now they were waiting for gorbaty himself to appear. yard and suddenly felt something. and ducked into the next entrance. many old st. petersburg houses have a through passage from the front door, past the stairs, doors leading to the courtyard. when these houses were built, no one thought that criminals would often take advantage of this feature of the leningrad boros, escaping from pursuit. every thief knew about this. and every policeman knew about this too, but in our story the thief turned out to be more cunning. while the operatives, running through the building, tried to find the fugitive, he calmly climbed the stairs and through the attic got out onto the roof. he had every chance to leave, but the pigeons gave him away. there he is, an incredible chase began on the roof, stop, you will kill, the fugitive decided to get rid of the burden, but this did not help him, he stumbled and rolled down. the thread that led to alekseev was broken, the detectives managed to intercept some of the abducted, but the humpbacks himself escaped,