Diamond lady. Prose in english. Natalia Patratskaya
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