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Arrest - Conversation with Mrs. Grubach - Then Miss Bürstner
""What’sthat?"exclaimedK.,andlookedatthethreeinastonishment.Hecouldonlyrememberseeingthemintheirgroupbythephotographs,butthesecharacterless,anaemicyoungpeoplewereindeedofficialsfromhisbank,notcolleaguesofhis,thatwasputtingittoohighanditshowedagapintheomniscienceofthesupervisor,buttheywerenonethelessjuniormembersofstaffatthebank.HowcouldK.havefailedtoseethat?Howoccupiedhemusthavebeenwiththesupervisorandthepolicemennottohaverecognisedthesethree!Rabensteiner,withhisstiffdemeanourandswinginghands,Kullich,withhisblondehairanddeep-seteyes,andKaminer,withhisinvoluntarygrincausedbychronicmusclespasms."Goodmorning,"saidK.afterawhile,extendinghishandtothegentlemenastheybowedcorrectlytohim."Ididn’trecogniseyouatall.So,we’llgointoworknow,shallwe?"Thegentlemenlaughedandnoddedenthusiastically,asifthatwaswhattheyhadbeenwaitingforallthetime,exceptthatK.hadlefthishatinhisroomsotheyalldashed,oneafteranother,intotheroomtofetchit,whichcausedacertainamountofembarrassment.K.stoodwherehewasandwatchedthemthroughtheopendoubledoorway,thelasttogo,ofcourse,wastheapatheticRabensteinerwhohadbrokenintonomorethananeleganttrot.KaminergottothehatandK.,asheoftenhadtodoatthebank,forciblyremindedhimselfthatthegrinwasnotdeliberate,thatheinfactwasn’tabletogrindeliberately.AtthatmomentMrs.
