He could have taken it all as a joke, a big joke set up by his colleagues at the bank for some unknown reason, or also perhaps because today was his thirtieth birthday, it was all possible of course, maybe all he had to do was laugh in the policemen's face in some way and they would laugh with him, maybe they were tradesmen from the corner of the street, they looked like they might be-but he was nonetheless determined, ever since he first caught sight of the one called Franz, not to lose any slight advantage he might have had over these people.
Zinez, broma baldartzat har zitekeen hura dena, bankuko bere lankideek antolatua, auskalo zergatik, agian bere hogeita hamargarren urtebetetzeguna zelako. Posible zen, bai.