Murder on the Pike lake.
Murder on the Pike lake.
(Continuation. The beginning in numbers for 20, on September, 27th).
Osoblivo city pubs in the winters have been filled,
When the majority of the muzhiks trading in fishery yes
Recarts, were out of work. And and than, actually, was
To be engaged in the winters when to Vasilevo it was possible to reach
On foot, and the fish extracted for summer, was at all in bulk?
Networks to knit? Well also knitted. So after all this employment tiresome,
Dreary, casting boredom, and the first from it a medicine - vodka.
The big fan to drink there was also a father Yakima, Arhip Grooms. And
When was Yakima of years about six, the father of a network has gone somehow in the summer
To put to Volga. Oposlja have drunk with muzhiks, as usual, and on
Return way has dropped out Arhip of a boat drunk, and utop. And in a year
After, being afraid, it is visible, that the hubby very much has not left in the next world
Far, Yakima has gone after and mother, and there was it with one-year-old
Little sister Ankoj together. Soon Anku have taken away in Petropavlovku,
Seltso-large village on the right coast of the Svijagi-river - was there
Any distant relatives, and Yakima have brought to Kazan in a shelter children's.
Two years has lived in shelter JAkim. And then has happened in a shelter
Fight, and pupils, screening the instigator whom were afraid as
Fire, have shown on it, Yakima: it-de the first has got to fight, from it
And demand.
In "dark" where it have defined as punishment, JAkim
Has stayed on bread and water two days and when left has solved
To restore justice: has beaten one behind another all
Informers, its stipulated, also has run away from a shelter.
For about a week it dangled on the Hay market, starved, happened
povorovyval and there was a bit in blood market torgovkami twice,
Caught it on larceny. He spent the night on an inn
Apanaevyh, that there was near a market in the street Senna; it not
Drove, and it, as though in payment for a lodging for the night, carried water on kitchen and
Helped to put samovars for lodgers.
Once the bartender has asked to take down it tea pair on the second floor -
There were no free hands, - where some rooms had similarity
Hotel numbers. And what to do - an epoch of inns was
Spent, on Kazan there were already "hotels" - one such was on
Voskresensky in former house Akchurina through an alley from
Aleksandrovsky passage also carried the proud name "France" - and
It was necessary, hosh not hosh, to keep up with time.
JAkimko took a tray, the socket with cherry jam - the lodger
Has demanded it, to steam of tea and, as real sexual - with
The napkin thrown through a hand, has risen on the creaking ancient
To steps on the second floor also has knocked at a door.
- Enter, - has deafly reached because of a door.
JAkimko has pushed with a foot a thick oak door and has entered into number,
Having been surprised and hardly not having dropped a tray: the lodger had appeared
The young woman of years of twenty five, rather pretty and cheerful. In
Number smelt as a tissue smoke and something sweetish, reminding
Lilac smell.
- Well enter, that you have fallen asleep on a threshold, - she has told pleasant
Voice. - and that your tea will catch a cold.
JAkimko has entered, has put a tray on a table and has accurately put
Nearby a napkin.
- To eat it is submitted-with, - it has almost squeezed out a phrase that heard
Once in a tavern on a corner Big prolomnoj and State Tinodvorsky
Streets where it was sent somehow by the bartender. Its voice became suddenly
Any stranger. And terribly it would not be desirable to leave.
- You the master's sonny? - The woman has asked, examining Yakima. -
Though is not present, - she has there and then responded herself. - You an obvious hare.
Then whose you?
- Nobody's, - has silently responded JAkimko.
- Well as nobody's, all children someone's.
- And I nobody's. From a shelter I...
- And where the father, mother?
- Have died one, - has told even more silently JAkimko, and it wanted
Suddenly to bury to this kind woman under the mouse and to begin to cry. It
Even has made to it a step, but has stopped, looking to itself under feet.
- Ah you the orphan, the orphan, - have approached to it the woman. - I here too
The orphan, one on all this world. - she has put to it on vihry
Soft hand. - I know, what is it - to be the orphan.
JAkimko has sobbed. Tears smothered him, and the female hand ironing
Head, seemed native, as if a hand of mother.
- You want to tea? - The woman has softly asked.
JAkimko silently has nodded.
- Well, then have a seat, we will drink together.
It has approached to buffet, has got still a cup with tresnutym a saucer and
Has put on a table.
- Well, have a seat.
And then they drank tea with cherry jam both sushkami, and JAkimke
It was warm and pokojno, as never. Perhaps so warmly and pokojno
There were only houses, in Svijazhske, but JAkimko did not remember the house, and
The image of mother was as in a fog: hands, feet, a figure, and persons not
To disassemble.
- You to call as? - The woman has asked after tea, having lighted
Cigarette.
- JAkimkoj, - having driven away a palm a smoky cloudlet, he has responded. - and
You?
- Avdotya, - the woman has told. - mum Dunjashej called me.
She has reflected. JAkimko has looked at its rather well-to-do suit
The city lady, pure, well-cared hands with accurately cut
Nails.
- And poshto you here have stopped? There are places much better. Here
Here, absolutely nearby, on a corner with Evangelistovsky numbers "Bulgar".
Inexpensive, affect...
- Yes I know, - have responded Dunjasha, having let out an accurate ringlet
Smoke. - only there the passport demand, and at me is not present...
- At me too is not present, - has seriously responded JAkimko and has become silent.
Any time they have stayed silently, thinking everyone about the.
Dunjasha from time to time glanced at the boy - similar, it
Thoughts have been connected with it. JAkimko sat, having rested a sight in the empty
Cup with florets and a gold border on edge.
- You, probably, steal? - Has asked suddenly Dunjasha, having extinguished
As a real man a cigarette. - tell, be not concealed from me.
- Was few times, - it is unexpected for itself admitted JAkimko.
- Few times is how much, ten-twenty? - Has smiled
Dunjasha.
- Well, time five, tea, was, - he has stretched. - and cho?
- Yes nicho, - its woman has imitated. - and however time came across,
It is more than half or less?
- Me-enshe, - has smiled JAkimko and has looked Dunjashe in eyes, -
Two times only.
- It is good, - without a smile she has said and has drawn near
More close. - and you wish to help me?
JAkimko has agreed at once. With Dunjashej, he has solved, though in fire,
Though in water. And pomoganie it consisted that it should
Imperceptibly to accompany Dunjashu in all places where it will be
To go. Places it were all crowded: shops, foyer of theatres,
The central streets of a city in days Sunday and idle, cafeterias and
Confectioner's shops, gardens and parks in days of walks, churches, landing stages,
Markets and the markets. Therefore as was Dunjasha the pocket thief strong
Qualifications, and at this speciality is better to work in
To crowd. And the assistant was necessary to it to pass it, for example,
The stolen wallet, hours, bracelet, say, any large, and
Small thing not to have it at itself. And well as will miss
The mister of the wallet, and wallet also is not present already, and near to
The mister it, Dunjasha. The mister shouts "sentry", suffices Dunjashu
For a hand, approach legavye - what's the matter? The mister it: so supposedly and
So, there was just a wallet - and is not present, and nearby except this lady - and
On Dunjashu a nod - also there was nobody so close. Means, has stolen
It. And at Dunjashe already also there is nothing, and to hide there is no place, and a flush
Indignation on cheeks and when it is necessary - that and insult tears. And
posramlen the former owner of a thing - probably, has lost where, and now on
Kind people rush? - Apologies also are made to the young lady, which
Have offended injust suspicion. And - adju, the bungler, hurrah -
To dexterous hands.
And hands, really, were dexterous. Dunjasha, similar, was
Born karmannitsej: index and middle fingers of her hands
Were rather longer than the others, and in the job it more often
Used thieves' reception "scissors", grasping these
Fingers its interesting contents of pockets.
And the assistant that watched was still necessary to it, whether is not present nearby
Policemen, and at their approach has let know agreed in advance
Sign.
The first "business" worked JAkimkoj and Dunjashej together, was
Theft in outer clothing shop in Aleksandrovsk a passage. Dunjasha
In shape of the milliner - summer "diplomat" with a lung lacy
sharfikom on a neck, a hat, it is not known as keeping on most
To head poppy-head, and a hat box in one hand, passing by
One dense mister at moustaches and whiskers, "unintentionally"
It was hooked by the end lacy sharfika for its button of the top
Dresses. That was long released from indecent affinity with
The unfamiliar lady, trying thick fingers to liberate a button
From a scarf lace. At last it was possible to it, and it, having apologised for
The caused inconveniences, retired. And in hands Dunjashi remained
Its gold cuff links and galstuchnaja, gold, a pin with
Emerald eye in the middle. Having called up sight JAkimku - that was
The summer flannel suit is accurately cut and had on itself with
Trousers hardly below knees, a gaiter and a sandal from the veal skin, -
It has passed it extraction and, having blinked the eyes, has looked directly in
Eyes, having told, almost not moving lips:
- Look, JAkim, be the clear head, be not foolish.
JAkimko has hidden cuff links and a pin in a pocket of trousers and slowly,
Examining mirror show-windows of shops of a passage as if was going to
Something to buy to itself in clothes, has followed Dunjashej, adhering
Distances in five steps.
He felt itself(himself) in a lordly attire excellently: Dunjasha,
Having bought for the second day of acquaintance everything, that was now on him,
Has forced to go it in that attire of the whole three days, not undressing -
Unless only for the night more likely to get used. And when JAkimko
It has ceased to shiver and be scratched from unusual clothes, it took it
On business.
This day JAkimko has accepted from hands Dunjashi thick koshel with
The silver, the gilt cigarette case with a donative inscription: "to Victor
Pavlovichu Sojmonovu in day of its twentieth anniversary besporochnoj services
In a field of national education from friends and colleagues "and hours in
To the bulb form on a long gold chain.
- Will suffice for today, - has told Dunjasha, passing the imperceptible
Movement hours JAkimke. - And greed fraera has ruined that, know?
At home, on an inn - JAkimko lived now quite lawfully,
Paying for a lodging for the night a money, - he long played these hours, opening
And closing a cover, and always when the cover opened, any
Tiny organchik in hours started to strum the unknown person
Melody, then one more and more.
- What, a watch likes? - Has asked Dunjasha, having spread out extraction on
Two small groups.
- Aha, - has responded JAkimko, driving a finger on the case of hours.
- Well so take to itself, - she has told and has laughed, looking on
Good small groups. - look here. You see, - it has specified in one of
Small groups. Is your share. Tomorrow I will change it for money - will buy
Everything, that you will wish. Only I advise you all not to spend. A stock
The pocket does not pull, know?
She suddenly again, with prishchurom, has looked on Yakima:
- And you the clear head.
- Why it? - Has not understood JAkimko.
- That has not run away from me, has not taken away all to itself.
- And what I with this good would do? - Has judiciously told
JAkimko. - in Kazan I know nobody, could not sell, have selected
At me all ali is worse than that is zaarestovali...
- Here and I speak: the clear head.
In the morning day of the following they have gone to hand over extraction, except money,
Certainly. Have crossed the Moscow street with rails konki; on the Second
To the bridge called also Hay, left on Levobulachnuju, have passed it
And meat numbers of merchants Rezanovyh also left on Big prolomnuju.
Here, having curtailed on the left and having passed quarter, Dunjasha has stopped at
The three-storyed house with a travel arch to the left of which was
The signboard with an inscription "Hour affairs the master is beaten to walls of the house
Frants Poles ". More low and hardly more small on a signboard there was one more
Inscription:
"Repairing and repair of hours of all stamps".
Frants Poles, the present name, a patronymic and which surname were
Srul Aronovich Hnobel, during vague times esero-anarchist
Terror was "technician" of flying group
Anarhisto-terroristo-kommunisto-syndicalists. He was born in
The city of Loeve in a petty-bourgeois family, has ended heder respectable melameda
Gershki narkojfa, and the strengthened reading of a large quantity
Emancipating cheap brochures in red covers, the maintenance
Which he at all did not understand, has granted to it the right to consider
The conscious proletarian who should "incorporate".
It also has incorporated to two same "proletarians", and in one
Perfect evening the incorporated proletarians have created "the fighting flying
Group ". As Hnobel has been selected in group on a post
"Technics", manufacturing otrjadnoj the press, which it was entrusted to it
Also has made of rubber, in the centre having cut out a skull, and under it
Cross-wise a dagger and a browning.
In the beginning the group wrote letters with requirements to "burzhujam", that
Those brought on 50 roubles in agreed places. The press,
Fastening letters, had action: someone from the nervous
imushchih demanded money gave. Letters then have gone with
Requirements "to put under a stone at such road" already 100
Roubles. And then the group has dared on "ekspropriatsiju". It is decided
Was to confiscate a cash of one petty bench on the end
Cities, which, according to other incorporated proletarian,
Tailor Mihelja Grossbljadta, rather smartly traded. The third
The "proletarian" who only just has ended initial school, from
Young yes early, on a nickname "companion Itsek", has extracted somewhere
The written off revolver, and in the marked evening all three - one with
Dagger, another with a revolver, and the third with turned in a paper
The stone representing a bomb, - have come to a bench during that moment,
When the owner considered a gain.
"Companion Itsek" in an added beard and moustaches has said the false
Bass a sacramental phrase in similar cases - "hands upwards".
However the shopkeeper of a hand has not lifted and has absolutely unexpectedly snatched out
From under a counter the revolver also has laid on the spot and "companion Itseka", and
Proletarian-tailor Grossbljadta. On Srule the revolver has misfired, and
That has had time to run out from a bench to a following shot. In the same
Evening sharply oburzhuazivshijsja Hnobel, for all otrjadnaja cash desk
Belonged now to it to one, has left a city; on the nearest
Market already versts for hundred from Loeva "has employed" one peasant on
Name Frants of Poles, ostensibly on job, having suggested to be to it
For the next day to the invented address, has given a fifty-kopeck piece to the deposit, visors
To itself, as well as it is necessary, the passport of new "worker", and was that. And
Here now he fairly worked on a field "repairing and repair of hours
All stamps "and it is dishonest - that was not so boringly to live - bought up
Stolen valuable property also lent money under the mad
Percent inovertsam. However, he did not consider usury as act
The illegal.
The Torah to do it resolved, the Bible did not forbid, and that to
The Koran imposing the veto on these lihoimstvo, - so after all not
The Moslem it...
Having left Yakima in the street, Dunjasha has pushed an entrance door
Workshop, and the rung out hand bell has informed the owner on arrival
The client.
Soon it left, angrily sparkling eyes and being indignant - the watch-maker,
It seems, has not given also half of cost "turned out" by it and
JAkimkoj, then has calmed down: at the very least, and its tiny handbag
Has been to the full hammered by credit cards.
They "worked" so four years. There was everyone, and once they
"Have put" any young kupchika already on one and a half thousand roubles,
Then month "had a rest" on the removed summer residence on Hills, not
Refusing to itself in what.
One-two time in half a year Dunjasha ran into "Russian illness" -
Found on it something such with what it could not consult - and
Every day sent JAkimku behind vodka, and happened, and not on time on
To day. And when hard drinking was tightened and JAkimko resisted and
Refused to go, rushed in it than it is necessary, terribly swearing,
Begged and elicited, falling before it on knees. JAkimko its tears
Could not take out, left and came back with the next bottle. And
Then, days through ten, began, as spoke itself Dunjasha,
"othodnjak". Its organism could not accept vodka any more and wine, it
blevala in put JAkimkoj at its headboard the bucket, is terrible at
It suffering.
After hard drinking it otlezhivalas day three, and JAkimko for the first day
Gave to drink its chicken broth, on the second - gave to it of a few fish or
Meat, and on third it rose itself, almost without interruption ate all,
That got a food under hands, and on the sly resulted itself in
Order. In the evening it went to a bath and came back already former
Dunjashej, nice and cheerful.
(Continuation follows.).
Leonid Devjatyh.
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