Now that he'd growused to it, though, it wasn't bad. Sometimes Raunu, if giventhe chance to talk, came out with things he wouldn't have otherwise,things an officer would have had trouble learning any other way. The green sash stretching diagonally across his rock-graytunic proclaimed his rank to any who did not recognize his hard, stemfeatures. Had those hoity-toity inspectors come in win-ter, they would have stuck their noses into any old house, taken onewhiff, and fled back to Cottbus with their tails between their legs.
Talsustopped and stared. He was singing the song - not loudly, feeling his way through it -when he came in the door. He knew it. He saw no reason to change his mind.
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