Upon hearing about this working method, Hutter immediately concluded that Colonel Hestingov must be an expert among the constitutional soldiers.
He had once encountered an old constable transferred from a frontier region in St. Petersburg, a similarly formidable character as Hestingov, who also enjoyed conducting secret inspections.
The term 'secret inspection' might sound familiar, but never let its clichéd nature deceive you into thinking it's a simple task.
If lacking true skill and courage, it's quite easy to get oneself 'lost' playing this game.
Although the Third Bureau and the Constitutional Guard had great power, such power came with a price.
Their authority was based on criticizing the incompetence of other government departments, a nature of work that naturally wouldn't earn the favor of other departments.
The fuse of all this was the highly controversial "1828 Public Opinion Report" released by the Third Bureau.
