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I call upon the Soviet authorities to intensify military presence
in the Polish streets and to ensure that the instigators of the
shameful massacre that took place here be punished severely.
Their punishment should serve as a deterrent so that acts such
as this will not be repeated.”

“First we’ll have to find the murderers,” the Jewish detective
pointed out.

“We’ll find them… no one will escape punishment!”

A newspaper reporter stood close by, his camera flashing
constantly.Even after the crowd dispersed,he remained standing
by the monument. The detectives detained him, demanding to
see the other reels of pictures that he had photographed in the
area.

“I don’t have them with me,” the reporter explained. “They’re
in my bag. If you want to wait a couple of minutes, I’ll go and
bring them.”

“We’ll wait, but leave your camera here,” the investigators
instructed.

The reporter began walking in the direction in which he claimed
to have left his bag, and the small group waited. Time passed,
but he didn’t return. He seemed to have vanished among the
tightly clustered oaks.

“He was a spy!”the detectives declared,annoyed with themselves
for having let him give them the slip.

“But what dark secrets are possibly hiding here in the forest?”
Leiby was perplexed. “What in the world could he have been
looking for?”