- Oxygen cylinders are empty, - he has murmured, - all is clear.
- Look! - a constrained voice Spitsyn has screamed.
Bulls has looked back and has moved back. Something has rung out underfoot. The narrow strip of light behind was seen.
- The input, - has told Ermakov. - Have gone.
They passed the shined wardroom, cautiously stepping through fragments of furniture and the charred rags covered with
brown stains - it is probable, once it there were bed-sheets, - and have squeezed into cabin, - Here...
On a wall which was in due time a ceiling, the matte hemisphere of a lamp burnt. The control panel which has burst across
has been got moving forward, from under it burnt wires stuck out. But the radio transmitter worked, green and dark blue
sparks behind the round broken glasses shivered. And before it, having dropped the shaggy head wound with grey
bandage, the dead person sat.
- Hi, pandit Bidhan Bondepadhaj, brave kalkuttets, - Ermakov has said in low tones and was straightened, having put a hand
on an armchair back. - here where it was possible to meet you... You have died at the post, as the present Person...
He has kept silent, trying to cope with excitement. Then has lifted the clenched fist and it is distinct progovoril: - Light to you
memory! They have lifted a body mezhplanetnika and have cautiously put it on a floor.
- Well, the best monument, than this planetolet, for it you will not think up. - Ermakov has inclined a head. - we will leave it
here.
Bulls looked at the thin, crippled body, hastily and ineptly tied with bed-sheets and linen scraps, and thought that to this
person, the fighter of a science, probably, was not terrible to die to one, for millions kilometres of the Earth. Such do not lose
courage, do not recede. Such the mankind is strong.
Spitsyn has departed from a radio transmitter.
- Itself repaired equipment, - he has in a low voice informed, - and itself has adjusted the automatic machine-direction finder.
But as it has escaped at such blow - I can not present to myself. Here all is smashed.