Those teachers who had to prepare experiments remained behind with their lab assistants. Students were thronging the school office to register their addresses. Lidia and the Committee members drew up their moving plan and got it approved by the principal and the department heads. The principal was still sitting with the dean of students when Fayina, her kerchief flying, burst into the office and announced dramatically that two limousines were coming from the town, apparently heading for the school. The principal looked out of the window and saw that two cars—one blue-green, the other gray—were indeed approaching. There could be no doubt about it. Some bigwigs coming to visit the school. He should really go down to meet them. But he wasn’t expecting anybody important, so he stayed where he was—at the open window on the second floor. Big, white clouds were swirling across the sky. The cars drew up to the entrance and out stepped five men in fedoras—two of them in the kind of green ones worn by the higher-ups in this town, the three others in light-colored ones.
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