″And that very same night,″ he concluded, ″Momo disappeared.″ The desk sergeant subjected him to a long, resentful glare.
″I see,″ he said at last. ″So you're telling me that an unlikely-sounding girl, whose existence remains to be proved,
may have been kidnapped and carried off, you can't say where to, by ghosts of some kind. Is that what you expect us to investigate?″
″Yes, please,″ Beppo said eagerly. The desk sergeant leaned forward. ″Breathe on me!″ he barked.
Although Beppo failed to see the point of this request, he shrugged his shoulders and obediently blew in the policeman's face.
The desk sergeant sniffed and shook his head. ″You don't appear to be drunk.″ ″No,″ mumbled Beppo, puce in the face with embarrassment.
″I've never been drunk in my life.″ ″Then why tell me such a cock-and-bull story? Did you really think I'd be daft enough to believe it?″
″Yes,″ Beppo replied innocently. At that the policeman's patience finally snapped.
He jumped up and slammed his fist down hard on his stack of long and complicated forms. ″That does it!″ he bellowed, beside himself with rage.
″Get out of here at once or I'll lock you up for insulting behaviour!″ Beppo looked dismayed. ″I'm sorry,″ he mumbled,
″I didn't mean it that way. All I meant was -″ ″Out!″ roared the desk sergeant. Beppo turned and went.
During the next few days he called at various other police stations with much the same result.
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