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- 1944
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i suppose.
I had nothing better
to do.
Maybe that was why
i was interested in such a colorful character.
I don't expect you
to believe me,
but it's the truth.
If you don't like it,
too bad.
Here, mr. Leyden,
are 3 pieces of paper.
On the first is written
the name of the man of whom i spoke to you.
The name is grodek.
The second is
a letter to him.
If you will present
that letter,
he will know that
you are a friend of mine
and that he can
be frank with you.
And incidentally,
it was he who
employed dimitrios in 1926.
Oh, really?
Uh, what about
this one?
I think you said
you were not rich?
No, i'm not rich.
Half a million
francs...
would be useful
to you?
Well, it wouldn't
make me sad.
Well, then, mr. Leyden,
when you have tired of geneva,
i want you to,
how do you say,
to kill two birds
with one stone.
Ahem. Here on
this list of yours are other dates
besides 1926 still
to be accounted for.
If you are to know
what there is to know about dimitrios,
the place to account
for them is paris.
That is the first thing.
The second is if
you will come to paris,
if you will consider then
the pooling of resources,
the alliance that i have
already proposed to you,
i can definitely
guarantee that in a very few days
you will have at least
a half a million french francs.
At the moment
i cannot say more.
But if you will believe in
and trust me,
if you will come to paris,
then here on this piece of paper
is an address.
When you arrive send
a pneumatique to me.
Do not call, for it is
the address of a friend.
I have put you
to so much trouble.
Oh, no trouble
at all.
I wish to make restitution
in a practical way.
Half a million francs
is worth considering, eh?
But, uh, we must trust
one another,
that is most important.
Au revoir,
mr. Leyden.
I won't say good-bye.
Half a million francs,
mr. Leyden,
will buy a lot of
good things.
I do hope we shall meet
in paris.
Good night.
Ohh...
mr. Leyden.
Excuse me, monsieur.
I did not hear
the car arrive.
I was playing
my favorite bach.
Oh, i see that
you have introduced
yourself
to eloise
and abelard.
Do you like cats?
Very much.
I love them,
monsieur.
This is eloise.
Isn't she beautiful?
Oh, beautiful.
And so
inscrutable,
like a woman.
Ravissante.
Go back to
your lover now.
Won't you sit down,
please?
Yes, thank you.
Very kind of you
to receive me, sir.
Well, i don't know
exactly what mr. Peters said in his letter.
Mr. Peters was very
frank about you.
Oh, was he?
He said that you
were writing a book.
I, too, am writing
a book.
Oh, really?
Your memoirs?
Oh, no, monsieur.
I am writing
the life of saint francis.
Pardon me?
Yes, indeed.
But i confidently
expect to be dead
before it
is finished.
Do you care for
english whiskey?
Yes, i do, very much.
Good. I, too, prefer
it as an aperitif.
Oh, yes. May i have
a cigarette, please?
Please,
help yourself.
Thank you.
Have you known
mr. Peters long?
No, i...
i met him once
in a train
and then again in
my hotel in sofia.
Thank you.
Monsieur, i wonder what
if i were to ask
an impertinent question.
Please,
go right ahead.
If i were, for instance,
to ask you to tell me seriously,
if a literary interest
in human frailty
were your only reason
for approaching me?
Monsieur,
i can assure you-
i'm quite certain
that you can,
but forgive me,
monsieur.
What are your
assurances worth?
All i can do is
give you my word
that any information
you give me
i'll treat as
confidential.
I don't think
i have made myself quite clear.
The information
itself is nothing.
What happened
in belgrade in 1926
if of little
importance now.
It's my own position
of which i am thinking.
You see my point?
I'm a little suspicious,
monsieur.
I still have enemies
in this world.
Supposing, therefore,
if you tell me
just what your relations
Would you like
to do that?
I would, but i can't...
for the simple reason
that i don't know
what our relations
are myself.
I was not joking,
mr. Leyden.
Nor i.
As you know, sir,
i was investigating
the life of dimitrios,
i met this mr. Peters.
Well, for some reason,
i don't know why,
he seemed to be
interested in dimitrios, too.
He followed me
to sofia, and there he approached me-
behind a pistol.
Behind a pistol?
He made me an offer.
Ah.
If i would meet him
in paris
and collaborate in
some sort of a scheme he had in mind,
we should each profit
to the extent of half a million francs.
I see.
He said that i had some
piece of information in my possession which,
when used
in conjunction with some information
that
he possessed,
should prove of
great value.
And what may i ask
is this so valuable
piece of information in your possession?
That's what
i don't know.
Come now, monsieur.
You ask for
my confidences.
The least you can do
is to give me yours.
But it's true.
I don't know.
Well... well, yes,
at one point
in our conversation,
he became
very excited.
At what point?
When i explained
to him how i knew that dimitrios
had no money
when he died.
And how
did you know?
Well,
it's very simple.
Because
i saw the body.
You saw the body?
Yes, everything taken
from it was right there on the mortuary table,
but there was
no money, none. Not a single penny.
Another drink,
monsieur?
Oh, yes, please.
You see? I don't
know what
my relations
to mr. Peters are myself.
Mm-hmm.
Straight?
Yes, please.
A toast,
monsieur leyden...
to the detective story.
Thank you, sir.
To your book.
Forgive me, monsieur.
that made me laugh.
It was a thought
of our friend peters
confronting you
with a pistol.
You know,
he's quite terrified of firearms.
With me, he kept his fears
to himself very successfully.
A clever man,
peters.
May i be permitted
as a friend
to give you a word of advice,
mr. Leyden?
- Please do.
- Then, if i were in your place
i should be inclined
to take our friend peters at his word.
- And go to paris.
- Really?
about dimitrios.
probably reffered to me
as a master spy.
The term is ambiguous.
Actually it means that i was
an employer of spy labor
that's how i came
to employ dimitrios.
He was well recommended
for this particular job.
Which i don't mind telling you was on behalf of italy.
Relations between italy
and yugoslavia in 1926
were a bit strained.
My assignment was to get a copy
of the yugoslav minefield chart.
And for that job
i employed dimitrios.
I was in belgrade myself,
and had ample opportunity
to watch him in action.
I left the whole matter
entirely up to dimitrios,
but i was interested
to see how he started.
At the time, he was
using the name of wagner-
even
herr wagner.
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