by Shelga. Yes' yes' Shelga. I'm entrusted with a secret mission to take the boy to the indicated address. Are you going to submit? The mandate? Please. Everything seems to be correct. Look' maybe someone else can go instead of him? - The boy has to study. - Don't be afraid. The boy will be fine with me. Across the wide' snow-covered expanses of Siberia' Vanya Gusev had led the expedition to Mantsev's winter lair. Bread. Bread. Nikolai Khristoforovich' don't you recognize me? No. No. I'm not used to people. I haven't eaten bread for so long. I'm Ivan Gusev. I did everything as you told me. I've brought those people to you. Who are these people? A learned expedition. Why are they here? I'll show nothing to them. Nikolai Khristoforovich' you have to calm down. Please' eat and take a rest. We can't take you out of here before spring. I want to talk to you confidentially. It was Pyotr Petrovich Garin who sent me for you. Is Garin alive? He didn't forget about me? If only Garin could get a hundred thousand! What we could have done then! Garin is in possession of billions! He's in all the world's newspapers! He did build the hyperboloid! Garin... I shared with him the idea of a hyperboloid. He's stolen my brains and left me to rot in the damned taiga! What can I take from life now? A bed' a doctor and chicken broth. Oh' Garin... The devourer of someone else's ideas! Garin remembers about you. Scurvy has eaten my teeth' my brains got dull. I'm almost blind. Garin thought of me too late. Oh' it's too late. He remembers about you. He has sent me to bring you back. Soon a dirigible will be here. I would like to know where you're taking me. I don't understand what you need my life for. You're a funny man' Shelga. Now I know those coordinates. I'm taking you to the Golden island. It's a natural show of interest for a close bedding of gold. I'll be able to get as much of it as I want. Why go so far? The olivine belt is everywhere. Oh' Shelga' Shelga... Here the olivine belt is at 12 km' and there at 5. But why do you need me? It doesn't make any sense. It does. Yes? Bring it in. You'll come useful. I'm offering you a salary of 50 thousand dollars. Will you go? No. You want to change the world? I want it' too. But my way. What will you start with? Stamping gold coins with a bearded profile? And with Madame Zoya on the back? You can't forgive me my beard. I'll show you my hand. I need you as a hostage. The landmarks on my way are Rolling with his billions' the hyperboloid and Mantsev' whom you know. The hyperboloid has been built. Rolling is on the "Arizona". You'll get your freedom when Mantsev is here. An inquiry in the Parliament. Garin got 20 million pounds from a bank! The "Arizona" yacht is crossing the Pacific! Garin has made grandiose purchases at Rolling's expense! Garin's hyperboloid cuts through any armor and opens the way into the bowels ofthe earth! It's about you. Do you hear? Listen' Arthur' or whatever your name is' stop tricking me. I don't believe Garin. My formulas and notes are soldered in a tin box and securely hidden. I'll fly away' but they'll remain here. No one will get them. Even Garin won't. I won't give them up under torture. Well' you're dealing with honest people. Come on' I know Garin. He hates me' because it was I who invented Garin. Without me' he would have been just a small-time swindler. You'll take with you just my live brain' not the notebooks with formulas. Arthur Arthurovich' the dirigible is descending! Did you hear? Where's my box? Who took my papers? Calm yourself. You! You stole my formulas' my papers! A human brain is incapable of creating all that... I forgot... I forgot everything. You have to calm down' Nikolai Khristoforovich. That boy took them! What the devil! The men are exhausted. They're looking for the boy. We can't take ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Бетховен 3 на английском - текст Константин на английском - текст Зелёный слоник на английском - текст Интервенция на английском - текст Лунная радуга на английском |