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stuttered Berlioz, : -but Im afraid you wouldnt be very comfortable at my place . . - the rooms at the Metropole are excellent, its a first-class hotel . . . And the devil doesnt exist either, I suppose? the madman suddenly enquired cheerfully of Ivan Nikolayich. And the devil . .

. Dont contradict him, mouthed Berlioz silently, leaning back and grimacing behind the professors back. Theres no such thing as the devil! Ivan Nikolayich burst out, hopelessly muddled by all this dumb show, ruining all Berliozs plans by shouting: And stop playing fur trimmed leather coat the amateur psychologist! At this the lunatic gave such a laugh that it startled the sparrows out of the tree above them. Well now, that is interesting, said the professor, quaking with laughter. Whatever I ask you about--it doesnt exist! He fur trimmed leather coat suddenly stopped laughing and with a typical madmans reaction he immediately went to the other extreme, shouting angrily and harshly : So you think the devil doesnt exist? Calm down, calm down, calm down, professor, stammered Berlioz, frightened of exciting this lunatic. You stay fur trimmed leather coat here a minute with comrade Bezdomny while I run round the corner and make a phone call and then well take you where you want to go. You dont know your way around town, sitter all... . Berliozs plan was obviously right--to run to the fur trimmed leather coat nearest telephone box and tell the Aliens Bureau that there was a foreign professor sitting at Patriarchs Ponds who was clearly insane. Something had to be done or there might be a nasty scene. Telephone? Of course, go and telephone if you want to, agreed the lunatic fur trimmed leather coat sadly, and then suddenly begged with passion : But please--as a farewell request--at least say you believe in the devil! I wont ask anything more of you. Dont forget that theres still the seventh proof--the soundest! And its just about to be demonstrated to you! All right, all right, said Berlioz fur trimmed leather coat pretending to agree. With a wink to the wretched Bezdomny, who by no means relished the thought of keeping watch on this crazy German, he rushed towards the park gates at the corner of Bronnaya and Yermolay-evsky Streets. At once the professor seemed to recover his reason and good spirits. fur trimmed leather coat Mikhail Alexandrovich! he shouted after Berlioz, who shuddered as he turned round and then remembered that the professor could have learned his name from a newspaper. The professor, cupping his hands into a trumpet, shouted : Wouldnt you like me to send a telegram to your uncle in Kiev? Another shock--how did this madman know that he had an uncle in Kiev? Nobody had ever put that in any newspaper. Could Bezdomny be right about him after all? And what about those phoney-looking documents of his? Definitely a weird character . . . ring up, ring up the Bureau fur trimmed leather coat at once . . . theyll come and sort it all out in no time. Without waiting to hear any more, Berlioz ran on. At the park gates leading into Bronnaya Street, the identical man, whom a short while ago the editor had seen materialise out of a mirage, got up from fur trimmed leather coat a bench and walked toward him. This time, however, he was not made of air but of flesh and blood. In the early twilight Berlioz could clearly distinguish his feathery little moustache, his little eyes, mocking and half drunk, his check trousers pulled up so tight that his dirty

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