Having seen in Maxim's last words the new sneer, begun was to calm down Simeon Petrovich again has blown up a stream of
unflattering words in relation to Maxim and altercation has gone on a new coil. Such proceeded some times - the seller shouted,
splashing a saliva and threateningly swinging the become unfit for use wreath from which plastic pink and blue flowers
extensively scattered, then got tired, calmed down, became silent, Maxim fairly told the remark, and the cycle began on the new.
Eventually, when scared Maxim already has started to ask the price of a marble slab, Simeon Petrovich has wearily given up as
a bad job and has outlined the thick ink handle with a gold feather some lines on notepad sheet and has stretched to its Maxim.
On a piece of paper by red ink have been written out eight addresses.
- Flowers shops, - he has explained.
Maxim began to thank, apologise hotly, unsuccessfully to put to it in a hand a monetary denomination (the success has
come only when he has added two more), friendly to clap on a back and good-natured to laugh.
However today to it chronically did not carry. It has gone round all addresses given by Jajtsovym, but has come across
either ruins, or on empty premises, or, nevertheless, on flower shops in which of colours there were one artificial palm trees and a
mould on walls. All shops were in the different ends, and it had to cross not once or twice a city on a diagonal, to wind on
unfamiliar and dangerous areas, some times to be got involved in firing, not to please nearly under bombardment, to help to
disassemble two blockages from the failed houses, once again to refuel, fortunately on absolutely other autorefuelling and
without incidents, to cross the bridge, to get to the centre, having undergone obnjuhivaniju and to palpation by dogs-mutants,
again to return on periphery, to enquire at the casual and very frightened passers-by the necessary streets or lanes, again to
wind, again to search, shoot, enquire.