Not that, letters, and there was never even a trace.
These are the times, strange it all. Deaf Anna said. Then, recollecting himself, added:
Lets quickly take off your clothes, and at the table. Eat, as it should.
Anya minute later was sitting at the table and was eating with gusto fried potatoes with ham and eggs, washed down with a hot strong coffee. Anna kept up with the girlfriend. Having finished breakfast, the women stayed in the kitchen. Were working there, trying to take myself, washing dishes, cleaning the kitchen then. In this tinkering around the house, the day passed. For Dima Anya went alone. Anna began to prepare dinner at all.
Snow middlings drumming on the face, cheeks tingling. Kindergarten, which drove the baby Anya was a few blocks walk along the embankment of the Moscow river. It was not comfortable in rainy days and very nice in good weather. Now, shrinking from evil wind gusts hewer, Anne dejectedly trudged toward the kindergarten. From the head did not come out painful thoughts, inspired by the letter of Elsa Eduardovna. Anya knew how Aunt Elsa; she could not write the truth. There, somewhere in the subconscious mind flickered saving idea that all that is written in the letter, though. But behind this hides a mystery. Maybe Aunt Elsa could not write here so openly about big money. And all of a sudden got a letter in the hands of either her Anya, what then? Anna began to think by putting yourself in the place of Elsa Eduardovna, wondering how she would do, being in her place? Of course, Anya would have resorted to allegorical, hidden form of presentation, pointing to some common Anya recognizable form. For example, in the house where she was Anne. On objects in the room. Reflecting thus, Anya came to the conclusion that it is necessary to read the letter again. Analyze each word, sentence. Find the hidden essence of a presentation. And to find the answer. Of course, it is necessary to approach it. And it will do so today. Once again, read the letter, weighing every word. Anya had not noticed, for his thoughts, as he found himself at the threshold of kindergarten. Went inside. Dima met her already dressed. The teacher hurried home and children dressed in advance before the arrival of the parents. The room was hot, and the kids were waiting for their parents sweaty.
You know, Tamara, crazy? The threshold pounced on a poor governess Anne.
Oh, its you instead of hello? The teacher retorted swoop.
Half of the children tomorrow kept with pneumonia! I guarantee it! Stalking her Anya.
Mom, Im hot! Added fuel to the fire Dima.
And to me!
And to me! Childrens voices were heard everywhere. At the door, as if by magic fairy Tinker Bell, the director appeared kindergarten Claudia Petrovna:
Tamara, go key to me! A stern voice, so that it is audible to other parents, said the director.
Well, heres another. You want the best, and it turns the other way around. Grumbling, went for Tamara director. Anya, took off the robe son:
Dima, you should cool down a bit. Then again we get dressed and go home.
All right, Mom. Is it true that Aunt Anna will we live?
What do you want?
I do not know. Dima replied evasively.
Well, after all?
Of course, I want it to stay. She told me stories on the way to kindergarten told.
Well, you son of lucky, I want it to stay.
Ur mom!
A father to me, Lexis will take home. Theres a lounge and a computer is and warm! Boastfully broadcast squeaky voice tiny baby in anticipation of its parent. Anya looked at him:
Go here, Igor. Ill undress, chill out a little while my father would come.
Kid awkwardly walked to Anas fashionable dark blue jacket with warm child to grow into a fashionable cut, as for skiers. Anna took off her jacket with a wholesome glow baby.
Well, now lying in wait for his dad. He probably somewhere stuck in a traffic jam on his Lexis.
Dima jealously watched over the actions of mothers and frowning. His father was no longer a close and it seemed that all over him because of ridicule and make fun of. But in fact it was not. Meanwhile, Anya again put at Dima jacket, knit cap pulled on the hood. And quickly brought his son to the rash blizzard.
Anna was not in vain wheeling in the kitchen. Hot and flavorful chicken, just taken out of the oven, published the magnificent smells rich spicy oriental spices. Molding golden crust, delicious rose chicken carcass on a platter lined with a baked potato in no way inferior color peel chicken. And fried onion rings to an amber color, odor competed with cilantro, fragrant celery and bay leaf smell. This still life is graced bank pickles and a bottle of red wine. Anya went into the apartment, drawn, these exquisite scents, went to the kitchen without removing clothing.
Wow! Overlooking the course, which was put Anna on the kitchen table, utter delight.
I did not lose time in vain, as you can see. Proudly she said.
Well, were quick.
Anna returned to her son. Dima at that time already had time to remove his outer clothing, and tinkered with the boots.
Hold on, son, Ill help.
Anna took off her coat, scarf and began take sub. Shoes off baby. Soon they were all gathered around the table. When the chicken was done, and Dima went to his room, the women were left alone in the kitchen.
This is what I think began to speak first Anya. This letter does not mean anything without a second letter, which I have not got on demand. What do you think, Anna, can it intercepted at the worst time for us, eh?
I have, in general, thought so too at first, but after analyzing the situation, I realized that this letter, on demand, and was not.
Where did you get that?
Anna thought. Then she said, to withstand momentary pause:
When our men disappeared in an unknown direction, and we took turns to pull in for questioning, then, having received a letter of demand, we would be so framed to the general, we would not be sitting here in silence and warm.
So, it was not. Was once again convinced Anya in their guesses. So, Elsa Eduardovna wrote metaphorically about something that needs to be laid out there. And she was determined not hesitate for a second, decided to analyze each line of text written by Aunt Elsa. Anna suddenly said:
You know, lets drink this red wine. She pointed out a bottle uncorked.
No, Anna. I specifically put it in the kitchen cupboard, in a prominent place so that you could see it and become stronger in their decision not to drink more than ever.
Well, you and Annie Inquisitor!
What can you do, Anna, youre everything to me something with which I now live after the death of his mother and the loss of Lenny.
Well, then, lets go through the rooms.
Yeah, its too early. Although I do tomorrow night to get up early. Honor that be.
And I porous in your room on the bookshelf.
Yes, I advise you to read Jack London, theres a lot of interesting things there.
Women went from room to room, even though it was still too early six oclock thirty minutes in the evening. The windows are grizzled. Early spring was not like a spring, rather, it was still winter in his swing. Though the days have become longer.
Anya came to his son. Dima was sitting on a shaggy carpet and heat was building a house out of blocks. Toy cars were scattered nearby. Trying not to disturb him, Anya took a letter from the bookcase and sat in a chair in the corner of the room and began to carefully re- read line by line, trying to comprehend the meaning inherent Aunt Elsa there. Her attention was drawn to the lines: Here it is, and has forwarded this letter, which I hope will get to you. I have a surprise for you, Anya. After three- plus years, you still will be able to request an main post office in Moscow to demand Sent me with a light hand on Alexei your name. If all else fails, take your passport and go down again to the administration. you will have to give it. There you will find an indication of the fact that you have a substantial amount of money in U.S. dollars and this amount tucked away in a safe place, where you will learn from the letter
After reading these lines a few times, Anna thought. She was drawn words: for you, Anya surprise. And another thing there you will find a reference to the fact that you have a significant amount of money And that this amount is hidden in a safe place, where you will learn from a letter
Well, of course, it has to learn from this letter, which is holding in his hands. Anya was feverishly over phrases lines, comparing the read information from a variety of items that they knew Elsa Eduardovna together. In memory of her suddenly emerged antique jewelry box with secret wedding gift Elsa Eduardovna. On its existence, Anya long forgotten. At first, she folded back her ornaments, which gave her husband, then when moved to a pawn shop jewelry, began to develop various unnecessary gizmos, which did not want to leave. But where does this casket? Anya, intuitively rather than for a specific purpose, opened the top door of the bookcase and pulled out a beautiful box. On the cover were depicted in the national costumes of German girl and a young man in dance. The box was made of mahogany and looked like new. Anya opened the lid, trying to look for there, among the various gizmos those that they, along with Elsa Eduardovna going over the long evenings when Anya was output in practice. This should help her to understand the allusions letter or give the impression of a surprise, said in the same letter. At the very bottom Anya came across a credit card Import Bank, which lists her scholarship. As students of the University, where she studied Anne, were more than seventeen countries of the world, and the bank was independent from Russian banks. Anna sighed, put down the card aside. Then took out a beautiful and big buttons on a mink coat, which once gave her Lenya, and she has put in pawn. Tears welled in her eyes. It is with sadness and emotional weight, shut the box. Sat in a chair in deep thought, fiddling with a credit card. That would have to go now and take a scholarship and a month does not think about nothing than to feed herself and her son. What if there are not selected yet the money? We must go and check. Your feet will carry her into the hallway, she did not even hear the voice of Dima:
Mom, where are you going?
It was only when she put on her coat and a gray scarf remembered about her son:
Aunt Anna, you will pack today and tomorrow will take to kindergarten. I work early tomorrow! Go, my son, come play, I come quickly.
Anna ran into the street. The snow blinded. The nearest ATM quarter was an afterthought, not noticing the weather. Student card warmed hand in his pocket. With trepidation Anya stuck the card in the ATM receiver, dial the code. Looking waited withdrawal amount on the ATM screen. Finally, the screen gave something commensurate. Too many zeros and ahead of number five. Anya afraid, demanded five dollars. ATM cold counted the amount of hundred- dollar bills and passed through the window. Anna could not believe it. After going through the code and it took another five dollars, cash counted out five hundred- dollar bills. Anya has done way back in a daze. Not noticing the hewer of the wind and snow any distance to the house. So that meant Elsa Eduardovna. So what a surprise it was cooked. Piled up a fortune stunning. She did not go home, and swam in what is a fog of nothingness. Thoughts were confused in my head and realize their wealth Anya could not yet the end. It seemed to her that a simple scholarship extra received not, at the time, and nothing more could be in her bank account. And the thing is, some thousands of rubles, not thousands of dollars. Were not accustomed to it yet, these huge amounts of money. On my floor she got a lift and only when the elevator door opened, only then she realized that he was at the door of his apartment. From the doorstep, without undressing, Anya called Anna:
Sobinova, come here!
Anna surprise came from Dimas room. Behind her, a boy and curiously watched the mother.
What happened? She asked worriedly.
Thus, especially nothing happened. Sly smile, telling her Anya. But, you know, get dressed.
You look like a crazy right now! Not budging, she said. In my mind this myself Anna could not imagine for a second. As it is, looking at the night out of the warm nest in a crossing snow blizzard. Youre kicking me, or what? Not laughing, half in earnest, she said.
You, Anna, crazy, or what? Do not expel, and the call to the supermarket. Come on, buying more food, but more tasty.
Anna could not believe it, where does a poor Ani Krazimovoy bred money? And grasping the last opportunity to stay at home, she blurted out:
A Dimka?
He does not get used. Will stay here one.
Mama, buy me that be of the toys.
Buy and son. Just you be a good girl. Sit alone. We Aunt Anna did not last long. You see, I do not even undress.
I know youre not a long time! Grumbling at all, as an adult, going to his room.
Annie, have you won the lottery?
No, I got my scholarship does not get it.
Soon, shivering with gusts snowstorm, the women went to the nearest supermarket. Sped past the car. And on the opposite side of the road grizzled wide ribbon snow- covered Moscow river. It was nineteen twenties, when they entered the store. Cashier currency exchanger was still working. And Anya exchanged two American dollars for Russian rubles. This money was enough to purchase different culinary delicacies and drinks with juices.
They returned with full corporate packages in hands
Anya Krazimovoy, and along with Anna Sobinova ended poverty.
What she proudly said Anne in the kitchen:
You know, Im not going work.
I.e., how? Ive been pondering where I go, so that we no longer live in misery, and you, such you say nonsense! And you thought that your scholarship has long run out?
Anna said nothing, only smiled slyly and said yes, insisting on the:
And thats it. I will not go all! And my scholarship in the years ahead will suffice.
Something youre not telling me, Annie? Yeah, you got the same letter, and I lied, what is not?
We read together the letter and it says, about a hiding place in the house of Elsa Eduardovna, but not here with Dima.
Youre weird, or what? A safe, in which neither be in a Moscow bank, where you had time to visit and took some of the money.
No, it is not so! However, the money you will have. Ill give you each month by thousands of dollars.
Well, thank you for this!
Anna did not take offense. The money we need. We need to find our guys. And I think that where there appeared to be yours and my Lenya.
What do you mean?
And what of the letter, Elsa Eduardovna mentioned Antarctica.
Are you sure shes telling the truth?
Have you forgotten already, Anna, as an investigator Smirnov, remember to mention it to our inquiries, Antarctica?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, I remember. So they were there. A threat out there who have heard Garin and Elsa Eduardovna it that simple?
Anna, you know, something tells me that your Peter and my Lenya needed there as experts in space travel, and theyre on the job.
Yes, it seems to be true. At the same time there.
What do you mean?
And the fact that the extra ballast they do not hold.
Oh, do not hold? And how Garin and his wife?
A Garin surely secured the support of our guys.
How? Asked Anya.
A so that if the General and his family something to happen, Peter and Leonid will not work for them.