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The boy was not at all put out when he realized that I had tricked him by taking him to an organist's instead of to a Communist's. He said, "I'm sure that Communists aren't nearly as clever as organists; and the organist said I could come back and solve chess problems with him whenever I liked."
The boy walked beside me in silence for a while and then said, "Listen, do you think these two madmen have really killed a man?"