But who was that scoundrel who came here?" The smiles disappeared at once, and the cherub replied evasively that it was just some petty speculator not worth worrying about.
All the same he trusted that the Professor would treat the events of this evening in complete confidence, and the visitors left.
Persikov returned to his study and the diagrams, but he was not destined to study them.
The telephone's red light went on, and a female voice suggested that the Professor might like to marry an attractive and amorous widow with a seven-roomed apartment.
Persikov howled down the receiver: "I advise you to get treatment from Professor Rossolimo..." and then the phone rang again.
This time Persikov softened somewhat, because the person, quite a famous one, who was ringing from the Kremlin enquired at length with great concern about Persikov's work and expressed the desire to visit his laboratory.
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