And here one of these brilliants, most, maybe, precious, at it was gone several months ago, and to tell more correctly,
varvarski has been stolen. And he guesses, who exactly has made this plunder. Moreover, he (Telman Ivanovich) guesses,
when - in accuracy is has occurred and under what concrete circumstances. However to prove something at it (Telmana
Ivanovicha) of any possibilities is not present, there are only well-founded suspicions, and a problem which he would like to
put before the Employer, just and consists in that in this delikatnejshej a situation to find though any really comprehensible
exit and, whenever possible, to restore the trampled justice, namely: to protect the personal property legitimate right - let even
without punishment of the criminal, bude that punishment will appear inconvenient...
Curiously: he has started to speak on in advance prepared and spoke first kazenno, passionlessly and cautiously as if on a
minefield went to the touch, but has gradually got excited, history of this disgusting, is low - go crimes, this deeply personal
unfair insult has reopened old sores, it has become is passionate also harms. "As he only has dared, this mean thief? How he
has dared to mention the most sacred?." ... It, whether know, English colonies collects, and I - all world. And so my English
colonies it is better than it twice, and it embitters it, it deduces it from itself absolutely... As so: after all it the academician, the
millionaire, and I who? Yes anybody. And my collection twice is better. It is not so capable to transfer it, and it on all is ready,
that me to lower - not so, so differently... At first hearings about me humiliating extended, as if I in People's Commissariat of
Internal Affairs... In KGB... Not very well, foulness everyones. Intrigues built, that me from the Society management to
exclude. And now here - please! - has come and to a criminal act...
... It was stuffy August evening, the thunder-storm approached, was hot, then, the Academician - heavy, odyshlivyj the
man - was constantly wiped by a magnificent silk scarf, they drank tea behind a dining table and spoke "about rare variants
of a retouch of early marks of Mauritius". They were one in apartment, Polina Konstantinovna has covered with it tea and
has left till Monday (and there was all on Friday, hours per eight-nine evenings). Windows have been opened - from
closeness, - to sense from it was a little, but it is the important circumstance because all has begun, probably, with a flaw
preceding a storm: the wind has suddenly rushed into a room, there and then slammed shutters of a window have gasped
with a tinkling sound, paper napkins have departed from a table, it has rushed to catch (what for) them, has hooked on a
glass, a teapot, a vase with sweets, still something, all has departed on a cloth, on a floor, the Academician with indecent
laughter (though that here, it is asked, was ridiculous?) has jumped out of an armchair, rescuing trousers from the spread
tea...
... No, marks, certainly, on a tea table were not. All albums and kljassery remained there where they considered them, - on
a separate little table in a corner where cases with a collection. But here that is strange: for some reason and some kljassery
too have appeared on a floor though to them from a tea drinking place was not less than three metres, and is faster even
more. He cannot explain plainly how it has occurred. He and does not understand it. As if the eclipse any suddenly then has
happened to it. Just it here sat at a tea table and caught departing napkins, and suddenly, without any transition, sits already
on a sofa at a distant wall, the Academician with a clang bosses latches, locking windows, and kljassery - lie on a floor, four
pieces, and some marks in klemmtashah of them has jumped out and there and then nearby stays - on a floor, near to a
coffee table and under a little table.
... No then it has not given any value to it - was frightened only, whether the dropped out marks were spoilt. But all has
appeared as it should be, marks were whole and safe, they with the Academician have there and then collected them and
have put in corresponding kljassery on a proper place... No, it any more does not remember that it were for marks. It seems,
the British Central Africa.