“Who’s going to tell us?” Schelkachov shrugged. “Maybe he did. Those are the rumors… They say that he found a note in some document that the treasures are in the place where the third head leaves a trail on the day of the Trinity, and that you have to dig exactly three meters deep. Under the head, let’s assume that means under a cupola. So they found the necessary head, they dug on the day of the Trinity — they set up a whole shock brigade here, but found nothing… But I have heard that he studies all the church documents and they’re constantly bringing him monks from the former monastery.”
The third young man in their company, Zahar, came up to them.
He was short, bow-legged, big-nosed, with more bristles than expected for his age. You could see that he hadn’t shaved for three days, and
