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Mr. Harry.

-What is it?

-lt's a French gun!

What do you care whose gun it is,

so long as it isn't aimed at you?

Wait a minute.

Your curfew pass.

Here you are, Doc.

Go ahead.

Good evening, Mr. Harry.

-'Evening, Arthur. How's business?

-Fine.

Anything interesting tonight?

-There's a beautiful little mouse.

-Yeah, where?

There.

l think she's new here.

l never saw her before.

That's big city stuff.

Constantinople or Cairo.

You like?

Nice. Who is she?

l don't know.

l want to buy these. How much?

You want to buy?

One more.

What are you going to do with those,

Mr. Harry?

Teach you how to play them, maybe.

You going to teach the Colonel

how to play, too?

Thank you, chri.

Flowers.

Two, please.

Sorry.

Thank you.

Thank you.

How's business tonight, General?

They're having fun in there

eating shashlik and drinking arak.

Lights! Turn on the lights!

Leave me alone!

Andr!

There's people hurt in here.

Get MPs and first-aid immediately.

Very well, sir.

-Are you all right, dear?

-Leave me alone.

Get away from me. No!

Sit down, dear.

l'll see if l can get you a doctor.

l'm all right.

You and your cruddy Syrian patriots.

They were after Col. Feroud.

They almost got me.

You eat with the French,

you get what the French get.

Here.

Thank you.

Hurry.

Sir, we need you outside immediately.

This is terrible.

Are you all right, gentlemen?

Don't worry about us, worry about them.

Anies, candle.

Let's get some more light over there.

Here, drink this.

-Where do you think you're going?

-l want to get out.

And get shot at?

Here.

l'm cold.

The doctors will be here right away.

They got the man that did it.

Don't release anyone

until they finish questioning him.

-No one in or out.

-Yes, sir.

This man, he helped me.

Thank you.

Curfew pass.

All right.

Look at me. Just look at me.

How awful!

What a terrible thing. Look, my stockings!

You can always get new clothes.

How? ln this awful place

you can't get anything!

lt isn't as bad as all that.

How can you say that,

after what happened tonight?

We might have been killed.

Yes, you're right. l might have been killed.

l'm lucky to be alive.

How foolish l am to worry about clothes.

That woman, how she screamed.

l thought she would never stop.

lt's good to be alive.

lt's late. Why don't you go home?

Please lock the door when you leave.

Good night.

l shouldn't have taken you there.

lt wasn't safe.

After this we won't go out anymore.

That's a brilliant idea.

We'll be together. That's all that matters.

Cooped up in this little apartment?

l don't seem to know

how to please you anymore.

l'm not difficult to please.

lt's very easy to please me.

l wonder where it is.

What are you looking for?

l thought it was in here. l remember.

l was afraid l'd lost it.

Beautiful.

l got it at the Folies Bergres, in Cairo.

Wasn't that before l knew you?

Maj. Leon sends his apologies, sir.

Thank you.

l must leave.

Here you are again, Mr. Smith.

Yep, here l am again.

Pay me off and l'll be on my way.

You're late.

l amused myself thinking

perhaps you would not come.

Give my regards to Emir Hassan.

Ask him to tip me off the next time

his boys toss a grenade at my elbow.

-l'll give him your message.

-Thanks.

What an oddity you are, Mr. Smith.

An American in Damascus.

No morals.

No political convictions.

l've had them.

l find that difficult to believe.

l had a bellyful of them.

l left them in the States with my first wife.

lsn't there anything you believe in?

You mean right now? Sure.

l believe in this. And it's 2,000 short!

One load of ammunition was not delivered.

l sweat blood getting through

the toughest blockade ever put on a city...

...and you hold out

because l'm late with one small load.

We haven't any money to waste.

You'll get the rest of yours

the moment the cart arrives.

This is the kind of luck we needed.

He claims he didn't know the guns

were under the sacks.

He was told to drive

to a street called Straight...

...and wait for another driver.

-He has a sick wife and 4 hungry children.

-Three wives and 11 children.

What about the other driver?

He didn't show up.

We're guarding the whole area.

What did you find on him?

Not a thing.

He could be telling the truth.

People in this job are too clever

to take him into their confidence.

They have a chain of drivers

that don't know anything.

l'm sorry, l thought this was the break

we were looking for.

lt could be...

...if we could find a man

who still has some dried apricots.

Good night, Major.

You wish to buy some jewels?

-Have you got some good ones?

-Beautiful jewels.

Fit for a dream of a girl,

one who is different.

They're all the same.

Each new girl is different.

With each new love,

a mist comes before the eyes.

The pleasure you will have

before the mist rises...

...and you find out

that she's like all the others.

What kind of gift

would you like to buy for her?

Rings?

No.

Necklace? Pearls?

You've got to do better than that.

Bracelets?

Haven't you got something a little more....

This girl. She is different.

l know of a bracelet made with moon gold,

encrusted with diamonds.

Can you get it for me?

lt's so beautiful. She would love it.

But it belongs to another.

Would it be difficult to steal?

lmpossible! She's an old woman.

The bracelet is all that remains of her youth.

She sleeps with it next to her cheek.

Then why tell me about it?

l know a lad

whose step is as light as a moonbeam.

He will drift into her room,

take it from her, and drift out.

-She will hardly dream.

-How soon can you have it for me?

Two hours.

Wait a minute.

How much is this going to set me back?

l will let you steal it from me.

-Yes?

-Miss Violette?

Yes.

-You were at the Moulin Rouge last night?

-Yes.

There was a disturbance.

And after the disturbance,

you lost something?

No.

You're sure you did not lose a bracelet?

-You woke me up. Why don't you go?

-Please, just a moment.

l was told this belonged to you.

Yes, l didn't even know l'd lost it.

lt must have slipped off my arm

in the excitement.

Thank you.

Thank you.

l wish there was something l could do.

No, thanks. Happy to oblige. Goodbye.

l am Balukjian.

The Colonel has sent for me.

-Go right in. He's waiting for you.

-Thank you.

Come in.

Col. Feroud! My friend!

When l got the message from you,

l was happy to come. So happy!

Mr. Balukjian, sit down.

Do you know what office this is?

But of course. lt's your office.

And do you know who l am?

Col. Feroud. Everybody knows that!

l'm also head of military intelligence.

Did you know that, too?

Yes.

You must know it's part of my duty

to protect the Army from spies, traitors...

...and saboteurs.

To arrest and eliminate them.

To eliminate them permanently!

Why do you talk like this? To me?

You or one of your friends are selling

guns and ammunition to the insurgents.

Guns? Ammunition? Look at me!

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