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 "What has happened, sir?" Keval stammered. "What are they doing in there?"

"Let go of me," Bondy panted. "For Christ's sake, let go. And get out of here, as quick as you can."

"But what has happened to them in there?"

"Let me go," shouted Bondy; and knocking Keval back with his fist, he disappeared among the trees.

Trembling all over, Keval supported himself against the trunk of a tree. From the interior of the concrete building came sounds as of savages chanting a hymn.

A few days later the Czechoslovak Press Bureau published the following obscure statement: