勝村は思い出した。五年前のシベリヤ。発疹チフスが荒れ狂っていたころ、脳症で小便樽に飛び込んだ男を。あの濃い眉と険しい鼻の四十台の男の顔。彼がクラブ・ピジョンで見た男の顔とピタリと重なる。
Katsumura remembered. Siberia five years ago. A man who jumped into a urine barrel with encephalopathy when typhus fever was raging. The face of forties man with thick eyebrows and a sharp nose. It overlaps with the man’s face he saw at Club Pigeon.