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Mum mistily understood what had happened . Pale and shivering, she sat for a few moments with both hands resting on her thighs. She managed to pull herself together. She inhaled a deep breath and hugged me close, stroking my head. ‘Silly you, you scared the hell out of me. So what if they came here? This is how they do it. Stop worrying, everything will be fine’. ‘No mum, it won’t be fine’, I said, sobbing with tears flowing down my cheeks and neck, and still trembling like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze. ‘They usually investigate from far, not come into people’s houses. Something is not right here; I’ll call Dad’, I said, and made a dash for the phone. Mum hurriedly followed. ‘DON’T’, she ordered, ‘the phone might be tapped now that they are investigating’. My blood chilled, and I stood thunderstruck. ‘ Yim-kken , yim-kken , perhaps, perhaps’. she instantly corrected, reassuring me, upon realizing the shock she had induced. She stepped to the phone, ‘I’ll talk to him. I know how ...