Bulls has looked at hours. To five there were some minutes. It has risen, with easy bow has returned to smiling girl volume of
the encyclopaedia and has gone to Krajuhinu.
In a reception the one-eyed secretary has nodded to it as to the old acquaintance.
Bulls has once again looked at hours (was without a minute five), has spent a palm on hair, has straightened out a soldier's
blouse and has resolutely flung the door open in an office.
It seemed to it that it has got to other premise. Curtains have been lifted, the sun rushed into wide open opened windows a
cheerful stream, filling in light velvety plastic walls. The armchair at a table has been shifted aside, on it still lay, having
lowered through a back a silvery cap, skafandropodobnyj spetskostjum. The carpet curtailed by a roll, was stretched along a
wall. In the middle of an office, on a brilliant parquet, there was the strange subject which is looking like an enormous grey
turtle about five thick, as curbstones, feet.
The spherical smooth armour towered over a floor not less than on metre.
Turtle surrounded, having sat down on hunkers, some persons.
When Bulls has entered, one of them, broad-shouldered and round-shouldered, in the black points-canned food closing a
half of the face, has lifted a head with a yellow bald head shining on the sun and a hoarse voice of Krajuhina proiznes: -
Here it! Companions, I represent you the sixth member of your crew, engineer Alexey Petrovicha Bykova.
All have turned to it - tall, very beautiful person in an easy graceful suit, the crimson fat man from a heat with a closely
cropped head, the swarty dark-haired guy wiping sinewy hands by a scrap of the oiled tow, and... Dauge, old, kind friend
Grigory Iogannovich Dauge, same lean and inconsistent, as last year in Gobi, only not in wide trousers and a kerchief, and in
a normal city suit. Dauge looked at Bykova and affably nodded to it, smiling in all wide mouth.
- Get acquainted, - Krajuhin has told. - Vladimir Sergeevich Jurkovsky, the remarkable geologist and the skilled interplanetary
traveller...