Penny Criminal Case. Alexander Cherenov

soul of the poet could not bear the shame of petty offenses”?”

      “Something like this… So, one day, after the lessons, Petin decided to build muscle. He sneaked into an empty gym, hooked on the crossbar on the horizontal bar… and hung like a sausage! Here he was caught…”

      “In flagranti delicti,” Starkov couldn’t restrain again.

      “What?” the lieutenant colonel was honest.

      “At the crime scene” – this is Latin.”

      “Well, I am talking about this,” Petrov returned to the image. “Petin thought he was alone, but he was wrong. This Kotova and girlfriends tracked him down, and when he hung, she jumped out from the ‘ladies’ dressing room and… What do you think was next?”

      “Called to thinkers,” Ivanov, with a weary reproach, was “noted” at Trofimenko.

      “And why should I think if you yourself tell me everything?”

      “Why are you insulting me?” the lieutenant colonel grunted sadly. But after a moment there was no trace of his grief on his face. “They pulled off his leotards and underwear!”

      “And they didn’t find anything under his underpants?” Starkov “guessed” with a grin.

      “Exactly!” Petrov almost roared with delight. “His penis turned out to be…”

      “No more acorn?” Starkov guessed again.

      “Precisely, bro!”

      Colonel was bursting with delight. It was felt, that the information did not just give him “aesthetic pleasure”: it fit nicely into his “iron” version.

      “The girls began to laugh, and Kotova said bluntly, that he had nothing to do on a woman with such a ‘good’! So she said directly: he has nothing to do on the woman, because there is nothing! Do you imagine it?!”

      “Go on, go on,” Starkov “imagined”.

      “The boy got so angry, that he promised to kill her, but before that, show her ‘how he has nothing to do with the woman’!”

      Petrov was so tired of his own enthusiasm that he had to turn for help to a glass of mineral water. He shared fraternally with Starkov, of course. Having wiped out his wet chin in a popular way – with a sleeve – he could not stand the test of glory and “dressed in triumphant” again.

      “That’s where the stick in the ‘hole’, bro! This is what he wanted to show by this – and he showed! That’s how, and most importantly, with what tool he fucked her! I no longer speak for the motive: revenge! This is understandable even to a fool!”

      Petrov again moved towards Starkov with the expression on the face of a regular conspirator.

      “By the way, the ‘booty’ of Koval fully confirms the fact… well, the incident in the gym and the ‘solemn promise of the young pioneer’. Koval has eight explanatory letters from girls and boys. And besides…”

      The kind of conspirator has become “intolerable conspiratorial”.

      “… we have something for the father, for Petin senior. They say that the tearful-pimply son complained to dad, and he promised his son, that the bitch will be punished for insulting.”

      “Where does this information come from?” Starkov interested narrowed his eyes.

      “From Koval, of course!” Petrov spread his hands, surprised by the “inconsistency” of the counterpart.

      Starkov grinned.

      “Comrade did not understand”: I ask, what objectively confirms the rumors that Koval got at school? “They say” is not proof.”

      The lieutenant colonel ceased to radiate a glow and wrinkled his “Leninist” forehead.

      “Well, you are welcome to all we have. Do not worry: we will complete the work! The main thing is to make a start!”

      “There are no objections to this, bro,” Starkov said in a soft voice. “And by the way, have you already given a task to your subordinates about Petin senior?”

      Petrov’s broad face blossomed with a condescending smile.

      “You underestimate me, bro! My two detectives are already there! And not for peeping from behind the bushes: as soon as he appears, we will seize him immediately!”

      “Okay!”

      Starkov sentenced the question with a sonorous slap of the wide palm.

      “And now, what: let’s work out a pimply boy?”

      Since the text didn’t even resemble the question, it was Petrov, who oriented himself instantly: Starkov was just “putting on a sign”, but the lieutenant colonel was already pressing the dial key.

      “Andrey, bring this son of a bitch here!”

      Three minutes later, Captain “extremely politely”, just with his hands and feet, pushed Petin Jr. into the office.

      Petrov met the appearance of the “object of work” with a wide “good-natured” smile… and with already familiar to him a rubber hose, which the lieutenant colonel laid out on the table immediately after placing the “object” on the chair.

      Seeing the “good friend”, the youngster recoiled back in horror, but was immediately returned to his original position with a weighty jab in the back of captain behind him.

      “Well, let’s talk?”

      Petrov, tapping on the palm of his hand, moved “from point A to point B”. According to the conditions of the school task, the meeting should take place at point C. But life is not a school, and, at least, in this room, the meeting should take place at point B. And, judging by how still on the way there is a smile on the face of the lieutenant colonel from good-natured transferred to the category of bad ones, this meeting did not promise the “object from point B” anything good.

      “I warn you at once: my patience is running out, as well as time. And if you test it again, then I will test the strength of this rubber on your back. You can’t imagine, how disappointed I will be, if we don’t reach a mutual understanding.”

      Petrov turned to Starkov.

      “Comrade senior investigator for particularly important cases!”

      “Promoted in rank” – for the benefit of the cause – Starkov instantly filled with theatrical importance.

      “I ask you to give me documents, confirming the guilt of citizen Petin in committing a serious crime.”

      Starkov put the thin binder into a folder with a hundred blank sheets of paper and with an important look handed the “documents” to the lieutenant colonel.

      “Are protocols interrogation of students, teachers and neighbors here?” Petrov continued to play.

      “Of course, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel,” Starkov also corresponded to the image.

      “Your sorrowful work will not disappear”: the list of the defendants, especially the mention of the school, clearly shocked the youngster. He dropped his head between his knees: the text was already coming from there.

      “I’ll tell you everything.”

      “Well, everything you want to say, we know even without you,” Petrov winced. “We would like to hear not this, but what you can say, but you don’t want to say, trying to hide it from me and my comrade senior investigator for particularly important matters.

      – So about the school is not necessary?”

      Petin Junior timidly looked out – with eyes only – from somewhere below.

      “Is it you – about panties,