– Here where reason. This tube enters too freely and therefore circulation goes slowly. Give a tube more widely.
The core replaced a tube, and in a few minutes the head recovered.
Brike’s head – so called the woman – reacted more violently to the revival. When she finally recovered and started talking, began to shout hoarsely, begged better to kill her, but not to leave such freak.
– Ah, ah, ah!. My body… my poor body!. What did you make with me? Save me or kill. I cannot live without body!. Give me though to look at it… is not present, no, it is not necessary. It brainless… what horror!., what horror!.
When she calmed down a little, told:
– You say that you recovered me. I am poorly educated, but I know that the head cannot live without body. What it, miracle or sorcery?
– Neither that, nor another. It is achievement of science.
– If your science is capable to work such wonders, then it has to be able to do also others. Put to me other body. Georges settled made a hole in me a bullet… But many girls blow out the brains. Cut off their body and put to my head. Show me only earlier. It is necessary to choose a beautiful body. And so I cannot… The woman without body. It is worse, than the brainless man.
And, having addressed Laurent, she asked:
– Be so kind as to give me a mirror.
Looking in a mirror, Brike long and seriously studied herself.
– Awfully!. I can ask to do up you hair? I cannot do myself hair…
– At you, Laurent, works increased – the Core grinned. – Also your remuneration will be respectively increased. It is time for me.
He looked at the watch and, having approached is close to Laurent, whispered:
– At their presence – it showed eyes on the heads – words about the head of professor Douel!.
When the Core left laboratory, Laurent went to visit the head of professor Douel.
Douel’s eyes looked at her sadly. The sad smile bent lips.
– Poor my, poor … – Laurent whispered. – But you will be revenged soon!
The head made a sign, Laurent opened the air crane.
– You tell better how there took place experience – the head hissed, poorly smiling.
THE HEADS HAVE A GOOD TIME
It was even more difficult for Thomas and Brike’s heads to get used to the new existence, than Douel’s head. His brain was engaged now in the same scientific works which interested it earlier. Toma and Brike were people simple, and without body to live the sense was not it. No wonder that they began to miss soon.
– Unless it is life? – Thomas complained. – You stick out as a stub. Missed all walls to holes…
Oppressed mood of «captives of science» as joking their Core called, very much caused anxiety it. The heads could decay from melancholy before day of their demonstration comes.
And professor Kern took great pain to entertain them.
It got a movie camera, and Laurent with John organized in the evenings cinema sessions. As the screen served the white wall of laboratory.
Volumes especially were pleasant to the head comic pictures with Charlie Chaplin and Monty Banks’s participation. Looking at their tricks, Thomas forgot for a while about the poor existence. From his throat even something similar escaped on laughter, and on eyes tears navertyvatsya.
But here Banks otprygat, and on a white wall of the room the image of a farm appeared. The little girl feeds chickens. Crested chicken busy treats the baby birds. Against the background of a cowshed the young healthy woman milks a cow, driving away an elbow of a calf which tycht a muzzle in an udder. The shaggy dog ran, cheerfully waving a tail, and after her the farmer seemed. It conducted a horse on a string.
Thomas somehow croaked by extraordinary high pitched, false voice and suddenly shouted:
– It is not necessary! It is not necessary!.
John striving about the device understood not at once in what business.
– Stop demonstration! – shouted Laurent and hurried to turn on the light. The turned pale image still flashed some time and at last disappeared. John stopped operation of the projector.
Laurent looked at Thomas. In the face of it tears were seen, but it were no laughter tears any more. All his chubby face gathered in a grimace as at the offended child, the wry mouth was made.
– As at us… in the village … – complaining, he said. – Cow… chicken… Was gone, everything was gone now…
At the device already strove Laurent. Light was turned off soon, and on a white wall shadows started gleaming. Harold Lloyd bolted from the policemen pursuing him. But the mood at Thomas was already spoiled. Now the type of moving people began to make up on it still for great melancholy.
– See, rushes like mad – Thomas’s head grumbled. – To put him so, would not jump.
Laurent once again tried to change the program. The type of a ball of high society absolutely upset Brike. Beautiful women and their magnificent toilets irritated her.
– It is necessary… I want to watch how others live – she said.
Cinema was removed.
The radio receiver entertained them slightly longer.
Both of them were concerned by music, in particular dance tunes motives, dances.
– My God, as I danced this dance! – Brike exclaimed once, breaking into tears.
It was necessary to pass to other entertainments. Brike was capricious, demanded every minute a mirror, invented new hairstyles, asked to use her eye shadow a pencil, to bleach and rumyanit the person. It was irritated with stupidity Laurent which could not comprehend the mysteries of cosmetics in any way.
– Really you do not see – Brike’s head spoke with asperity – that the right eye is brought more darkly than left. Lift a mirror above.
She asked that brought it fashionable magazines and fabrics, and forced to drape a little table on which her head was strengthened.
She reached an eccentricity, having declared suddenly with overdue bashfulness that she cannot sleep in one room with the man.
– Fence off me for the night a screen or, at least, though the book.
And Laurent did «screen» of the big opened book, having established it on a glass board at Brike’s head.
Not less trouble was brought also by Thomas.
Once he demanded some wine. And professor Kern was forced to give it pleasure of intoxication, entering into the small doses of the intoxicating substances feeding solutions.
Sometimes Toma and Brike sung a duet. The weakened vocal chords did not obey. It was the awful duet.
– My poor voice… If you could hear how I sang earlier! – spoke to Brike, and her eyebrows sufferingly rose up.
In the evenings they were attacked by thought. Extraordinariness of existence forced even these simple natures to think of a matter of life and death.
Brike believed in immortality. Thomas was a materialist.
– Of course, we are immortal – Brike’s head said. – If soul died with a body, it would not return to the head.
– And