“I hope you don’t mind”, the prisoner took a break, “if from now on I return to a detailed description of the events that happened to me? “Well, you go right ahead”, mister inspector Galbraith nodded understandingly. The day after he and Delia returned from Japhet, Jo was awakened by a phone call. He, having forgotten about getting dressed and washed, walked up to the telephone as he was and put the receiver to his ear. It was his neighbour, missis Yonce herself. He, as if fighting with the feeling of dissatisfaction that overwhelmed her, notified mister Thurlow that while washing her daughter’s underwear, she noticed something strange and therefore in the afternoon she would take her daughter into town on business. Then she took a short pause, apparently waiting for Jo’s answer, but he

