CHAPTER FIFTEEN
The only thing that interested the militia lieutenant who stuck to Sidelnikov at the casualty ward of the City Hospital Number One, was which of the fighters was drunk and which wasn’t. Sidelnikov, who had been brought in by ambulance, answered reluctantly. By the end of the interrogation, he attempted to use the “comrade major” as a looking glass in order to find out the exact location of his broken nose.
‘Precisely under your left eye,’ replied the raised in rank.
For the rest of the night, Sidelnikov was being sent around: from the first floor to the fourth (‘Go to X-ray’), from the fourth floor to the first (‘Wait downstairs’) and then back to X-ray (‘Go get the image’). At first, the negative was bad, the next one was good but some important card was missing, and so
