“Mm… On the ground or under it?”
“That’s not so easy to say, either. I think your half-brother would have been very interested in one of them.”
“Aha, atavism…. Had a tail, did he?”
“I don’t know. But he was very hairy.”
“He wasn’t an ape, by any chance? My brother told me he’d seen an ape in a suit and tie in the forest near Moscow.”
“This one was wearing a suit and tie, too. And an overcoat.”
“I’d like to take a look at him.”
“We can arrange it,” said the professor. “I’m free on…. let’s check the timetable… Thursday. Let’s meet at Münsterstadt-West station at two pm. Can you make it?”
“Strange how they all arrange things a whole week in advance here,” thought Swidersky. “No chance of that in Moscow – everyone would forget!”
The doctor gave him a medical note, and prescribed a med
