“The plot?” the Chief asked, Erchov saw that his face had the concentrated look, the hard lines, of his cold rages. “I am inclined to accept the view that the assassination of Comrade Tulayev was the act of an isolated individual …” “Very efficient, your isolated individual! Remarkably well organized!” Erchov felt the sarcasm in the back of his neck, the place where the executioner’s bullet lodges. Could Gordeyev have sunk so low as to carry on a secret investigation of his own and then conceal the results? It would have been almost impossible. In any case, there was nothing to answer … The
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