- Tod and Buz, in Cleveland, Ohio working as laborers on a "three week job at a gravel yard", stay at their Russian supervisor's home. He has a mute daughter who has a miserable life. When a fellow Russian, whom the community has ostracized, shows his love for her tragedy follows. The two ill-fated people meet an uncertain end.—dubchi
- Tod and Buz are speaking to Lieutenant Hodges and Detective Simmons of the Cleveland Police Department about an incident on a railroad drawbridge down by the docks, this the second such meeting they've had with Hodges since their arrival in Cleveland one week earlier. In a possible abduction case, Tod and Buz are the only known eyewitnesses as they saw Vladis Dvorovoi and Anna Volovich running across the bridge catwalk. Following a train passing across the bridge, they lost sight of the pair. Hodges is pretty certain that Dvorovoi took Anna against her will, and that they died falling into the river below in a murder/suicide. Tod and Buz believe the pair are still alive, a theory Simmons knows is at least plausible. The only remnant of the pair on the scene is Anna's prized broken down phonograph, and the one record she owned, worn out out of continual playing. Tod and Buz tell Hodges what they've learned of the pair in their week in town... Working at the sand and gravel yard, Tod and Buz were invited by their boss, Anna's father, to room at his boarding house for the three weeks they planned to stay, the house where many of the yard workers roomed, especially those of Russian descent like the Voloviches. One such was Dvorovoi, nicknamed the monkey man because of oral issues causing his face to look like a monkey. Anna, a twenty-four year old mute woman, was apparently scared of Dvorovoi, as she was of many people. Anna was responsible for all the household duties, she almost like a prisoner in the house. The one bright light in her life was that one phonograph record, which her father only allowed her to play when he was not home. Anna was engaged to Nikolai Orlov, a brusque man who treated her like his property. The union was one her father blessed as he figured she, being mute, would not be able to attract anyone else. Largely because of issues stemming from his appearance, Dvorovoi was shunned by the Russians in the neighborhood, and especially by Orlov by showing Anna some friendship. Unless Dvorovoi and/or Anna are ever found, what happened to them can only be speculation.—Huggo
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