The Supreme Court is now in session,announced the central figure.Call Agent No. BLW/553/c.″
The cry was repeated further down the slope and repeated again some distance away, like an echo.
Threading his way slowly through the crowd and up the mound of garbage came a man in gray,
distinguishable from his fellows only by the pallor of his face, which was almost white.
At last he reached the tribunal. ″You are Agent No. BLW/553/c?″ asked the man in the centre.
″I am.″ ″How long have you been employed by the Timesaving Bank?″ ″Ever since I came into existence, Your Honour.″
″That goes without saying - kindly spare us such irrelevancies. When did you come into existence?″
″Eleven years, three months, six days, eight hours, thirty-two minutes and - at this precise moment - eighteen seconds ago.″
Oddly enough, although this exchange was being conducted a long way off and in low, monotonous voices, Beppo didn't miss a word of it.
″Are you aware,″ the man in the centre went on, ″that a substantial number of children paraded through the streets today with placards and banners,
and that they even entertained the outrageous notion of inviting the whole city to attend a briefing on our activities?″
″It hadn't escaped me,″ replied the agent. ″How do you account for the fact that these children knew about us and our activities?″
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