Diamond lady. Prose in english. Natalia Patratskaya
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.
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