Pearly woman. Prose in English. Natalia Patratskaya
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away, and foreign cars did not pass the territory of the boarding house from evening to morning, he knew that even before coming to the singer’s room. The window was closed from the inside, therefore, the singer Victoria Lvovna voluntarily went out the door and closed the door behind her. The idea that she could have gone before breakfast did not occur to her. She clearly did not sleep in the room.
Ilya looked around the room, but did not find the singer’s things. There were no things! There were no traces of the singer at all. There was no toothbrush in the room! There was no wet towel! There was nothing!!! But her passport had to remain in the housing administration!
He went down to the boarding house administration, located on the first floor of the fifth building. The singer’s passport was in a safe, he was shown to him by an employee of a boarding house who decorated visiting people. She said that the singer did not change the number. Where did the celebrity from the guarded pension with a suitcase on wheels? On the asphalt there were no traces of wheels. The detective was at a loss. He went towards the beach.
At the boat station in the morning there was still no one, all the people were in the dining room. That’s where Ilya noticed traces of struggle, traces of wheels on the sand! The boats all stood still, but there were traces in the sand of a strange boat! He needs to talk to Alla while she is here, because she was abducted yesterday from a motorboat! Ilya went to look for Alla.
The four were just leaving the dining room, but the terrified Alla refused to testify. They were approached by musicians from the group of the singer, one of whom served as director of the group. Ilya told him that while he had nothing to say about Victoria Lvovna, but if she was taken away by people of Count Pavlin, they usually return those who are being taken away. Must wait.
Alla was visibly nervous, but she didn’t say a word. And it could be understood. Ilya let the people go and wandered to the beach. People on the beach after breakfast increased, and the traces of the wheels of the suitcase disappeared. He had nothing more about the existence of the singer Victoria Lvovna, except for her passport. He again went to the corps administration, but during his absence the singer Victoria Lvovna’s passport disappeared. Now he could play dominoes with the guards. My head was empty.
Four went to the beach. All the attempts of the guys to pull the information out of Alla were not crowned with success. She did not tell. Alla was lying, sunbathing, bathed and silent. An hour later, someone from those who rode the boat that day brought the singer Victoria Lvovna’s belongings, which washed ashore. Called Ilya.
The detective got into the boat, took Yura with him, and left Pasha with Alla.
Men swam in the direction indicated by people. They were lucky in that they found an open suitcase of a fair-haired singer Victoria Lvovna. Scattered things lay on the shore. There were no tracks of people. Things collected and put into the boat. Yura paddles. Ilya examined the suitcase. In the suitcase, he found the second bottom, under it lay white matter in a flat bag. Without expertise, he knew that the white matter was from the sleeping series of Count Peacock.
It was the sleeping pill that the barmaid and her master used to put people to sleep for their own fun. Ilya realized that he took the trail, but whose? Singer Victoria Lvovna in this case – the link is clearly passing. Yura looked at the find and was silent. He was well aware that he was in a black story, and in such a story the main thing is to survive himself. Oh, as he now understood Alla! Anger towards her began to pass.
Ilya suggested that the barmaid injected sleeping pills through the corks with a syringe into bottles, which means that it had to completely dissolve. Water overboard the whole sea, but with them they did not have dishes. Therefore, before the turn, they did not swim and turned to the boarding house to try the substance for solubility in the laboratory.
The public on the beach did not approach the arriving boat. People understood that the matter was serious, and no one was in a hurry to get into the witnesses. Pasha helped collect the singer’s things, bring them to the room of the guards. Yura walked with the girls. Taking Alla’s hand, he simply said:
– Forgive me, Alla, I understand you now.
– Oh, Jura! I’m sad to remember everything, I’m afraid to remember!
– Well done, that made it up! I’ll leave you alone. “I have business,” Bella said, and walked away from them quickly.
Bella walked, walked and suddenly realized that she was going to the tower at the other end of the Apricot. Vaguely in her head was the memory of a scramble on a sailboat and a keen joke about a dachshund, for which two men allegedly fought on a yacht. But the fight was real, so it seemed to her. At the tower on the steps sat the overseer. Bella crouched beside her.
– Girl, why did you come here?
– I’m an artist. I liked the seascape here.
– Draw, girl, draw. We do not charge money for a visit to the sea.
– Why is the white yacht not visible? I wanted to draw her!
– What you wanted: give her a sailing boat! Sailboat sailed on business – on the waves, now here – tomorrow there. You would have told me the news that the village is being done, otherwise there is no one to talk to me here.
– News? They stole a blond singer from a boarding house.
– What are you saying? It’s quiet here. The singers do not sing. And you know, at night I heard singing on the sea! True, heard! Yes, the woman sang so loudly that I still thought that the motor ship was on, and there was music on it. But the singing quickly stopped. The yacht sailed at this time. I saw a familiar sail, and I know these men on the yacht well. They collect contributions from me for letting viewers go to the tower. And you thought that I paid them for a fight on the water? Nonsense, they are a hat, but no, they are a roof.
“Well, I don’t need to know about them, I’d like to bend the waves and then draw them for a whole year,” Bella decided to change the subject because of safety. Something told her that Alla and the singer were taken away by the same people.
– Thank you, I will go to draw pencil sketches, and if I fail, I will come back. Here you have a beautiful sea.
– Come, girl, and bring the news.
Bella took out a phone and called Ilya:
– Ilya, I’m on the tower of the ranger. He heard female singing at night!
– Bella, you risk. One went to the lighthouse?
– Yes, alone. Yura stayed with Alla. You know, there is a strange white yacht here. Probably, the singer Victoria was taken away on it, and Alla was taken to Count Pavlin in a motorboat. These are different people or alone – I have not understood yet.
– Bella, run to the village, you have a lot of information. No surveillance?
– Not! But I will go faster to crowded places.
– I’m coming to meet you.
Bella met Ilya at the bench under a chestnut tree, where Alla and Yura once sat. They sat on the bench.
– Bella, say everything you know about the yacht at the tower.
– a yacht, people collect tribute from it from the caretaker and from someone else. The superintendent at night heard the woman singing. Loudly sang. Now there is no yacht at the tower, this is her parking place, she usually stands at the buoy.
– Here it is! So, they took the singer Victoria to the boat, and then transplanted to the yacht. This explains that her things were thrown out of the boat, and then traces are lost. Bella, you would work with me! Did you see Count Peacock? – he asked.
Behind Bella, someone clamped his mouth.
– Pasha, where are you from here? – turned Ilya head.
– I am looking for my love, and she is