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Go by the train. In a compartment except them still the fellow traveler. Man of average years. Sits on the air – bed.

Shurik – And you the uncle why an air mattress?

Fellow traveler – All the time in business trips that sides didn’t hurt! I overtake electric locomotives from manufacturer.

Shurik – One?

Fellow traveler – Isn’t present with the workmate, goes by the next car. There were no tickets in one car.

Shurik – That beer we will drink the uncle?

Fellow traveler – Isn’t present I will go I will smoke to the platform, then. Leaves a compartment.

Shurik speaks to Enok – As you the fellow traveler?

Enok – the Thief the pickpocket, as required and a suitcase can steal.

Fellow traveler comes back, order beer. Play cards.

Bring newspapers. All go deep into reading.

Here unexpectedly the fellow traveler jumps up. Reads aloud.

– On the Kolyma mine the gold prospector Petrov A. found a gold weighing 1 kilogram nugget 432 grams and handed over to the state. Here idiot. In the hearts of I started thrusting the newspaper to Shurik under nose. – On read. Which – as got it together and I sat down at sewing. – I will darn socks children, it is necessary to calm nerves. Still idiots on the Russian land weren’t translated.

Having finished sewing, I thrust a needle in an air mattress. Exclamation – Well oh, damn sounded, again the mattress made a hole. Second puncture this year.

When passions settled. The fellow traveler by a quiet voice started talking. About gold children. We go now in those places where in 1919 the admiral Kolchak drove a gold echelon. And as he was arrested near Nizhneudinsk, gold at it and didn’t appear.

Enok – And where put?

Fellow traveler – Goodness knows, still guess. Here you as if arrived if understood what not to break to Vladivostok?

Enok – In a taiga would dig till the best times…

Fellow traveler – Here Supreme where – that in these parts also hid him. Those who a ditch were dug, shot that were silent. And the most Supreme later in Irkutsk was slapped some months. So the treasure lies in the earth and waits when it is dug out…

Red Square in the winter