"Do you mean Frolova wanted to kill her own father just to get his money?" intervened Goldberg. "I know her a little and she never produced an impression of a greedy person".
"You are right, Dr.Goldber. The motive for the murder was not just money. This is a copy of her mother's case history we got from Novoyarsk. She suffered from mania of persecution. When she lived with Smirnov she reported him to police complaining that he planned to kill her. Perhaps she moved to Novoyarsk in hope to get rid of her disease but contrary to her expectations the illness aggravated. She became assaultive, was taken to hospital and killed herself. And psychiatric diseases are propagable.
As we had good reasons to suspect Timkin and Frolova we decided to search their flats. And this is what we found".
Rogov pulled the drawer open and took out ear rings, bracelets, necklaces.
"But this is my jewelry!" exclaimed Olga. "It was they who robbed my flat?"
"Yes, but they boned the jewelry, their main aim was this document", he demonstrated a piece of paper with a handwritten text. "This is Smirnov's avowal. But first I'd like to draw your attention to this certificate from the city's gynecological hospital. It states that Galina Frolova is in the second month of pregnancy.
"And now I ask you, Mrs. Galina Frolova, whose child are you bearing? Who is its father: Timkin or Smirnov?"
The audience got stupefied. Then somebody squealed; Elza Goldberg fainted; Olga rushed to the door pressing her palms to the lips.
"I have all reasons to ask this question", explained Rogov. "In his avowal Smirnov writes that he was seduced by Frolova who then confessed she was his daughter and began blackmailing him. Hence his wish to leave Russia".
He pushed a button on his desk and took two pairs of handcuffs out of the drawer. A policeman and a policewoman appeared at the door.
Rogov came up to Timkin and put handcuffs on him. "Vladimir Timkin, you are accused of burglary and infliction of bodily injuries". Timkin smiled wryly without saying anything. A policeman escorted him to the door.
"So it was him who attacked me", guessed I.
Rogov approached Frolova and put handcuffs on her. "Galina Frolova, you are accused of the murder of Nicolas Smirnov".
Frolova ceased smiling, her features got twisted.
"He murdered my mother! He murdered my mom!", cried she while the policewoman was pulling her along.
Galina Frolova was taken to court, certified and committed. When in mental hospital she gave birth to a child. Since it had a Down syndrome it was taken to a specialized hospital. Frolova stays at the hospital.
Olga sold all her property and immigrated to Israel. At least in one point the polygraph was not mistaken.
I continue my fruitful collaboration with Rogov. I have become famous and even get job offers from Moscow firms. I reject them: it won't be so easy to find another Rogov in Moscow. Rogov and I have become richer but that doesn't make me happy.
Sometimes when alone in my room I remember Olga's brown eyes that so nicely matched her blond hair and the lines of a Rammstein's song occur to me:
Sie will es und so ist es fein
So war es und so wird es immer sein
Sie will es und so ist es Brauch
Was sie will bekommt sie auch