WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.080 --> 00:00:10.800 Welcome to the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio from 2 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:14.880 Voyse Atahol. This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, 3 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:19.160 we are going to get into this week's episode of 4 00:00:19.399 --> 00:00:24.079 Cloak and Dagger, but first I do want to encourage you, 5 00:00:24.120 --> 00:00:27.079 if you are enjoying the podcast, to please follow us 6 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:31.679 using your favorite podcast software. And our program is brought 7 00:00:31.719 --> 00:00:34.000 you in part by the financial support of our listeners. 8 00:00:34.039 --> 00:00:36.679 You can't support the show on anyone on basis. 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Today's adventure, 19 00:01:52.120 --> 00:01:55.359 the last Mission, the story of an American OSS agent 20 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:59.439 in Canton, China, is suggested by actual incidents recorded in 21 00:01:59.480 --> 00:02:03.079 the Washington files of the Office of Strategic Services, a 22 00:02:03.159 --> 00:02:04.959 story that can now be told. 23 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:11.360 He must have had another name, but I never knew 24 00:02:11.360 --> 00:02:15.280 what it was. Everybody on the waterfront called him Charlie. 25 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:18.479 He was old and he limped, and he should have 26 00:02:18.560 --> 00:02:22.000 drunk less and shaved more. We'd see him on the 27 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:25.439 walls in the afternoons, in his dirty dungarees and thorn sweater, 28 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:30.479 begging cigarettes from sailors. Then evenings he would hobble into 29 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:33.719 leechen Stoven, where I worked to beg for something else. 30 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:38.400 Hey, turn you, Hey, Hey, ain't you gonna buy Charlie 31 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:39.199 one little drink? 32 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:42.319 He No, I'm not Charlie. No drinks on the house Tonight. 33 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:45.639 Robert, Tonight, tonight, Geranti, be drinks in the house. Are 34 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:48.879 you forgetting? It was just five years ago? Tonight? Canton 35 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:55.479 Parallel Japanese. Hey, we gotta celebrate, don't we? What do 36 00:02:55.560 --> 00:02:57.560 you matter? I say something wrong? 37 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:00.000 I don't like your sense of humor. 38 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:04.639 I don't see what you got again, the Japs, Jenny, 39 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:08.599 with all m nationalities mixed up in you, you probably 40 00:03:08.599 --> 00:03:10.360 got some Jap blood yourself. 41 00:03:10.439 --> 00:03:11.000 No, I haven't. 42 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:14.080 Every other kind maybe Spanish and Russian, even Irish. But 43 00:03:14.120 --> 00:03:15.879 there's not a drop of job blood in the pony. 44 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:20.800 Guess right, I don't get stealing up. I still say 45 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:23.879 there's no reason for you to hate him. Why do 46 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:26.159 you care who's running canton? 47 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:33.560 I told him then. I don't know why I did. 48 00:03:33.639 --> 00:03:36.680 I never told anyone else how they had murdered my 49 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:40.960 family nineteen six years before, my father, my mother, my 50 00:03:41.080 --> 00:03:44.479 two sisters. The Japs had killed them all, And if 51 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:46.159 we hadn't got out of the city ahead of them, 52 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:48.639 they'd have killed my brother, Florian and myself. 53 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:55.159 So he wasn't always a waitress and a waterfront dive 54 00:03:55.400 --> 00:03:55.919 haunt on you. 55 00:03:56.240 --> 00:03:59.599 No, and my brother didn't always prowl the streets looking 56 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:02.000 for trouble. I got the job to thank for that. No, 57 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:03.000 maybe you can understand. 58 00:04:06.039 --> 00:04:06.759 We got visitors. 59 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:09.879 What do they want now? 60 00:04:12.439 --> 00:04:14.439 Checking identification papers again? 61 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:25.000 Uee, press arise always arise in the presence of the 62 00:04:25.079 --> 00:04:31.560 suggest Remember that he had to no your papers press here. 63 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:40.680 Danya Bonnie born in Madrid. You are Spanish by you 64 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:42.439 have Russian first name. 65 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:44.639 And an Irish middle name. What does that make me? 66 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:50.120 Perhaps makes you anyway Arian captain? Yes, it would be 67 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:55.120 very Darrell in Canton. If we put all the beautiful 68 00:04:55.319 --> 00:04:58.560 girls in jail, that is true. 69 00:04:59.839 --> 00:05:04.319 You peppers. You know that, Miss Bunny. I know your 70 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:08.759 peppers press who me. I ain't got no papers. Cavin 71 00:05:09.160 --> 00:05:11.360 what you're done with them? Don't know. I guess you 72 00:05:11.439 --> 00:05:14.360 must have lost him. What is nationality? I don't know 73 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:17.720 that need and nobody never told me. Seems like I've 74 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:20.279 been around Canton since it was knee high on you 75 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:27.319 American perhaps American. That's good. I came away around I 76 00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:29.680 know not wait a minute, hour wa the horse is 77 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:32.319 well here. I ain't gonna do you guys no good 78 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:35.199 locked up on the brig. But I could help you 79 00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:37.920 plenty if I was free to and moves you around. 80 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:39.240 The dogs you're coming out? 81 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:42.519 What your man? 82 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:42.959 Or man? 83 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:45.040 How could that hep us. 84 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:50.439 I get around? Cap'n Oh, Charlie talks to everybody, and 85 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:53.360 everybody talks to me, and they ain't too careful what 86 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:57.639 they say neither. If anybody was planning any monkey business, 87 00:05:57.720 --> 00:06:02.040 sabotagement or anything like that, oh, Charlie would be just 88 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:03.680 about the first to know about it. 89 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:08.399 And you would report it to us. 90 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:10.160 Why not? 91 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:13.720 You're the guys you're running the show. So you're the 92 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:18.800 guys I take orders from you, know what I mean? 93 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:24.720 They saw what he meant, and when they left, he 94 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:27.600 was still sitting with me, grinning as if you were 95 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:31.040 proud of what he had done. I got up without 96 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:33.160 a word and went to the bar and bought a drink. 97 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:35.879 I brought it back and held it out. 98 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:38.199 Hey, did you buy that for me, Toney? 99 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:40.439 Yes, I bought it for you. 100 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:45.079 Well, now that's mighty nice. Have you let me have it? 101 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:47.040 I'll let you have it there. 102 00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:52.000 What's the ideas thrown good whiskey in my face? What's 103 00:06:52.040 --> 00:06:53.439 the idea that I. 104 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:56.639 Couldn't find words to tell you what I think of you, Charlie, 105 00:06:57.399 --> 00:06:58.199 But I wanted you. 106 00:06:58.279 --> 00:06:58.519 To know. 107 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:11.040 I was sorry afterwards. After all, Charlie was old and 108 00:07:11.279 --> 00:07:15.480 hungry and half cracked. I should have saved it for 109 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:21.079 somebody else, someone closer and dearer to me. I should 110 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:24.639 have saved it from my brother. Florian was waiting. 111 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:25.360 For me when I got home. 112 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:28.639 I thought, you never get it here, Tanya, hurry up 113 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:30.360 and change your clothes. We're going to a party. 114 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:31.040 Party. 115 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:32.240 What party, Florian? 116 00:07:32.600 --> 00:07:35.600 Well, it's sort of an anniversary banquet, you know, five 117 00:07:35.720 --> 00:07:38.720 years in Canton. There's gonna be a lot of important people. 118 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:43.720 There are Chinese Japanese, both big celebration, and we're going 119 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:49.240 to celebrate with them. We weren't invited, of course, but 120 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:51.720 I know a fellow at the door. He's gonna let 121 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:54.319 us in. We rubbed shoulders with some of the most 122 00:07:54.399 --> 00:07:57.120 important people in Canton, maybe. 123 00:07:56.920 --> 00:07:59.519 Even with the men who murdered your mother and father. 124 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:04.600 Oh no, don't be like that, Tanya. That was a 125 00:08:04.680 --> 00:08:07.519 long time ago. These aren't the same fellows who took 126 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:08.879 nineteen the Japanese. 127 00:08:08.920 --> 00:08:12.199 Yeah, you are not going to the party, Florian, we 128 00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:13.560 got nothing to celebrate. 129 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:18.000 No, maybe you are not gone, But I am why 130 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:20.920 because I know what side my bread is putting on us. 131 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:24.360 Why the jump side, as long as the top dog. Yes, 132 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:26.600 and it looked like they're going to be top dog 133 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:27.399 for a long time. 134 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:29.319 I see. 135 00:08:31.160 --> 00:08:33.519 You're retraited to our family, Florine. 136 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:37.159 We haven't got family, Tanya. We haven't got anything, and 137 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:39.559 we never will have unless one of us starts playing 138 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:44.639 on the winning team. See you later. 139 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:51.600 I didn't sleep well that night, and lay there in 140 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:55.000 the dark, feeling as if I were alone. You know, 141 00:08:55.039 --> 00:08:58.919 a world of enemies that same feeling haunted me all 142 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:03.399 the next day at Leech and Charlie didn't come to 143 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:06.039 the town, not even I didn't see him till I 144 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:09.440 was through working, until I stepped out into the dark street. 145 00:09:10.960 --> 00:09:18.039 Then a shadowy figure came staggering up to me. You're drunk, 146 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:19.120 charlieber go home. 147 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:23.960 That's just when I was thinking, Orry, I can't see 148 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:30.000 him together. The street keeps going around and circles. How 149 00:09:30.039 --> 00:09:32.679 about you kind of steal chowry on. 150 00:09:32.919 --> 00:09:35.399 I'm sorry. I want to get home myself. It's late. 151 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:40.200 Come on, tell her this worrier purple child. 152 00:09:42.159 --> 00:09:44.679 He grabbed my arm and hung on to girl. 153 00:09:45.080 --> 00:09:47.159 It's seemed easier to do what he asked me to 154 00:09:47.320 --> 00:09:50.480 argue about very good girl. I had never seen his home, 155 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:53.919 but he remembered the address, and I let him toward 156 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:55.559 it through the deserted streets. 157 00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:57.120 Sir, here we are. 158 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:01.440 It was the kind of place expect Charlie to live, in, 159 00:10:02.120 --> 00:10:06.080 a filthy, two story dump in the worst part of Canton. 160 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:10.759 He was still holding my arm as I took his 161 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:15.600 key and unlocked his door for him. Good night, Charlie, 162 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:17.240 go to bed and sleep it off. 163 00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:24.720 No, good night, Jenny. We can have a red. 164 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:25.840 I don't want it drunk. 165 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:31.200 Come on anyway, come on, do you here? 166 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:33.759 But he didn't let go. 167 00:10:34.440 --> 00:10:36.960 His fingers were like a vice around my waist. He 168 00:10:37.159 --> 00:10:39.679 jerked me across the treasure. He shoved me into the 169 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:41.120 pitch black room and slammed the door. 170 00:10:44.360 --> 00:10:48.440 Where you, filthy old bomb let me out of here. 171 00:10:49.240 --> 00:10:49.519 Sorry. 172 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:51.639 I had the man handle you like that. It was 173 00:10:51.639 --> 00:10:53.159 the only safe way of getting you in here. 174 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:57.960 I thought someone else had said it. I thought there 175 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:01.000 must be three of us in the room. Then the 176 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:05.399 light flashed down and they were just two, just Charlie 177 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:05.720 and me. 178 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:11.399 Surprised, Dania, I'm sorry, but I have to play it safe. 179 00:11:12.360 --> 00:11:15.639 You see, Tania, I am an American, an agent of 180 00:11:15.679 --> 00:11:16.240 the OSS. 181 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:27.080 I didn't speak and stared at him, tried to understand, 182 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:32.559 tried to connect him with the shuffling little wolf rad 183 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:34.120 i'd always known as Charlie. 184 00:11:34.559 --> 00:11:36.600 I realized, of course, Tanya, that this is something of 185 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:40.159 an act of faith, exposing my identity to you like this. 186 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:44.240 No one else in Canton knows who I am. I'd 187 00:11:44.279 --> 00:11:46.320 fort a long time before I decided to let you 188 00:11:46.399 --> 00:11:49.000 in on it. When you told me about your family, 189 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:51.399 I had a hunch I could trust you, and then 190 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:54.200 when you threw that drink in my face, I was 191 00:11:54.279 --> 00:11:54.720 sure of it. 192 00:11:54.879 --> 00:11:57.360 But I mean not right. 193 00:11:57.440 --> 00:11:58.360 I'm still Charlie. 194 00:11:58.679 --> 00:12:02.879 But why have you done this? Why should you trust 195 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:03.919 me with your life? 196 00:12:04.039 --> 00:12:06.840 For a very good reason, because I need your help 197 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:10.440 my head. You see, I've operated alone here for a 198 00:12:10.519 --> 00:12:14.159 long time. It has been too tough. But now no 199 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:18.279 Jab intelligence is tightening up a lot of things. I 200 00:12:18.360 --> 00:12:21.639 can't do alone anymore. That's why I need you. 201 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:25.440 But I have no experience. I don't know anything about. 202 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:28.879 Courage, and you hate the Japanese. That's worth a lot 203 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:29.879 more of an experience. 204 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:34.000 What do you want me to do, Charlie? 205 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:36.960 Come on upstairs? 206 00:12:47.960 --> 00:12:52.480 He led me up a long, narrow, muckety staircase. He 207 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:55.279 opened the door to a tiny guard like a room 208 00:12:55.440 --> 00:12:56.240 just beneath the roof. 209 00:12:57.480 --> 00:13:01.919 It was hot and stuffy. The light they switched don 210 00:13:02.039 --> 00:13:04.080 was so dimmed that at first I couldn't see. 211 00:13:04.919 --> 00:13:05.600 Do you know what this is? 212 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:08.200 Tanya radio transmitter? 213 00:13:08.360 --> 00:13:13.000 That's right. You send messages to whom American submarines operating 214 00:13:13.039 --> 00:13:16.120 off the Chinese coast, And what I send is all 215 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:18.559 the information I can get about JAP shipping entering and 216 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:24.080 leaving the port of Canton. I see, Danya, you wait 217 00:13:24.200 --> 00:13:25.759 on sailors at leech hands all day. 218 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:28.960 You drink with I've never drunk with a Japanese sailor. 219 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:32.320 But you could. Sailors talk a lot when they're drunk, 220 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:35.240 and if they don't talk enough, I could provide you 221 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:40.879 with knockout drops. They'd sleep peacefully while you examined their papers. 222 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:45.960 He I see it scares you a little and little, yes, 223 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:50.440 you see what a lever on the wall? Homos touched 224 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:51.320 it better enough. 225 00:13:51.399 --> 00:13:52.559 Oh what is it, Charlie. 226 00:13:53.120 --> 00:13:55.480 It's a little precaution I've taken. I wouldn't want this 227 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:58.759 transmitter to fall into Japanese hands. They could do a 228 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:01.159 great deal of damage with her. But the lever in 229 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:03.399 the wall that can do a great deal of damage too. 230 00:14:04.720 --> 00:14:08.039 It sets off an explosive that it blows building sky high. 231 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:19.480 I wasn't sorry to leave that room. We went downstairs. 232 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:22.480 A few minutes later. He stood in front of me 233 00:14:23.679 --> 00:14:24.200 watching me. 234 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:29.519 Tania, let me explain something. We're all volunteers in the OSS, 235 00:14:29.879 --> 00:14:33.279 and the people who help us are volunteers too. You 236 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:35.000 don't have to do this unless you want to. 237 00:14:36.080 --> 00:14:37.480 I understand Charlie. 238 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:40.919 If you refuse, I won't worry about what you know. 239 00:14:42.080 --> 00:14:42.919 I'll still trust you. 240 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:45.919 I don't intend to refuse. 241 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:48.159 It doesn't scare you too much. 242 00:14:49.399 --> 00:14:51.879 When I think of my father and mother and sister, 243 00:14:51.960 --> 00:14:53.919 it doesn't scare me at all. 244 00:14:55.200 --> 00:14:55.720 It's a deal. 245 00:14:57.159 --> 00:15:00.679 It's a deal, I am. 246 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:02.120 I don't have any liquor. 247 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:06.320 We might have a smoke on the tone American cigarettes. 248 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:08.360 I haven't had one for years. 249 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:19.159 Thanks to a free world, Tanya, to a free world. 250 00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:32.279 That night, I slept work now I had friends and allies. 251 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:37.480 That is, I slept well until sometime shortly before dawn, 252 00:15:38.120 --> 00:15:42.399 and then the sound of my bedroom door opening awoke me. 253 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:46.559 I wasn't frightened. I knew who it was and what 254 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:52.240 he wanted had happened so many times before. I waited 255 00:15:52.360 --> 00:15:55.559 until he reached my dresser, until he bent over my purse. 256 00:15:56.480 --> 00:16:00.559 Don't take any of my money, Florian, Oh, oh you well, 257 00:16:01.519 --> 00:16:04.039 I was just yes, I know, but I really can't 258 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:05.039 spare any of this week. 259 00:16:05.240 --> 00:16:06.240 I need a little I got. 260 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:09.840 You don't need it any more than I do. I'm broke, Tanya. 261 00:16:09.879 --> 00:16:11.639 Know where am I supposed to get money to live on? 262 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:14.440 Not out of my purse, please close it, Florian? 263 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:21.440 All right, all right? Where is it? Hey? What's this? 264 00:16:22.279 --> 00:16:22.320 What? 265 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:24.399 Where you get these? 266 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:24.919 What? 267 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:25.759 Florian? 268 00:16:26.519 --> 00:16:28.200 These American cigarettes? 269 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:35.440 I got them at the tavern who from from a 270 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:38.519 job soldier? A job so yeah, he had taken them 271 00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:40.039 off an American prisoner war and. 272 00:16:40.120 --> 00:16:41.080 A job gave them to you? 273 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:41.480 Yes? 274 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:41.840 Why not? 275 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:43.200 Are you accepted them? 276 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:44.360 Naturally? I accepted them? 277 00:16:44.559 --> 00:16:49.320 Where So now my noble sister is accepting gifts from 278 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:53.000 the enemy. Either you had a great change of heart 279 00:16:53.120 --> 00:16:53.960 on you or else? 280 00:16:55.320 --> 00:16:55.639 Else? 281 00:16:55.720 --> 00:16:55.759 What? 282 00:16:57.480 --> 00:16:58.200 Or else. 283 00:16:59.639 --> 00:16:59.679 You? 284 00:16:59.840 --> 00:17:12.240 And beginning the very next night, I flirted with every 285 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:15.839 job sailor who came into lead chains. I kept my 286 00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:19.759 mouth closed and my ears open. I used every trick 287 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:23.799 I knew to persuade them to talk, and when it 288 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:28.359 became necessary, I used something else, a little white pills 289 00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:29.599 that Charlie had given me. 290 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:35.440 Nama to drink. 291 00:17:37.240 --> 00:17:39.759 But the evening is young Dad, Come on, come on, 292 00:17:39.880 --> 00:17:46.079 let's drink it close to the Emperor. Stand up. Of course, 293 00:17:46.240 --> 00:17:52.720 you can't get you. Come on, that's it, nah, to 294 00:17:52.960 --> 00:17:56.319 this son of Heaven, his Imperial majesty. 295 00:17:57.759 --> 00:17:58.079 Drink. 296 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:12.359 Oh it was so easy, Charlie, he was out cold. 297 00:18:12.880 --> 00:18:15.079 I just reached into his pocket and they were his papers. 298 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:16.319 No, I'm sorry, not a soul. 299 00:18:16.759 --> 00:18:17.799 He put the papers back, of. 300 00:18:17.839 --> 00:18:20.920 Course, after I'd copied them. Here's the information. 301 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:31.680 Am I doing, Charlie? I knew I was doing well, 302 00:18:32.240 --> 00:18:35.799 and as time went on, I did even better. We 303 00:18:35.839 --> 00:18:39.799 would hear reports on Charlie's radio a Jap ships, torpedo 304 00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:42.759 and song in Chinese waters, and Charlie would say, that. 305 00:18:42.839 --> 00:18:46.279 Was the baby you told me about last week. Chuck 306 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:49.119 up another one for Tanya, the scourge of the Jab 307 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:50.039 merchant marine. 308 00:18:56.599 --> 00:19:00.599 I was proud, and I was happy, and I believe 309 00:19:00.680 --> 00:19:03.359 my father and mother and sisters knew and that they 310 00:19:03.400 --> 00:19:07.079 were proud too. And then came the night I went 311 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:10.440 straight from lee Chen's tavern to Charlie's house to tell 312 00:19:10.519 --> 00:19:11.160 him what I'd heard. 313 00:19:11.720 --> 00:19:14.839 Takoa Maroo. Huh. That's one of the nips biggest ships 314 00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:15.960 I know, Charlie. 315 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:19.599 And she's carrying industrial machinery to Yokohama, one of those 316 00:19:19.720 --> 00:19:21.279 factories they've stripped in fu Chau. 317 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:23.079 Sure about the sailing time, quite sure? 318 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:25.240 Tomorrow night at ten o'clock. 319 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:26.720 God enough, I'll tip off the sub dride away and 320 00:19:26.759 --> 00:19:29.119 they'll be laying for if she isn't traveling in convoy. 321 00:19:29.279 --> 00:19:31.079 She isn't check and they'll get her. 322 00:19:31.119 --> 00:19:32.160 Like a sitting duck. 323 00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:35.680 It's late, Tanya, better get going. 324 00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:38.000 I'll see you tomorrow, Charlie. 325 00:19:38.240 --> 00:19:40.079 During the day, I'm going down to Tonhose Junk on 326 00:19:40.119 --> 00:19:42.000 the river. I'll be back here by evening. 327 00:19:42.799 --> 00:19:43.519 Good night, Charlie. 328 00:19:45.880 --> 00:19:54.839 Let me see if the coast is clear. Okay, go ahead, 329 00:19:56.079 --> 00:19:56.519 good night. 330 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:00.440 Late. 331 00:20:01.279 --> 00:20:03.279 The streets were dark and deserted. 332 00:20:04.519 --> 00:20:06.920 I would have taken a rickshaw home, but it was 333 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:10.960 too late for that, so I walked, or rather I 334 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:14.400 tried to walk, but it was hard to keep myself 335 00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:18.319 from running. I told myself I was a fool to 336 00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:21.440 be afraid. The streets were safer than in broad daylight. 337 00:20:21.759 --> 00:20:23.400 There was no one on them. There was no one 338 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:28.359 who could possibly I stopped. I thought I heard footsteps, 339 00:20:29.319 --> 00:20:30.599 someone walking behind me. 340 00:20:31.559 --> 00:20:32.079 I turned. 341 00:20:34.039 --> 00:20:37.599 There was no one there, at least I couldn't see anyone. 342 00:20:39.880 --> 00:20:43.000 I started walking faster, and I grabbed the revolver that 343 00:20:43.119 --> 00:20:45.240 Charlie had given me, and then I heard. 344 00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:48.000 The sound again. This time I stopped. The world around. 345 00:20:49.599 --> 00:20:52.759 There was a street lamp behind me, and I saw 346 00:20:52.880 --> 00:20:54.680 a shadow on the wall of the building. 347 00:20:55.599 --> 00:20:56.960 The shadow of a man. 348 00:20:58.960 --> 00:20:59.240 Was there. 349 00:21:00.839 --> 00:21:02.160 Come up and show me who you are. 350 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:08.359 If you don't not shoot, Take it easy time, Florian. 351 00:21:09.240 --> 00:21:11.559 You wouldn't want to shoot your own brother with you? 352 00:21:11.799 --> 00:21:15.000 Florian? What are you doing here? Where will you follow me? 353 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:15.599 Oh? 354 00:21:16.240 --> 00:21:19.920 Just curious, that's all. I've been wondering for quite a 355 00:21:20.039 --> 00:21:21.079 while what you were up to? 356 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:23.480 Quite a while. 357 00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:26.960 I've seen you go to that place several times. I 358 00:21:27.039 --> 00:21:29.079 even took the trouble to find out who lives there. 359 00:21:29.839 --> 00:21:31.920 It's an old Furday called Charlie. 360 00:21:33.079 --> 00:21:36.039 That's right, Charlie does live there. He's sick. 361 00:21:36.400 --> 00:21:41.319 Oh, he's sick. Is just just an error of mercy? 362 00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:46.279 Huh, exactly, an errand of mercy? You what as if 363 00:21:46.359 --> 00:21:47.240 you didn't believe me? 364 00:21:48.079 --> 00:21:52.039 Of course i'd believe you. I certainly don't think you're 365 00:21:52.079 --> 00:21:55.160 in love with you, oh boy? And what other reason 366 00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:56.759 would you have to visit him? 367 00:22:00.440 --> 00:22:02.400 We walked the rest of the way home together. 368 00:22:03.599 --> 00:22:06.680 I was sure he didn't believe me, But I couldn't 369 00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:09.640 go back to Charlie to warn him, not without getting 370 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:14.200 florry and more suspicious in the morning, I thought, But 371 00:22:14.359 --> 00:22:18.079 then I remembered that Charlie would be on Tonghaw's junk 372 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:22.759 on the river in the morning. Leechen's Stabborn opened at 373 00:22:22.799 --> 00:22:26.279 noon the next day. The minute I walked in, I 374 00:22:26.400 --> 00:22:30.599 knew something was wrong. There were too many Japanese soldiers, 375 00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:35.319 far too many. They sat at the bar drinking, They 376 00:22:35.359 --> 00:22:39.279 played cards at the tables. They lounged against the walls, 377 00:22:39.400 --> 00:22:42.759 puffing their cigarettes and eyeing me as I crossed the 378 00:22:42.839 --> 00:22:44.119 room and whispered to lee. 379 00:22:44.119 --> 00:22:47.119 Chen, why are there so many of them? 380 00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:49.160 Lie Chen, Maybe your plather can't tell you. 381 00:22:49.279 --> 00:22:52.039 Tanna, my brother he and back home. 382 00:22:52.119 --> 00:22:53.440 He said, you come back see him. 383 00:22:55.279 --> 00:22:59.000 I knew then that I was sick with anger and shame. 384 00:23:04.319 --> 00:23:07.279 But I was sicker still when I saw him sitting 385 00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:10.599 alone in that back room, when I saw this smirking 386 00:23:10.839 --> 00:23:11.920 triumph on his face. 387 00:23:12.640 --> 00:23:19.519 Good morning, Tanya, that's your sick friend this morning. Don't 388 00:23:19.599 --> 00:23:22.720 stand and stay. I haven't done anything so terrible. After all, 389 00:23:22.839 --> 00:23:24.079 one spy more or less. 390 00:23:24.559 --> 00:23:27.200 How much did they pay you, Florian? 391 00:23:28.319 --> 00:23:31.160 Quite a bit, it seems if known for a long 392 00:23:31.279 --> 00:23:34.640 time there was one operating in Canton. They haven't been 393 00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:35.920 able to get their hands. 394 00:23:35.720 --> 00:23:37.559 On him until you betrayed him. 395 00:23:37.839 --> 00:23:41.880 Yes, yes, they still haven't found him. There are some 396 00:23:42.079 --> 00:23:45.440 soldiers waiting for him over at this place where you 397 00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:48.359 went last night. I mean, and there's a crowd of 398 00:23:48.440 --> 00:23:51.279 them here. They about me pick him up pretty soon. 399 00:23:51.559 --> 00:23:53.640 Didn't you get a bonus for betraying me too? 400 00:23:54.359 --> 00:23:56.559 Or I might have, but I wouldn't sell out my 401 00:23:56.680 --> 00:23:57.279