The Seven Who Were Hanged

Since the minister was a heavyset man with a risk of an apoplectic stroke, he was informed of the impending danger as carefully as possible, trying not to cause unnecessary agitation. However, the news about a planned assassination struck him as surprisingly cool-headed—even with a smile. Then they laid out the details: the attack was scheduled for the following morning, when he would be going to present a report. Several terrorists—already exposed by a provocateur and kept under constant police surveillance—were to gather by one o’clock in the afternoon at the entrance to the building with bombs and revolvers and wait for him to come out—so that at that moment they could be immediately arrested…