The colonel looked at me with such sadness, that only just now did I understand what kind of a hopeless situation we had come upon. But hope had not abandoned us yet.
“What did you do to them?” I asked the director. “I don’t know what they did to them,” he responded insultingly. “I found them this way.”
“But these aren’t real madmen. They were driven to such a horrifying state.”
“Do you have proof of this?”
“I once knew one of these patients... Just by sight though, but he was a completely healthy person.”
“You and I are also completely healthy people. And what’ll become of us tomorrow?”
Now the threatening screech of metal could be heard in his words. Or did it just seem that way to me?
“Open up the next cell.”
The director obediently opened up one more door.
And again we saw the
