all this saw before himself lonely traveller. According to the form he could descend after spirit or for the demon of those places. At first glance difficult there were to determine, how much to him years hearth forty or hearth sixty. Yellow parchment tightly covered the bones of its thin, emaciated face, in the long dark hair and the beard strong greyish hair silvered, the begun to fall eyes burnt with unnatural luster, and the hand, which compressed gun, resembled the brush of skeleton. In order to keep balance on the feet, for it it was necessary to rest on the gun, although, judging by the high increase and the powerful addition, it had to possess strong, hardy organism; however, its sharpened face and clothing, in bag visevshaya on its dried up tele-, clearly spoke, why it appears by feeble old man. It died it died from the hunger and the thirst.
Napryagaya last forces, it went down into the hollow, then overcame lift in the vain hope of finding here, in the plain, although the drop of moisture, it saw persi with itself only salt desert and the chain of unapproachable mountains far. And nowhere either tree or bush nor sign of water! In this boundless space for it not there it was not flash of hope. By the wild, lost view it looked to the north, then to the east and West and understood that to its wanderings arrived the end, here, on the naked cliff, for it it is necessary to meet its death. "not all whether is equal, here or on the downy bed of years through twenty pyat'", it muttered, being going to sit down into the shadow near the large boulder. No before to be sit, it assumed to the earth unnecessary now gun and large knot, tied by gray shawl, which it bore, after throwing across the right arm. Knot was, obviously, it is too heavy for it, after going down from the arm, it did not hold it in the hands and almost it dropped to the earth. Sorrowful cry immediately was heard and from the gray the Charles were put out the first small frightened face with the bright hazel eyes, then two dirty chubby fists. Ty me ushib! angry pronounced children's golosok. Pravda? guilty it answered putnik. Prosti, is accidental. On untied Charles; in it proved to be the pretty girl of years of five, in elegant tufel'kakh, well dressed pink plat'itse and linen apron; all this attested to the fact that the thoughtful mother dressed it. Face of girl turned pale and grew thin, but, judging by the strong legs and the knobs, to it it was necessary to endure less deprivations than to its satellite.to Tebe of bol'no? it began to worry, looking, as girl, after neglecting fingers into the jumbled golden ringlets of hair, rubs back of the head. Potseluy, and everything will pass, she importantly said, substituting to it the hurt place.
