in a hurry, the little man told them that there were no survivors in the car, and the movement in this area was no different.

While someone arrived at the scene! The emergency service arrived leisurely, but when she realized that the car and the corpse of the governor of the Cranberry region were in front of them, from that moment all the news in the media began to gain incredible speed! Oh, the journalists and friends of the governor began to fly to such news! The hype raised!


Chapter 14

In the evening, the appearance of a man resembling a mother appeared on the TV screen. Agnes recognized him. It was the governor of the Cranberry region. She, without taking her eyes off the screen, looked at the alleged version of the death of the famous governor, similar to her mother.

Before Agnes lay a pile of stones, covered with gray veil. Raw stones. She was told that these are diamonds. She took an aluminum stick and ran it through a clean piece of one stone - a metallic sheen remained. She sighed and analyzed the remaining stones of the lot. Yes, she was slipped purebred topaz, and said that the diamonds.

It's all Fedor frolicking. He decided that he is a great expert on diamonds. He flew on an expedition to the mountains, bought a batch of so-called diamonds, and even laughed at Agnes that she would not make herself rich. She had no words of outrage. What to take with him! How to tell him that he brought far from what he hoped for. He also boasted that he had bought cheap and no one had robbed him. After all, he brought stones that are measured in millimeters and not in carats!

The funny thing is that he sold real diamonds, and bought topaz for the money from the sale, but a lot in terms of volume. In the future he did not go diamonds. I bought a cat in a bag. Boris him in the mountains and lured! Fool a potential opponent!

Agnes looked up at the sky: no, the diamond meteorite did not fly, only clouds stretched in length from the wind. So Fedor's face will stretch when he finds out that he has got it in the mountains! Surprisingly, he was not very surprised that he had acquired not what he wanted.

Fyodor laughed and asked quietly:

- Agnes, and you can poison with grated topaz?

- No you can not! Can be poisoned with crushed diamond! You lost twice. Who wanted to poison?

- Manager Boris! You still ask! We exchanged with him: I gave him small transparent pebbles, and he gave me these, but big ones! So wanted a large diamond with a walnut! They say that in life, the one with the bigger diamond wins! I wanted to help you!

- Fedor, Boris defeated you: he has diamonds, and you have topazes!

- Better not remind! How he got me!

'You both got me!' I need to make a batch of a necklace, and what should I order from? Of what? Of course there are some diamonds. Listen, Fedor, if you are so smart, you need to come up with a volumetric necklace. Will I take your topaz? I have an idea for a good neck. Make a blown golden balls, in one place a large topaz, in the second - a small diamond. This is what you need! Will you sell? From your neck?

Fedor did not listen, a plan of revenge was born in his head:

- Agnes, accept any offer! Better say what dose of diamond poison is needed for Boris?

'Cheaper to order killing.'

- Give me a diamond diamond, be a man!

- No, I don't have to do a crime partner with me.

'But you said yourself what you can make poison from!' Do not want to help - do not! Then give me these topaz, and I will go to Boris to make the second exchange!

- Fedor, do not do anything stupid, you will not be fooled. Boris is clever and cunning! Let's just keep silent, pretend that we believed in his deception.

- After cutting the diamond remains diamond dust, can you give it to me?

- No problem. Right now. We collect diamond dust in a container. I will take your topaz for this diamond dust.

- I agree! - joyfully exclaimed Fedor, took a container with diamond dust and left the office.

After his departure, Agnes stopped waiting for a meteor with diamonds in the sky, and took up drawing of jewelry. Let it be blown, the size of a walnut, but cheaper, which means that the number of probable buyers is increasing.

Boris showed his team diamonds, taken away in a relatively honest way. He again proved that his contribution to the common cause is significantly more significant than that of others, and that he remains the main one among them. The Abordage team respectfully nodded to almost every diamond produced.

Everyone was satisfied. People sat around the table with a transparent tabletop, on which stood drinks and food in a sealed package, bought in a shopping center on such an important occasion.

Fedor entered the room of the so-called office with a smile on his lips. Everyone's eyes widened in surprise, and he put a huge cake on the table and said:

- Hello! From me to you sweet! So to say, in gratitude for the exchange of goods with Boris! And now I have affairs and I will leave you! Said Fedor, leaving a cake on the transparent tabletop.

People looked at the familiar and expensive cake, recognized it, appreciated the gesture and began to accept food and alcohol. Fyodor jumped out of the office in an extremely excited state, he had not poisoned and killed anyone yet, and then he left the cake to be eaten, into which he placed all the diamond dust from the container! He was shaken by a nervous shiver. And in vain.

Boris preferred meat in a sealed package and did not eat the cake at all. Of the seven people sitting at the table, three ate the cake, and all one finished, the fattest representative of the team. Two people survived easily because they managed to eat and drink, and everything came out of them, as in poisoning. And the fattest man got sick. He was the most innocent, and he was kept for unkindly good deeds.

The doctor prescribed him five days of hunger and two gallons of water. But no one thought to analyze the food. Boris had a suspicion about the cake, but not for long. Things distracted.

Agnessa entered the jewelry company. After her, Boris arrived in the office in a huge car with guards, who were importantly depicting the wings of their master. Money to money, diamonds to topaz, and he brought a new batch of diamonds.

'Agnessa, hello,' Boris said, 'I brought a batch of diamonds.' Your job is to process and shine them. You know, we have a fat man sick, so strange! He ate a lot, and then he choked on the cake, now he is cured by hunger.

- And what kind of cake to not buy it by chance? - asked Agnes, suspecting that something was amiss.

- Chic cake, Fedor brought it.

In surprise, Agnes looked at Boris in surprise and asked:

- Boris, did you eat the cake?

- No, I'm not a sweet tooth. Want to say ...

- I do not want to say anything, I'll take your diamonds for processing ...

Boris did not stay long in the office, he brought diamonds, and then the money was transferred to the company's personal account. He and Agnes practically did not speak.

She, looking after him, thought about why one-time lovers are obtained. Where do they come from? And why is there no second time with them? And the first time almost historically impossible to avoid? She also thought that Boris had escaped death, prepared for him by Fyodor, and this means that the owner is worth it - but what is he, in fact, worth? A place for a romantic date with Boris was formed in her heart. What romance can be with such a person? Only one - to find a diamond.

The work on the cutting of topazes was interrupted by the call of Zoya, Musin's assistant:

- Agnes, hello! I have the misfortune, my cousin brother is sick under very strange circumstances.

- I sympathize with you? Or need help?

- I need to discuss this with someone. I have one stepbrother, he is big, if not to say that he is fat. He had one drawback - he could eat a cake in one sitting, while he did not drink, did not smoke, did not like women. You see, Agnessa, all traces lead to you! The guys said that this cake was brought to them by Fedor. Could you tell me how you can poison an omnivorous person like a fat man? What could you advise Fedor?

- This is a serious accusation. One thing I can say is that we lost the container with diamond dust.

- So, can you poison a person with diamond dust?

- According to the safety precautions, all the diamond processing waste must be collected, so we have for this and there are metal cylinders with covers. In antiquity, crushed to diamond powder was used as a poison.

- It remains to find out who knew this and took the container. Although it is clear that Fedor took it and poured it into the cake. I found out that all the products on the table were bought in a prestigious supermarket in a sealed package. The cake is from the same supermarket, but at the cake the packaging opens and closes easily, and the white powder from coconut powder glitters and the diamond powder can easily be combined with it.

- Speak beautifully! If Fedor had poisoned the cake, he would have poisoned Boris, since Fedor slipped topaz instead of diamonds.

- Now everything is clear! - Zoe exclaimed and turned off the mobile phone.


With a trembling hand, Dr. Lux handed the nurse Nina a piece of cardboard on which '100 carats' was written in large letters. Several items were depicted. It was a cross. The patient, after giving the card to the nurse, died so quickly that he did not have time to explain his crossword.

The nurse understood: '100 carats' is something. But what? She remembered that there is some kind of diamond lady Agnes Arkina. And I decided that she could give her a piece of cardboard, and let her suffer with it.

So Agnes appeared carton with the inscription: "100 carats." And this is 100 thousand bills. It was worth thinking about where the diamond treasure lies. She peered at the card and laughed.

The plan was drawn oval stadium, strips of benches, circles of trees. At some point, it seemed to her that the carton belonged to an old man with a dog whom she had seen in a forgotten stadium. It remained to find the treasure indicated by the cross.

Diamond Huntress went to an abandoned stadium. On the football field grew weeds. Benches frightened exfoliated paint. Silence hung in the air. It became terrible. The soul of the deceased treasure master flew over the stadium, evoking a feeling of fear, guarding the treasure.

Agnes turned the plan back and forth. She was drawn to the oak. And she came. A cat jumped out of a hollow oak with a snort. The woman pulled away. A couple of green headlights glowed in the hollow. She unwittingly took a couple of steps towards the treadmill, watching the trees growing near the low fence of the stadium. Places gaped in the fence. Behind one tree a low shadow flashed. The diamond lady was ready to run to the car.

Suddenly she heard the words:

- Agnes! I'm here!

Agnes looked around her and saw no one. Heart pounding. Hands were shaking. Legs do not obey. "Maybe I'm sleeping?" - thought Agnes.

Another cat jumped out of the hollow.

- Agnes, Agnes ... - could be heard from the trees.

Agnessa turned sharply. Behind her came the footsteps of a man running.

She heard the words:

- Agnessa, Agnessa ...

She pulled the car door open. The door did not open. A hand fell on her shoulder.

- Agnes, I call you call.

Agnes abruptly turned her head back. Behind him stood little Tisha.

- Ugh, how you scared me! - exclaimed Agnes. - Tisha, where are you from here? I thought you were no longer alive!

'Agnessa, I have not seen you for so many years!' And here I go after the rain, I collect mushrooms for soup.

'Tisha, help me find diamonds, not mushrooms.' Diamonds grow somewhere here. I have a plan. And the place is indicated. I can not find a landmark.

-Agnessa, you fooled people, and now you're looking for diamonds in mushrooms! Give me a plan in hand. You are taller than me. I look uncomfortable.

They sat on the bench. Tisha looked at the plan in the hands of Agnes.

- Agnessa, how to drink, this is this stadium! But the cross is from scratch. And there is no scale. Maybe draw a line? At the point of intersection of the lines will be a treasure with diamonds.

- Similarly, Tisha! You're small, and you stick in hand. Take the stick and draw the line on the ground. If not from this side of the stadium, then from the other. Look, there is an arrow on the cross. If you look at this arrow, it turns out that it is pointing to the north. But in the north there is a cross with an arrow. And he points to the extreme bench on which we sit. It seems that the author of the plan was bad. He sat on this bench. Crosses and arrows painted for importance. And I buried the treasure under the bench, - aggravated the wise thoughts of Agnes.

She paused a little and said:

- Tisha, I have a sapper shovel in my trunk. Bring her.

Tisha went to the car. At this time, someone behind the Agnes seized his mouth and taped it with adhesive tape. A man jumped out of the car and sealed his mouth Hush. They tied their hands and sat on the bench.

The two men looked at the captives and smiled, showing all their variegated teeth.

- Oh, Mrs. Agnes! When you go to work, call me. And then I will find out about your movement through fifth ears, 'said one man, while showing the second man to dig under the bench.

The man began to dig the ground. Three spectators watched the earth fly over a shovel. Agnes realized that there was no treasure there, somewhere on the third shovel. She felt that the treasure was near, but not in the ground, but could not speak about it.

- Agnes, my dear! I listen to your mobile phone. That spotted you. Something treasure is not dug out. You do not know what's the matter? - asked the first man.

Agnes did not know, but was sure that the treasure lies quietly in the leg of the bench on the other side.

The man dug around the leg of the bench. Leg hung over a pit of decent size. It was felt on the hard ground that they never dug it deeper.

'There is no clade here,' Fedor reported.

- I see it myself, but Agnes would have found it! I see in her eyes that she knows where the treasure lies. Fedor, stop digging, go to sleep and ditch the ground, untie the diamond hunter and this fan of it with mushrooms.

- Agnes, visit! Find treasure - call! - Fyodor exclaimed and disappeared as imperceptibly as he appeared.

Agnes decided not to continue the search. She tried to find a piece of cardboard with a plan, but there was no plan anywhere, apparently Fedor took it. Then she offered Hush to give him a lift to the city. He refused, saying that mushrooms would go to collect, they are less poisonous than diamonds, and went to where he came from. Agnes put her hand behind the bench ...

She ran back along the wooden leg of the bench, felt unevenness - a knot, pulled it out like a cork. In her hands was a metal container, wrapped in wood under a film. She put it in her jacket pocket, sat for a while and quickly went to the car, sat down and left. Nobody followed her.

At home, Agnes inspected diamonds, they did not appear here through Boris's company, these are foreign diamonds, but now they belonged to her! She checked the diamonds for fake, but they all turned out to be real. Agnes took an umbrella from her bag, unscrewed the bottom in the handle, the container with diamonds entered the umbrella, as if it had been made for him. Everything was possible, it was possible to carry diamonds to the company. Only she went to the kitchen, as the doorbell rang. Agnes looked through the peephole and saw Fedor. She opened the door.

'Agnessa, you found a treasure!' We followed you to the bench. I crawled on the ground and looked at the legs of the benches, I found a hollow in the leg, but it was empty, and when I dug, I did not see such holes. Where are the diamonds?

- Fedor, why are you nervous? Diamonds are not yours. Breathe easy.

- Breathe herself! Where are the diamonds doing? You didn't call the company, hid it at home. Now my people have turned your whole apartment upside down - or give it away.

- Give me food, I'm hungry.

- Here is a woman! Have wanted! Diamonds will come up - give me back immediately, and I will bring them to you for processing later.

- Sit down and drink tea.

'Okay, we left, but we'll be back.'

The next day, Agnes took a bag with an umbrella and went to her office.

Blue skies outside the window attracted the eye, and in my head there were strange thoughts. She decided to build a monument to the diamond, or, more precisely, a monument to all who died because of these stones. She drew a six-sided pillar, drew a giant illuminated diamond at the top. Then she thought that to install the monument you need a park, and she did not want to do this. Diamonds from the legs of the stadium bench have benefited, it remains to find out who drew the cardboard, who put the diamonds there?

Dr. Lux died. He had industrial diamonds, and Agness recognized them. But, having recognized the diamonds, she decided to give them for the benefit of Vlad, Angelina, Nina, with whom Lux was familiar. With a clear conscience, she gave part of the money to his son Nikita, whom Angelina told her about. It was not for nothing that she had thoughts about the monument, she erected a monument to the doctor of technical sciences, the same as she had invented, but with a portrait of Dr. Lux.

Fedor's men came to her apartment and turned everything around in search of a container, but they did not find it.

Agnes sat down at the mirror and began to apply the cream on her face. At this time, the news on the air reported the following, but what exactly can be said only in a veiled form. Agnes powdered her face, put shadows on her eyelids, put lipstick on her lips and began to wake the dog's owner. Apollo was fast asleep.

Agnes turned on the computer, looked at the news, then went to work.

And at work, the news flower. Under the air conditioner put three flowers. One winter flower with lilac leaves stood next to the window, which was periodically opened for ventilation, and the air conditioner did not damage it. A couple of flowers - geranium and feces nearby, and even under the conditioner - could not resist. Kala swept all the leaves. But proudly left standing alone blooming geranium, covered with leaves, like a good fur coat.


"Where to find the baronet?" - Angelina thought sadly, sitting at the window of her new family nest. Outside the window, a horse with a cart drove, an open car flew past, and returned to the window of a young woman.

- Hooray! She shouted and threw up her palms when she saw a young man in an open car.

The driver opened the car door for him. The young man headed for the front door of the house, which swung open before him. He entered the house of a solid brick construction of an unknown time. A nice-looking girl came down the open staircase.

'I'm sorry, I probably came to you,' said the young man.

- Oh, so you are an English teacher? - Angelina asked him sadly.

- Yes, I am not a baronet, but only an English teacher.

- But you arrived on such a beautiful limousine!

- The limo sent for me by your father, this is his new car. I tested it at his request and was the first passenger.

- It is clear, this is my car, and you are my teacher, and I am too lazy to learn English, and they want to send me to the Sea Country.

- So, I am your unwanted teacher, but I will live in this house. Why should I speak at once? Will my room be shown to me?

- By all means. But not me. I did not invite you!

An elegant man entered the front door and asked cheerfully:

- Daughter, how did you like the teacher?

- He wants to see his room! - answered Angelina.

- Wonderful! His room is next to mine, let him carry his things into it.

The driver of the car appeared with a weighty suitcase and carried it into the wing of the owner. A second later, the door opened and a beautiful woman appeared on the threshold.

- Had time to cap. Apollo, who did you take as a teacher for Angelina and didn't show me?

- Agnes, why are you excited? Here he is - an English teacher!

- I also want to learn the language!

- Yes, for God's sake, even a whole class, he will live in our house.

'Okay, we'll discuss this.' And my car? Apollo, whose new car? - Agnes Ivanovna asked loudly.

- The machine is common. Belongs to us.

- Apollo, I want my car!

- Agnes, better determine the teacher.

- I see you took it to your part of the house! What I care about where he will live!

'But is it not in your wing of the building to place it?'

The new two-story brick building consisted of the left wing of Agnes Ivanovna, the right wing of Apollo Petrovich and the upper floor of Angelina. On the inner side of the courtyard in the center of the house was an extension for the kitchen, dining room and a small common room with a high ceiling.

Apollo took on the security service of a wrestling specialist who for some reason knew English. He needed a security guard, but to say that the English teacher was actually his personal security guard, he didn't want anyone, they would laugh at him, they are not such rich people by now. They have a brick house, so it is almost a cottage in the suburbs.

Apollo bought a second car, so this fact does not cause anyone no envy, no questions. But the fact that he became a coward, Apollo wanted to hide from all. The daughter of his all-new fiancé wanted to find herself, so let him learn a language that already knows well. If he does not fall asleep in class, the language will fit abroad, where Apollo really wanted to go, again, from his own fear.

Apollo Petrovich had an incomprehensible story. He went to a supermarket, handed over his square briefcase with non-first-value papers to a cell for storage, went through the store, bought food to take home in the car, took his briefcase from the storage chamber, but did not notice its weight under general cargo.

He came home, handed over the products to the housekeeper and went to his office. Here he has a briefcase in his mouth and opened it from gravity, and in it banknotes lay tightly in bundles. At Apollo's jaw, like a briefcase, dropped, and then came a steady feeling of fear. Money is strangers, and he became like instantly with them, as if he always belonged to him. He did not tell anyone about the money, but he stopped at that supermarket.

He drove into the nearest sports hall and immediately spotted Nikita, who was lying under a barbell and moving it over himself on metal posts. Apollo once taught English. It is clear that people know English quite often, but something has come to him. He spoke to the guy in English, and he calmly answered him in English! Then they switched to Russian. Here Apollo invited Nikita to his job. That's the whole story - so it would seem at first glance.

Nikita, a very pumped-up man, a former military man with a short haircut, upright standing hair, impressed everyone with delight.

Apollo did not even think that Angelina could fall in love with a guard, he thought about his safety. Only after Nikita occupied the next room, Apollo pulled out his briefcase and opened it a second time, closing the door to his office.

The money pressed on him with its mass, he took the top wad of money, turned it over and threw it on the floor. It was a 'doll': there were bills on top, there was a piece of paper inside. He frantically began to look through the packs, the top layer consisted of bills, the next layer was laid out of counterfeit money, his interest rose again, the two bottom layers of packs were real! Real money made up half the portfolio! He checked them on a purple device. Apollo breathed a sigh of relief, otherwise he already regretted that he had taken Nikita to work.

A reciprocal joke was born in his head: he put ordinary newspapers in his briefcase, on top - fakes and money dolls and took him to a supermarket! After all, it has been only a day since its accidental enrichment. He put the briefcase in the cell, since it was free, and went through the store.

When Apollo was standing at the ticket office, he saw with side vision that his cell was opened and a briefcase was taken. He felt fear, very strong fear, and on his shoulder he felt a hand. He was just distorted, but Nikita was standing next to him. Apollo breathed a sigh of relief.

They both left the store, noticing that the cell in the storage chamber was open. Apollo was surprised to see his portfolio in the hands of Nikita! What a joke of fate? Again, fear ran down his back, bound his arms and legs, he stopped.

- Nikita, who are you ?! - Apollo asked in a trembling voice.

- Person.

- And the briefcase?

- I saw the unreliability of the lock in the cell and took your briefcase, that's all.

- How did you get to the store?

- I'm your guard.

- Forgive me, Nikita, I feel uneasy.

They came home. Apollo opened the briefcase in his office. Goosebumps ran over his body: there was a snake in the briefcase! He automatically shut the briefcase and flew out of the room. Nikita quickly found himself next to him, took the briefcase, opened it slightly and immediately closed it.

- Tricks! - Nikita exclaimed. - What did you have in the portfolio?

- Paper. But the last time in the portfolio was a lot of money.

- Do you always put a portfolio in this cell?

- Yes, when I go to this supermarket.

- Show the money! Do not be afraid, I will not take them.

The two of them began to consider bundles of money, once again checked their fake. The money was real, and there was a real snake in the briefcase. Is it a real snake? - Nikita hesitated, opened the briefcase very carefully, holding a stick at the ready. There was no snake in the briefcase! Men began to look around him, but the snake was nowhere to be found.

Apollo glanced into his briefcase and recoiled.

- She's in a briefcase!

- It can not be! I watched! - Nikita exclaimed and looked into the mouth of the briefcase, a long balloon was lying there.

Angelina was sitting in her living room and was thinking about how to get money from the Apollo office. She replaced the portfolios in the cells of the storage chamber, or rather not she, but her assistant Ira, who works a meter from the storage chamber. Angelina always had a briefcase like Apollo, but she kept it in the supermarket where her jewelry department was located.

She got the money in a strange way. In the jewelry department, owned by her and located outside the self-service supermarket, the running man threw the bag. Two policemen were chasing the man; apparently, he had to get rid of the money. And then she needed to urgently send money home without leaving the store.

Angelina asked the saleswoman working in the department next to the baggage storage to replace the briefcase as soon as it appeared. Here Apollon Petrovich and carried away the catch of Angelina.

The man who threw money into the department of Angelina, appeared a day later, he began his investigation and search for the missing bag. Angelina did not come to that department that day. With a portfolio of Apollo on their own initiative joked saleswoman Ira. And the peasant didn't find any traces of his money bag. Everything calmed down, except for Angelina's desire to take money from Apollo's father.

Recently, Apollon Petrovich and Nikita went everywhere together. Nikita, as it turned out, did not know any extra languages and, therefore, served only as a guard.


Chapter 15

Angelina and Nikita collided at the front door and got to know each other! It was he who threw the money into her department. Nikita, having received an inheritance from his father, did not know what to do with him. And now they both began to swallow the air, like fish, and at the same time sat in two chairs on the first floor opposite the entrance door.

'Oh, finally I found you, saleswoman you are my stray,' Nikita spoke up. - And where is the money? I saw your eyes and found out, but I could not recognize you before.

- At your master! Only I am not a saleswoman, but the owner of the jewelry department.

'Does Apollo Petrovich have money?' When did you become a saleswoman? I remember you dancer! And I thought he had other money.

'Your money is with him.' Those that you threw me in the department.

- So, therefore, I take my money and leave your house, although I really enjoyed living.

- Nikita, and where are you, this money, gently speaking, pulled off?

'Did you see which tail ran after me?' I inherited the money. Can I live with you? Nice family. I fit into your vicious circle! What does your mother say?

- She definitely did not participate in this circulation of money.

'And I doubt my father's money came from her.'

Agnessa Ivanovna looked from above at the chatting couple and listened to their loud remarks. Nikita first noticed her and called:

- Agnessa Ivanovna, if not difficult, come down to us.

'Yes, mother, come to us,' Angelina confirmed his request.

Agnessa Ivanovna quickly went down the stairs and sat in the third chair.

- What is it about? She asked, without addressing anyone.

- Mom, do you know that Apollo in the supermarket found money in his briefcase?

- Yes, here everyone knows about it and about the fact that he found a snake in his briefcase. It's good that everyone knows, 'said Agnes Ivanovna. 'So everyone is fine with their conscience.'

- Mom, give me some pocket money, and you will have everything in order with your conscience.

'You pull all your soul out of me with your requests,' said the mother sadly. - The money is from my father, and you ask only from me, and from the jewelry department itself in the store.

'So now I'll also ask Nikita for money,' said Angelina sincerely.

- Here is the main item of our expenses - this is Angelina! Nikita, marry her, and you will never have problems with extra money.

- You don't even know who I am! - Nikita exclaimed.

- Why know? Strong man, with Angelina cope.

- Yes, where can he cope with me! He has no money of his own, and I want to marry a baronet!

- Why do you need a baronet, Angelina?

- Sounds beautiful. The Baronet is an English baron from an ancient lineage.

- Nikita, do you have ancient roots? - asked Angelina.

- A funny question: if I am in this world, it means that I have ancient roots.

- It is logical, - said Angelina. - Indeed, all living people on the planet have ancient roots. Nikita, I begin to like you, let me call you "Baronet Nikita".

- My name is actually Nikita, but I am not a baronet! Not!

- Ok, I believe you.

A servant approached the trio, a single woman Timofeevna.

- Dinner is served! But I can not stand such a load! Or cook yourself. The people became sick a lot, - and she carefully looked at Nikita.

'Timofeevna, do not grumble, just one person added,' said Agnes Ivanovna.

- So my years have been added.

'Okay, we will do the house cleaning duties.' Most likely, I will ask Ira to come from the store to come to us and clean our house once a week, 'said Angelina.

'And that's fine,' said Timofeevna, and went to her room.

Nikita, Angelina and Agnessa Ivanovna went into the dining room and mentally sat at a laid table. Apollon Petrovich was at work at this time.

- Nikita, you have intrigued us. Who you are? No, who were you before us? Besides, what are you, former lieutenant? - asked Agnes.

- Geologist on finding diamonds.

- So, and my mom heads the brilliant corporation "Glitter"! - Angelina exclaimed.

- I know. And Apollo Petrovich I knew before.

- So you own a computer perfectly? Something is not right here. Why didn't you become a diamond sales manager?

'Apollo Petrovich needs a guard now.'

- It can be fixed. Last time you did not work? - asked Agnessa Ivanovna.

- It was business, I left one place, I haven't settled for another. Yes, Apollon Petrovich turned up, as if on purpose. I wanted to go to him as a manager, but now he will not take me. I have a higher education received before the recruitment to the army.

- Nikita, and you really are a baronet! - Angelina exclaimed. - By local standards, only English is not known.

- It's ridiculous to say, but I know English on the diamond theme.

- Great! Teach me diamond words! - happily declared Angelina.

Angelina went to the second floor and immediately called Apollo Petrovich:

- Dad, you know nothing! You are behind the times! We live in Baronet Nikita!

'Ha, I don't know Nikita!' I know him from birth! We came across him in the diamond auctions, where you have not gone.

- Ok, I'll go next time, you just warn me. Do you know that he can talk about diamonds in three languages ?!

- This is a valuable frame, I take it to me.

- He is your guard works!

'Does the soldier in stock need a guard lieutenant?' This is ridiculous!

- Laugh, he guards you! Nikita is such a pumped-up man!

- Angelina, and you are not in love with him?

- There is some! But I do not understand where you got the money from?

- Trouble with me! That I lose money, I find. How do you live there, in a new family nest?

- Well! Only the pool is not!

- Angelina, I said that it is necessary to build a three-story house, no, they did a two-story one. Pool build in the annex. I promise.

- But the elevator is not needed in a two-story house. Dad, I can see from the window that construction is underway at the stadium. It seems they want to make an indoor stadium, a dome as inflatable as it is over dolphins. And what if they cut down our oak?

- No, do not cut down the oak. I will buy oak and sawed, although I would not want to. You got me, I'm going to the stadium, I'll see what's going on there.

At the abandoned stadium life was in full swing. In the stands installed new benches. A green lawn was laid on the football field. On the treadmills lay a lot of items that were supposed to be the dome of the stadium.

Agnessa Ivanovna noticed Nikita and approached him.

- Nikita, do you know what is happening here?

- There will be a training base of our football team. I am a sponsor.

- I do not understand. You are my husband's guard!

- If. I went to work for him because of your daughter! Agnessa Ivanovna, I want to marry Angelina! Do you know who I am?

- I thought I knew. From fate you will not escape. You are the son of Dr. Lux! But I am very interested in the fate of the old oak, in which there is a hollow. Oak - an old tree, it is better to remove. Nikita, if you want to marry my daughter, leave the old oak tree alone. He is dear to me as a memory of the first diamonds.

- A giant dome is stretched over the stadium!

- Sweep your dome by one diamond oak!

- Well, we will think with the designers.

- And yet, cut down an oak, just give me the logs with a hollow tree. I'll cover them with varnish and put them in the museum.

- Here, it will be better! - Nikita exclaimed. 'We will pay a fine for cutting the oak!'

- Nikita, will you go to work in our corporation "Glitter"?

- Concurrently. I have a lot to do!

Agnessa Ivanovna looked at the oak leaves, at the construction site of the stadium, and for the first time realized that her diamond romance at this stadium had come to a logical end, that there would be no more miracles. She imagined that the oak is a large bush of potatoes, and if you dig it up, diamonds will shine in its roots instead of tubers.

- Nikita, it is necessary to uproot this oak!

- What's wrong with you? Agnessa Ivanovna, you were not allowed to cut the oak tree, now ask him to uproot ?!

- Quickly organize the uprooting of oak! IMMEDIATELY!

'Okay, I'll throw all my strength on the oak, but it's time for me to meet your husband from work!'

- The husband will manage, he is a former soldier.

Nikita called somewhere. Soon people arrived with a saw. Oak fell. People started uprooting the roots, as if the molar of wisdom from the jaw tried to pull out! Surprisingly, sparkles appeared in the central part of the roots of the oak. Nikita first rushed to raise them, and the workers were taken aside. Diamonds were hidden in the roots of the oak tree, as if once someone had planted a small oak over his treasure!

'You are a sorceress,' Nikita said in a exhale.

The workers realized that they were being used, and from the roots they got something interesting. They rushed to the rhizome, trying to pick up diamonds. Nikita took the battle of two workers. The fights were noticed by the workers of the stadium and, having abandoned their affairs, approached the men. Having noticed the scattered diamonds, they tried to lift them out of mere curiosity, as a result the number of fighters increased dramatically.


Agnessa Ivanovna watched the fight with complete indifference. She mentally fingered in the head of people who can call in this case. She was well aware that all her friends had grown old, especially her husband Apollon Petrovich. Who to call? Whoever comes, he will want to get a diamond share. She calmly pulled out a ladies pistol and fired into the air. A pile of men's bodies fell apart. They were surprised to see a woman with a small pistol in her hand.

- Gentlemen, we found diamonds belonging to my ancestors! I repeat: to my ancestors, therefore your fight has no meaning, but I will give each one a small diamond. Understand me correctly, diamonds do not always bring happiness, and you will quickly understand this. And now all go away!

The men looked at the imperious woman and were silent. She called one worker to collect the diamonds and distribute the others one by one. Nikita recovered from the fight and began to collect diamonds, which the workers no longer claimed, being under the hypnosis of the words of the diamond lady.

Angelina arrived and approached Agnes Ivanovna:

- Mom, what's going on here?

- Found your inheritance, trying to collect.

- I'm getting married?

- And you still do not know? Your fiance in three roots is confused! He is the son of Dr. Lux! You can say count!

- Oh, so he is Baronet Nikita! I will help him collect diamonds.

The workers involuntarily bowed to Agnes Ivanovna. She sat on a bench, watching Nikita and Angelina. Suddenly, she swayed from a blow to the head and fell. From her hand, Fyodor grabbed a pistol and aimed it at Nikita with Angelina:

- Quickly give me the diamonds - and everyone is free!

- Fedor, what are you doing? Did not recognize me? - Angelina asked in surprise.

- I learned all of you!

'There is no longer a diamond oak,' said Angelina sadly, 'and my mother is not moving. You killed her!

- There she and the road. And you keep quiet, and even kill you!

Fedor took the diamonds from Nikita and Angelina's hands, holding a pistol aimed at them. He slowly began his back to move away from the fallen diamond oak, but he tripped on the root of the oak and fell, sprinkled with diamond stones.

Nikita came to his senses, jumped to Fyodor, knocked the gun from him with a kick and took the leading position. Angelina approached Agnes Ivanovna, who could hardly breathe. Daughter on a mobile phone called an ambulance for the mother. A doctor and a nurse Nina arrived. The doctor fussed next to Agnessa Ivanovna, whom the forces were leaving.

- Angelina, untie me! - Fedor cried. - Angelina, I love you!

- Lie tied, so you are safer, - Angelina responded.

- Fedor, would be ashamed to confess her love! Shouted Nikita.

'Why can't I confess my love to her?'

Angelina collected all the diamonds and threw them into her bag, but no one paid any attention to her.

The snow fell and melted. The diamond lady, after receiving a blow to the head, then got up and walked around the house, then fell on the sofa in front of the TV and lay until the forces appeared to get up. She did not care about diamonds found under the oak. External factors of life did not bother her, they were almost indifferent to her.

She recalled mother, father. At this place, she began to have severe headaches. She did not even have time to remember Denis, her head ached, and she was not up to Fedor and Apollo. To help the nurse, Agnessa Ivanovna did not agree, but because of her state of health, she realized that it was better not to get involved in the memories of the past, we had to look for strings to the present.

Chip's dog walked around the house, the only stray creature.

Angelina, when she realized that her mother really had health problems, began to visit her more often and ask to move to a new house, on the first floor. After another fall on the sofa, Agnes Ivanovna agreed to finally move to her daughter, in her half of the house. Angelina invited the woman to a permanent job in the house, so that she would always look after her mother.

At some point in time, Agnes Ivanovna realized that if she was so hard to hurt, then she would not live long. Then she got the idea that she was being punished by sawed oak and its diamond roots. Then she stopped for a long time with thoughts, thinking what to do so as not to perish along with diamond oak. She looked at herself in the mirror and saw an absolutely gray woman. Tosca squeezed her heart, it became difficult to breathe, she reached for the pills, put one under her tongue. Laid down

Angelina flew into the room:

- Mom, are you dying? You are all white! If you're alive, then tell me how to sew a wedding dress? What was your wedding dress with your father?

- Dress left over from prom at school. And you sew yourself a dress.

- That's generous! What are you greedy to give money for a pair of ball gowns?

- I'm not used to spending money on trifles.

- Found a trifle! I'm getting married! We are applying with baronet Nikita.

-And why not with Fedor?

- He hit you! Have you already forgotten it?

- I have not forgotten anything! I do not want Fedor to be your second man.

- I have not left for the first, but you are talking to me about the second!

- How long is it! And then I do not have time to warn you.

Apollon Petrovich entered the room with a beautiful, slightly pretentious cane:

- Angelina, leave us with your mother! Let us talk!

Angelina pulled up her nose and left the room.

- Agnes, I know about the sawn oak and I do not want you to die with him! Let's go to Nile, I always wanted to ride the Nile on a ship with you!

- I am sick!

- About the disease you do not tell me!

- It's hot there!

- Now on the bank of the Nile, the weather is normal! Listen, you have found a huge treasure of diamonds! And earned a trip!

- Well, buy vouchers, let's go!

Indeed, the change of thoughts in my head favorably affected the state of Agnes Ivanovna. She began to walk around the house more. She was taken to the store for clothes for the trip. She felt better. Agnes went to the salon, repainted her hair in her own color, weathered several cosmetic procedures. Soon the couple flew off to the side of the Nile.


Apollon Petrovich and Agnessa Ivanovna settled in a hotel in the south of the country. Near the hotel were white houses with arches. Pools with bluish tiled transparent water were nearby. Date palms delighted the eye. Agnes and Apollo settled in two adjacent rooms, they often went out onto a white stone balcony and looked at the sea. Sometimes they made a voyage, but more often they just walked by the sea.

The attendants were glowing with benevolence. The resort town was fortified with quite a decent wall. In the protection of the complex was part of the present troops. The local population lived a little easier, they built houses without roofs, covered with mats, they did not collect taxes for such houses, and they had to pay a lot for houses with roofs. Local men could have several wives, the condition was only one - each wife in the room.

So Agnes had a room. Rest on the warm sea went to her advantage. One day she picked up the Apollo cane and felt its strange weight. She examined the knob, found the button and opened the cane, but saw nothing but a small empty cavity. She decided that the cane was made of heavy material. Apollo caught Agness looking at the closed part of the cane.

'Agnessa, did you like my cane?' Do you want to do you?

- Heavy cane you, though beautiful.

- Material such.

- And I thought so, but I need a light cane.

- No problem, even now! - Apollo went out and brought a cane for Agnes.

The couple returned home rested and satisfied with each other. And by itself it turned out that they began to live together in a new house. Once Apollo suggested:

- Agnes, look what lies in our canes! Let's plant a young oak tree on these diamonds!

Agnes laughed and agreed to plant an oak tree on diamonds. The spouses planted a young oak tree on diamonds from canes.

Agnessa Ivanovna read a strange announcement in the newspaper: 'I'll find the lost diamonds', and the signature 'Angelina' has put her into complete confusion. She called her daughter:

- Angelina, did you open a diamond search company?

- Mom, I will look for diamonds myself! I remember all your diamond stories by heart. I also want to find diamonds!

- And will you look for one?

- Not at all. We will look for diamonds with Nikita.

- I did not get that. Nikita became a private detective?

- No, Mom, you can't tell everything on the phone, this is our secret. Come to the stadium. It belongs to baronet Nikita, now you will not say that this is a forgotten stadium.

Mother and daughter sat in chairs for elite viewers. The dome of the stadium was lowered due to warm summer days. Agnessa Ivanovna glanced in the direction of a young diamond oak tree standing next to the treadmill. Now within the stadium there are only a few young trees. Nothing has changed around the oak, which means that the diamonds were in place.

- Angelina, I always searched for diamonds on a whim, my inexplicable mystic helped me. Like devils, I was led to the place where the diamonds were at that time, and used or already mined. I am not a geologist and I did not look for diamonds in nature.

- Mom, I do not have your diamond gift, but I have a desire to find lost solid transparent stones. I will not torment you: I will look for diamonds with the help of a diamond sensor. Surprised? The fact is that Nikita was engaged in a gym with a single engineer, they got to talking. Nikita told your engineer your diamond adventures, he immediately set about trying to make a diamond sensor in the form of a probe. Listen to what I'm telling you, look! - and she took out a long box from a handbag, opened it. An ordinary stick, half a pencil long, appeared, a slight thickening was located on the top of the probe.

- ABOUT! This magic wand replaces my mystical possibilities! - involuntarily exclaimed Agnessa Ivanovna.

- Yes, given the properties of the diamond, the engineer developed a device that sends an electron beam to the right place in a cloud of steam. What happens, I do not know, but the LEDs on the sensor light up. There are subtleties, but it's not worth talking about them.

- Angelina, I'm ready to check your device right now. Pass me the exam and find the diamonds without leaving this stadium.

- Mom, if an old diamond oak would grow here, I would have shown where the diamonds lie without the device.

- Look, daughter. Time has gone, - said Agnes Ivanovna and began to look at the forty who had flown into the stadium.

Angelina turned on the diamond sensor, pressed the button, the handle lengthened. She slowly led the sensor around her. The sensor did not blink. Angelina got up from the chair and began to bypass the stadium. The sensor did not respond. Ten minutes later, the daughter approached her mother and said that there were no diamonds at the stadium.

- You are mistaken, dear! Exclaimed Agnessa Ivanovna smugly. - Diamonds are in the perimeter of the stadium, I know that for sure!

- I repeat that there are no diamonds in the stadium perimeter!

- Check it out! I will prove the failure of your electronic assistant! - exclaimed Agnessa Ivanovna and went in the direction of a young oak. - Look here! - She said, pointing to the ground at a young oak.

Angelina went to the oak tree, sent an electron beam to its roots. The diamond detection sensor was silent.

- Your device does not work, - smiled mother.

- The device works, but there are no diamonds here! - answered daughter.

'Call Nikita with a sapper shovel, let her judge us,' Agnessa Ivanovna was getting angry.

Angelina called Nikita and told him where he needed to go and why.

'I will not come,' answered Nikita, 'there are no diamonds under the young oak tree!'

- How do you know where they were there? - Angelina was surprised.

'I am the son of my father, Dr. Lux, and he is the son of his father - Count Lux.' Your ancestors buried diamonds from their canes under a young oak tree. Your father shared a secret with a cat, and I installed a bug on a collar a long time ago, so I found out where the diamonds are. It remained only to dig, while others did not take.

Angelina turned off her cell phone.

- Mom, Nikita, these diamonds have long been dug.

- The son of his father! She grinned. - Well, consider that you passed me the exam! Open your agency. By the way, where do you find customers?

- And we work with the world and at any point ...

'Good luck to you,' Agnessa Ivanovna said, and plunged into the memories, but not for long: it dawned on her that she did not see the usual cell phone in her daughter's hands.

- Angelina, where is your cell phone? I did not understand how you talked to Nikita.

- The spy wireless dial is in earrings, in one earring you can hear what I'm saying, in the other you can hear what they say to me, the dial on the bracelet.

- But you have a bracelet without numbers!

- It is necessary to press a button, the cover will open, under it there is a control panel. It's simple.

- Take me in your car, I came here by taxi, - asked Agnes Ivanovna.

Soon they drove onto the fast lane. Aghnessa with horror opened her eyes wide and squeezed into a chair, the car spun, the airbag jumped out. The car got up.

- What was it? - breathed Agnes Ivanovna.

- Attempt in pure form, but the gyroscope determined the roll of the car and straightened it, the Coriolis effect did not arise, the automation worked clearly. Now look at the display of the relief map of what happened. Accelerometers ...

- Angelina, how do you know all this? - surprised Agnessa Ivanovna.

Angelina did not answer, but turned on a flat screen monitor in the car. Ladies in dresses with diamonds ran on the screen, began to shoot diamond pellets, take out cell phones in diamonds, shining with diamond watches.

- Mom, how do you like all this? - asked Angelina. - Look, this is a diamond firework in honor of you.

Agnes Ivanovna had no words for an answer, she understood perfectly that the young were taking long strides forward, but not to the same degree!

Mussin noticed that they attempted Agnes. He saw another car trying to crash into her car. And nothing could help her. But to his surprise, the diamond lady's car deftly managed to drive off to the side, avoiding a collision. As if someone over her guarded.

Agnessa Ivanovna sat down to write the script, but she got something like a story, which she reworked into a script. She arranged the actions of the actors in two places, the number of main characters was reduced to a minimum. We needed a sponsor or customer, not to take full responsibility for the movie! She went to a friendly diamond corporation, telling them that there would be a film - a solid advertisement for common activities. They thought and agreed to support her project. As actors, she outlined a couple of celebrities and did not forget to take Tatiana and Vlad, forgot only Apollo and Boris.

She did not interfere.

Agnessa got into an awkward situation because of the deep-water jealousy of her Apollo just at Easter, when there was a cake on the table, colored eggs lay in a plate. He set her up, she could tell the truth to the sponsors of the next film that Apollo took their money and bought himself a separate apartment instead of a car. Who knew that he did not know about her lovers ?! The script of the film "Love at the Stadium" was ready, but there was no money. The sense of unfulfilled debt devoured her whole being! What could be worse than flogging your own conscience?

She no longer believed in diamonds - so where is the sparkling handful that she lacked for? There were a lot of them in fate, either by accident or on purpose, but diamonds were constantly spinning in her life. Agnessa wanted to call the script "Love and Diamonds", but the word is so sparkling that she could not stand the brilliance in the name of the script. How many diamonds were there in her life? Does Apollo have personal diamonds or not? And where is his diamond nightlight? "Oh, so Apollo is still rich, you need to dispossess him," - thought Agnes and began to dress to go to him.

Apollo soulfully met Agnes.

- Apollo, be a man, right, because it is inconvenient that you spent the money, it's time to spin the film, and I'm on the beans.

- Agnes, I was waiting for you!

- Apollo, are you in your mind ?!

'Agnessa, you will get the hell of a bald thing from me, not money!' I am your main husband and your main lover! You depend on me now! No one but me will help you! Let's get married right now - and pulled her to bed.

Agnessa was surprised at the strength of the abandoned man. Force and pressure, pressure and force, instant attack of a well-known man! He was above all praise and twisted as he wanted. She felt like a feather in his strong hands. Love happened quickly, sweetly and flawlessly, at a very fast pace.

'Apollo, where's your diamond nightlight?'

- I will not say, do not ask.

'Didn't we get married now?'

- You did not come to me.

- You had another !!!

- Agnes, I'm smart! I forgive you and your lovers - it's above all!

- What's the matter?

- I am fine, but I will not tolerate more of your betrayals, and this film will last you for a long time!

- Where are we going to live?

- In our apartment, and we will hand over this, then we will give daughters.


Chapter 16

Agnes herself called her favorite film crew, the actors and everyone said that she was embarking on a new film. The film decided to shoot at an abandoned stadium. What did she get to ?! She loved her husband! He really did have money for the film! And he did not buy an apartment, but rented it. And all the sponsorship money was intact.

At home, Agnes did not keep any money and jewelery and buzzed her ears both in the company and in the neighbors in the courtyard who are omnipresent.

Agnes recalled how she had small diamonds the size of millet. Absurdity is always absurd, especially if it is a reality.

Reality is absolutely unreal, there is in it the languor of irreplaceable losses and hopes. When the number of negative reality exceeds the permissible norms, it becomes unrealistic. In reality, the fact that there are diamonds in the world is completely absurd, that they are on Mars, and their absence is just as absurd.

Why didn't diamonds meet in her life? Could and meet. Agnes already knew that there are diamonds in the world! Why are they not aware of what she is? Why does she see big money in cases on the TV screen, and then with large criminal clashes? Why does Boris's face flash on TV? Handsome man, but why is he on the screen instead of the screen saver?

Great movie. Big actors. Agnes did not want to gather all her acquaintances on the same film set. She took up her favorite thing - writing a script. All friends heard that Agnes took up work on a new film, and began to call her and offer her services to participate in the film. She did not promise anything to anyone, but she wrote the script and got used to the images of future heroes of the film.

Apollo came to his senses and also asked for the role, but she looked at him detachedly and said that she wouldn't be filming, she had no strength for him, and in general she is a writer and not a director-director, she's does not take himself, but will be his producer.

He got angry at his wife's inattention and said that he would go to the guards to work, to which she replied that it was unlikely that they would take him to the guard, if only to the warehouse. She also noticed a new diamond on her husband's hand: the men's jewelry square always goes to men and does not demean their courage.

- Okay, Apollo, you will find a role, I will not give you protection, you can invite everyone you know from our shooting, we will select roles for everyone, but bear in mind: if I don't have enough money, your diamond square in X carat will go to the movies.

- Agnes, I agree to everything.

- Honey, and who gave you this treasure?

- Sweetheart, I will not say.

- That's right, call everyone, we will sort the roles, I will also play in this film. I love you! - exclaimed joyfully Agnes. - That's good! - She said and felt that more than anything in the world she loves Apollo.

Agnes decided that she would shoot a film based on the novel, which is very famous. The content of the novel was so far away from her that it was hard to think of a better cure for love. She read different versions of the novel, since the author published it in the process of creation, and came to the conclusion that it would be enough to withdraw his money, even if the series was five or six.

- Mom, will I be filmed too? I love you! - Angelina was delighted.

- That's good! - said Agnes and felt that she loves her family more than anything in the world, and Denis is gone, like a wonderful dream from a fairy tale.

Apollo shuddered as if another woman had touched his hand, shook his head and smiled at his daughter and wife:

- I'm going to call.

On the set of the film, the new director found out that Vlad is the son of the famous television host Denis Turin. The new status dramatically increased its importance in the group of actors. He began to allocate. He increased the role. The film was promoted so that Vlad became famous.

Angelina, on the contrary, reduced the role. Both were happy with life and themselves. The film paid for itself and brought a decent profit due to the promotion of Vlad.

Diamond dame Agnes already knew about the deafening popularity of Denis among the audience. And then it dawned on her where to put the money! We need to make a television program to Vlad, let him continue the work of his father on television! It is easy to think, but it is difficult to get a sophisticated viewer. The idea of Agnes was approved on one of the entertainment channels thanks to sponsorship.

Natural wood lay on the floor and sparkled with a polished surface. Vlad made an excellent bathroom, decorated it with the newest tile, which gives the effect of transparent blue. He rescheduled the kitchen: it is now so large that in the center stands a rack with electronic equipment and screens hung on it. On the one hand, he has a kitchen and a table with high chairs. On the other hand, there is a soft sofa, it is easy to look at the thin, but huge screen of either a TV set or a computer monitor.

Mistress and his wife is Nina, she graduated from the institute and became a psychologist. But she was too lazy in her, so Vlad hired a visiting domestic worker who washes floors and sanitary equipment to help her. They gave birth to a good peanut, who was named Denis. But Nina's laziness is so huge that Grandma Tatyana and the babysitter sit in turns with the baby. What is Nina doing? There is, and her every move towards the family is worth its weight in gold to Vlad.

As for Angelina, this low, but energetic young woman surpassed herself. No, she does not indulge herself in diamonds and does not look for them in the world, she no longer plays mother's toys. She graduated from a smart economic institute, climbed up the office ladder high-high and bought an apartment high-high, in a new high-rise complex. And now he is looking at the world from the height of an eagle flight.

Angelina lives with Nikita, they have a tiny daughter, overseen by her grandmother Agnes. The Arkin's two-story mansion was demolished, it turned out to be not of historical value, and in its place was built a huge apartment building. So, grandmothers have dispersed according to their grandchildren and grandchildren. And the father of this double family? What is he doing in his old age? He still works in his personal private company. To him come on the fire and his former ladies, and his children, and his grandchildren. He lives alone, without domestic helpers, does not use an elevator, does not drive a car, does not close the door to a hundred locks, does not smoke, does not drink, maybe up to a hundred years old and live.

The March deceptive rays eroded the drifts, creating an openwork design of the snow banks during the transitional period from winter to spring, which was the brightest urban sign of spring. Young girls glittered with golden and red hair. Blondes are somewhat out of fashion, defeated by bright, rich hair colors. Machines acquired new shades that are different from the simple dark color, they all looked a bit like each other in their configuration, or tried to be like the best world samples.

Tatiana decided to conduct an investigation by Detective Musin. She wanted to know where Agnes got her money from. This circumstance as a phenomenon surprised many people. Musin at that time already guessed that it was through the jeweler Agnes who sold diamonds, which grew to her like shells to the bottom of the ship. Here is the old news detective and said Tatiana.

'We need to look for a new source of sales, and diamonds will be found,' thought Agnes, lying on the sofa, looking at the ceiling, in a state of trance. Nothing pleased her for one simple reason: she had no purpose. The goal of life must be constantly invented, but the goal must be real.


Apollo looked at the still lying Agnes and did not know what to say to her. He has not yet seen her in this state.

A void of hopelessness rang around her. He closed the door to the room and went to his room. Tosca Agnes passed on to him, he was ready to gather at a gathering of her friends, so long as she moved. He could not stand the killed state of Agnes and called her friend Fyodor. He found him on a cell phone. Fedor was at home. He arrived half an hour later.

'I consider the gathering of men to be open,' said Apollo and explained the situation: 'I know the difficulties of selling diamonds better than others, I have been working with them for a long time, but I have not become rich. There are always a lot of problems with them.

- What can we offer Agnes? - asked Fedor. - Without a lot of money it can not be revived. Apollo, you dig under me, and I'm not a millionaire! He exclaimed.

- And who is talking about a millionaire! I need a thought, an idea, 'Apollo specified.

'Agnes is harassed by a script that has not yet been written, so she bears it,' said the innocent Fyodor.

- Fedor, you are a hammer, but rather a sledgehammer, you think correctly! Do not give Agnes pills, if her brain comes up with something new, 'Apollo said and added:' She needs diamond pills, who does not know! I'll give them, but first, a little, if we successfully sell, I will add more.

- And to whom we will sell? - asked naively Fedor.

- Fiend, and you do not know? Go to Boris with soles to work, he is spinning among the rich of this world.

'I've been working with him lately, but I wanted to sell diamonds through Agnes and her jeweler,' said Fyodor dejectedly.

- Well, everyone would have everything, and with laziness. Dear sir, we haven't moved from our place, 'Apollo said cheerfully, seeing that there was no one to give a small batch of diamonds for processing.

- Men, hello! Where are you from and where? Why and why? - said Agnes, quietly entering the room.

- Hooray, Agnes rose! Cried Apollo.

'We have a consultation of doctors, we want to cure you, but we are powerless without your ideas,' Fyodor said deliberately cheerfully.

- Boys, I have an idea to write a script about diamond people, about us. How do you look at it? - asked Agnessa calmly.

'Has given birth or will give birth,' said Fedor calmly.

- Okay, Agnes, write the script! Will you make a film with our participation? Asked Apollo.

- You all understand. Where to get money? She asked, peacefully.

- Write, Agnes, write. I'll say in my company that you'll make advertising about us, I'll connect other diamond companies and scrape money for business, 'said Fedor thoughtfully.

- Eh, adventure is not enough! - exclaimed Agnes.

'That's for sure,' Fedor said in a bass.

- I know! I feel: Tatyana has a hiding place! Who will find him in her apartment? Take the psychic, but find! Or should I go to her? - exclaimed Agnes.

- Agnes, are you out of your mind? What makes you think that Tatiana has a cache? - Apollo asked as an old friend of Tatiana.

- I was not just lying, but I fell into nirvana! I understood why Tatiana was drawn to the jeweler. She has a cache of diamonds, but she does not know about them! And diamonds are so energy-consuming that they speak of themselves through the walls, 'said Agnes in one breath.

- Agnessa, this cache was organized by Boris? Asked Apollo.

- No, the fact is that money is for money, and diamonds are for diamonds. Boris and Tatiana live because both of them are brilliant people, it is written to them like that, 'said Agnessa penetratingly.

- Wow! Here is this Agnes issued! So we are all brilliant people! - boomed Fedor.

- Fedor, you're right. We must look for a cache from Tatyana. I can find him in her absence. She and her son should be sent on a journey, at least for a week, 'Agnes quickly said.

- Agnes, there is a solution! I will offer Tatiana and her family to go to the Mediterranean Sea, and I will give you the keys. Then look for yourself, 'said Apollo.

- Here is a gamble! All home! Okay, let's drink champagne and go home, 'said Agnes and quickly brought a bottle of champagne and wine glasses.

- For us! - Apollo said and drank with a feeling of calm, as if he had long been in limbo. - No wonder I gathered you all, no wonder! - And I went to rest without waiting for the guests to leave.

The goal has been determined! The psychic did not call. When Tatiana left her apartment, Agnessa and Fedor entered. She made him look over the walls and floors. The result was zero. Her gaze rose to the entresol. "Do diamonds have a lot of space," thought Agnes, and thought correctly.

- Fedor, climb on the mezzanine! You just have to stand on a stool, - she said. - Look where you can hide a round wooden pencil case.

Fyodor climbed up on a stool and looked inside the high-placed city closet, created to collect household rubbish. Inside the mezzanine there were two round racks, like a spade handle sawn in half. One stand was integral, and since they stood for a long time, they were painted a couple of times.

- I found. Climb here instead of me, - Fedor said.

Agnes climbed up on a stool, she managed to notice the stands. They were located closer to the center of the mezzanine.

'Fedor, drag the table,' asked Agnes.

Fedor set the table under the mezzanine, with which she could reach the racks.

- They must be removed. I do not have enough strength. Do not break. Take care of business, Fedor.

The man gently rocked the rack. A fist kick knocked them out and gently handed them to Agnes. They sat in the kitchen and twisted the rods, now they would be enough only for the demining shovel. Fyodor twisted the painted wood and took out a pencil case from the center. In the pencil case were diamonds. Moreover, there were two pencil cases.

- Fedor, take both cases or leave one mistress?

- I would take both, but without cases, but they should be left on the spot.

- Wipe all fingerprints when you put the pencil back.

The diamonds glittered dimly in Agnes's palm. She has mined diamonds, and who will make diamonds from rough diamonds? She decided to entrust this mission periodically to the beloved Apollo.

- Apollo, remember the youth and engage in the processing of diamonds. Cabinet for you to modernize. We will buy the tool. We call you a jeweler. A visiting accountant will help make connections.

- Agnessa, I can still process the diamonds, but I did not work with gold. Diamonds without a frame can not be sold.

- Good girl, Apollo. There are more gold jewelers than diamond cutters. I will find you an assistant. We will create the company "Blesk" through which we will market our products.

- Darling, it's hard to argue with you! All problems are solved with one thought. There is a feeling that you are all older and smarter, but also more beautiful!

- Dear, did you accept my offer? I'm glad I didn't have to persuade you. It is necessary to find a designer to create diamond jewelry, do not make the same stud for the ears.

- Agnessa, see the catalogs, go to the exhibition, see what they sell in stores. So you will forget about making films and you will not write scripts about us - on our head. I do not want to be a hero of films, I want to be a simple grinder!

- I checked the version about diamond people. Tatyana fell out of the chain. Having found diamonds in Tatyana's house, I confirmed my version that 'diamonds to diamonds', now there are all diamond people among us.

- Wow! Robbed people, and now you call them diamond ?!

'They will still have diamonds, believe me, but they did not even know about these and painted the place of the cache with paint.' Denis cleverly hid, but I guessed it.


Tatiana came home and feels that something is wrong in him, like someone who was looking for something in her house. Things are not scattered, but slightly shifted. What could search? Boris reassured her, saying that he was looking for a house-spirit yesterday. She paused, but did not calm down in her soul. With Boris, she had a wonderful rest on the Mediterranean Sea. It was somewhat unusual to have a rest among people speaking other languages, but with her companion she was like in Christ's bosom.

Agnes showed Apollo a find: rough diamonds. He said that diamonds with mezzanines would be a good contribution to the organization of the company. Agnes was not surprised at the answer, she was worried about a new business. She has already created a job for the diamond grinder, but she was waiting for Apollo's consent. Approval and support came on time. She decided to get acquainted with the jewelry designer.

The designer showed Agnes his numerous drawings of jewelry. He worked in solitude, and so he gladly said it after a long silence. He did not consider his work secret and was glad to the viewer and listener. They were so involved in the business that she could barely come to her senses when his hands slid along her lap. No, she decided not to yield to him. The main thing in his work is the drawings, thoughts on paper, the long and hard work of the artist.

Agnes proudly stood up, gave the designer a diamond the size of a millet for her visit, showed in his picture where to put it. The designer from the happiness that they understood him, forgot that they physically refused him. They parted, pleased with each other.

Agnes returned home with the thought that she could draw new designs herself, and began to draw new jewelry.

She did not want to write scripts. The body demanded a break from communicating with people, from filming and all the problems associated with it. Drawing for a while was the meaning of life. She, like an ostrich, hid her head in drawings and was delighted with her drawings. After that, she set about communicating with the jeweler's accountant.

A woman without a master was at a financial zero and was delighted with Agnes, as an old friend. Agnes offered the bookmaker to work for her at the firm and to engage in paperwork in organizing the company and restoring the jeweler's connections. And received consent. The accountant suggested who should be taken to create a gold-framed diamond. White, yellow and red gold came into fashion. Agness was pleased by the accountant's awareness of these issues.

Oh, this Agnessa! Everything that fell into her hands went to a new film or advertisement. How could she be offended ?! Fedor is an adventurous man and did not refuse the offer to be a share of the sale of diamonds. He had not shaved his head for a long time. He had a nice head of hair. He looked impressive for his age.

Men's impressiveness requires an investment of money. Now Fedor did not track down the supplier of diamonds. He knew that he would be given a lot to sell. Naturally, you will not go to the market with diamonds, but there is Agnessa, and she has long-term connections. He will give it to her. Fedor was pleased with the situation, but the situation was against his complacency. He called Agnes and said that there was a deal, but he would not go to her because of the jealous Apollo.

Agnes went to Fedor. New diamonds lay on a black velvet ribbon. She looked and was not surprised: life went on!

At home, Agnes met the cry of Apollo:

- Agnessa, I urgently need a new car! Very urgent!

- What happened?

- The cardan shaft flew off, the springs broke, the motor does not work well and does not start, the paint has flown over, the glass on the headlight is broken ...

- Well, buy a new car. Money on the table.

- Thank you, you clever! On the new film you will still have money.

Money to money. The next day, Boris came. History repeated. Apollo knew that Boris was among the friends of his wife and that he had brought some of the money to the new film. At Apollo, the teeth ached on the nerves of the thought: "Where to put the money?" On this subject it was necessary to think.

Agnessa, agreeing to buy a new car, went about the service.

Apollo got into Agnes's computer, in which she left her password. He read her email. Her husband's hair stood on end! He read her new script called 'Love at the Stadium' and found out everything that she had with Denis! What are his branched horns! Apollo went to the hunting shop, bought deer horns on the board and hung them in the hallway.

Agnessa came home in the evening after seeing the horns, asked:

- Apollo, where did you get such a charm?

- Agnes, all your efforts.

- Can I throw away the horns?

- They are worth money, and big.

Horn so horn.

The office of the company "Blesk" was located on the first floor of the building, the entrance to it was located from the end. For the protection of the premises used video surveillance and security system with electronic keys. In the event of a power outage, the security system was equipped with long-lasting batteries. A power outage had no effect on the security system. The door of the electronics office was guarded securely, and inside the office sat the wise guard Fyodor.

Fear more and more often visited Agnes. And she made a decision: the production of diamond products should be made only for the main customers, and ordinary visitors can only see a substitute for diamonds - zirconium, which Apollo treated as diamonds. Jewelry was supposed to relieve tension. The safes were all hidden. Fame is unpredictable, and it's understandable that the firm came under the supervision of some people.

At Blesk, many people wanted to profit, and this was primarily a matter of the fame of the company. The joy of orders is not pleased. Agnes wanted to lie down with a book and not think about anything. She is tired, and she was worried not in vain.

The office of the company was located in a residential building. The apartment above the office changed owners, the former offered a good option, and they agreed to move, all the more so that on the first floor even the desktop ones, but the machines worked.

At night, the company left a muffled light, in fact there was no one in it, and this information went in the right direction to the second floor. The windows of the office were guarded by beautiful bars with alarms that were visible from the window of Agnes's apartment.

On the second floor, preparations were under way for opening the office ceiling. The room above the office was completely isolated from the sounds. The reinforced concrete slab of the ceiling was made of quality material, and it was necessary to make a hole in it in a short time, and even at night.

The robbers removed the linoleum from the floor, then with a diamond tool drew a groove around the perimeter of the future hole, which was enlarged manually. There were two sentences: the first was to blow up the ceiling, the second was to drill at once with several drills around the perimeter of the hole. It was decided to use both options.

In the holes laid explosives and blew to the music. It remains to hit the hammer on the floor - and Laz was ready. We let down the stairs, on which thin, nimble guys climbed into the office of "Glitter". They opened all the cabinets, found safes - fashionable, small. The thieves raised the safes to the second floor and, happy, took them away the same night away from the house for an autopsy.

In the morning the cleaner came to work first. She saw Laz in the ceiling and cabinets with open doors, called the owner of the company Agnesse. Immediately in the office, Agnes and Apollo came running.

Agnes sat in a chair and lowered her arms, and then laughed merrily and loudly. She became easy!

Robbers took the safes with jewelry! Premonition did not deceive her! The safe for diamonds was designed as a heating tube and welded to the heating system. Ceiling cemented and covered with airy white squares for beauty. Agnes calmed down: something happened that she had been afraid for so long. They tried to rob her, but the diamonds were not found. After all, they were modestly lying at the bottom of a crystal vase in which there were proud chrysanthemums.

How to destroy an eternal rival without a bullet - Tatyana decided to think about this question. By this time, Agnes and Tatiana were not friends for some time. Boris came and went, but Tatyana's soul remembered Denis, even though the time went farther and farther from him. Revenge lurked in consciousness.

Tatiana did not trust anyone for a long time, believed only herself. She gradually began to observe Agnes from the entrance of the neighboring house and noticed that she had become somewhat better over the years, and decided to play with that.

Diet pills a lot, some of them when used in large doses cause disease. Tatiana knew all this from her experience in combating weight; she had familiar distributors of pills, on the boxes with which it was written that they were not medicines. It remains to bring the desired distributor with Agnes and prompt a dangerous dose of use.

Tatiana herself took the means for weight loss only with a cure for a stroke, so in her youth she ate ice cream - ice cream plus an antibiotic for a sore throat.

When Agnes came to the office where all traces of the robbery were destroyed, she met a man who came with slimming products. He processed Fedor, who was fed up above any standard. Agnes joined in their conversation. With jokes and jokes, packs of tools promising a gorgeous body were bought.

Fyodor immediately drank a triple dose, saying that his weight required a larger dose, after three hours he drank another triple dose. An hour passed after that - and his head ached terribly, and one side of his body began to lose its mobility. But he decided that he was just worried about the robbery.

Agnes took only one package, and by this time she was not in the office.

Apollo was about to go home, he left the workshop and saw Fyodor in a strange pose, uttering a low. Apollo was called for an ambulance, and Fedor with signs of a stroke was sent to the hospital. About the incident, Apollo reported to Agnes by phone.

Agnes went to the hospital and persuaded the doctor to let her go to Fedor. She had a vague alarm about the poisoning of his pills. Agnes grabbed a pack of slimming products and showed the doctor.

The doctor took her concerns seriously and the pills were sent for examination. They found a substance that causes blood clotting and promotes the formation of blood clots.

Agnes has not had time to print out her packaging, she thought that all this - the links of one chain: the robbery of the office and diet pills.

Fedor was brought to the hospital on time. Agnes promised to pay extra for additional treatment and did not worry the patient anymore, she just went home.

Vlad told his mother about what happened in the office of the robbery and that the guard is in serious condition in the hospital. Tatyana Petrovna sighed and decided that such a result of revenge at this stage would be fine with her, and calmed down, which she did not say a word to her son.

Now Agnessa Ivanovna was upset and began to think, who is sharpening her tooth on her? A thought flashed through my head about Tatyana - and disappeared. No, she could not organize such a robbery.

Soon after Fedor was discharged from the hospital, he set to work. And he decided to trace the flow of diamonds from Boris to Vlad. He wanted to intercept a large batch of diamonds.

Fyodor realized who Vlad the diamonds were selling to, trusting him in trust, saved him the life of an admirer who wanted to break a diamond from his neck. Vlad took off the diamond that hung around his neck for his own safety.


Chapter 17

Life for Fedor was again interesting, he really wanted to rob. Natura was so. And he robbed a middleman, who brought back from the north another batch of diamonds for sale in the variety market among very wealthy people - big pop singers.

It is their palaces, cottages and pools in the house. Fedor firmly stunned the supplier of diamonds, being in a mask and clothes at one time, took the package with diamonds from his weakened hands. Is he not an actor in a mask? Then he changed into his clothes, changed his shoes, and with the face of an innocent security guard sat down at his place in the firm's office.

Who will officially look for a loss? Yes, no one! Item left. A cleaning lady came running in, called Fyodor, telling him that there was a man at the entrance to the office, he had to be lifted up, and this could not be done without her help. Fyodor thought that it was better for him not to do this, suddenly the victim recognized him, it's better to call someone than to go himself.

And Fedor was lucky. Called Vlad. He asked to come to him urgently: he was in a traffic jam near the office. Vlad suggested that Fedor get into his car, and he himself will walk to the office. Fedor stepped over the lying man and flew to the road, where among other cars Vlad recognized the car, which he replaced in the car.

Vlad went to the office and saw a supplier on the doorstep of the office, he searched all his pockets, but found nothing. He thought about Fedor, but quickly disappeared. His face was innocent. Vlad called Boris and said that he was stuck in a traffic jam, and they managed to clear out the supplier during this time, and now he is stunned in the office. Boris squeezed his lips, he knew well that some of the goods in the form of diamonds always disappear, and reassured Vlad so that he would not lose heart and would not stop working with him.

Fedor brought the car of the chief from a stopper. He had to answer the questions of Boris. He said that the man who was lying on the porch saw when a cleaning lady called him, but before that he had not seen him and there was not a minute next to him without a cleaner. It all happened very quickly. Fedor said he urgently needed to leave, and left. Boris is clever, he suggested that Fyodor should take the last batch of diamonds, but he would never confess that.

So what can you do with it? And if he took them away and behaves easily, then he knows what to do with them, or there are sources of sales, then he should be used for sales. Vlad talked about this topic with Boris and received his approval. Boris knew who Fedor could give the stolen diamonds, most likely it was on them that the film in which they both played was made.


Over time, ladies appeared whose job is to wear diamonds of more than five carats, to walk in handmade clothes. That's already funny. If the clothes are handmade, then it must be washed manually. That is, we need servants where an ordinary woman with a salary of 15-30 thousand does everything herself.

To each his own. Ordinary toilers should look at the luxury of the rich, albeit on television in a program where disassembly between people is checked with a lie detector. Do I need it? However, this innovation broke records for viewing. People need - true, even if it is of that kind.

Quarreled madam with the maid. Mrs. accused the maid that she had poisoned the dog, stole a fur coat, a five-carat diamond ring.

The lie detector determined that the maidservant did not dog the dog and did not steal the fur coat.

A ring with a diamond. This ring Mrs advertised in some kind of transmission. Remember the gorgeous movie. The heroes of this film are charming insolent who steal a more expensive ring.

So, the maid, the woman is simple, but she has a smartphone that records the abuse of the lady and all of her blunders not on a blotter, but straight, but where?

Mrs. has a husband who contains her in full, contains her as a porcelain figurine. Gourmet kind. But he found the servant with a nose like his charming wife. Took away her passport. Looks like he liked the maid. He threw her on the bed.

On the lie detector there was a question: 'Did she lie down on the bed of the lady'. And the answer is "no." It was not a lie. She did not go to bed, she was laid. And the ring?

The maid ring from the manor house could not stand. She gave it to the lord for the passport. Let the wife of her husband looking for a lost ring. There was such a film about a diamond ring, where the husband turned out to be the extreme, who stole the ring from his wife.

It is hard to work elite wife ...


Meanwhile, Agnes Ivanovna, for Angelina's daughter, developed a personalized diamond necklace of extraordinary beauty, decorated with emerald leaves. Why was it needed? Where are you going? Similarly, gathered. Angelina had a bunch of small braids on her head and said that two weeks with them you can walk and not bathe.

So, on top of her head there is darkness of braids, a necklace hangs like a diamond cascade under her chin, and as a dress there is a certain amount of fabric ribbons strangely worn on her body, and on her legs leather straps on the sole with thin golden heels.

Angelina sat in the limousine, pressed the gas - and off you go. She rolled to the Fashionable Palace. And almost immediately felt that her chest, decorated with a diamond necklace, attracts views, but such that the necklace has become a stranger to choke! It became terrible!

She arrived alone, but with a gun in the folds of the fabric. So, just in case. And her three young guys began to ship with their attention, hover around her and close to the tub with a ficus.

She feels that she does not give a word, and in her gun she has three diamond bullets, it is also a pity to shoot diamond bullets at three men. And then she was attacked by a feeling of obsession, who would have thought! She threw up her graceful leg, twisted it on the move and hit one person with a golden heel in the chin!

Two other guys attacked her. One hands to the necklace pulls and hugs. She knees him like a punch! And in the third she shot a diamond pool. Then she grabbed the necklace, pressed the lock, and shoved it into the ground with ficus tubs. She lifted her head: the crowd stood up in a semicircle and clapped her hands! And it's all on top of the camera shoots. Jokes local rich people. And she buried her coins in the ground. With her jewelry fingers, she began to look for a necklace, and it was as if he was not in a tub!

The people turned away from her for a fight in another place of the huge hall. She looked for a necklace with a pistol and did not find it. Tears leapt from the eyes and froze at the corners of the eyes, glittering like missing diamonds.

Angelina pulled out a diamond cell phone from some folds of the dress, clicked on the word "Mom":

- Mom, I lost the necklace.

- Fine. Where did you lose him? - asked confusedly Agnes Ivanovna.

- In the tub with the ground.

- Well. Is the dress whole?

- I am fine and all moved away from me.

- Stop, I'll come in half an hour.

Mother sat in a jeep and drove winding roads, bypassing all the traffic jams that she smelled a mile away. Angelina sat on a tub with a giant ficus and looked at the audience with anguish. There was no one next to her after the carnage! Angelina made her rise and look at the audience, and she went to a beautiful ceramic tub, looked at the dug earth and immediately realized that there was no diamond necklace in the tub, that is, in the ground!

- Angelina, there is no necklace in this tub!

- Mom, what are you saying? I shoved him myself into this land!

- Everything is more complicated. The people who pressed you to this tub were of a small mind, but the one who made this snare trap was a great one!

- What are you talking about?

- Look, how much shine is around! And how many such tubs? There, there are about ten of them in different places! You know, you have to go underground, which is not easy. Is the gun with you? I have my gun with me. I think that there are some constructions in these tubs, there is little land in them, and the buried diamonds through large holes fall into the underground.

'This is not a living ficus, but a dummy,' Angelina guessed.

Two ladies, shaking her light hips, went with calm faces to the exit. Mother turned sharply and began to descend the spiral staircase. A guard rushed after her. The diamond lady threatened him with a pistol with such a look that he went to his place. She went into the room, in the ceiling of which there were holes under the pots, at the bottom there were large plastic basins for accepting hidden jewels. In the corner of the room was a security man. When the mother of Angelina appeared, he shouted that it was impossible here, it was not safe here.

The ladies sent two pistols at the man's guard. The guard fell silent.

- Dear, give me a diamond necklace and live happily ever after! Said the mother.

- What more. This is the best catch for today. There he is, dirty, lying in a basin.

Angelina saw in one basin a piece of dirt in which diamonds shone in places. She went to her necklace. The guard put a gun on her:

- Woman! Don't touch Brie ..., - he caught his breath, - diamonds!

Angelina shot in his hand, a diamond bullet pierced into it. The man gasped and began to pull the diamond out of his hand like an ordinary splinter. Angelina grabbed a piece of diamond dirt, wiped it on her ribbon dress and put it in a hidden pocket. The ladies decorously left the basement, got into their cars, no one even rushed to them, for some reason their guards were frightened. Horses with riders standing at the entrance to the palace, did not move from the spot.

Silver threads of rain, spiky garlands, shiny balls on the green branches of a toy Christmas tree almost did not attract attention. The New Year's creation stood on a bluish plastic nightstand in which the New Year's chests with candies lay. Over a Christmas tree a garland hung from half a meter of height, twisted from five wires with multi-colored bulbs. Of all the variety, only colorless lights blinked, the rest rested. The luxury of the New Year's evening didn't stop at the children's table, with a children's chair next to it.

On the table was a bottle of champagne and a drink for children. The festive table contained four wine glasses, four plates. A herring under a fur coat, laid on a long plate, stood next to a stool. New year was coming. After the entertainment on the street with Bengal lights, the inhabitants of the room prepared for the New Year's meeting returned. What they started is unknown, but one finger of the room owner was burned. She took the foam and poured it abundantly on her finger, after which she poured a glass of wine into a glass of wine and a glass of champagne.

Four crystal wine glasses met in a single ring over the children's table and overturned each into his master's mouth. At this official part of the meeting of the unforgettable year was left behind. The herring under the fur coat least of all approached champagne, and was soon replaced with pieces of cake. Colorless light bulbs of a garland above a shoebox flashed in light-hearted fashion, in which there were about sixty discs without packages with children's films and games. The inhabitants of the room lay down in their places in the hope of seeing the New Year's luxury on the plasma screen.

Not sat Agnes. She sat nervously on her couch and looked at her watch, which should have been another twenty minutes, after which she could leave the family hearth with the traditional New Year meeting. She went to the mirror, sprayed her hair with lacquer, making her own odor, and left the house to continue the banquet among friends.

It's an amazing thing, but from year to year all New Year's programs for all programs looked hard after a dose of champagne. It was necessary to fall asleep. Then wake up and see a couple of numbers of New Year's performances. Agnes closed the door, removed the dirty plates and went to her room. She turned on the TV, but after two songs she fell asleep.

She suffered from her own stupidity on the dating page. She hung on it, and soon hung in the elevator for an hour, after indicating the place of residence. The elevator was stuffy, the buttons were not pressed. The duty officer promised a lifter, who bypassed the entrances and let out, hung up residents of the houses. She tried to squat and turn gray on her own legs, but there was less air below. She got up, leaned against the wall and turned away from the closed elevator door. Sometimes she came to the door, trying to inhale the air through the crack between the doors, but she was so small that the air was not breathed.

In the dream Agnes saw a new generation elevator without doors. A shaft in the elevator had a pair of rails along the height of the shaft, and a platform slid along them. And that's it! All appliances. Just disgraceful and reliable. If the platform of the elevator, where stuck, so the air will remain a message with those who go up the stairs. In short, the elevator should be simple and reliable! When the elevator opened the door to the elevator, and set Agnes free, he involuntarily exclaimed:

- You look good for a man who spent an hour in the elevator.

Agnessa did not know that not everyone can withstand the seat in the elevator. This year, several people died at her entrance who could not stand the disruption of the elevator. A heart. Not so scary to be in a closed elevator, as bad without air.

And who said that five-story buildings are bad? They did not have an elevator, and it was good, but the residents did not know about it, because they did not pass the time in the elevator. She began to walk up the steps. On TV showed a new high-rise building with a height of one and a half times the television tower. Yes, she recognized the shah who built the skyscraper. How a man grew up! And she constantly depicts poverty.

Yes, she could lay the royal table and live in a house without an elevator, but the sense of self-preservation makes her be careful. Why all? Because she was born with fear. She blew on the burned finger and looked at the exhibition of emeralds on the coral.


The white coral bush was decorated with bijouterie. Countless treasures hung in plain sight, lit by the bright light of the fashionable mini lamps. There were: a tiara made of amber, a hoop on the head with leaves of emeralds, several large amber pendants with minimal treatments of natural stones, two hoops on hands with small pearl beads, a necklace hung on a twig.

Small figures stood under the coral. In a box of straw lay earrings and rings. Agnes looked at the small room with a modest interior and thought that none of those who came to them would have had the idea that her personal diamond fund was located on an open shelf. She did not believe in safes, but she firmly believed that the obvious was incredible.

Yes, Agnes is a woman of strange years, she still works as much as she can. Life is beautiful, but its negative sides are more and more often. In youth you can fall in love and cover all financial and moral - ethical norms with love. And at her age, love without money can not be obtained, and love is not necessary according to biological norms. Therefore, it narrows its needs for everything and puts elementary survival in the environment where it is in the first place.

There is great advice on parenting:

- Constantly put on the shoulders of children the problems that they are able to solve themselves.

With this, we should start the day, instead of a showdown: who promised what and to whom. The needs of children grow in the progression that close people are able to support. Its capabilities decrease over the years, natural health decreases, and it is constantly necessary to maintain it artificially. You can rejoice at what is, but to fall into a depressed state is an unaffordable luxury. Therefore, she concludes: solve the kids their affairs themselves, especially since they are not problematic for her, she spent a lot of nerve endings and money on her decision that she had a relative affection for her whole conscious life.

Agnes managed to fall in love and be loved for a while. But the health of such love disappeared, like a snowball in the spring. A snow Baba cannot be a Snow Maiden for long; it is too expensive when the requests do not correspond to age changes. Everything is good in the measure of decency, the concept of which is determined by the degree of love. While you love - this concept is resting, when love passes, you can begin to think that it is indecent to love a younger man. Now she loved Seeds.

Sometime at the first meeting of her husband's classmates at one successful couple, Agnes saw their bedroom: they were two beds, standing parallel to each other, but with a decent distance between the beds. There was a time when she and her husband slept on the same unfolded sofa from the furniture set. Huge chairs served them to watch TV, or for their addictions.

Agnes could sew, knit, read in a chair. Apollo could be engaged in writing programs or their male handicrafts. He could solder at home or work. The condition is one: it should not violate the creative space by talking. They regularly slept together with the benefit of themselves, but over the years the passion has been exhausted, love has passed. That is why they switched to two rookeries in the same room. Near but not together.


Silver threads of rain, spiky garlands, shiny balls on the green branches of a toy Christmas tree almost did not attract attention. The New Year's creation stood on a bluish plastic nightstand in which the New Year's chests with candies lay. Over a Christmas tree a garland hung from half a meter of height, twisted from five wires with multi-colored bulbs. Of all the variety, only colorless lights blinked, the rest rested. The luxury of the New Year's evening didn't stop at the children's table, with a children's chair next to it.

On the table was a bottle of champagne and a drink for children. The festive table contained four wine glasses, four plates. A herring under a fur coat, laid on a long plate, stood next to a stool. New year was coming. After the entertainment on the street with Bengal lights, the inhabitants of the room prepared for the New Year's meeting returned. What they started is unknown, but one finger of the room owner was burned. She took the foam and poured it abundantly on her finger, after which she poured a glass of wine into a glass of wine and a glass of champagne.

Four crystal wine glasses met in a single ring over the children's table and overturned each into his master's mouth. At this official part of the meeting of the unforgettable year was left behind. The herring under the fur coat least of all approached champagne, and was soon replaced with pieces of cake. Colorless light bulbs of a garland above a shoebox flashed in light-hearted fashion, in which there were about sixty discs without packages with children's films and games. The inhabitants of the room lay down in their places in the hope of seeing the New Year's luxury on the plasma screen.

Not sat Agnes. She sat nervously on her couch and looked at her watch, which should have been another twenty minutes, after which she could leave the family hearth with the traditional New Year meeting. She went to the mirror, sprayed her hair with lacquer, making her own odor, and left the house to continue the banquet among friends.

It's an amazing thing, but from year to year all New Year's programs for all programs looked hard after a dose of champagne. It was necessary to fall asleep. Then wake up and see a couple of numbers of New Year's performances. Agnes closed the door, removed the dirty plates and went to her room. She turned on the TV, but after two songs she fell asleep.

She suffered from her own stupidity on the dating page. She hung on it, and soon hung in the elevator for an hour, after indicating the place of residence. The elevator was stuffy, the buttons were not pressed. The duty officer promised a lifter, who bypassed the entrances and let out, hung up residents of the houses. She tried to squat and turn gray on her own legs, but there was less air below. She got up, leaned against the wall and turned away from the closed elevator door. Sometimes she came to the door, trying to inhale the air through the crack between the doors, but she was so small that the air was not breathed.

In the dream Agnes saw a new generation elevator without doors. A shaft in the elevator had a pair of rails along the height of the shaft, and a platform slid along them. And that's it! All appliances. Just disgraceful and reliable. If the platform of the elevator, where stuck, so the air will remain a message with those who go up the stairs. In short, the elevator should be simple and reliable! When the elevator opened the door to the elevator, and set Agnes free, he involuntarily exclaimed:

- You look good for a man who spent an hour in the elevator.

Agnessa did not know that not everyone can withstand the seat in the elevator. This year, several people died at her entrance who could not stand the disruption of the elevator. A heart. Not so scary to be in a closed elevator, as bad without air.

And who said that five-story buildings are bad? They did not have an elevator, and it was good, but the residents did not know about it, because they did not pass the time in the elevator. She began to walk up the steps. On TV showed a new high-rise building with a height of one and a half times the television tower. Yes, she recognized the shah who built the skyscraper. How a man grew up! And she constantly depicts poverty.

Yes, she could lay the royal table and live in a house without an elevator, but the sense of self-preservation makes her be careful. Why all? Because she was born with fear. She blew on the burned finger and looked at the exhibition of emeralds on the coral.

The white coral bush was decorated with bijouterie. Countless treasures hung in plain sight, lit by the bright light of the fashionable mini lamps. There were: a tiara made of amber, a hoop on the head with leaves of emeralds, several large amber pendants with minimal treatments of natural stones, two hoops on hands with small pearl beads, a necklace hung on a twig.

Small figures stood under the coral. In a box of straw lay earrings and rings. Agnes looked at the small room with a modest interior and thought that none of those who came to them would have had the idea that her personal diamond fund was located on an open shelf. She did not believe in safes, but she firmly believed that the obvious was incredible.

Yes, Agnes is a woman of strange years, she still works as much as she can. Life is beautiful, but its negative sides are more and more often. In youth you can fall in love and cover all financial and moral - ethical norms with love. And at her age, love without money can not be obtained, and love is not necessary according to biological norms. Therefore, it narrows its needs for everything and puts elementary survival in the environment where it is in the first place.

There is great advice on parenting:

- Constantly put on the shoulders of children the problems that they are able to solve themselves.

With this, we should start the day, instead of a showdown: who promised what and to whom. The needs of children grow in the progression that close people are able to support. Its capabilities decrease over the years, natural health decreases, and it is constantly necessary to maintain it artificially. You can rejoice at what is, but to fall into a depressed state is an unaffordable luxury. Therefore, she concludes: solve the kids their affairs themselves, especially since they are not problematic for her, she spent a lot of nerve endings and money on her decision that she had a relative affection for her whole conscious life.

Agnes managed to fall in love and be loved for a while. But the health of such love disappeared, like a snowball in the spring. A snow Baba cannot be a Snow Maiden for long; it is too expensive when the requests do not correspond to age changes. Everything is good in the measure of decency, the concept of which is determined by the degree of love. While you love - this concept is resting, when love passes, you can begin to think that it is indecent to love a younger man. Now she loved Seeds.

Sometime at the first meeting of her husband's classmates at one successful couple, Agnes saw their bedroom: they were two beds, standing parallel to each other, but with a decent distance between the beds. There was a time when she and her husband slept on the same unfolded sofa from the furniture set. Huge chairs served them to watch TV, or for their addictions.

Agnes could sew, knit, read in a chair. Apollo could be engaged in writing programs or their male handicrafts. He could solder at home or work. The condition is one: it should not violate the creative space by talking. They regularly slept together with the benefit of themselves, but over the years the passion has been exhausted, love has passed. That is why they switched to two rookeries in the same room. Near but not together.


Thinking out loud. All homes and people are aging. But in high-rise buildings, people age faster. Why? The higher the house, the less people can be seen on the street, they sit at home, so that once again the elevator will not be disturbed.

The wealthy people from their high-rise fortresses constantly leave for summer houses in order to be closer to the ground. Rich people live in low-rise mansions. And in the five-story buildings you can live at home and just go out into the square. No lift!

As for the aging of the five-story buildings of the 60-ies of buildings, it is necessary and possible to make insulation from the ends of houses, with due respect to the houses they still stand, and people will live in human conditions. Renovation is not the reanimation of five-story buildings, but their complete destruction.

As for the nine-storey houses of the 70s of buildings, these are just good houses, well-built. They have an elevator, but you can go down the stairs, they are located nearby. These houses are densely populated.

The next mass series is the 17-storey towers, they begin to be thoroughly repaired before 9-storey houses. What is bad in them: on the floors there is a cage of their 4 elevators, the stairs are miserable, far from the residents, residents of up to the 5th floor use it, they are not used further, there are fewer people in these houses than prescribed.

It is likely that it is the rich people who are registered in the towers, but live in mansions. The general conclusion: the higher the house, the more vacant apartments and areas in fact.

Agnessa herself picked up the phone when the telephone rang in the office. The singer of a famous pop duet called on the recommendation of Fedor, she needed to make two diamond pendants for the clip. Two gorgeous blondes earned good money, but the clip is like a huge advertisement for them, and you can't outshine anyone without shine. Agnes liked the order twice: both the order and the clip - she offered the singer to help with the script of the clip. The singer counted on it.

Soon she appeared in the office with her stage partner. Agnessa told the ladies how much the order for the two suspensions and the script would be for them. Those thought that the sums would be even greater, and agreed - they knew about the mastitis of the advertising clips, Agness.

For Agnes, such an order opened up new spaces for her activities, she did everything so that the two ladies in the diamond pendant clip were sexy and showed their vocal gift. After the video, the duo of ladies were greeted with wild applause in all cities of the country.

Singers with orders for double service reached Agnessa.

It's one thing to shoot a clip, and another thing is to find him a place on the air at the right time, in which Apollo had his own abilities and connections, supported by money in the right place. The chief worked well, and Fedor began to penetrate into the areas of his former television activities. Life spun with a vengeance.

Once, Agnes was asked to shoot a clip in which she, Fedor and the singer, and, if possible, with exotic decorations, would be in. Agnes proposed to find a black pearl and play in the clip the story of his stay on the Untouched Island, using the navigator's back.

The video has exceeded all expectations. The people began to call the navigator, who portrayed Fedor. His popularity has become universal. His thirty cavities in the back became known to everyone, and with them everyone began to recognize Agnes, and diamonds sparkled on them, or black pearls fogged his eyes.

The March deceptive rays eroded the drifts, creating an openwork design of the snowy roadside shafts in the transition period from winter to spring, which is the brightest urban sign of spring. Young girls glittered with golden and red hair. Blondes went out of fashion a little, bright colors won.

Machines acquired new shades that are different from the simple dark color, they all were slightly similar to each other in their configuration, or tried to be like the best world samples. The country, along its outer border, similar to a boot, was undergoing a gradual departure of the head of the church, new candidates for a unique post invaded television screens


Chapter 18

Agnes recalled her longtime fan of longstanding exposure. In a difficult time for her, he led a bachelor life, he lived alone in a one-room apartment. She called him once.

Fedor answered:

- Agnes, I will arrive late today, come to me.

Agnes was going on a date very seriously, went to the bath with a huge mass of foam, cleaned up the gel to a brilliant cleanliness, blow-dried her hair, made her hair, carefully painted her face like the Indians before the fight, dyed her nails, put on new things taking into account Fedor's taste. She bought in the store his favorite wine and products for snacks, and went.

Go to a friend on the bus for about fifteen minutes. Interestingly, the furniture store is also at this stop, this is by the way. Agnes comes up to Fedor's house on a narrow path, trodden in snowdrifts, looking

on the windows, and they are dark. Fedor is not at home. She stood in one place, trampled down and decided to ring the doorbell.

It presses the button, but through a pile of doors and the bell is not heard. It is, no one opens. I went out into the evening frost and went to the side of the stop. After a hundred meters met Fedor, he went to meet her. She turned around and went with him.

A man came from work. She got up Agnes to the stove and began to cook in someone else's kitchen. Fedor drank, ate, spoke and utterly tired Agnes. Time later, she goes to bed at 22 o'clock, and time is already two nights, and the man from the table does not even go out. Boredom attacked her terrible, the desire to fall asleep in her, was ready to go home, but later.

Agnessa told Fyodor that she would go to sleep. He nodded, and she went into the room, and until that time they were all in the kitchen, beautiful, but in the kitchen. At home she cooks and irons clothes in the kitchen, and sometimes eats, and more often puts plates on a tray and eats in the room, in the armchair by the TV ...

She went into a cool, large room, it had two beds. Having removed the upper things, climbed under a cool blanket and turned off, fell asleep. Woke up two hours later, Fedor was still sitting in the kitchen. She went to bed again. She got up in the morning about six o'clock, got dressed and left.

The next time they were together. A gorgeous bottle with excellent grape wine did not raise his manhood to the desired height. Fedor began to drink vodka, he drank more wine, but he had already changed him, and love had changed him, she was not there, there was a massage. Agnes massaged his huge back, then got up and left. He was empty, like a drunk bottle of wine, and in it appeared the spirit of male impotence.

The next meeting was almost a farewell. Five people were sitting at the table. Fyodor sat next to another woman and did not drink the wine that stood next to him. He drank vodka with a new woman. They drank themselves to alcohol kisses at the table. Agnes froze, turned cold from the betrayal that occurred before her eyes, a feeling died to her.

For a couple of years she looked at the windows with grape wine, still mentally searched for a great wine for love, but already clearly realized that there was no one to buy this wonderful drink.

Agnes looked at her watch; they showed that there was still half an hour before midnight. Apollo slept in the legs, the last time they slept - a jack, the bed was huge. The woman looked at the man: did she wake up? He slept. Life went on. Grim didn't wash Agnes's face from the evening, everything on her face was normal, she dressed quietly, took the bag and carefully closed the door behind her.

Apollo opened his eyes in the darkness, he heard a noise at the door, but everything quickly subsided, and he fell asleep, not looking in the direction of Agnes, he began to look at her a little.

On the street was the nightlife under the lanterns, which shone at the small shopping pavilions. In the pavilion, Agnes bought a bottle of good wine, took a cupcake, vacuum-packed meat, and went to the bus stop. To her good fortune, the bus approached rather quickly, young guys and a couple of girls of the used type were driving in it. She sat on the cold seat and looked at the night city outside the window.

Apollo Agnes did not wait at the bus stop, although he promised to meet, he was late for a date after discharge from the hospital. She didn't wait for punctuality from him and slowly walked down the road to his house.

At this time, Apollo woke up thoroughly, turned over and, seeing that the woman in her legs was not lying, got up, walked through the apartment. Agnes was not at home. He looked into the closet: there was no fur coat, there was no her bag. I looked out the window: the car was standing still.

Apollo got dressed and drove towards the Apollo house. He went to his house, looked up: the lights were on in the kitchen, the curtains were pushed aside.

Apollo Agnes met in his apartment, he also did not go out to meet her, they settled in the kitchen. He smoked and opened the transom. The cold was breaking in with a fresh wave of air, and he seldom pulled the curtains.

Agnes went to the window, closed the curtain, and someone's gaze pierced her. But Apollo reopened the window. Agnes sat down at the kitchen table so that it was not visible from the window of the house opposite.

The abandoned Apollo looked round and resolutely went into the house opposite, climbed to the floor above, looked from the entrance to the Apollo apartment: the lighted kitchen was visible in the palm of your hand. The food on the stove was absent. Agnes rose from her seat, not paying attention to the window, began to cook dinner. The kitchen was shining with unused cleanliness, but there was a box with empty bottles on the floor, which means they drank a lot, but did not cook much.

Apollo smoked sitting at the table. Agnes before his eyes went through the kitchen and cooked roast meat under the comments of the man. He decided to add food to the table and took out a jar of sprats while he opened it, a large drop of oil got on Agnes's new denim skirt. The stain broke into a malicious smile. Wine filled with dusty glasses.

The bell rang at the front door. Agnes flinched. Apollo did not move. The call was choking with rabies, but the door was holding on. After three minutes, everything was quiet.

Home Agnes returned early in the morning. Apollo slept.

The next day was a continuation of this story.

Thick garland swayed by the wind, she hung over the entrance to the bar of the X-Club. The audience did not come here without money. People in pairs and one by one passed under the garland. Agnes and Apollo were sitting at the chic bar counter, they were slowly pulling cocktails through a large straw.

Suddenly, one tall gentleman staggered at the garland and began to slowly settle, on his forehead a little drop of blood appeared.

The bartender automatically pressed the buttons 02 on the phone. The guard, a short man, bent over the man: the pulse was weaker and weaker.

- fast! He is still alive! - shouted the guard.

The bartender had already mechanically called an ambulance for 03. The chosen public of the club knew the fallen mister.

'Fedor is dying,' came a whisper.

Detective Musin arrived. The ambulance arrived pretty quickly. People in the X-club thought they had fired a pistol with a silencer. The ambulance doctor was surprised to find a small dot on the forehead under a drop of blood - such a wound happens when blood is taken from a finger for analysis.

- Everyone stay on the ground! Shouted Musin.

All and so were as paralyzed. Fedor here was known and feared; it was a tall, big, handsome man, in which women fell in love with his appearance. He was always lucky, or so it seemed from the side, and so he lay sprawled on the threshold of the bar. And it seems that his pulse has disappeared, judging by the replica of the doctor.

A feminine, slender beauty jumped out of the car that came up and stopped in front of the bar.

- ABOUT! - all that she said, squeezed her mouth with his hand, so as not to scream.

Fedor was put on a stretcher and quickly brought into the resuscitation car that had just arrived on a call from an ambulance. Doctors hoped to revive him.

Musin was at a loss: on a dying man there was only a needle prick on his forehead. The bartender said he did not see someone from the bar throwing a needle at Fedor.

And at that time a beautiful woman went to the bar, she was in beautiful high-heeled boots, in them she was almost as tall as Fedor. The woman caught up with the garland and, just like him, began to settle on the threshold of the bar. Musin rushed to the woman, but it was too late. She instantly turned cold. There was a drop of blood on her forehead. They called the ambulance again. The audience looked at what was happening.

The medical team arrived at the woman with a stretcher. The high orderly slowly fell down beside her. The nurse was lying with a drop of blood on his forehead.

Musin caught himself and shouted again:

- Everyone stand still! - and began to slowly approach the place of the fall of people. He raised his head, a bright New Year garland swaying innocently above him. 'Take the victims to the car,' Musin said, and began to look attentively at the garland. She, like a living, rocked at the entrance to the bar. "How to remove it?" - he thought and asked:

- Who hung the garland over the bar entrance?

'We always have a garland hanging at this place a week before the New Year, and we hanged it in the afternoon today,' the bartender answered.

- Who hung? Asked Musin sternly.

- Ask the administrator, this is his department.

Musin interrogated the X-Club administrator. The administrator said that the supplier had brought the garland and said that it is necessary to hang it carefully at the tips in order not to touch it by chance, otherwise it will move and there will not be enough beauty above the entrance to the X-club. As for the length of the garland, it would not be possible to hang it otherwise, above the entrance there are two small towns to which the tails of Christmas garlands were always attached. They probably knew who the garland was hanging against, only those who prepared it for the X-club.

Musin asked the administrator to prepare a list of members of the X-club and employees, against each write a height if it is more than 185 centimeters. The arriving criminalist respectfully looked at the garland: she had to be taken for examination. Just how to take it in hand? Carefully tweezers removed the garland (it was glued with ordinary tape) and put it on a tray that the bartender offered to the criminologist.

The event that took place in the elite club could decorate the pages of the magazine, and the title of the article 'Christmas Garland' on New Year's Eve did not have a price. Musin conducted his investigation. The arrival of his partner, Zoe, in the X-Club coincided with the appearance of a supplier who bought a garland. The supplier saw a garland lying on a tray and said in surprise:

- I did not buy it!

- Is it another festoon? Asked Musin.

- Yes, very similar. But this garland is longer, mine hung on the wall, we always decorate this wall, and the garland did not hang over the entrance.

- Would you say that the garland replaced? - Zoya got into the conversation.

'Yes, I'm sure,' replied the supplier.

'Take pictures until you have taken them,' said the criminologist, who was ready to leave the scene of the crime.

Garland on a tray was taken for examination. All those who were in the X-club were recorded and released with a request not to leave the city, since the incident was serious and three people were already dying. The experts carefully examined the garland: the expensive and fashionable garland did not evoke negative emotions. How and where were the deadly needles hidden in it? Lush garland was fitted as if it consisted of thousands of needles.


If there are many deadly needles in the garland, why is only one given a shot? Why not all at once? Technically perfect instrument of death. From the laboratory reported that a potent poison was found in a drop of blood. Antidotes for this poison were practically absent. An insignificant amount of poison got into the blood, but that was enough for the death of a person.

This arsenic is used in the technology of producing thin films, and only in ten or fifteen years from now the technologists working with it begin to show a phase shift, but it is referred to as age-related insanity. And here a new, strong poison was used. There was a time when people used arrows, poisoned by poison, and here needles in a garland. A few more needles were found in the garland, very thin and sharp; they were located along the length of the garland through a decent gap similar to the size of a person's face.

It remains to find the manufacturer of the serial garland. You can find a factory for making garlands, but a deadly specialist worked here. Find him! And how many such garlands he spoiled? Musin decided that he hung the garland and replaced the one who knew the members of the X-Club well and was well acquainted with the traditions of the establishment. Three people died, it became known that the victims were not saved.

Fedor and the lady were the most interesting members of the X-club, the rest were shorter and not as rich as they are. A week before these events, the bartender and Fedor had an argument, although the bartender had no right to quarrel with customers. Fedor is a cool man, came to the X-club to relax, and here his local love spun - a beautiful woman. Here was his outlet.

The business father of the beauty found out about this outlet and called the bartender to his conversation. The beauty's father was the unwritten authority of the city, his credo is to keep everyone in a tight rein, especially those whose fortune depended on him. The bartender received instructions and a garland with deadly needles. Garland hung himself when no one was around. The bartender was so intimidated that he made calls that could harm him. Musin felt this: the bartender was engaged in affairs that were not characteristic of him, and interfered in conversations when the service was supposed to be silent.

Musin and Zoya sat down at the counter next to the Arkin family, nodded their heads and asked for light drinks. They talked among themselves, but their ears caught the words and moods of people who came and went from the institution. Musin knew the peculiarities of the unwritten power in the city.

The appointment of the X-club was not negotiable, they came here to dump emotions and money. Musin and Zoe already listened to the story about Fedor and the lady, but they did not know the main thing: the unofficial owner of the X-Club was the lady's father.

The extraordinary and nervous persona bartender acted on Zoya.

'Why isn't the bartender arrested?' She asked Musin.

'They are accumulating data against him,' he answered, 'or they want to calculate the customer of a crime.' It is clear that the bartender could outweigh the garland, but someone gave it to him. Do not be surprised that the crime will remain unsolved, too sophisticated method of murder.

The cell phone criminologist reported the results of the examination to Musin.

'Poison, needles, garland,' repeated Musin, the criminalist Zoe, thoughtfully.

- Calculated the composition of the instrument of death, and what are the motives? She asked.

'Love and the polyhedron around her,' he replied. - We must look for the facets of a polyhedron, and they are usually connected with one another. Now it's time for us to quickly leave the X-club!

Musin and Zoya left the money at the counter, nodded to the bartender, Agnes, Apollo, took the outerwear in the wardrobe and went to the car.

-How beautiful is the X-Club! Only now I realized, 'Agnes breathed,' where you can find all the joys of entertainment in one place! ' Here is a symbiosis of comfort! And before that, it was Fedor's cafe, and I decorated these walls with Christmas balls. Apollo, you saw, the club has separate lounges and restaurant corners, rooms for billiards, and just a pool with a sauna, and a hall for roulette - all in a compact building with a couple of floors! I saw a list of services, I did not list everything. The decoration is fantastic, everything is in this building, and nothing extra is visible. Wardrobe in the eye does not climb, it is covered with a wall, like a screen. The bar is visible, but it does not confuse, it is not the main bar, but at the entrance to take a look. Everything else can be found if they say where to go, in a word, the X-Club is a laboratory of services!

- Yes, Agnes, you almost got into the essence of the institution. This club is a complete mystery of services, but the prices in it are heavenly! There is a strip scene here, but you can't find anything from the street!

- A building! Is it old or rebuilt?

'The building is priceless, there was a building overlooking the central street and the outside, everything was done antique, but from new materials, the building itself is enlarged inside the courtyard,' Apollo answered.

Agnes and Apollo went home, they just missed the night of love.

Musin took Zoya, and remained alone in the car, and once again slipped the thought: "I am alive again! It is clear that the guard of the club is not only a guard at the entrance, but a kind of criminal network with a large spider. And they didn't like something Fedor. The beauty and the orderly are the victims of the incident, although the woman could have been an unplanned victim. The threads lead to the spider. I wonder if there are other similar places in the city or more simple ones? " - so thought Musin, driving past the bar "X", he suddenly stopped the car.

Above the entrance to the bar "X" hung a harmless festoon. There was no one around, there was a day off. Musin got out of the car, looked at the garlands: there were several of them, they hung vertically, in different segments. Small shiny snow settled on them. Not to tear all the garlands in the city, thought Musin. His gaze was distracted by a man who was approaching him.

- Man, give me a quarter! I'm cold, and if you're here, you're rich, 'said the man and automatically pulled one garland.

- Oh! The man shouted, falling on the fresh snow.

Musin was almost not surprised that the homeless man became cold. The garland did not come off and quietly continued to sway. The detective froze, he didn't have a desire to call all services here, he just thought: 'The host of the X-institutions couldn't harm himself! Who hung these garlands?' He felt cold and nasty. Homelessness does not return and quarter. Musin got into the car and drove home, meeting with services today is beyond his power. Need to think...

It is necessary to remove the garlands! But how many of them hang around the city? He was attacked by a state of stupor. He woke up, the car was at the curb. He took a cell phone and called Zoya, then began to explain to her where else he had seen the garlands, so that she would transmit information to the police, but not just 02, but to the police department ... and then he realized that it was not very interesting for anyone, especially the local branch the militia.

- Ok, I'll call myself. I just dozed off, and the car stopped. All woke up. Goodnight!

Mussin called the X-Club bartender and said:

- Barman, I'm sorry to bother you! I know that you are there. You see, driving around the city and saw the name of the bar "X." You do not know who the owner of the bar?

- Musin, and what happened there? Why are you calling?

- I saw the garlands in the entrance, and the homeless is under them.

- Specify the street, the fact is that the owner has five establishments, each has the letter "X" in the name.

-Musin, I understood that you would tell anyone, and I went to sleep ...

Musin called the secretary of the host and relayed the information. The owner, he is the spider of the security web, thought about the fact that someone decided to replay it. He knew about a series of garlands brought to the city, he took one to rein in Fedor because he had become impudent, but he did not allow him to hang more garlands. Who set him up? People will stop going to X-clubs, and they bring a good income.

The owner summoned two trusted guards. I asked to go around institutions and collect all the garlands, instead of hanging up the usual ones, just like the ones that are hanging now. He warned of the dangers and caution of handling the garlands. An hour later the guys appeared, they brought a plastic tank with garlands into the office.

- Well done, guys are free!

The owner called the bar and said to the bartender:

- Thanks for the information! Close the club! Tomorrow you will tell everyone that the funeral of the three dead at the institution, you will say that we were set up by competitors.

Then the owner called Musin:

- Musin, we have problems, come to me now.

The owner decided to mow under a well-informed law-abiding person.

Musin arrived ten minutes later, familiarized himself with the contents of the tank.

'Now you can sleep,' he told the host. 'Everything else is tomorrow, I'll take the tank with me.'

Agnes and Apollo have long slept after the story of the Christmas garland and talk about their lives. Agnessse dreamed of a kaleidoscope of his own hobbies, which had no end to the edge.


Whatever it was, and life went on as usual and constantly prepared new surprises, therefore Agnessa wanted to sum up the elementary results of her life in order to develop a plan for her future work. She knew exactly what she had:

- There is a husband and daughter.

Apollo lived alone, he bought a one-room apartment, led a sufficiently lonely lifestyle, and did not interfere in the life of his wife. Soon he arrived. She looked at her husband and did not move under the rug after the massage.

- Agnes, are you healthy? I'm bored without you !!!

- And we are not fun without you.

- Can I come back to you?

'Dad, come back, mom misses you without you,' said the daughter.

- I already arrived, things in the car.

- Eh, Apollo! All is well and you are at home.

- Thank. You know, I thought that the earth energy of diamonds ...

- What are you talking about! I missed you.

He walked over to her, sat down on an old and beloved blanket, kissed her hair, plunged into the familiar smell of pain.

- And you're still the same, familiar to the smallest details.

Apollo got Agnes, which is not very pleased. Yes, in this situation, she did not want to smile. He came out ahead of her in diamond mining in a strange way, and she so wanted to win over him! Here it is! Here it is! Apollo more and more fat. She herself is all the more busy with her business. Write the script? Already uninteresting. She looked out the window: it was the first snow, looked in the mirror and turned away. Agnes took her gun and shot in the mirror, in her image in it. The mirror shattered into pieces.

Apollo stuck his head into the room:

'Agnessa, why are you shooting?'

- Bored.

- Got it! But you have nothing to amuse!

- Mom, and I'm your father? - asked daughter.

'Yes,' the mother replied, tapping the keyboard with her fingers with long nails set on acrylic or gel. On the nails shone diamonds, made of rhinestones or chips.

- I used to think that it was necessary to give birth to a child at eighteen years of age, and now I think that first you need to settle down in life and give birth to a child at twenty-five.

Agnes daughter gave an answer.

'I used to say that, and bore you at twenty-five.' Daughter, you just remember that being a beautiful woman is very difficult, but even harder to be ugly, and I'm scared when you walk lightly dressed: men cannot be provoked.

- On that they can provoke?

Agnes was writing at that time, and to her horror she did not remember the words that she herself had answered to her question.

Apollo remembered something after years.

- Agnes, have an idea! Remember, I worked at a diamond processing plant? I know where one diamond cutter was putting his diamonds. He died recently. His wife called me. And I remembered his diamonds, but did not tell her. She doesn't know about them. Agnes, I can go alone, but it is better if we go together.

'We'll go together,' said Agnessa, echoing off the couch and knitting the old rug into a ball. Then she put it in the bag and put the bag on release.

- Agnessa, we must go today, we must hurry! Are you ready to drive?

- We will go by car?

- Yes, it will be calmer: without tickets, without hotels.

- Looks like a serious matter. It is a pity that the new blanket did not dry, they would take with them.

- Agnes pack your things, we'll leave.

Boris sat at home and listened to the conversation from the apartment of Agnes. He loved her along with her diamond firm, and here is the news! No wonder he had installed a bug in her house.

He immediately began to gather on the trip. I called the company where I worked, took the car, weapons, accompanying papers. In exchange, he had to bring diamonds or bills. Boris decided to follow the diamond pair, naturally, by car.

The car left the city in search of the treasure of an unknown diamond cutter.

Apollo told his wife:

- The thief was a cowardly: he took the diamonds from the factory, but he did not sell them, he was afraid that he would be caught in the sale. And so he lived a life of fear and misery. When he felt this all-consuming fear, he told me about his treasure as a friend to a nearby workplace. I swore to him that the diamond hiding place would not touch as long as he was alive. About his travels, he told me.


Apollo Petrovich felt shadowed immediately and told Agnessa Ivanovna about it.

'That was to be expected,' she replied. - I would like to know who is sitting at the wheel, but the cars are unknown to me.

'Agnessa, stop the car and skip it.'

The first car really flew by. The second slowed down. Agnessa Ivanovna recognized the profile of Boris.

- Apollo, Boris is following us.

- Peace to me from your fans there! What are you bewitching Boris?

- You know, I am the first to come up to no one.

- It is clear that you have such genes. Look, Boris stopped, you lost.

Indeed, the car stood at the curb.

'Agnessa, I shouldn't have taken you.' Look: Musin is still behind us! I do not know what to do! Treasure will not wait long.

- I'm not guilty! I didn't tell them anything.

- They are watching you, that's what's the matter! I because of them from you and moved into a separate apartment, there is calmer, and with you alone chase.

Suddenly, the third car flew past the Apollo and Agnes car at high speed and stopped. Out of the car came Detective Musin.

- Agnessa Ivanovna, what fate? Where are you going? - he asked.

'Musin, I am going to rest in a sanatorium, and they surrounded me, as if I were carrying diamonds.'

- Agnessa, your sanatorium is under the rug, and now you have such support that you clearly have found yourself diamond entertainment! Exclaimed Mussin.

'Apollo, they will not leave me alone,' she told her husband wearily.

'Agnessa, look, you have three escort cars!' Where are you getting from us? Come on, report on where you are going, 'approached Boris.

- Apollo, I'm sorry, but they better tell where we are going. The bad news is that a militia's tail quickly grows behind Boris, 'said Agnes.

'Aha, especially Musin, he is always in our fairway,' Boris answered. - His great-grandfather was okolotochnom. Agnessa, well, you have nails! Why do you need diamonds? Itself in diamond nails you go, for viewing would take money.

'We can't take a man, take a nail with rhinestones!' - Agnes cheerfully answered and added: - We are going to look for an abandoned treasure! Join now!

Apollon Petrovich frowned, but said nothing.

Musin spoke:

- Hello! Agnes, you have divine nails! I used such claws!

'Musin, how did you figure us out?'

- Agnes, I will not tell you my little secret.

'Your case,' she said, and waving her imperatively beautiful fingers.

Men went to the cars.


Chapter 19

Agnes went first. All the other cars drove after her. The spring sky enveloped the horizon. She looked into the distance, stopped the car, opened the door and went out into the sun. The sun touched her long boots, short pants. She smiled at the sun.

Frowning his face, he sharply turned him in the direction of Apollo sitting in the car:

- Apollo, be nice, come to me.

- Are you thinking of running?

- Quickly come out!

'I'm going,' Apollo Petrovich said idly and walked over to Agnes Ivanovna.

'Where the diamonds are, you never told me so!' And if we are in vain taking the train accompanying cars? Speak until they all come here! I need to comprehend the information and tune in to the search, 'said Agnessa Ivanovna sharply.

- Diamonds are in the apartment of an unknown cutter, where exactly - I do not know. He told me that the diamonds in his apartment, so I had to tell you, otherwise I would find them alone.

- Already something. Was the repair in the apartment?

'The widow said she would make repairs after my visit.'

- Who will be in the house?

- She is.

- A woman should be taken out of the apartment for a couple of hours. Her fluids should be scattered so that they do not bother me.

'I'll take the widow to the cemetery and stand by the grave of her husband myself.'

- Still. All people accompanying us should stay on the street. I'll take Musin with me.

- I agree, and I feel better when a reliable man is with you.

They were approached by Boris and Musin.

'Agnessa, look, where to run from us?' - asked Boris.

- No, I develop a search strategy. You will look beyond the exit from the entrance. Apollo will take the hostess to the grave to her husband. Musin will come with me.

'I don't mind,' answered Boris, and he waved his hand to his men so that they would not stick out of the cars.

All went their separate ways.

The poverty of the flat with diamonds was depressing: the old, cracked linoleum, the ceiling lamps on the chandeliers were glued with adhesive tape, bricks instead of broken legs lay under the sofa. Under the desk were piles of books, the broken legs lay nearby. From the chairs on the floor piled the hills of the old foam rubber. It seems that someone climbed the tables and sofas.

Agnes carefully looked at the chandelier, in which the cartridges were turned on its side, there was something to think about.

- Musin, you climb the apartment. Take a stool, twist the legs. Look, 'she paused, and then added:' No, wait. '

Agnes stepped aside from the chandelier and looked at her attentively:

- We must not look in the ceiling, we have already searched here. The owner in the past at the Diamond Plant worked. There have already been looking for diamonds many times, but they are in place. There is a feeling that the diamonds are in this furniture junk.

Musin looked at Agnes Ivanovna and was silent.

'Musin, bring the table, although it is broken.' In short, remove the chandelier from the ceiling.

'I will,' said Musin, and began to construct a pedestal of broken furniture, taking into account that the ceilings were high enough in this old house.

Agnessa Ivanovna walked around the apartment, then returned to the room where Musin was renting a chandelier from the ceiling. The chandelier sank on a darned sofa in many places.

- Agnessa, in the chandelier a piece of clay. But not in the ceiling with lamps, and in the place that is attached to the ceiling.

- Be careful, there are diamonds.

- Are you kidding?

'I'll see for myself,' said Agnes, and looked inside the bowl through which the wires and suspension for the ceiling passed. The chandelier had a decent upturned bowl completely covered in clay.

- Musin, take all the clay, hands do not touch, take a spoon, a knife, be careful.

Agnessa Ivanovna took a piece of clay, cleared the first diamond, and it joyfully flashed in the rays of the setting sun.

'Beautiful,' Musin breathed.

Boris and Fedor ran into the room. The two muzzles stared at Musin.

'Boris, do not spoil the operation, would be better in the car,' said Agnes Ivanovna.

'I want to take everything, but there's not enough for everyone here,' and Boris threatened her with a pistol.

'Musin, get away from the diamonds, let them take them,' shouted Agnes.

Following Boris's team, Musin's men entered the room in spotted clothes.

'Boris, give the diamonds to the people,' Musin said, and his people were already twisting his arms to people.

- Musin, you are impudent! Why don't you let me live ?! - Boris shouted from a hopelessness.

'Boris, I would sit at home,' Agnes Ivanovna put in her words.

- Damn baba, did you bring them?

- They were sitting on your tail, but you did not notice, I was watching everything. I saw them when the breath came out.

'Wow,' Boris said, 'Okay, they will let us out, I have a good lawyer.' We had nothing in our hands, except for pistols. We have permission to carry weapons, we are a security company.

- Agnessa Ivanovna, if you saw and knew everything, then why did you go? - Musin asked.

'Musin, I have a flair for diamonds!' I love to look for them, and I could not deprive myself of such happiness.

- It's right. Your twenty-five percent of the treasure.

'Enough for me,' answered Agnes Ivanovna.

Agnessa Ivanovna went out into the street. At this time, Apollo Petrovich's car pulled up, the landlady got out of it, she looked at Agnes and anxiously asked:

- Found diamonds? Where are they?

- In your apartment.

'Are there a lot of people there?' That's nice, you can finally make repairs!

Agnessa Ivanovna looked at the woman in a black scarf, with a handkerchief by her eyes, and got into the Apollo car. The car immediately went.

'Agnes, these are not all diamonds,' said Apollon Petrovich quietly. 'I knew that surveillance was possible, and now I will take you to another hiding place.'

- Famously. Go far? Let's go after the hotel!

- No, let's go now! You will find diamonds, and we will immediately go home.

'Take it,' said Agnes wearily, her head resting on her husband's shoulder.

Apollo arrived at the gates of the city stadium and stopped. Agnes slept. The stadium gates were closed.

- Agnes, wake up, look around, somewhere there should be a cache somewhere.

She looked at the metal bars of the stadium fence:

- Oh, the stadium! Will we run?

- No, change the lover with her husband.

- It is better to clarify the coordinates of the search clay. I understood you correctly?

'Yes,' said Apollo Petrovich and took a deep breath.

- It is clear that someone brought out diamonds, the stadium gates were closed, and the pursuit made them urgently hide the sparkling clay treasures in a safe place. And I know where !!!

- So fast? I've been here so many times trying to find the cache of one root planted far from here.

- I just can not understand what men are looking for, if they can not find anything? Will you take it if I don't go?

- Show by hand, suddenly bugged.

The diamond lady raised her index finger with an unusually beautiful fingernail and pointed to the door in the post.

'There is tension,' Apollo Petrovich countered.

'Take the rubber mat out of the car, rubber gloves, pliers with insulated handles and take out the clay with a wooden spatula for the frying pan,' and Agnessa handed her husband all the items.

- Are you prepared them in advance?

- Lay in the glove compartment.

It was getting dark. People were not around. Apollon Petrovich went up to the pole, opened the door in the pole, stuck his gloved hand into the niche and flew off the pole. A disheveled cat jumped out of the niche. Agnessa Ivanovna laughed. He once again thrust out his hand, groped in the darkness in a handful, took out and shouted.

- Agnessa, in the cat's post someone closed.

- Search.

Apollo began to search at the top and found a piece of clay. He quickly got into the car and pulled away. In the car, he filed plasticine Agnes. She picked it up and found one, but a decent-sized diamond, though it was smaller than a walnut.

- Miracle, like a diamond is good! How was he carried out?

- He wasn't brought in, he was dragged to the factory.

- This is a catch !!! - exclaimed Agnes, bent her head to the diamond, and this saved her life. A bullet whistled over her ear.

Agnessa Ivanovna turned her head: Musina's car was driving nearby.

'Apollo, your friend is shooting at me!'

- He is not my friend!

- Stop! Shouted Mussin.

- Why are you shooting at me? Shouted Apollo.

- I found a friend! I tried to stop you, that's all. Diamond found donate to a friend. I saw you at the pillar.

- Agnes, give him the diamond, next to him still the barrel sticks out.

'It didn't blow, I shot it,' Zoe said, appearing in the window.

'I'd have sat, stupid woman, with my own barrel,' grumbled the secret agent Musin.

Apollo gave them a diamond in clay and abruptly picked up speed.

- Apollo, why rush? - laughing, asked Agnes. - We'll go home empty-handed?

- Why is it empty-handed? What, more in this diamond city and take nothing? You can take the diamond processing plant itself.

- Well! Let's go to the factory! Show me this diamond monster.

Wonderful walls surrounded the factory, covered with clubs of barbed wire.

It was getting dark. The plant was asleep. The guard was dozing.

- Agnes, looked at the plant? Now let's go home.

- No, you need to find something sparkling in black plasticine!

- Where? - Apollo asked sadly.

'In the burdock,' said Agnes and stopped the car, jerking her husband's hand on the steering wheel.

Next to the car was a burdock. Agnes through the window removed from the burdock a few black balls.

- Go on, dear, home! Everything! - She cried, freeing diamonds from clay.


Agnes didn't like to orient herself on a compass, but as if in mockery she was invited to participate in orienteering competitions, and even on skis! In the area of ski runs visibly-invisible. The route passed near the village. Forests smoothly passed into the fields and hills. Space for a skier! In March, so especially - endless beauty. Snow glitters, shimmers. The sky is huge.

Skiing in the snow-covered woods is a pleasure. But keeping the benchmark and finding out which side of the trees the moss grows is not part of it. Agnes could easily get lost in the forest. She could memorize landmarks on the track, but she could not put a landmark on the map. Braked her something. She felt that she was losing the orienteering competition because of her ineptitude.

Mr. case helped her.

On the track was the most ordinary kettle on old skis with poor poles in their hands. He was wearing a washed green suit. A hat of indeterminate color covered her forehead. There was nothing beautiful in the oncoming skier. And he walked badly. And he looked bad against the background of professional skiers, dressed, as always, in the latest ski fashion.

Agnessse did not like the skier. She stopped and confusedly looked at the compass, on the tablet with the map. The man on skis stopped. He looked at the torments of the charming skier. His eyes instantly became intelligent. His fingers without coarse mittens were unusually beautiful. The stranger was a great connoisseur of the area. He put the desired point on the map and showed with his hand where the next landmark was on the terrain. The skier said a strange phrase:

- Girl, you stopped at a historic place: here in 1812 a carriage drove through, and in 1941 a tank drove over the ice ...

'Sorry, but I am participating in a ski orienteering competition,' Agnessa quit. - Thanks for the point on the map!

At the right time in the right place was this man. She took second place. Not really she, but her team. After a meeting on a ski run, in the memory of Agnes sometimes an image of a man on skis, coolly oriented in space, arose. His hands without mittens her pursued. Conflicting feelings in the soul caused a strange skier.

A portrait of Agnes with frosty eyelashes, in a cap covered with snow, against a background of snow-covered trees appeared in a city newspaper. She brought a rowan branch to her lips. Photography is extremely pleased her. She again remembered a skier in a green suit, who gave her a branch with frozen berries of mountain ash. How he quickly snatched a camera from his bosom and took a picture of it! This was the first meeting of Apollo and Agnes ...

The mist smoothed the black outlines of the naked trees and hung likewise among the branches of the mountain ash, decorated with red clusters of berries with no signs of fallen leaves. It penetrated the yellow leaves of birch - the most resistant decoration of the outgoing autumn. Droplets of fog enveloped the rare yellow leaves of maple, remaining where the wind does not blow.

The doorbell rang. Agnes looked through the peephole and saw the eyes of a man in a black shirt, she was terrified, but she opened the door. Apollo stood before her.

- Apollo, are you ?! You scared me!

- Agnes! You didn't recognize me! - Apollo quickly and loudly spoke from the threshold. - You see, I'm a normal guy.

- You're right, but I'm so screwed up here!

- So, the woman who was killed in this forest ...

'I don't believe she was killed,' Agnes whispered.

'They never killed her, everyone thinks she was killed.'

-Thank you, Apollo, and it's scary to go to the forest. We go with you for a walk through the forest. It's not scary with you. Let me read to you what I wrote today!

- Enough of me listener to do! I am human! Feed me - then I will go for a walk with you in the forest.

Half an hour later they went out into nature. The forest was fragrant after the rain. Apollo and Agnes walked along the asphalt road. There were no people in the forest. Quiet. From the trees, drops were dripping after the rain. And suddenly she saw a woman's head with long hair! Head sticking out of the ground. Agnes crouched with fear beside Apollo.

'Apollo, this is the head,' muttered Agnessa, pointing her hand to the side of the head.

'You see a head everywhere,' he said, but he himself flinched involuntarily.

They came closer and saw the mannequin's head protruding from the ground.

- Agnes, if you don't remove your head, then they will think - you know what they will think. Someone really needs people to not go to the forest.

- And if the head wires? Apollo, I won't let you pull this doll out! Call me! - shouted Agnes.

- To whom? Do you even understand what that means? And if it's just the head of a doll without wires, and we call a platoon here? Yes, we are not patted for a false call on the head.

- What to do? - asked Agnes.

- You Chernyshevsky - "What to do?"! I would have known - would have passed by.

- Will we stand here?

'No, let's go back,' Apollo answered, and walked ten steps forward with his heels.

The forest shook off raindrops and was silent. The man called those who knew what to do with the dummy. He was told that he had done the right thing, having left the forest and informed about the head. Agnes went out onto the balcony and saw that three people were walking toward the forest with a shepherd dog. They returned pretty soon. The dog was carrying a mannequin's head in its mouth. Agnes sighed calmly. He looked at her and smiled.

Among the trees and swamps there was a small lake, about twenty to thirty minutes from the house of Agnes. The lake is located so that it does not have access roads for transport. Therefore, it is preserved in its original form. You can reach the shore of the lake by logs laid through a swamp.

Agnes heard that in the center of the lake the brave souls saw a tank. And all the time it seemed to her that the tank had descended not just to the bottom of the lake, but under it was the coach of 1812.

Pull the tank can not be due to the lack of solid ground. The bottom of the lake is viscous. Agnes could not prove her case. She did not swim herself in this lake, she only admired them. Of course, the tank can be pulled out with the help of a powerful helicopter. But the point?

Agnes on the lake was always at the beginning of summer. But in my head I thought a long time ago that in the carriage under the tank there is a chest of impressive size that delivers diamond impulses. But that's not all.

In the chest is some very expensive item, an artifact of its time. This item is in a globe. If the artifact lies in the globe, then we can assume that it is round! These thoughts Agnes tired, and she decided to write them down.

What was valuable in the nineteenth century? And do not go to the fortuneteller! There is a huge diamond in the globe, just a huge one! It is hidden in the egg! In a big Easter egg! As she did not immediately guess! I would have written it down for a long time.

So, this diamond is almost close by, and you don't have to go to the north. Get hard. You can get a tank under the pretext of a museum piece. But who from the viscous bottom of the lake will pull out the old carriage with a chest? You can make a dig for a tank, but what if it gets deeper after it gets stuck in the mud?

Agnes called from the work of Apollo. He arrived on a motorcycle, shocking as always with his appearance. He was so unpredictable and beautiful that there were no words to describe his masculine charm! He smiled - she melted, well, that all thoughts recorded, otherwise it would have forgotten everything from his smile. Close to the elbow, close to the diamond. It's easier to see a diamond in the ground than at the bottom of a lake.

'Apollo, and I know where a diamond is about the size of a walnut!'

- And who doubts it? - gladly answered the question to the question of Apollo.

- The diamond is behind our forest! Apollo, do you remember the problems with the patency of the forest that I have in front of the windows? I sometimes had the feeling that someone would not let me go through the forest. The fact is that there is a swamp behind the forest, in the center of which a lake glows, and there is a diamond the size of a walnut at the bottom of the lake!

- Did you think of it yourself, or who prompted it?

- I have been thinking about this issue for a long time. Once I was shown a film, and the film is strange. There were people and objects in it, but nothing repeated twice. Items included diamonds, eggs, carriages, tanks. I put it all together.

- Good girl, Agnes! Everything works out, everything goes together. But how to get a diamond? Do you understand that this is impossible? Although all doubts are nonsense. If you know where it is and what it is, then the rest does not concern you. We'll get help.

- A diamond nut is a small meteorite of unearthly origin! He gives strange signals that are captured over the centuries.

- Then diamond walnut is not an artifact, because it is not made by human hands!

- But he is an artifact of extraterrestrial origin!

- Agnessa, arguing with you is useless! You are intuitively connected with an unearthly civilization!

- Got it? If it were a simple diamond, albeit a very large one, then completely different people would be engaged in it.

'Why did you tell all this?'

- Why you? I had to check the correctness of my conclusions.

Agnes smiled, she really wanted to ride with Apollo on a motorcycle to the swamp, where the impulses of the diamond nut felt stronger. Apollo connected a powerful helicopter with a magnet to the lifting of the tank. The magnet pulled a tank out of the lake, and it was lowered on the shore of the lake, near the road, for long-distance transportation for restoration.

The carriage in the lake was removed from space. She really was under the tank. There was so little metal in the carriage that she did not react to the magnet. The helicopter flew over and threw the net under the carriage so that it would not crumble in the air. The carriage was lowered next to the tank, from which the silt was crawling from all sides.

Apollo opened the chest in which the globe lay! In the globe lay a large Easter egg. He turned the egg in his hands, it split into two halves, a diamond the size of a walnut fell from it and fell into the hands of Agnes.


But the real fairy tale was waiting for Agnes. She decided to visit her mother in the hospital. Valentina Savelyevna was moved by the unexpected attention of her own daughter Agnes. She recalled a distant city, a small house, large pillows on the bed of her father Savely, his second wife, Aunt Marinka. She told her daughter that her mother Aurora Apollonovna always loved to go to the Marble Palace in the capital of the White Nights. She and her drove there and always said that she was born in this palace.

But little Valentine perceived all the stories of her mother as one beautiful fairy tale.

Agnes stopped her mother and took a breath:

- Mom, what was your mother's name?

- So I tell you that my mother was called Aurora Pavlovna or Aurora Apollonovna, she changed her middle name.

- Did she change her name? Did she tell you anything?

- She did not say, said my father Savely, he called her - Aurora.

- Mom, remember what else your father said, my grandfather ?!

- Agnes, that you are so excited? You never thought of me as a person, and now you are trying to ?! Overheated, or what?

Agnes poured cold water into a glass and, like a hound dog with swollen nostrils, dug into the face of her own mother.

- Okay, daughter, what is there, I will say! My father said that my mother was a princess Aurora who escaped from execution, or she called herself Grand Duchess Anastasia ...

- But Mom! Why are you silent?

- Listen, Agnes, and if I say that my mother is the daughter of the last king, where will you hide me? Or should I live in a swamp in your house?

- Mama! Good lord I am the granddaughter of the king ?!

- Oh, it came to her! - said the mother and fell on its side.

Agnes looked at her mother with all her eyes and was silent. She thought wistfully that her grandmother was Aurora herself, that is, Grand Duchess Anastasia!

- Mom, what's wrong with you?

Mother opened her eyes:

'I told you now that I myself now consider my life unnecessary.'

- This is nonsense! Mom, did Princess Aurora look for diamonds in the Marble Palace?

- You know everything! Yes, you two pair of boots! Mother told me everything about diamonds, and you were all in it!

'Just answer, did Grandma Aurora find diamonds in the palace?' If she lived in the palace before the revolution and was the youngest of the sisters, then could her father's favorite pet know what the other sisters did not know?

- Daughter, wake up! Will you search the halls of the Marble Palace? His through all know.

- Mom, can you show the halls in which your grandmother Aurora drove you?

- I can, I have not been there for a long time. It's hard for me to walk.

- Take a chair on wheels.

- Do not go! I will say this, but I considered all the stories of the mother to be fairy tales.

- Mom, speak !!!

- Nimble you! And I want to sleep.

- Get enough sleep! You have time!

'Agnessa, my mother told me that my father had a personal safe with personal gifts.' In the safe were diamonds, presented to the king outside official receptions.

- This is great! All in me! - exclaimed Agnes, flashing eyes, exuding numerous cheerful rays.

- The fact is that the palace was heated from one boiler room. The air ran through the pipes and warmed the entire Marble Palace. From the chambers of the king was one secret access to the underground communications. The king himself did not go there, his adjutant went for him. Aurora was looking for this exit, but could not find. Restoration work changed the halls of the palace.

- Mom, in the palace everything is really inspected by people, but at least hint where your grandmother was looking for. And then, why was her name Aurora? There were no such names in the royal family. I heard a song about the royal family, they listed all the names in it. There is also a tourist route in the footsteps of the royal family. Everything is under control. I reviewed all the photos. All girls princess graceful and pleasant. Yes, how should I behave after such news?

'Agnessa, do you understand where you want to go ?!' The princesses are all depicted in icons, they are worshiped by people. Forget. I have not remembered all my life. Then, you and I have no right to name true names, but we can indirectly extend the interest in the memory of the royal family.

- The newspapers write that the diamonds of the royal family under the guise of chocolates are sent to the Sea Country. Apparently, all the jewels found. Search for nothing more. I was in the Sea Country, but I wasn't allowed access to family jewels.

- kidding me? Also say that the pearls and diamonds were sold, and the money was given to the newspaper, which invented the chocolate duck! - mother was indignant. - I will tell you the story of two rings!


Chapter 20

Two princesses approached the tsar with a request to judge their dispute. They had diamond rings on their fingers. One ring gleamed in yellow, the second shone with transparent rays. Ladies argued, whose ring is more expensive. Externally, the diamonds were similar, but one princess had a gold-framed ring, and the second had platinum.

The king looked at the pretty arguers, took their fingers with diamond rings in his hand and said:

- Ladies, I am not a jeweler, but the color shade of a diamond reduces its cost, which means that the more expensive it is in platinum.

- Your Majesty, - one princess was offended for her ring, - we bought the same diamonds, they have the same facet!

- Princess, if the diamonds are the same, then the metal in which they are located is different, from this day I recommend to use platinum for the decoration of diamonds!

And platinum came into vogue among people close to the king.

From the touch of the young ladies, the tsar gained vitality, he cheered up from his wise mission of the judge, and after nine months they had a daughter, the lovely Aurora, with the queen. It so happened that by the time when the Grand Duchess Aurora was 16 years old, the power in a country where the wise king once ruled had changed. Before the change of power, the king ordered seven medallions for his family.

The medallions were made of silver so that they could disinfect the water if necessary. Inside the medallions was a portrait of a member of the royal family, which was enlarged with a special-cut diamond.

After some time, the whole family of the king was expelled to the banks of the Big River. They were settled in a two-story house under the protection of people speaking a foreign language. Grand Duchess Aurora from birth remembered the story of the two princesses and their dispute, she always carried with her a platinum diamond ring and hid it hidingly in any dress.

Princess Aurora guessed the fate of her family. She studied all the rooms where she was allowed to move in space, soon they were so restricted in movement that there was nowhere to go.

Food for the royal family brought from the nearest town, more like a simple village. One girl from the village was so similar to Aurora that the princess, watching the girl through the window, decided to exchange her fate with her.

Aurora hung on the neck of the girl Nastya her locket. Then she went to the guard, pulled out her ring and said:

- Mr. officer, here is a ring of a huge price. I have one request: exchange me for this girl, she carries us food from the village. My locket hangs on her neck, she looks like me a little.

'Change clothes, only quickly,' said a brave officer who understood the price of diamonds and platinum, hiding his true origin from the new government.

The girls changed places in the blink of an eye, and everything fell into place.

The next day, the king's family was shot. The last link of the royal family was shrouded in mystery, but each secret can be entered, like in a thick fog, and to discover the truth.

Aurora, playing the role of a girl Nastya, came to the village. The villagers decided that the girl was not in herself from the experienced shooting of the king's family, yet she wore food for them. Aurora was left alone alive from the royal family. Very tactful people lived in the village, they did not climb into someone else's life. The princess saw small wooden houses, blackened by time. Rare vegetable gardens were fenced with thin branches intertwined with each other. Midsummer in the Copper Mountains was sometimes warm.

The girl was left alone, without a maid of honor and full custody. From the village she left along the path to the forest, where she disappeared among the trees. The villagers searched and forgot it, the events were such that they themselves would be alive. Aurora decided to leave a terrible place where they talked quietly about the execution of the king's family. She walked along the path farther and farther into the forest and was lucky to see the hunter's winter cottage. In the house on the shelf were matches, salt, a few crackers in a linen bag.

Aurora fell asleep on a wooden bench, covered with a chintz patches, smelling of smoke from the fire. In the morning she wanted to leave the house, but she could not figure out where to go and why. A shabby roof over your head is better than nothing. In the afternoon she walked around the house, moving farther and farther from it. Aurora ate the berries, drank some water, finished the crackers. And what to do next - she did not know.

There were male voices. The girl hid under the bench, threw a quilt over her.

Two guys entered the hut.

- Fedor, I'm tired of looking for your Nastya, like a needle in a haystack. The women said that she was returning from a two-story house where she was carrying food, said one man.

- The women will speak, you listen to them. No Nasty! No, and those to whom she wore food! They killed everyone. I heard that she was strange the last time she was seen, and went into the forest, in this direction. We have scheduled the wedding for the fall, wanted to send matchmakers to her, but she is nowhere to be found, replied Fyodor.

Under the bench, Princess Aurora sobbed. The men jumped up from the bench. One of them lifted the edge of the quilt.

'Well, come on up, girl, I see, the scythe is bristling,' said Fyodor.

Aurora crawled out from under the bench.

- Fedor, look, yes she looks like Nastya! - exclaimed the second guy.

- Savely, she looks like Nastya.

- Whose will you be? - asked Savely.

'I'm calling Nastya, I'm an orphan,' Princess Aurora replied, sobbing, and looked at the guys.

The men turned out to be young guys in boots and shirts.

- Savely, look, Nastya is wearing her clothes, but she is not my Nastya.

- Fedor, you just forgot her, she grew up while we were working as apprentices.

'Mr. Fedor, you forgot me, I am your Nastya,' Princess Aurora realized.

'Fedor, if you don't recognize your Nastya, I'll take her from you,' said Savely.

'Nastya didn't talk to me,' said Fyodor, carefully examining Aurora's clothes, 'Nastya's clothes on her, but she's not Nastya.'

'I am Nastya, my clothes are mine,' answered the princess confidently. - You forgot me, for that I will punish you by not marrying you.

'Nastya, we'll go with you to the city,' Savely suggested to the princess.

- Well, Savely! I agree to go with you, I have one condition: I will not go back to the village.

- This is not a village, but a city.

- For me, the village. Find a real city in which there are many people and stone houses.

- Nastya, I have some money, but they are at home. You will wait for me on the outskirts, I will take the money and the mare with a cart.

- So be it. And you, Fedor, keep your mouth shut about our departure.

- Where is Nastya? - Fedor squeezed out of himself and sat on the bench.

- I'm your Nastya!

- No, you are not her, your skin is softer.

- Fedor, I washed my milk with milk, I waited for you.

- If only milk! You are very beautiful, you have a bang, and Nastya has all her hair even, not cropped.

- Savely, Fedor will recognize me! But I will leave with you, and he let him think that I am too good for him!

'Come to the village, it will soon get dark,' hurried Savely.

Young people went to the village-city. Aurora did not know where Nastya lived with whom she exchanged clothes. The guys themselves brought it to the house. She waved to them and went to sleep in the barn. She did not enter the house. In the barn lay a heap of fresh hay. She lay on him and fell asleep.

In the morning, Savely came for Aurora. They went to the capital of the Copper Mountains.

'Savely, you call me by another name,' Aurora asked.

- What a joke? Who are you really?

- Grand Princess Aurora!

- And who are you really?

- I am Nastya.

- kidding me?

- Aurora Apollonovna.

- And I am Savely, but why are you wearing Nastya Fedor's clothes?

- We changed clothes with her, she married an officer and left.

- It looks like the truth. Fedor will experience her treason.

- Savely, find me a puppy, I love dogs.

'I'll find one, but I have to rent a room first.' We will live in the apartment.

- The apartment is what?

- A room in a strange house.

- So be it.


On the outskirts of the city, Aurora and Savely rented a room in a small two-story house. The first floor of the house was stone, and the second was wooden. Chickens and one rooster wandered inside the courtyard. On the bed were three pillows pyramid. A valance protruding from under the covers was crocheted. The floorboards creaked from Savely's footsteps.

Aurora sat down on a stool by the table and looked out the window, pushing a little white curtains over a string. The edges of the curtains were tied with white thread. Two tears flew from the girl's eyes, she brushed them off with beautiful fingers.

- Nastya-Aurora, do not cry, I'll buy you a roll, if you cry, I'll buy you bast.

- Call me Aurora.

'As you say,' said Savely. - Aurora, what can you do?

- I know French, I can play music.

- Can you teach children music?

- On the piano I can play.

-We find a student for you, and I will work in a watch repair shop.

- Savely, are you a watchmaker?

- We studied with Fedor at the watchmaker, so we lost sight of Nastya.

The hostess, a clean pretty woman, entered the room.

- How are you settled? When is your wedding?

- Thank you, good. And with the wedding and do not know how to be. The church is not held in high esteem by the new government. Aurora would like to find a student to study music with him, 'said Savely.

'I will find you a student, and if the money is so kindly ahead, times are turbulent now.'

Savely paid the hostess, and she left the room.

The house stood apart from the big roads of the city, rare sounds of shots sometimes reached their ears. The mistress found a student. Aurora taught the girl Marinka to play the instrument in her house, the princess did not have her own piano.

Inborn tact and sense of proportion kept Aurora in difficult moments of life. She knew how to escape from the dangers, as if she was fascinated by all sorts of everyday misfortunes.

Savely brought home a newspaper, in which there was a note about the execution of the royal family. He brought a newspaper to prove to Aurora that she could not be the great Princess Aurora, as she was shot with her family.

The newspaper in his watch workshop was left by one of the clients. Aurora squeezed her lips and said nothing while reading a note about the execution of the royal family.

'Savely, thanks for the paper,' she sighed. - They are somewhere near killed ...

- What's the matter? Aurora, you have no face!

- I'm here, and they ...

- Who are they?

'Sorry, I find it difficult to read such articles in newspapers.' Why aren't you in the army? - she changed the topic of conversation.

- I run away from the call on the father horse to the forest, then to the city. And now I am a watchmaker, I sit in a vest and in a hat. People think I'm an old man.

'I see, you're not an officer.'

'And not even a soldier.'

They fell silent. Aurora lay on her stomach on the bed, hands clasped above her head. Saveli sat next:

- You're so beautiful! You are a princess herself!

She turned to Savely.

- Do you know everything about me?

- Not all, but I guess. You have not our talk. You say strange, here people do not say that.

- Will you hand me over the red power?

- No, I love you. We get married.

- We should go away from these places.

- I did not go further, I do not know of other lands.

- Savely, let's go! Now!

- No, we will not leave. Father took the horse. We have with you a big expense, we would be here to resist.

- I'll take another student.

- Student - take it.

The mistress of the house completely unexpectedly died, she had no relatives. Savely buried her and became the master of the house. Aurora has his own room. Somehow, in the repair, Savely was given a gold watch, but their owner was soon killed. So quietly Savely became richer, and at the first opportunity Aurora bought a grand piano from the mother of her first student Marinka. The girl's father died in a city skirmish.

All to one. Life in the city was getting better. Improving the life of Aurora and Saveli. They merried. Aurora has new documents addressed to Aurora Apollonovna. She has grown a bang and never cut it again.

From the underground, through the cracks in the floor began to sprout sprouts forgotten potatoes. Savely opened the underground and saw thickets of white sprouts of potatoes. They did not even know about the potatoes in the subfield. Aurora, along with Savely, climbed into the underground and helped clean it from the bushes of root crops.

In the corner of the underground was an old chest. A man knocked the lock off him with an ax. In the chest were old fur coats covered with a layer of shag. Aurora and Savely relaxed to glory, and both laughed for the first time, and they were so cheerful and infectious that they involuntarily embraced from the heart and with great desire.

They were well together in this subfield! They crawled upstairs, the bed caved beneath their bodies with a gentle groan of metal hooks that tightened metal springs under the quilt.

Savely, as a good worker and an exemplary family man, was offered to join the Bolshevik Party. He consulted with Aurora, and she banned all political activity. Savely did not mind. They were expecting a baby. The girl was named Valentina ...

The first student of Aurora - Marinka - grew up and helped care for the baby. Aurora for her help gave music lessons.

Merry Marinka flirted with Savely, and he gave her a watch. Aurora noticed their relationship, which was getting warmer and bolder. For the first time in many years of hidden life, she wanted to be free. There was an acute desire to return to the capital of the white nights.

Aurora understood that she once again needed to escape from fate. Savely was at work. Marinka was walking with Valentina. Aurora decided that she should look into the chest again. She took a candle and went down into the floor, tied up her nose with a towel so as not to sneeze from tobacco. In a chest under fur coats lay papers and a small box of dark wood.

In the box lay a golden ring with a diamond and a note: 'I am a princess (full name crossed out). Once the king told me that this diamond was cheap because of the yellow shade of gold. My husband was sent to Siberia. I ended up in this city, in the Copper Mountains I have nothing, just this ring from the old high life. The husband has died. " Aurora took the ring and a note, everything else returned to the place. She collected a small suitcase, waited for Marinka and Valentina to return, kissed her daughter and said:

- Marinka, sit with the girl until Savely comes up. Food in the kitchen, I have a lesson today, I prepared a new costume for the student to perform.

Marinka nodded her head in agreement and with inner joy that Aurora would not be home when Savely came.

Aurora went to the station. She took the tickets to the capital of the white nights. In a large city, she quickly fell into a human maelstrom. People went to the stadium to watch football. A man sat next to her in the tram, and unexpectedly even to himself, he told Aurora:

- I am the football judge of today's football mast, Blinov. I ask you to go with me to football. The game promises to be interesting!

- Let's go to football. My name is Aurora!

- Wonderful. So, are we going?

'But I'll go with the suitcase.' Today I came from Siberia.

- I will take the suitcase with you, then we will go to me! My parents rented a summer cottage for the summer.

In the tram I heard the French language. Aurora automatically answered in French.

- Aurora, do you know French? Our football team needs a translator. Could you work with us for the summer season?

- With pleasure.

And they smiled at each other.

In the apartment of a football judge, Aurora felt just good. She was ready to sing and spin. She had the feeling that she had finally returned home from a long journey.

Blinov, a man of about thirty-three, watched Aurora with delight. He definitely liked the young woman! Suddenly she frowned and summer rain began to fall outside the window.

- Aurora, what happened?

- It is raining.

-And in fact?

'It became sad,' Aurora replied and thought that Blinov should see her documents, and then she would lose them in order to write a statement about the disappearance of documents.

- It seemed to me that I lost my documents.

- That is nothing to lose. Come, Aurora, to the movies! On the screen comedy!

They ate and went to the cinema, where they showed the first sound films. At the cinema, Aurora had the idea that she needed to marry a football judge, and lose her passport and get a new passport without a stamp about marriage and a child. She did just that. Blinov married Aurora. And she received new documents. Aurora sighed calmly. Her conscience did not disturb her, she disconnected her from her brain.

Princess's dream was the Marble Palace, she was eager for him and was afraid of meeting the past. Although who could recognize her there? She grew up, changed. Changed and country. Aurora persuaded the new husband to go to the palace for an excursion. He agreed, as a true citizen of his city, to show the great sights.

Familiar stairs. Familiar roads. But something pressed on the shoulders of Aurora, and especially on the chest. She was getting harder, not easier to meet with the past. Princess Aurora sat on a marble bench and asked to leave her alone for a while.

The caretaker was sitting next to him on a chair. An elderly but attractive woman had a ring on her finger. Aurora carefully looked at the ring of a woman and took another diamond ring out of the depths of her pocket. Her ring flashed. The brilliance of the ring attracted the attention of the attendant.

The caretaker all flushed:

- Woman, where did you get this ring?

- Where does this ring come from? - Princess Aurora answered the question with a question.

- I have my ring. The king saw him and praised him for a good stone.

- You have a beautiful diamond in platinum! - exclaimed Aurora.

- My God, the first woman to know the value! And I tell everyone that this glass is in silver, and they believe me and don't take it from me. And yet, lady, you have my girlfriend's ring in your hand, we will not say what her name was.

- You are right, I found this ring in Siberia.

- Oh my God! In Siberia itself! Is the mistress of the ring alive?

'She died about three years ago.' I rented a room from her, and after her death I found this ring and a note in the trunk, - Aurora showed the supervisor an old sheet of paper.

- Oh my God! This is her handwriting! My beloved girlfriend! - exclaimed an elderly woman and wiped a handkerchief tear from the corner of the eye.

- You saved my life! Thank! - Aurora unexpectedly blurted out and bit her tongue, realizing that it is impossible to say that she is a princess and that she was born from the touch of two princesses to the hand of her father the king. About this he told her again himself before her escape, and that such a ring had saved her from being shot ...

- How, child, I saved your life?

- Yes, that's what I said.

Aurora came home and confessed to her husband that she had done a terrible folly, leaving her daughter Valentina in Siberia. Blinov said simply:

- Bring your daughter!

Savely received a telegram from Aurora: "Give me your daughter." He did not swear, but acutely realized that his wife was not an easy person, and sent a telegram: "Come." Aurora took her daughter, Valentina Savelievna, to herself. Footballer made friends with the girl, regretted that she was not a boy and could not play football.

At some point in time, Agnes got the idea that there were real diamonds in the Marble Palace of the Northern capital waiting for her. Agnes packed her suitcase and went to the capital of the white nights, thinking that it was her beloved who lacked nothing less than diamonds.

In the near train, near Apollo, Agnes was. He was so good that it could not be better. What else? He was her husband and went with her as a non-trivial guard. They rented a hotel room.

'Apollo, I have to study the palace,' Agnessa said peacefully.

- It must be so necessary. What are we talking about! Said Apollo, ordering room service.

- Apollo, you go broke! - could not stand Agnes.

- I gave you money. Eat, rest! I'll do everything.

- Apollo, put on comfortable shoes, we have to walk a lot. And so without corns.

- Seriously preparing. What is it for?

- Do not ask. Go next to me. I'll have to say it.

- You are always happy to learn! - cheerfully exclaimed Apollo and took the summer cap under the visor.

- Still take a bag on a shoulder strap over your shoulder, put sandwiches and water bottles in it.

'Where are we going?' In the Marble Palace. And as if we were going to the forest, - Apollo was surprised.

- There are long roads.

- I will. Taxi can be called?

- You can, but you'd better drive the car yourself.

'I don't have a car here.' We could come by car, so brought you here by train.

- Rent a car for a week.

- I never rented a car. Okay, give me the money, find the car.


Chapter 21

In the next room settled a certain Mr. Fedor. His team is located in the neighboring rooms on this floor. Agnes was taken in the grip of observations, but she was not approached. Diamond lady spud, like potatoes, from all sides.

Agnessa crossed the threshold of the Marble Palace and involuntarily exclaimed:

- What a big palace I have!

- All have a palace, not just you! Growled Apollo, displeased that his bag was hanging on his shoulder.

Strange they walked around the palace. Apollo examined paintings, statues, in a word, antiques. Agnes looked under the pictures, behind the statues.

Apollo could not stand it and asked:

- Agnes, where are you looking?

- On the exposure.

- Rather, for the exposure. It is noticeable where you look. For us, the trickle of people drags and looks where you look.

- Noticed spying? Show me By chance, is not Mr. Fedor following?

- How do you know such an important authority? Well, sit down sharply on the near bench and turn your head back.

Agnes sat up, turned her head and looked straight into Fedor's eyes! Fedor approached Agnes:

- Hello, Agnes!

- Hello, Fedor.

- Bah, yes, we know each other? - Apollo was surprised.

- And I wonder, why would it? - Agnes said just like that. - What you need from me?

- You are a world-famous diamond lady, and a hedgehog makes it clear that you cannot be moved from a place without diamonds, and since you are in the Marble Palace, it means a brilliant shine is near!

- Fedor, everything here glitters: both parquet, and mirrors, and gilding!

- You're not a bird to twitter! Where are the diamonds in the palace? Your mother recently died, and she probably talked about diamonds on her deathbed, since you flew here after her funeral!

- Almost right. I say - you will not kill? There are a lot of people around you, like you're on a field trip.

- Do not kill - say.

- I do not know!

- Agnes, why are you silent, do not understand who I am?

'Agnes, better say it,' Apollo said. He wanted to unbutton his bag to pull out a bottle of water, but two stern-looking men stood next to him.

- Shout to me all over the hall or tell one? - Agnes asked Fedor.

'Everyone left the hall,' said Fyodor, waving his hand imperatively.

Everybody came out, even the supervisors, they were taken out imperceptibly with talk.

'I'm listening,' Fedor said through his teeth.

'Mom said that the king's hiding place with unofficial gifts was near his chambers.' A secret passage led to the cache.

- Seem to be. But you are not looking there. The king's quarters were not here, but I know where they were. Come, I will show you the place where the kings slept. Next go and smile.


Agnes and Fedor left the hall. Behind them flowed a trickle of people. Part of the palace was closed to visitors, so they did not get into the right room.

They stopped at the closed doors. Behind these doors somewhere in the cache they were waited for by the royal diamonds, or maybe they did not wait: the doors were closed to the hiding places of the past.

A girl approached them and asked:

- Are you Fedor and Agnes? Here, shooting a new movie?

Agnes and Fedor carefully looked at each other: the girl was right, they looked like famous actors, but in life the director was Agnes and not Fedor, although everything could change places.

'Yes, here is shooting a new movie with the working title' King's Diamonds, 'Agnes replied. - Come on, do not interfere with the creative process.

Curious departed from them.

'Agnes, according to my data, you did not have any misfires in search of diamonds!' - Fedor exclaimed.

- It is likely that it is so, but I work alone or together when I am looking for diamonds.

- I will send all, I will remain alone with you! - Fedor exclaimed in the heat of the moment.

- Fedor, you told me where to look! Then I will search without you!

- Find and run!

- Thanks for the idea. Apollo and I will go together. And you stand and wait on the street at the entrance or exit from the Marble Palace.

Fedor went to the exit. His people followed him.

Agnes and Apollo were left alone.

- Apollo, I feel the diamonds! Will you come with me?

- Go, Agnes!

- By the way, you are very similar to one actor! But we will not go today, today we are still close. Tomorrow we start the search.

- The car is waiting for us.

The next day, Agnes put on her jeans, a dark sweater, and tied her hair in a ponytail. Apollo appeared before her in jeans and a brown T-shirt. The sight of people from the crowd was fine with them.

They got into the car and drove to the Marble Palace. The queue of visitors went around the other side.

Agnes, after wandering a little through the corridors, led Apollo to the door that led into the palace. She walked as if she was holding a thread from a ball wound on a large diamond. Apollo barely managed to go for Agnes. They walked past the pipes, leaving in the infinity of time and space. Agnessa stopped abruptly. Apollo bumped into her.

She turned to face him.

- Come, Apollo! You need to search here!

- Here are the pipes, the walls. Where to looking for?

- We are standing next to the king's office, he is behind the wall. See a niche? I can not reach her. Get on and knock on the wall, the sound of emptiness should be your answer.

Apollo pulled himself up, climbed onto the pipes, stepped toward the niche, knocked. In response, the sound of a metallic void was heard.

- I'm right, you have to look there! - exclaimed Agnes.

At this time, the sound of a herd of buffalo was heard. Fyodor and his men appeared around the bend.

- Agnes, we're here! - Fedor exclaimed.

- Who would doubt that! - answered Agnes.

-Apollo, get out of the niche, my people will go up there! - Fedor cried.

Apollo went downstairs. In its place were people from Fedor's team.

- We are free? - Agnes asked Fedor.

'How to say, we haven't found anything yet,' Fyodor answered and shouted: 'Chests, open!'

Chests pulled out a large folding knife, cut through the outer shell of paint, plaster and lime. Sprinkled trash. He tapped the metal door, picked up a layer of lime and plaster. A view of the metal door. She was closed. A few more turns with the pick - and the door opened. Inside the safe there were two compartments and two more doors.

Fedor looked at the work of his man:

- Chest, slaz! The whip will open.

The chests, all white from lime, jumped from the niche to the chimney, then to the floor. He began to sneeze and shake off the white dust of time. Fedor master keys opened one lock. Inside the safe were yellow papers. He opened the second lock. The light burst out. Diamonds sparkled with all the colors of the rainbow.

- Fedor, are you glad? And we left, - said Agnes.

- You wanted to pass us? Oh, go! We will bring you diamonds for processing! - said Mr. Fedor fabulously satisfied with the fate.

Agnes and Apollo went the other way.

- Hey, where are you going ?! - Fedor shouted, but waved his hand at them. From happiness, he lost his orientation in space and fell - or he was helped to fall.

A scuffle broke out among Fedor's people. They fought with gusto, hitting each other against the pipes. People turned white from old lime and red from blood. On top of the walls were painted, but under the paint hid the dust of time and the luster of the centuries. In a fight, three defeated: Fedor, Chest and Whip.

Six people were left lying in different poses among the pipes and lime. Fedor took out diamonds from the second safe. One was a carat of fifty, the rest of a carat of ten to twenty. Fedor took the big diamond, the rest was divided between the Chest and the Whip.

The Trinity went the way it came. They were met by Detective Mussin, his partner Zoya and two guards.

- What people! - exclaimed Mussin and closed the road to Fyodor.

- Agnes sold? - asked Fedor.

- No, Agnessa does not know about us. We went to look for her, and found you. Fedor, why are you scared? You didn't kill her?

- She is alive, but left the other way.

-You need to inspect! Shouted Musin. - Hands up and against the wall!

Fedor and his two fellow fighters rushed in different directions. The guards ran after the Chest and Whip. Musin ran after Fedor. In a shootout for diamonds, the guard and Fedor were wounded. Fedor grabbed Mussin with Zoe's help. She at the right moment helped him in the fight with Fedor. The guard of the palace was waiting for the guests at the exit.

The director of the Marble Palace was terribly surprised by the found treasures, which he did not even suspect. But other spheres of power intervened, and the diamonds went to the country's diamond fund.


Agnes and Apollo went outside. Having left the Marble Palace, they got into the car and, without stopping at the hotel for things, drove in an unknown direction. Agnes rode and sighed.

- Why are you sighing, Agnes? Asked Apollo.

- Such diamonds - and did not fall into my hands! Just saw their brilliance, and everything.

- We will not be punished?

- For what? We will now turn off the highway and go away from the big highway, and in 24 hours we will return to the hotel.

- And in the death of your mother Fedor is guilty? After all, he caused her knife wounds?

- The wounds were not deep; she died of a heart attack after confession about her past. She told me about herself under the pain of wounds. Fedor was acquitted, he came out unscathed. He is like an invisible man.

Agnes went into the lead. She herself sat behind the wheel of the car and led her at a decent speed away from the capital's highway. Apollo was surprised to watch Agnes, he knew so much about her, and at the same time he did not know her so desperately.

And yet between Agnes and Apollo appeared the attraction of the senses. They decided to go on a business trip together. Not without surprise, she glanced at her fellow traveler. Her husband was unusually handsome. True, Apollo's popularity was at zero, there was a time when he was famous, but now everyone has forgotten him.

They were silent, afraid to frighten off a thin thread of attraction. A hotel in a small town took them to their chambers. Agnessa issued two numbers, but both of them entered her number. Apollo sat down in a small hard chair and asked:

'Agnessa, why are there so many magical stories around you?' Are you a diamond lady or the princess herself?

'It's such a fate, but you don't dig it.' The most scary of everything that happens to me.

- What will we do in this hotel?

- Rest, the strength to gain, then back to the city.

Agnes fell asleep as she touched the pillow. She is so tired of the experience! And here, far from the turbulent life, she calmed down.

Apollo left the room, closing it on the clicking lock. At the hotel there was a small buffet. The man looked at the counters that were longing for the stomach.

The seller girl smiled at him warmly. Apollo bought something that he would never have bought under other circumstances, then took a tea bag, a coffee bag, and went to the room. He took out a kettle, which stood in a mirror cupboard, two mugs, saucers. He brewed tea and coffee, laid out the food, ate, but did not go to his room and fell asleep on the couch.

Agnes woke up, looked at the meal, ate, noticed Apollo and numb. It seemed to her that her beloved husband was lying in front of her! She sat down next to him, ran her hand over her head.

She abruptly tore her hand off her native man and went into the bath. Instead of a bath there was a standing shower. She washed and then remembered that she had no clean clothes.

Agnes wrapped herself in a hotel towel and went into the room. She lay down on the bed and fell asleep. Apollo slept. He opened his eyes, and near, almost beside, a beautiful woman was sleeping on the bed. Wet hair with wavy, uncombed strands framed a smart, pleasant face. She was dressed in a towel.

The towel itself opened wide, the skin with a slight tan exposed. Apollo involuntarily reached for a towel and touched the skin of the woman. She embraced him in her sleep without opening her eyes. He freed himself from his sleepy embrace and went to his room, there were his towels.

Apollo went into the shower, stood under cool streams, found soap, soaped, then washed off soap. I wiped myself with one towel, slipped it over with a second towel and, taking the keys, dived into the room to Agnes.

The hotel is small, there are few rooms, there were almost no visitors. Apollo plucked up courage and lay down next to Agnes. She hugged his clean body half asleep, and her hand slowly climbed under the towel.

From a pleasant languor he was all stretched and stuck to his native woman. She smiled, grinned, threw off a towel and all gave way to meet the caress. Laski was not long in coming. He felt the tenderness of a woman lying next to him. She changed her pose slowly, touching it with as many cells of her skin as possible. Agnes invested in his posture, she repeated his body bends, subtly giving herself to the man.

Apollo enjoyed the suppleness of a woman and the pleasant bliss of clean bodies. They forgot about everything in the world, slow movements, like a slow dance of love, were replaced by sharp movements, but they also soon became smooth and sweet. Towels slipped to the floor. The single bed in the hotel creaked plaintively. They completely stopped moving, enjoying each other. A car pulled up outside the window.

They started and sat up. Agnessse became scared. She finally woke up from loving oblivion and quickly got dressed. She grabbed a diamond pistol in her hands, but then threw it back into her purse. Apollo's clothing was in his room. Agnes went for his clothes. Down below was heard the tramp. Agnes took the scattered clothes and returned to the room. Apollo was sitting in a towel in a chair. He quickly pulled on his jeans, a T-shirt.

'Apollo, we have to leave.'

- I understand, we are going.

They got out, got into the car. One wheel turned flat. Apollo took up the change of wheels. Agnes bought provisions.

Only now she realized that she did not know where and why to go! She lost touch with the outside world, left from the hustle and bustle. Replaced the Apollo wheel, got behind the wheel. Agnes sat in the backseat and thought that she had found the one she was looking for. Only her husband for her could be a friend-foe ...

Love continued at home. Marital debt continued to be performed. Covering his wife, Apollo went to wash his hands, but he washed all over. The husband came to his wife - and immodestly climbed into her closed places and proceeded to massage places available only to her husband. She squirmed with desire, her husband trained herself and masterly brought her to exhaustion. Husband money for the massage will not pay, for the massage, he takes everything that is necessary for her husband according to the state. The wind of love flew through the window.


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