WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.200 --> 00:00:04.440 You are lying helpless in a rude hut in the 2 00:00:04.559 --> 00:00:08.160 deep interior of China, not knowing how you got there 3 00:00:08.279 --> 00:00:11.560 or why. And before you you see the face of 4 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:15.039 a beautiful girl and the hard, ruthless figure of a 5 00:00:15.039 --> 00:00:18.280 gorilla chieftain, and you know that in this room there 6 00:00:18.359 --> 00:00:21.399 is danger for you, perhaps death. 7 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:31.800 We offer you escape transcribe to free you from the 8 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:33.920 four walls of to day for a half hour of 9 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:37.240 high adventure. To day we escape to China and the 10 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:40.280 story of a man who lost his memory and almost 11 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:43.840 his life. As James Norman told it in his fascinating 12 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:46.799 story He who Rides the Tiger. 13 00:00:55.719 --> 00:01:00.880 The figures and faces would come and go. Sometimes I 14 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:03.960 seemed to be floating along with them through endless space. 15 00:01:04.040 --> 00:01:06.920 But more often I I could feel myself lying on 16 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:11.439 a hard bed and watching, not moving, with sick and 17 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:15.319 fevered eyes. And there was a big man with brown 18 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:18.840 skin and close cropped hair, and an older man with 19 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:23.040 a white coat. But best of all was the girl, 20 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:29.760 a beautiful girl. Usually her face would dissolve into a 21 00:01:29.799 --> 00:01:32.239 great lotus flower that would hang for a moment in 22 00:01:32.239 --> 00:01:36.120 the air and then float slowly beyond reach of my 23 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:41.200 thoughts and disappear. Part of this was a dream, of course, 24 00:01:41.239 --> 00:01:46.920 and part reality, but I was unable to separate one 25 00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:54.519 from the other. How long it went on, it's impossible 26 00:01:54.560 --> 00:01:56.760 to me to say. I had no sense of the 27 00:01:56.799 --> 00:02:00.400 passage of time. One morning, though, I opened my eyes 28 00:02:00.439 --> 00:02:03.120 and looked at the bare walls of the room, the 29 00:02:03.159 --> 00:02:05.480 white haired man sitting by my cut, the other man 30 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:09.360 sitting a few feet away, smoking a cigarette. And then 31 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:12.319 I knew that the dreams had gone away and would 32 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:17.120 not come back. This was reality feeling better. 33 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:19.840 Can you hear me? Understand me? 34 00:02:20.199 --> 00:02:20.439 Eh? 35 00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:24.360 Yes, yes, of course, go ahead. Glad you're finally coming 36 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:25.719 out of it. You have been a very sick man. 37 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:28.280 You know where am i? 38 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:31.280 A feng Yang Mission hospital where about six hundred miles 39 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:31.960 out of Pippin. 40 00:02:33.400 --> 00:02:36.439 That's impossible. How did I get here? 41 00:02:36.599 --> 00:02:39.680 Walked in, dropped unconscious in the courtyard, burning up with 42 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:41.360 fever and suffering from malnutrition. 43 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:44.919 Malnutrition, but I ate lunch yesterday in Payping. 44 00:02:45.159 --> 00:02:47.479 I'm afraid I'll have to contradict you. You've been here 45 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:50.439 for two months. I don't understand that. I wonder if 46 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:52.400 I could ask your patient the question, Oh, yes, yes, 47 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:55.400 of course, you simply this. What is your. 48 00:02:55.360 --> 00:02:58.879 Name's Armor, David Armor? 49 00:02:59.240 --> 00:03:01.800 Ah? Yes, so you told us while you were delirious, 50 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:06.159 but we could not be sure. And your business in Peping, 51 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:06.879 mister Armour. 52 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:10.800 I'm a member of the International Committee on Chinese Art Treasures. 53 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:15.159 We've been investigating the policy of the advancing Japanese armies too, 54 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:20.599 protecting and preserving our objects in newly conquered territories. I see, 55 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:24.759 and yesterday you ate lunch in Paping, Yes, at the 56 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:30.680 wagon Lee Hotel. I dropped my wife off at it Adrian. 57 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:34.479 Where is she? Where's my wife? Missus Armor is in 58 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:40.159 San Francisco at present? San Francisco? Why what's this all about? 59 00:03:40.719 --> 00:03:41.159 Who are you? 60 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:42.159 And what am I doing here? 61 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:45.360 Why have I grand mister Armor? Please, mister Kinto, I 62 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:48.039 think any further questioning and better be postponed until tomorrow. 63 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:50.159 Mister Armony is in no condition for it. I quite 64 00:03:50.159 --> 00:03:53.840 agree with you, doctor, very well, Missus Armor, until tomorrow. 65 00:03:53.919 --> 00:04:01.919 They know, doctor. I don't understand who is this mister Kento. 66 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:03.800 What does he want? Oh, he's a powerful man among 67 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:06.680 the Chinese. He's been following your condition very closely. I 68 00:04:07.199 --> 00:04:08.080 don't know what he wants. 69 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:12.080 If I could only remember what happened. I've got to 70 00:04:12.120 --> 00:04:15.479 send word to my wife, to Adrian, to the American consul. 71 00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:19.720 Huh up my wallet, my passport and papers? Do you 72 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:20.680 have him or mister Armor. 73 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:22.519 When you arrived here, you were wearing a cast off 74 00:04:22.519 --> 00:04:25.839 you in a form of the Japanese Army. You had 75 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:28.279 no papers or identification. There was nothing in your pockets 76 00:04:28.319 --> 00:04:33.120 except this. I haven't told mister Kinto about it. 77 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:37.639 It's a little porcelain figurine A rabbit, Yes, a rabbit. 78 00:04:38.079 --> 00:04:40.160 Does it mean anything to you? I never saw it 79 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:40.879 before my life. 80 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:42.800 It's too bad. I was hoping it might help you remember. 81 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:45.879 The last thing I remember is that lunch and payping. 82 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:48.959 Seems like yesterday, and yet you told me it was 83 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:49.800 two months ago. 84 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:52.360 No, no, I said that you came here two months ago. 85 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:57.040 What was the date of that luncheon, mister Arma, It. 86 00:04:56.920 --> 00:05:03.160 Was September twenty third, ye of what year? Nineteen forty one? 87 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:04.319 Of course, what do you mean? 88 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:07.480 What are you driving, mister Armor? Apparently the last thing 89 00:05:07.519 --> 00:05:09.439 you remember is the lunch that you had in Paiping 90 00:05:09.519 --> 00:05:11.759 nearly eight years ago. 91 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:21.399 I understand the doctor has brought you more or less 92 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:24.439 up to date, mister Ramer, all in a general way. Yes, 93 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:26.639 he told me about Pearl Harbor and the war, and 94 00:05:26.680 --> 00:05:30.839 finally the Japanese surrender, the revolution in China and so 95 00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:34.399 on hasn't helped any as well as my memory is concerned. 96 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:39.920 It's too bad. Let me extend that memory by about 97 00:05:40.120 --> 00:05:40.800 twenty minutes. 98 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:41.319 What do you mean. 99 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:46.000 On September twenty third, nineteen forty one, you ate lunch 100 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:49.160 at the wagon Ly Hotel in Peiping with a mister Ficking, 101 00:05:49.399 --> 00:05:52.839 the Far East correspondent for an American newspaper. Yes, I 102 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:55.480 know that you left the hotel with mister Ficking and 103 00:05:55.560 --> 00:05:59.639 against the rickshaw naturally two blocks away, it was bumped 104 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:03.319 by Ampanese army truck and overturned. You were thrown out 105 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:06.680 and struck your head on the curbing. A companion became 106 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:09.240 embroidered in an argument with the truck driver and the 107 00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:12.959 crowd gathered, and when the affair quieted down, you had 108 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:16.720 disappeared from that time until Europeans here at feng Yang 109 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:17.600 two months ago. 110 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:21.519 Your whereabouts are unknown. But how did you find out 111 00:06:21.519 --> 00:06:21.920 about this? 112 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:28.000 That is unimportant. I am concerned with what you did 113 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:32.279 after that. A war was being fought in China. The 114 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:34.560 whole country was under martial law by one side or 115 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:38.920 the other. Yet I can find no record of you anywhere. 116 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:39.839 What are you getting at? 117 00:06:40.360 --> 00:06:43.000 You were not with the American or Chinese armies, and 118 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:46.279 neither the Japanese army nor the puppet government, at least 119 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:48.800 you as a war prisoner. You were not with the 120 00:06:48.879 --> 00:06:52.160 Chinese careers. I was one of their leaders. I have 121 00:06:52.319 --> 00:06:58.519 known about that. So what were you doing, mister Armor? Collaborating? 122 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:01.959 Perhaps the Japanese? There would be no listing of your 123 00:07:02.040 --> 00:07:04.439 name in that case. They destroyed all such records before 124 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:08.000 the surrender, and you were wearing a Japanese uniform when 125 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:08.519 you came here. 126 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:09.759 I are out of your minds. 127 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:11.600 Then suppose you tell me what you were doing. 128 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:15.079 I can't tell you. I don't remember. What do you 129 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:16.680 want anyway? What brought you under this? 130 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:21.759 Two simple words that mean a million dollars even when 131 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:26.240 they are whispered by a man in delirium. Tang bronzes. 132 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:30.639 Tang bronzes. You've heard of them? Yes, of course. The 133 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:33.120 only two pieces in existence are in the Buckingham Palace 134 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:34.720 collection in London. What have they got to do? 135 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:37.680 No? No, not those, mister Armor. I am referring to 136 00:07:37.720 --> 00:07:41.079 the Four Tang bronzes. They are in existence in China, 137 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:42.319 where they've been lost for centuries. 138 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:46.439 No, a few Chinese in every generation have always known 139 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:49.079 where they were. We were forced to move them for 140 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:52.360 safe keeping several times during the war. The last time 141 00:07:52.759 --> 00:07:54.439 was a few days before the surrender. 142 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:59.439 My men in charge of the job were ambushed and murdered, 143 00:08:00.040 --> 00:08:03.519 and the bronzes were stolen by whom I've not been 144 00:08:03.519 --> 00:08:04.240 able to discover. 145 00:08:04.360 --> 00:08:06.800 Are you implying that I learned they were being taken 146 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:10.920 to Shanghai. I traced them past Nane King and lost 147 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:14.000 the trail, but they did not reach Shanghai, that I 148 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:17.720 am certain. So where do I come in, Well from 149 00:08:17.759 --> 00:08:20.879 Tinsha's head in delirium. I believe you have seen and 150 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:25.000 touched those bronzes. Perhaps even you know where they are 151 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:29.439 if you could remember. I want them back. You want 152 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:30.279 your memory back. 153 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:33.159 It's not good to lose eight years with no accounting 154 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:34.120 for one's actions. 155 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:37.120 Just what are you suggesting? I suggest that I settled 156 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:39.679 all suspicioned by a public statement that you were a 157 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:43.840 member incognitore of my career of forces during the entire war. 158 00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:47.120 Then the two of us will start from Shanghai and 159 00:08:47.159 --> 00:08:50.600 work toward Nan King, hoping that some scene or association 160 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:52.759 may serve as a key to unlock your memory. 161 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:57.559 When that happens, we both have what we want. I see. 162 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:03.840 Only one thing wrong with it. I'm not going to do. 163 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:06.759 It too bad. 164 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:11.919 What are your plans, then, mister Armor, And the doctor says, 165 00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:13.559 I'll be able to travel by the end of the week. 166 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:15.399 I'm going to take a train to Shanghai and have 167 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:18.600 the first plane out to San Francisco. I'm afraid you're 168 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:23.039 making a serious mistake, but of course it's every mouth privilege. 169 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:26.799 At least I hope you'll carry this with you on 170 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:32.600 your trip, Pistol, but for because somewhere there is a 171 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:35.399 person who may not stop at anything to make sure 172 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:39.600 you do not regain your memory at some inconvenient movement. 173 00:09:40.679 --> 00:09:42.799 Have you forgotten about that, mister Armor. 174 00:09:51.639 --> 00:09:54.559 Most of the long train trip to Shanghai was uneventful. 175 00:09:55.279 --> 00:09:58.279 I still carried the gun, mostly because I didn't know 176 00:09:58.279 --> 00:10:01.039 what else to do with it. I had only one 177 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:03.519 idea in mind, to get home to San Francisco and 178 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:07.600 to Adrian just as soon as possible. But Nan King, 179 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:10.200 the papers that came on board were carrying the story 180 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:14.600 of my war time association with Kato's guerrilla forces. Apparently 181 00:10:14.639 --> 00:10:16.240 he'd gone ahead on his own with that part of 182 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:19.759 his plan. From Nan king On, I could hear the 183 00:10:19.799 --> 00:10:24.320 other passengers discussing me amongst themselves, And when some fifty 184 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:28.600 miles out of Shanghai, a fat, smiling little Chinese merchant 185 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:31.840 named mister Chen set down in my compartment began to 186 00:10:31.919 --> 00:10:34.000 chatter away about my heroism. 187 00:10:34.200 --> 00:10:36.000 Is most remarkable, mister Hammer. 188 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:39.720 Most amazing that one who serve our country in such 189 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:43.480 a glorious way is not able to remember single one 190 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:45.360 of illustrious exploits. 191 00:10:45.399 --> 00:10:45.559 Well. 192 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:47.360 As I told you, mister Chen, I was injured nearly 193 00:10:47.399 --> 00:10:49.600 eight years ago. I've been suffering from amnesia. It was 194 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:51.480 only last week that my memory came back to me. 195 00:10:51.679 --> 00:10:57.639 Oh yes, he's too shame and nothing, not one single 196 00:10:57.759 --> 00:11:00.000 hour of eight years can be remembered. 197 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:03.639 Now. All that I know is what mister Kent tells me. 198 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:04.559 It is true. 199 00:11:04.600 --> 00:11:09.399 Whatever mister Kinto say is mutually important man, very great leader, 200 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:11.639 very powerful fighter. 201 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:14.879 Yes, yes, you know where. 202 00:11:14.559 --> 00:11:15.759 Is mister Kinto now? 203 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:19.200 No, he left Yang Fang three days ago. I think 204 00:11:19.240 --> 00:11:20.039 he went to pay. 205 00:11:19.879 --> 00:11:24.759 Ping oh yes, and you are honorable intention of mister armor. 206 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:27.799 They are what you got. A plane in San Francisco 207 00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:29.919 just as soon as possible is. 208 00:11:29.960 --> 00:11:31.279 The most excellent plan. 209 00:11:32.200 --> 00:11:37.000 Shanghai, very troubled city, very unsettled, would cause great lamentation 210 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:42.440 in land if action accidents happened to he lostious hero 211 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:47.080 of our country. Accident, well, who can tell the ways 212 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:47.559 of faith? 213 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:50.159 In a city like Shanghai. 214 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:54.200 Many accidents can happen, even to a brave fighter with 215 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:58.039 loaded pistol and could pocket. It's much better you go 216 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:05.919 away on playing very quickly. 217 00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:08.639 In Shanghai, I took a taxi to the Cafe hotel. 218 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:11.200 When I started to check in, I got the first 219 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:14.960 of several surprises. The clerk told me that I had 220 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:17.480 a room already reserved and paid for by whom he 221 00:12:17.519 --> 00:12:20.039 didn't know. At any rate, it was a nice room, 222 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:22.279 one of the best in the house. Picked up the 223 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:25.960 telephone called the American consul. Then I started the hotel 224 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:29.120 clerk working on an airline reservation, set my clothes out 225 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:32.080 to be clean, climbed into a shower. By the time 226 00:12:32.120 --> 00:12:34.879 I'd finished, a boy knocked on my door with an envelope. 227 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:38.679 I opened it took out the note humble token of 228 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:44.200 appreciation for illustrious wartime services mister Chen. Attached to the 229 00:12:44.240 --> 00:12:47.360 note was a plane ticket to San Francisco, the seat 230 00:12:47.399 --> 00:12:52.120 reservation for noon the next day. I should have expected 231 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:54.759 the second note, delivered fifteen minutes later, but I didn't. 232 00:12:55.679 --> 00:12:58.559 It read, please do me the honor of joining me 233 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:06.600 in the American bar down stairs at your convenience, signed Kento. What, 234 00:13:06.720 --> 00:13:09.440 of course, I who reserved the room, mister Arma. I 235 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:11.360 knew you were planning to stay here at the cathay, 236 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:14.159 and I was only too happy to assist you with 237 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:16.279 this more favor. What do you any good? Mister Keno, 238 00:13:16.279 --> 00:13:18.399 I told you and thaying, Yang, I'm going home right away. 239 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:23.960 Heyst the decisions are often reconsidered anyway, I think you 240 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:25.559 may have helped some already. 241 00:13:25.639 --> 00:13:29.440 Oh wait, you were approached on the train by mister Chen, 242 00:13:29.799 --> 00:13:33.279 who urged you, if I am correctly informed, to leave 243 00:13:33.320 --> 00:13:35.919 Shanghai at once. He did more than that, he arranged 244 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:37.600 for a reservation on tomorrow's plane. 245 00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:41.799 Well, mister Chen becomes more interesting by the minute. I 246 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:43.960 did you know that he also arranged to have you 247 00:13:44.279 --> 00:13:45.960 followed from the railroad station. 248 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:49.600 I don't care. I'm not interested in your game. His game, 249 00:13:49.639 --> 00:13:52.080 if he has one, or anybody else's. I'm flying to 250 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:53.399 San Francisco tomorrow. 251 00:13:54.840 --> 00:13:57.799 What a pity, and without knowing a thing about a 252 00:13:57.879 --> 00:14:01.440 period of your life that covers nearly eight years whatever 253 00:14:01.480 --> 00:14:02.480 it was it having done? 254 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:06.639 What's wrong, mister Armer? That girl who just came in, 255 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:09.919 the one who walked past her table? Oh oh yes, 256 00:14:10.759 --> 00:14:11.799 what about her? Do you know her? 257 00:14:12.279 --> 00:14:14.919 I haven't the wish I did. She's beautiful in. 258 00:14:14.960 --> 00:14:17.879 She Can you find out who she is? Of course? 259 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:20.759 Or go for her? Man so anxiously hurrying on to 260 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:24.120 his wife's well waiter. 261 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:27.639 I sat there with my mind spinning madly. While the 262 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:29.720 waiter took the folded bill Kentho handed him and went 263 00:14:29.720 --> 00:14:33.559 over to ask discreet questions. I was certain the girl 264 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:36.000 had looked at me strangely as she passed the table. 265 00:14:36.360 --> 00:14:38.440 Even now she glanced back from the bar before moving 266 00:14:38.440 --> 00:14:41.000 on through the room and out the door. To the 267 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:43.720 best of mylannage, I I'd never seen her before in 268 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:47.720 my life, and yet the face I dreamed of so 269 00:14:47.840 --> 00:14:51.639 often my delirium had been the face of this girl. 270 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:57.480 Mister lady lived here on hotel is known by name it. 271 00:14:57.080 --> 00:15:02.919 All right, thank you boy. Was she, by any chance, sir, who. 272 00:15:02.759 --> 00:15:03.559 You thought she was? 273 00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:04.240 Er? 274 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:07.120 No? No, I was wrong. I mistook her for some 275 00:15:07.159 --> 00:15:08.759 one else entirely, I see. 276 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:13.039 Merely a case of mistaken I danity. Yes, that's very 277 00:15:13.080 --> 00:15:16.480 interesting and view of this note. But the waiter slipped 278 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:18.679 this into my hand when he came back, he said, 279 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:22.240 dressed through mister armor. So it isn't mine, but I 280 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:25.679 don't Why not open any read it now? I, for one, 281 00:15:25.720 --> 00:15:28.759 am quite interested in finding out what a complete stranger 282 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:29.759 house to say to you. 283 00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:33.240 While Kento stared at me thoughtfully through the smoke from 284 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:35.559 his cigarette, I unfolded the paper and read the hastily 285 00:15:35.559 --> 00:15:38.960 written lines, and then crumpled it and thrust it into 286 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:42.080 my pocket without showing it to him. The words danced 287 00:15:42.120 --> 00:15:46.720 in my brain, My dearest David, why would you not 288 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:49.279 speak to me when I came to your table? Have 289 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:52.759 you forgotten me? To the six years we spent together 290 00:15:52.879 --> 00:15:55.360 mean nothing to you? Please come to me at once, 291 00:15:56.200 --> 00:15:59.120 as always your adoring wife. 292 00:16:00.360 --> 00:16:04.440 Twelve A. 293 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:09.600 Kento probed skillfully trying to discover the contents of the 294 00:16:09.639 --> 00:16:11.840 note at Twilet had sent me. But I had no 295 00:16:11.879 --> 00:16:15.039 intention of telling him. I left him still sitting there 296 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:18.000 at the table and went to the lobby, talked briefly 297 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:20.120 with a room clerk and with the antique dealer who 298 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:23.360 kept a shop in the foyer. Ten minutes later I 299 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:26.919 stepped into an elevator and rode up to the seventh floor. 300 00:16:29.399 --> 00:16:31.360 And an hour after I had seen a twirl in 301 00:16:31.399 --> 00:16:35.120 the bar, I was facing her again through the open 302 00:16:35.159 --> 00:16:38.799 doorway of her room. Her dark hair lay softly on 303 00:16:38.840 --> 00:16:44.000 her shoulders. Her skin was velvet and warm cream. The 304 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:46.679 subtle scent of an amy of perfume hung in the 305 00:16:46.759 --> 00:16:52.879 air like a tender challenge. She was lovely. She was 306 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:56.960 supposed to be my wife, and I couldn't remember her. 307 00:16:57.559 --> 00:17:00.799 David, my darling, won't you please come in? 308 00:17:01.720 --> 00:17:09.359 Thank you? I uh suppose you're at weell well, of course, Davy, 309 00:17:09.599 --> 00:17:11.880 And you did send me a note downstairs in the bar. 310 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:16.119 But who else, my dear, I Oh, it's the old 311 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:20.039 trouble again, isn't it trouble, the sickness of forgetfulness. My 312 00:17:20.119 --> 00:17:23.359 doctor called it so often you suffered from it at 313 00:17:23.400 --> 00:17:27.680 su Chow weeks at a time, souchoo. Don't you remember 314 00:17:27.720 --> 00:17:30.559 Willow House, the beautiful state that until you gave us 315 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:34.400 when we were Oh that's why you. 316 00:17:34.359 --> 00:17:37.640 Did not speak to me and the bar. You've forgotten 317 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:39.599 all of it, even me. 318 00:17:40.880 --> 00:17:43.680 Yes, I I'm afraid you'll have to bear with me 319 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:45.759 at I don't mean to hurt you. 320 00:17:45.839 --> 00:17:48.680 Oh it doesn't matter, my darling. I understand. 321 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:52.519 I've been so terribly worried since you ran away from 322 00:17:53.319 --> 00:17:57.039 su Chow four months ago. But now we're back together, 323 00:17:57.720 --> 00:17:59.039 everything is all right again. 324 00:17:59.480 --> 00:18:03.279 Tell Telly, when was it we were married. 325 00:18:03.279 --> 00:18:06.960 In the month of December nineteen forty one? See, I 326 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:10.759 I carry the paper with me alway. Yes, we were 327 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:15.000 merit in the Chinese manner by Uncle Wang, and then 328 00:18:15.079 --> 00:18:16.119 Uncle Hu gave us. 329 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:20.000 Willow House and we lived there after the war. Oh 330 00:18:20.039 --> 00:18:23.400 when what we bothered? I mean by the Japanese. 331 00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:26.880 Uncle Wang was very important in the puppet government. He 332 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:30.440 was mayor of su Chiao before the Gorilla shot him. 333 00:18:31.319 --> 00:18:34.759 I see, why not come with me to su Chao 334 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:38.680 to morrow, David. Perhaps perhaps when you see Willow House again, 335 00:18:39.000 --> 00:18:40.160 you'll remember. 336 00:18:39.960 --> 00:18:44.359 All right. Er, Suppose we leave around noon any time 337 00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:47.920 you say good the nun arranged to hirakar H. 338 00:18:48.599 --> 00:18:51.319 There is one thing, David. I think it is better 339 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:54.039 you know now instead of remembering later. 340 00:18:54.200 --> 00:18:55.480 Oh, what's the er? 341 00:18:55.599 --> 00:18:59.279 Your job during the war, Uncle Wang arranged it for you. 342 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:07.480 Well, you translated captured American documents for the Japanese army. 343 00:19:09.640 --> 00:19:12.839 Oh great, you didn't realize what you were doing and 344 00:19:13.599 --> 00:19:14.480 we had to live. 345 00:19:14.799 --> 00:19:17.559 I'm sorry, t Well, I better get out of here. 346 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:21.519 I'll call for you tomorrow, Davy. 347 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:24.680 Even though you can't remember me yet as your wife, 348 00:19:25.640 --> 00:19:28.799 could you not at least kiss me good night? 349 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:33.519 Well? I? 350 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:48.559 Uh, of course, Dad, until noon tomorrow. 351 00:19:48.200 --> 00:19:49.960 Darling, good night. 352 00:19:53.319 --> 00:19:56.200 Early the next morning, I climbed into a hired car 353 00:19:56.319 --> 00:19:59.039 and headed out of Shanghai. It twel was not with me. 354 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:01.960 I had to face this for the first time alone. 355 00:20:02.680 --> 00:20:05.240 I felt I was heading into a showdown. A twelve 356 00:20:05.279 --> 00:20:08.279 story was backed up by something outside learned. The night before. 357 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:10.839 The antique dealer at the hotel had told me he 358 00:20:10.920 --> 00:20:13.960 wasn't sure of the significance of the little porcelain rabbit 359 00:20:14.079 --> 00:20:15.920 the doctor at feng Yang had turned over to me, 360 00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:19.240 but he was certain that it had come from su Chao. 361 00:20:25.680 --> 00:20:29.079 A servant let me into the willow house, and he 362 00:20:29.160 --> 00:20:31.319 left me alone in a large room furnished sparsely in 363 00:20:31.319 --> 00:20:35.759 the Chinese manner. I wondered about idly, still finding nothing 364 00:20:35.799 --> 00:20:40.680 that said to me, you've been here before, until suddenly 365 00:20:40.720 --> 00:20:43.119 I came face to face with a crude poster, looking 366 00:20:43.279 --> 00:20:45.799 very much out of place against the dainty lacquer's screen. 367 00:20:46.279 --> 00:20:48.519 It was an offer of reward issued by the Japanese 368 00:20:48.599 --> 00:20:51.559 Army during the war. The photograph on the poster was 369 00:20:51.599 --> 00:20:55.000 blurred beyond all likeness, but the wording was clear enough, 370 00:20:55.640 --> 00:21:00.359 fifty thousand dollars dead or alive for the gorilla. Generalmones 371 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:03.920 can tell it makes rather an interesting too, don't you 372 00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:06.480 think something? Star, No, don't draw a gun. You're covered, 373 00:21:06.519 --> 00:21:09.680 as they say, well, welcome to my humble abode. Mistaken, 374 00:21:09.759 --> 00:21:11.319 Oh is it the other way round? 375 00:21:11.480 --> 00:21:14.319 Neither is a matter of fact, Willowhouse was an undercover 376 00:21:14.400 --> 00:21:16.960 career headquarters in this area during the war, and. 377 00:21:17.079 --> 00:21:19.839 This whole business of being married and so on was 378 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:21.200 another of your ideas. 379 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:22.000 Is that right? 380 00:21:22.559 --> 00:21:25.079 I'm afraid so, mister Armer it told is a very 381 00:21:25.160 --> 00:21:26.000 capable operator. 382 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:28.240 I agree, a colonel. As a matter of fact, you 383 00:21:28.279 --> 00:21:31.039 were never married to come in louis all right? 384 00:21:31.119 --> 00:21:33.200 You fooled me in the coming up here the su Chob, 385 00:21:33.240 --> 00:21:35.000 But What good is it going to do? I can't 386 00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:36.839 tell you any more now than I could have in Shanghai. 387 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:39.920 But I it's not. But my little scheme also involves 388 00:21:39.960 --> 00:21:42.799 a certain mister Chen. If he has not followed you 389 00:21:42.880 --> 00:21:45.279 here already, I believe he will do so soon. 390 00:21:45.839 --> 00:21:47.480 Then you're putting him money on Chen as the man 391 00:21:47.519 --> 00:21:49.759 who stole the Tang bronzes? Is that it? 392 00:21:50.160 --> 00:21:53.920 He's insistence that you leave China seems to me suspicious. 393 00:21:54.000 --> 00:21:56.279 I intend to question, can you have done it in Shanghai? 394 00:21:56.519 --> 00:21:56.559 Not? 395 00:21:56.720 --> 00:22:00.279 With his greater freedom? My questioning is always thorough. That's 396 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:02.559 your business. As far as I'm concerned, I'm heading back 397 00:22:02.559 --> 00:22:05.559 to Shanghai right now. I'm afraid that's impossible. Has already 398 00:22:05.599 --> 00:22:07.359 taken the liberty of paying off your chauffeurs. 399 00:22:07.720 --> 00:22:10.440 At twelve, she wrote up here with you under a 400 00:22:10.519 --> 00:22:13.759 blanket in the backseat, and she's quite resourceful. Now look here, 401 00:22:13.839 --> 00:22:17.240