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The house was surrounded by police.


Jody began to cry.


Rudy was already crying, about his dead brother.


"I hope they didn't find the hiding place," Miriam breathed.


But then, why were the police leading out two people in handcuffs? One was a student.


Either the student hadn't made it to the hiding place, or they had found the hiding place.


They were going to get caught anyway. So Laurent shouted: "Paulo! What happened!"


The student, Paulo, said "They did a door to door search!"


Miriam nearly fainted with relief. If the police had found the hiding place, Paulo would have said so. But Paulo had just been in the house, without being in the hiding place.


But then:


"They got Nikita."


Damn.


Who was in the hiding place though, if anyone?


There was no escape, unless they could get to a house the police had already searched and would not search again. But the only such houses nearby were houses they were constantly searching, due to them knowing the students and activists were trapped in that area due to the road blocks.


"I want to help you."


Laurent, Ichabod, Miriam, Rudy, Jody and JoAnn jumped a foot in the air.


"I'm going to take you to my house and hide you. My wife and I will take good care of you. All of you."

It was a policeman who had said that.


He had recognized that Ichabod was not a cop.


"Alright, you," he said to Ichabod. "Get in the front with me. The rest of you pile into the back and we'll go."


And so they went. The other cops were too busy trying to subdue the angry civilians who had taken to the street because they had nothing to do with this dad-blasted breakout scheme, so why were they being punished?