"'Boy, does the Red Army have some military secret?' And let him tell you that secret.
"'Are our workers receiving foreign help?' And let him tell you from where that help is coming.
"'Boy, is there some secret way from your country into all other countries, a way by which, when you call, among us they respond, when you begin singing, among us they take up the song, when you speak, among us they have the same thoughts?'"
The bourgeois left and quickly returned:
"No, Chief Bourgeois, the boy Kibalchish did not reveal the Military Secret to us. He laughed in our faces.
"'There is,' he said, 'a great and powerful secret in the Red Army. And as you can never understand it, you will never achieve victory.
"'There are,' he says, 'reserves without number and no matter how many you lock up in prisons, you'll never get them all. And you'll never have peace in the light of day or the dark of night.
"'There are,' he says, 'deep, secret pathways. But no matter how long you search for them, you'll never find them. And even if you did find them, you could never fill them up, block them up, cover them over. I'll say nothing more to you, bourgeois. And you, accursed ones, will never guess the truth.'"
The Chief Bourgeois frowned and said:
"Subject this secretive boy Kibalchish to the most horrible torment. Torture him until he reveals the Military Secret, because we will never have peace without this great Secret.
"Ask him, bourgeois:
