Moscow Nights Page #4

I decided to try and live

So you went to Anna Steinbach and asked her help?

She promised it you.

Isn't peculiar that you didn't discover at once that this generous woman was a spy?

Not really,Sir

If you couldn't find it out in two years is not peculiar that it took me two hours

But you did find it out in two hours?

Yes

You went to her between one and two in the morning an unusual time for a social call?

No social call,I was in need of money

And then what?

I arrived and she produced the money herself

I suggested various way of paying her back

Then she said what she wanted was not money but information

I then went to the telephone

To do what?

I tried to call Section C

No operator can remember your call

Before I could get through Cpt Polonsky came in and arrested me

A series of very unfortunate coincidences

No operator remember your call

Cpt Polonsky enters the room at the very moment you are about to denounce a spy

The witness to all this,Anna Steinbach is conveniently dead

Very unfortunate

Still it might be true if we found you told us the truth about everything else

I have told the truth,Sir

Let's review the facts

On Tuesday at the casino you loose a great deal of money

-Yes -80000 rubles

-To Mr Peter Brioukow -Yes

You agree to pay him back in three days

On Thursday you go to Anna Steinbach in order to get the money

For what purpose?

Pay my debts

To pay your gambling debts to Mr Brioukow

You wanted it that for that purpose and nothing else?

That's right.

Not in exchange for betraying military secrets

but exclusively to pay your debts of 80000 rubles

Yes

Cpt Ignatoff.What you say is untrue and I can prove it

A receipt from Mr Peter Brioukow

for exactly 80000 rubles was found in Cpt Ignatoff's flat

There is really nothing else to prove,

Cpt Ignatoff pays his debt to Brioukow before Thursday Night

I won't ask where he got the 80000 rubles

I will only say this

It was a lie when he said that on Thursday night

he went to Anna Sabine because of his debt to Brioukow

That was a lie.It is logical to conclude

that everything else which Cpt Ignatoff has told us is untrue

and that he is traitor to his country

I ask for a sentence of death

Cpt Ignatoff

Have you anything to say?

I never paid Mr Brioukoff

I haven't got the money

But you've seen the receipt?

I don't know anything about that receipt I'd never seen it before

Councilor for the defence

Mr President in view of the production of this receipt

I submit that the court cannot proceed

without hearing the testimony of Mr Brioukow

Send us up Mr Brioukow for 9 o'clock tomorrow morning.The court adjourns

Here? Bring her in

Get out.All of you

Get out

Go on

Natasha

I'm drunk

I'm drunk

Finished

Right now

You've come

Listen

You've been called as a witness at the Ignatoff trial tomorrow

I must know what you are going to do

His whole life depend on it

Tell you came for him

Your captain Ignatoff

And I believe

Poor you

You can cry

Your Cpt

Relict

Firing squad

Present

Fire

Should

No more

Please

Please listen to me

You can save him,I'll do anything you like

I marry you the day you want me to

You'll marry me

You'll marry me

Whom do you love?

Whom do you love?

Get out

You care for the highness Cpt Ignatoff

He's dead

He's dead

Lodrik

Give them all

Even more

Even more

To which I kiss the holy cross

It's my duty to remind you that you are appearing before a Court Martial

Anything you say may have serious consequences

Yes

On the 14th June last did you win 80000 rubles from Cpt Ignatoff?

I did

Is this receipt in your handwriting?

Yes.It is.

Did you draw the receipt yourself..

Signed it and sent it to Cpt Ignatoff?

I did

No questions,Mr President

The testimony of the witness proves the guilt of the accused

Just one question,Mr President

My whole case depends upon the answer

It means honor or dishonor,life or death to the accused

Mr Brioukow.Did you actually receive the 80000 rubles from Cpt Ignatoff?

-Received? -Yes,Mr Brioukow

You signed the receipt, we quite understand that

But have you in fact been paid?

Brioukow.Did you receive the money.Yes or no?

It is the cross

No.I never got money

The witness is dismissed

Peter Petrovich.Thank you

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