Hunt for Wunderwaffe. Immortal

– Here, and ate. Okay, you go see yourself before I get bored with you. But, at lunch I will be glad to see you again.

– I’ll go, – Losunov got up and kissed her hand.

A slight bow, and he was able to leave this place, although his legs did not really obey him now. It was as if they decided for him that it was better to stay here.

At one time, at the cadet school, this pa, with a bow to the lady and the subsequent retreat, was studied for a long time. That the future officer could do such a figure gracefully and beautifully, and not anyhow, in the manner of a pimpled and stooped student.

I came to my senses already in my compartment, sitting on the couch, with a pie in one hand, and with a glass of hot tea in a cup holder in the other. Scattered bit off, chewed, but nodded to Philemon sitting opposite

– How’s the pie, your nobility?” he said.

And Losunov was silent, only again nodded scattered. The orderly’s voice was heard as if from afar, and Nikolai Petrovich’s ears seemed to be covered with cotton wool. He winced a little, but said:

– That’s all right. Can you remember where they offered us an apartment from the Military Department at the beginning of the year?

– So on Voskresenskaya embankment, your nobility. But, you yourself said that they say, on Palace Square, the service is much closer.

What so far could he explain to Philemon? Vague desires, about which, as the poets say, “are similar only to the breath of a light breeze”? And the devil knows him, he was afraid to jinx him. So far, all the same, because you are not afraid of anything, but how this happens, immediately superstition is clogged in the head, and you cannot pull it out with ticks. Nikolai thought, and slowly said:

– Exactly. Let’s return to St. Petersburg, you will have more work, you will have to move to a new apartment..

CHAPTER 9 Spy Passions

Losunov was sitting on the couch, reading a book, or rather pretending to read. Opened on the next page, and he himself, here, was expecting lunchtime. It was necessary, as usual, without attracting the attention of other travelers, to sit at the table, and calmly dine. Although, damn it, you have to sit at the same table, with a batman, even a British one. Here, of course, Philemon does not count. I already looked at the bottle of white, but then I decided that vodka would be superfluous. The head should be fresh, he had too many important things to do.

– Yes, your nobility, not worth it. And Veronika Evgenievna, so the young lady is sweet, but she does not hurt, when they use a lot of intoxicant. Her daddy, only on a pilgrimage and escaped. From addiction to vodka. This is in Krasnoyarsk, – and smiled, – and with churches there are not rich. Taiga out, Yenisei, there is a lot of that. It’s good to walk like that in the Mother See, in prayed places, a nice thing is simple. There are many temples, and especially in Zamoskvorechye.

– You’ve called everything, I see?” Prepared?

– So it is, your nobility. You need to look, what kind of lady will be, here you need to think about everything ahead. Daddy, of course, is a drinker, and he went to the bear with an ax and a horn, and in general, a very hot man. Well, they’re lying, I think.

– What’s lying?”

– What hot!

– So he’s a Siberian, an industrialist. Not everyone can make a fortune like this. And then, taiga, gnus, dashing people drag.

– Exactly, your nobility. And here, and the young lady is such, right the angel of heaven…

Yes, the daughter of such a beastly merchant, somehow turned out to be calm, and even cute. So this is how to watch. After all, their regiment chief, Major General Mints, was always lenient towards soldiers, but in Moscow, the rioters were not spared in 1905. Bullets and bayonets were also involved. Or here, General Kaufman, Konstantin Petrovich, Tashkent Governor-General. They also said that a kind and condescending person, and did not give anyone to rebel in the Turkestan province, hung and shot, without getting up from a folding chair.

– Okay, Philemon, order a table there for us, in the restaurant car. And so, Guryev’s porridge for dessert, what else is good, do not forget. And a bottle of “chablis,” without fail.

– I will fulfill everything, your nobility!

Well, Losunov, already reassured himself, as in the first attack on the Presnensky barricades, convinced himself that not every bullet flies at the target. And here, in fact, not the Moscow vigilantes with Smith-Wessons, but the young lady, and the beauty and the clever in addition. And, Nikolai Petrovich bravely knocked on the door of Mademoiselle Samoilova’s compartment.

– I’m ready,” Veronica said with a smile, leaving the carriage corridor, “Let’s go.”

Nikolai Petrovich only meaningfully kept silent, only slightly bowed his head, a little completely. Let’s go to the vestibule, along the way he bowed with already familiar fellow travelers.

– Good day, Nikolai Petrovich. I really count on a game of chess, – said Altunin, who approached slowly, – but, Ilya Sergeevich, I agreed with Hardson after lunch. Just while the train reaches Chelyabinsk. We have here, a whole chess club has formed.

– So we will do… Let it pass for now. Excuse me.

– Gavrila Andreevich Altunin, at your service. Of course, without a doubt. Very glad to see you, Veronika Evgenievna! I always treat with the greatest respect to your father, Evgeny Petrovich Samoilov.