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- Thank you.
Victor nodded and walked further along the passage.
βBut you have to pay extra,β said the beggar after.
Victor took a few more steps out of inertia until the meaning of what was said reached him. He turned around.
- Sorry?
- I'm sorry. You have transferred one hundred and fifty rubles to me. But with you twelve thousand one hundred fifty-three more.
Victor wanted to turn away and leave, but the beggar caught his gaze. It was not the look of a madman.
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He stepped past the seated Victor to the exit. Victor held him by the sleeve.
βYouβre a strange man after all,β he said. - Couldn't you just ask?
Sergei looked down at the seated one. He had the feeling that the doctor had measured the depth of his skull - from the eyes to the back of the head. Sergei averted his gaze and moved his lips, as if choosing a phrase that would definitely fit the interlocutor in the head. Finally he said:
- And just asking in our time is the most difficult thing.
Writer Pavel Gubarev . Download the entire book, subscribe.