` ` In sense of a subordination... Submission, for example ".
I have thought and have answered that have got used to execute in work orders of in what direct office submission I am.
` ` That is? "" In this case I your subordinate, Anatoly Borisovich ".
It, having kept silent, has asked: "And if you have mutually excluding two each other the order?" "Last Is carried out on
time".
I tried to speak easy, but, to admit, at me murashki have gone on a body from this conversation, and I began to do the silliest
assumptions and to build in advance a plan of action in case Ermakovu will take in head to lift a black flag and to start to
pirate on interplanetary communications.
And it tried to find out: "Means, if my order contradicts the order of the chairman of the State Committee, you obey me?"
"Yes... - Here I, apparently, with the most foolish kind have licked lips and have added: - We not in army, but I will execute
any your order if it does not contradict interests of our state... And parties, certainly. I the communist".
He has laughed.
` ` Only do not imagine that I the conspirator. Also do not think that I doubt your readiness to carry out my orders. Simply I
would like to know, you will adhere to what line of conduct, if circumstances force us to break the committee order. It is very
glad that has found in you the person disciplined and knowing service ".
I too was glad, the word of honour, it was necessary to me to intercept its assured, firm, as iron, a sight.
` ` Nevertheless it would be desirable to know... "- has risked to ask I.
` ` I Will explain... More truly, I will hint, you will understand. The matter is that it is not so much from performance of a problem
of expedition, how many on successful returning of "Hiusa" depends very many. Too many, and we, probably, not will have
the right to subject ourselves to the big risk in searches and researches of Golconda, even for performance of the direct
order of committee... "He has nodded to me and spent to an exit. Really, here is over what to think. Be on the alert, Alexey
Bykov! I understand nothing. However, Krajuhin and Ermakov - not such people that something to be frightened... Such
deviation needs a lot of courage... In what has put?" Having put an end and accurately having combined a writing-book in a
shabby field bag.