Diamond lady. Prose in english. Natalia Patratskaya
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