“—better than having them perform their public functions in private anyhow, I should have thought,” Hugh said.
“You might have hit on something there. That is, those birds referred to are not police in the strict sense. As a matter of fact the regular police here—”
“I know, they’re on strike.”
“So of course they must be democratic from your point of view . . . Just like the army. All right, it’s a democratic army . . . But meantime these other cads are throwing their weight about a bit. It’s a pity you’re leaving. It might have been a story right down your alley. Did you ever hear of the Union Militar?”
“You mean the pre-war thingmetight, in Spain?”
“I mean here in this state. It’s affiliated to the Military Police, by which they’re covered, so to speak, because the Inspector General,
