That evening, returning to his apartment in Prechistenka, the zoologist received from the housekeeper, Maria Stepanovna, seventeen slips of paper with the telephone numbers of people who had rung during his absence, plus Maria Stepanovna's oral statement that she was worn out.
The Professor was about to tear the pieces of paper up, but stopped when he saw "People's Commissariat of Health" scribbled next to one of the numbers.
What's up?" the eccentric scientist was genuinely puzzled.
What's the matter with them?" At ten fifteen on the same evening the bell rang, and the Professor was obliged to converse with a certain exquisitely attired citizen.
The Professor received him thanks to a visiting card which said (without mentioning any names) "Authorised Head of Trading Sections for Foreign Firms Represented in the Republic of Soviets." "The devil take him," Persikov growled, putting his magnifying glass and some diagrams down on the baize cloth.
Send him in here, that authorised whatever he is," he said to Maria Stepanovna.
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