"Has in vain littered, - has thought Bulls. - Eh, weaknesses yes sins! It is necessary to sleep..." It has entered into a room and
has gropingly reached a sofa. Under a foot something has crackled. "Poor hours", - he has thought, trying though something
to disassemble in the dark.
He has deeply sighed and has fallen on a spongy seat of a rebellious sofa. "Is not present, not to fall asleep to you today, a
companion the engineer, the expert in deserts! From what it krasavchik Jurkovsky so has taken a dislike to me? The
nickname now will stick: the expert in deserts. And what at Jurkovsky the person was, when he spoke about Pole Danzhe!.
Yes, such does not suffer a sleeplessness before flight. ` ` we are not afraid of death, we only do not want it... Whether" So,
the engineer? And suddenly in the same lobby, in half a year, someone will inform news: "Companions, have heard? ` ` Hius"
was lost. Ermakov was lost, Jurkovsky and this... As it... The expert in deserts... "Nonsense you fence, Alexey! It from a
sleeplessness and from idleness. More soon morning - and in the plane, on the Seventh range, on raketodrom in the Polar
region where expedition will prepare for flying away and to wait ` ` for Hius", which now in trial flight. Today to rise in eight,
and I cannot fall asleep, oh, damn... Dauge already sleeps, certainly..." Here Bulls has noticed that the door in a bedroom is
half-opened and through a crack the weak ray of light falls on a wall. It has risen, has on tiptoe approached to the door and
has glanced in a chink. Behind a table, near to the opened bed, Dauge sat, having clasped a head hands. The table was
almost empty, on a floor the huge backpack was piled up. On a backpack the geological hammer with the shining handle
lay.
Bulls has coughed...
- Enter, - Dauge has told, without turning around.
- E-e... - Alexey Petrovich in the absolute confusion has tightened. - I, you understand, has forgotten you to ask...
Dauge obernulsja: - Come, come... Sit down. Well, what you have forgotten to ask? - E-e... Yes here, you understand... -
Here upon it at last has dawned. - here.