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Justice

Shayek leaves to fetch his sisters but comes back without them. They committed suicide, after poisoning little Szymuś. Shayek tried to find out where they were buried, but the man who dug their grave is no longer alive either.

It was Hela, she tells her husband. It had to be Hela. She managed to get her hands on some cyanide. She probably said . . . What would you say in that situation? Let’s not . . . Or: This doesn’t make sense anymore . . . Maybe you don’t say anything, just reach for the white powder . . . And Szymuś, Tusia’s six-year-old son? Which one of them said: Be a good boy and swallow it all?

She was so pretty, that Hela. So blond . . . and yet she didn’t want to save herself. And meanwhile she, Izolda, with dyed hair and eyes a policeman can spot while she’s riding in a rickshaw, she’s supposed to save everybody. Is that fair? she asks her husband. Tell me, where’s the justice in that? But her husband asks her not to say anything against his sisters.