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No, this place was ideal if you wanted to get rid of someone. It was remote enough, yet near enough to the centre of town. To do it elsewhere, out in the forest or the country, there was no telling whom you would bump into you out there. No, here was the place. He thought long and hard. He turned around and then had the shock of his life. Standing in front of him was a young boy and a young girl. The girl was holding a teddy bear!
     
    Chapter Five
     
    Georgii and the two children stood staring at each other for what seemed like an eternity. The young boy spoke first.
    ' We've been watching you, we know why you`re here,' he said
    ' You're here because of what happened,' the girl said.
    ' And where have you been watching me from?', Georgii said. He reached into his pocket. The two children turned their heads and pointed in the direction of the empty sheds further down the dock. He reached into his pocket and produced a lump of stale black bread. He broke it in two and gave the kids a piece each.  Then they carried on talking. 'My names Georgii what's yours?'
    ' Mines Pyotr,' the boy replied.
    ' And mines Anna,' said the girl.
    Georgii also became aware that there were others p resent. He thought for a minute and then said.
    ' You two had better come with me.'
    With that the three of them walked off. They walked silently down almost deserted city streets. It was the boy that spoke first.
    'Where are you taking us?' Pyotr said.
    ' Home and food; you can stay at my lodgings tonight,' Georgii replied.
    Georgii looked at the two children. The girl clutched her teddy bear tightly. Like most people, they only had the possessions that they stood up in. He also wondered what he was going to do with them. The 'Party Stooge' would not take too kindly to two extra lodgers moving in. Georgii would have to smuggle them in via the back fire escape. He himself would enter the house from the front. The time was eight thirty and they all entered from different directions.
    Georgii passed the Concierge, and rushed upstairs and let the children in through the first floor hall window. They entered his rooms. He shut the door behind them. The two kids were hungry, so he gave them some black bread and soup.
    Addressing the boy Georgii said.  'Why did you say you knew why I was there?'
    ' Because we saw what happened two weeks ago!'  The girl exclaimed.
    ' You're the first stranger we have seen since then… apart from the locals that always come and go,' Pyotr said.
    ' Who might they be?'
    ' Oh they`re just the people that sleep and take shelter in the sheds,' the boy said.
    ' So what happened two weeks ago then? You both said you knew why I was there!'  Georgii asked.
    ' Can we stay here forever?' The girl asked.
    ' So what happened at the dock that you think interests me?'  Georgii said.
    The two children looked at each other in an uneasy way. Then they turned to face him.
    'It was just after dark, and two cars drove in, like they always do, in quick succession. One parked under the shed roof. The other stopped near the water's edge. Three men got out of the car. One lent against the side of the car and lit up a cigarette.  The second set up a table and the third heaved a sack out of the boot. The two men worked quickly.  They emptied the contents out onto the table,' Pyotr said.
    ' We were hiding in one of the sheds ... we could see everything that was going on,' Anna said.
    Pyotr started again.  'The man laid some Big Choppers on the table. He picked the body up and started hacking away at it.'
    ' We soon realised what it was. It was a body and it seemed that the man was cutting off the head, hands and the feet!
    Georgii sat there and listened to the two children 's stories. It pretty much tied in with his own suspicions.
    The boy carried on, 'The second man had disappeared on to the ice. When the first man finished, he helped the other to lower it down. When they had packed everything away, they stood there awhile and smoked a cigarette