“...Sergei Nesterenko disappeared. He evaporated from a closed room with a barred window, leaving on the floor his oversized clothes, boots, a pistol, keys to safes... I was supposed to replace Nesterenko as a cash collection officer at ten in the morning, but a call from a frightened boss forced me to rush to work at the crack of dawn. I approached the bank building at the same time as the police squad that arrived, together with them I listened to the guard’s confused story about the night watch, together I examined the duty room, safes with weapons and empty cash collection bags. Everything was fine, nothing was missing. Except for the one on duty..."