‘You there! Get in here, sit there and don’t speak.’
‘But I don’t understand, why, why have I been brought here?’
‘I said, sit there and don’t speak.’
‘But what…why? Why?’
‘Are you hard of hearing or just stupid? Sit down and do not say a word until spoken to.’
‘But…?’
‘I said sit; even the stupidest dog understands that. Sit down.’
‘OK, I’ll sit but please tell me who you are and why I’m in here?’
‘I am OT Sergeant Painstaking of the State Bureau of Investigative Criminal Procedures and I am to investigate your crimes, of course, that’s why.’
‘The SBICP, the secret police?’
‘The State Bureau is not secret, we have no secrets, it is the secret subversive behaviour of others that concern us. ’
‘I’m sorry, Sergeant Painstaking, but I don’t know what your title, OT, stands for. Som
