The only one who lived in the house for several months was Nika. Where Makarov dug it up, Herman did not know, and even when everything happened, he did not ask. What difference does it make if she herself accepted the rules of the game and, in the end, she herself abandoned them? After the disappearance of Nika, Stepan got angry, annoyed Herman with questions, allusions and suspicions. This went on for a while, then he stopped. It was friendly. Could there be a slight disagreement between the two men? Makarov was a rough, uncouth dork, but even he noticed how these conversations divided them. And that was wrong. A...