Czarek knew that the Fodder Brothers would not be much of a competition now, but he wanted to be well prepared for the meeting with Miss Aldonka.
Czarek was still preparing even though he was not worried about beating the Fodder Brothers.
This small, barren island in the northern Dodecanese may have remained the deserted outpost it once was, had it not been for a decision in the first century a.d. to use it as a penal colony for political and religious dissidents.