Vratislav Špaček

"Didouš immediately understood that I was a moron - as a hard-working person. I said it vulgarly, but it's still in today. And he says, 'Hey...' He had a rough voice, so he says, 'Hey, what do they call you?' And I say to him: ‚Buchťák!‘ And he goes, 'Hey, you're pretty good. Come to the ranch.' And I said, 'Where? Where is it?' He says, 'Look, you go there and there. And come and we'll give you a job.' So I got there and they kind of welcomed me and we went right to work. And he understood that I was a fool for working. (Laughs) Well, and the guys liked me for working and for not shying away from work because I didn't have a problem and they took me in. Then I was waiting, I had a ranch card, but I wasn't allowed to wear that. I was a waiter and I was a waiter for almost a year. Only after a year I was admitted by the fire to the settlement. I had to [take] some kind of oath. Like the Boy Scouts had it, something like that, because we actually carried that Boy Scout lily for years, us tramps. As such, I mean, normal tramps."

"It worked perfectly innocently. I didn't even realize it. And then it dawned on me, when I was older, that I was actually acting as a liaison." - "What was that all about?" - "Well, that they corresponded. Franta was a Dominican and these were Dominicans too. That was František and Jindřich. He always wrote a letter and I came in on Monday and gave the letter. Before I left again to see the group, I got another letter and I took that one to Franta again and that's how I kept it going. There was no such thing before. So I was the liaison, but I didn't really realize it. Then I realised that I was actually useful in this, but at that moment when I took the letter and gave it to Frant aand he said, 'And put this to them again, Buchťák,' I didn't realise it. But I was needed."