WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.160 --> 00:00:06.599 Tired of the everyday routine. Ever dream of a life 2 00:00:06.639 --> 00:00:12.000 of romantic adventure, want to get away from it? 3 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:20.800 A we offer you escape, Escape transcribe to free you 4 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:23.320 from the four walls of today for a half hour 5 00:00:23.399 --> 00:00:24.559 up high adventure. 6 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:29.839 You are trapped in a dark, empty house, a girl 7 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:33.679 lying dead at your feet, and surrounding you, closing in 8 00:00:33.719 --> 00:00:36.280 on you are a band of killers, deadly enemies of 9 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:45.520 your country and yourself, and they are intent on murdering you. 10 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:52.759 Today, with Barry Kroger starred as David, we escape to 11 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:55.240 England and the story of a man whose life depended 12 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:58.439 upon the outcome of his mission. As Graham Greene told 13 00:00:58.439 --> 00:01:02.640 it in his fascinating story Confidential Agent. 14 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:14.920 It was getting dark as the ship threaded its way 15 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:18.719 through the tugs into Dover Harbor. The thick fog gave 16 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:22.120 way reluctantly to the ship. It swirled over the deck. 17 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:25.959 There was a cold bite to it, chilling me inside 18 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:29.239 and out. Yet in a way, this cold English fog 19 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:32.000 was more comforting than the atmosphere I had left for 20 00:01:32.120 --> 00:01:32.959 in my country. 21 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:35.879 There was war already. 22 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:38.239 Austria had fallen before the goose stepping armies of a 23 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:41.319 madman and now my country was fighting with it back 24 00:01:41.359 --> 00:01:44.319 to the wall. In order to continue the fight, we 25 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:49.239 needed industrial diamonds to shape the tools of war. That's 26 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:52.879 why I was now landing in England. There were others 27 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:54.799 in my country, a group headed by a man known 28 00:01:54.799 --> 00:01:57.000 only as the Baron, who wanted to turn our country 29 00:01:57.000 --> 00:01:59.439 over to the invader, who would do anything to stop 30 00:01:59.480 --> 00:02:02.799 us from getting the diamonds we needed. So you see, 31 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:05.519 my mission was a secret one. Not even our own 32 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:10.199 embassy knew of it. So far, the trip had been uneventful, 33 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:14.400 except for meeting the girl, her names Rose Cullin. 34 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:18.000 At first, she seemed too curious. 35 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:22.479 Asking questions about my trip, my visit my friends, and 36 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:24.639 I wondered if she were working with the Baron. 37 00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:26.680 But there's time wore on. 38 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:30.240 I decided I'd been mistaken, and I accepted her offer 39 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:31.199 to drive me to London. 40 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:33.639 Twenty minutes after we had ducked. 41 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:36.439 We were through the customs and walking towards the car park. 42 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:39.599 Rose suddenly asked me to excuse her for a moment. 43 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:42.439 Almost before I could answer her, she had vanished in 44 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:42.919 the fog. 45 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:46.960 Good evening, David Barron, I've been expecting you. 46 00:02:47.199 --> 00:02:48.599 We have nothing to talk about, Baron. 47 00:02:48.719 --> 00:02:52.159 I think we could find the subject diamonds, for example, 48 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:56.000 or perhaps I could interest you in accepting let us 49 00:02:56.000 --> 00:03:00.240 say two thousand pounds. For our point of view, say 50 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:01.520 two thousand pounds. 51 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:03.800 I still say, we have nothing to talk about. 52 00:03:04.039 --> 00:03:08.520 An honest man. It's a very dangerous hobby, David, honesty. 53 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:11.719 You may remember an old saying in our country, the 54 00:03:11.759 --> 00:03:15.159 honest man and the thief both pay the same price 55 00:03:15.960 --> 00:03:16.520 to death. 56 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:18.319 Goodbye, David. 57 00:03:19.159 --> 00:03:21.400 He raised his hand in an open palm salute and 58 00:03:21.479 --> 00:03:24.599 walked away, the fog quickly swelling up to hide him. 59 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:27.879 He's a shot aimed at me. I jumped back against 60 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:28.240 the wall. 61 00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:31.879 There was nothing to see but fog, gray wisps of 62 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:35.520 fog blanketing out everything. There was no way of telling 63 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:38.400 from where death had tried to strike, or from where 64 00:03:38.439 --> 00:03:39.520 it might strike again. 65 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:45.719 Then I heard her returning. Had she left me to 66 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:46.680 give them their chance? 67 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:50.919 Or had it been her finger manicured and perfumed that 68 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:52.280 had curled around the trigger. 69 00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:54.879 Sorry to be so long, David, Are you ready? 70 00:03:55.159 --> 00:03:59.800 Yes? I I was talking to your friend, the baron. 71 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:03.479 The baron. He must be mistaken. I don't know. Baron, 72 00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:07.479 come along, did he say? 73 00:04:07.520 --> 00:04:08.000 He knew me. 74 00:04:08.520 --> 00:04:11.560 No, perhaps I am mistaken. 75 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:14.319 Of course it might be someone I met at father's. 76 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:17.279 He loves to surround himself with titles. 77 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:18.199 Who is your father? 78 00:04:18.319 --> 00:04:18.439 Oh? 79 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:22.800 Hell we are? Will you drive? I'm simply exhausted. 80 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:25.160 My father? 81 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:26.720 Oh is Lord Bandage? 82 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:30.600 Didn't you know Lord Banditch? But I thought your name 83 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:31.319 is Colin. 84 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:35.480 Of course, my father's name was Edward Cullen. After his 85 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:39.600 first million pounds, he became Edward Lord Bendage. It's really 86 00:04:39.639 --> 00:04:40.279 quite simple. 87 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:43.519 I came here to do business with Lord Banditch. Isn't 88 00:04:43.519 --> 00:04:44.519 that coincidence? 89 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:48.240 Everybody I meet has business with him? I see, I 90 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:54.480 can't think of anything more dull than father's business. What 91 00:04:54.519 --> 00:04:55.120 are you thinking? 92 00:04:55.959 --> 00:04:57.519 How in my country? 93 00:04:57.560 --> 00:05:00.360 I would go along a country road like this very slowly, 94 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:04.600 ready to jump into a ditch if I heard the plane. 95 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:07.439 I'm not sure the war has not followed me here. 96 00:05:07.560 --> 00:05:10.680 Don't be silly. The only war here is between the 97 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:13.360 Prime Minister, who talks about peace in our time and 98 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:16.800 mister Churchill, who talks just as long about the glory 99 00:05:16.839 --> 00:05:21.160 that was Briton's. And nobody believes in anything. 100 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:23.759 You're very cynical for such a pretty girl. 101 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:26.319 What is there for me to believe in my father's 102 00:05:26.399 --> 00:05:30.120 diamands hardly something to get passionate about. 103 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:32.120 You have no young. 104 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:34.959 Man plenty if I want to know who scored sixty 105 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:37.480 runs in the Lancing Brighton cricket match on the odds 106 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:40.959 at Ebsom Darns, but there's no excitement. 107 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:43.920 If it's excitement you want, perhaps we still will get it. 108 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:47.519 One of my countrymen tried to kill me just before 109 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:51.319 you joined me. It's true he or his men will 110 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:53.639 certainly try again before I reach your father. 111 00:05:53.879 --> 00:05:57.160 Don't be so melodramatic. Things like that don't happen except 112 00:05:57.160 --> 00:06:03.240 in thrillers, unless, of course, you're a spy. 113 00:06:02.439 --> 00:06:06.879 Are you? No? No, I'm more of a confidential agent. 114 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:11.160 What's the matter? 115 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:12.040 What's that ahead of us? 116 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:12.800 What's just a liar? 117 00:06:12.920 --> 00:06:14.000 Why is he blocking the roads? 118 00:06:15.079 --> 00:06:18.759 I'm sorry you're mixed up in this role. 119 00:06:29.399 --> 00:06:32.000 There's a pullet in the window. 120 00:06:32.079 --> 00:06:32.360 Shiet? 121 00:06:33.319 --> 00:06:35.160 What someone is trying to kill you? 122 00:06:35.240 --> 00:06:37.560 Yes, we must go to the police with what we 123 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:39.120 saw when we could identify it, but we. 124 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:41.000 Struck one of them. I felt the car hit him. 125 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:41.800 Couldn't they be. 126 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:44.000 Traced by Olibert? Proof is that I ran him down? 127 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:46.040 In fact, they might use that to have me arrested. 128 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:48.319 If the baron fails to kill me, and I think 129 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:50.600 I can see that, then it would serve him almost 130 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:58.240 as much to have me arrested for murder. It was 131 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:01.199 late at night when we reached London. Rose wanted to 132 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:04.279 drive me to my destination, but I refused. It wasn't 133 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:07.800 entirely distrust, but the fear that she might lead them 134 00:07:07.879 --> 00:07:09.600 to me without realizing it. 135 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:12.639 So she dropped me off in the West End. When 136 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:13.959 she had driven on, I. 137 00:07:13.879 --> 00:07:17.160 Stopped the taxi gave the driver of the address. He 138 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:20.839 brought me to an old two story house. It's dirty, 139 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:24.160 gray front, bearing witness to the poverty of the neighborhood. 140 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:26.279 Here you are, governor. 141 00:07:26.519 --> 00:07:29.360 This is number ten, Mallow End. That's your governor, just 142 00:07:29.439 --> 00:07:31.199 over there. You up across the road and you'll be 143 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:31.800 at the door. 144 00:07:32.199 --> 00:07:33.879 How can you be so sure a driver, it's so 145 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:35.240 foggy here I can't see the number. 146 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:38.480 Ah, Canada carded the asses from the corner of Eye Street. 147 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:41.839 I say it's unber ten, all right, all right, that 148 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:45.560 will be three and sixpence. Oh, yes, of course here 149 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:48.439 you are. Oh, oh thanks very much, governor, Thank you, 150 00:07:48.519 --> 00:07:49.600 good night, Good night. 151 00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:57.639 I stepped closer and peered through the fog that blanketed 152 00:07:57.639 --> 00:08:01.160 the buildings. Only here and there eple gleam of lights 153 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:05.439 triggling through. I stood there for a moment looking at it. 154 00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:08.920 There was no light visible in any of the windows, 155 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:12.920 and I wondered, fear pressing in with a fog, if 156 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:16.360 something had happened to our agent. I kept my hand 157 00:08:16.399 --> 00:08:18.720 near my gun as I pressed the button beside the door. 158 00:08:19.839 --> 00:08:23.160 If something had happened to our agent, this might be 159 00:08:23.199 --> 00:08:27.480 a trap. The door opened a few inches, and a 160 00:08:27.600 --> 00:08:30.240 pinched elfin face neither old nor young. 161 00:08:30.360 --> 00:08:31.000 Looked out at me. 162 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:33.120 What do you want this time of night? 163 00:08:34.360 --> 00:08:40.559 I'm sorry, but I'm David, David d as in Diamonds. 164 00:08:40.759 --> 00:08:48.080 Oh, come in. 165 00:08:45.120 --> 00:08:45.600 Just a minute. 166 00:08:45.639 --> 00:08:51.080 I'll turn on the lights. You you're much younger than 167 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:51.840 I thought you would be. 168 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:54.440 We are using them younger these days. 169 00:08:55.440 --> 00:08:57.559 I was just making a spot of tea. Perhaps you'd 170 00:08:57.559 --> 00:08:57.840 like so. 171 00:08:57.840 --> 00:09:00.200 Oh, yes, I would very much see. 172 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:03.080 I've been very careful with lights since I saw someone 173 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:04.039 watching the house. 174 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:06.039 Two days ago, one of the barons men. 175 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:08.600 You think, I don't know. I just thought it better 176 00:09:08.600 --> 00:09:09.440 not to take chances. 177 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:14.279 The baron came over on the same boat with me. 178 00:09:14.679 --> 00:09:17.600 Oh did he see you? Oh? 179 00:09:17.679 --> 00:09:22.320 Yes, thank you. We even had a short talk. 180 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:26.919 At the customers you what did he say? 181 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:31.519 You offered me money for a vacation. 182 00:09:32.480 --> 00:09:32.960 How much? 183 00:09:34.639 --> 00:09:37.759 Two thousand pounds you refused? 184 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:42.480 Of course, two thousand pounds. 185 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:47.720 Oh, this tastes good after being out in the fog. 186 00:09:49.080 --> 00:09:52.519 It's more money than I've ever seen in my life. 187 00:09:53.120 --> 00:09:54.600 How do I know you refused? 188 00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:58.399 I suppose that's a question I would ask too. Where 189 00:09:58.399 --> 00:09:59.200 I in your place? 190 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:03.600 You know, I wonder if that isn't the Baron's biggest 191 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:07.159 crime against us, But he's made us eternally suspicious of 192 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:07.559 each other. 193 00:10:08.159 --> 00:10:11.360 Yes, what is your name? 194 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:12.480 Elsie? 195 00:10:12.759 --> 00:10:13.159 Elsie? 196 00:10:14.840 --> 00:10:18.000 Well, Elsie, you don't know that I didn't take the 197 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:20.639 two thousand pounds, But I am going to see Lord 198 00:10:20.679 --> 00:10:22.240 Bendage tomorrow and maybe that will. 199 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:25.600 Prove it, and then you'll be going back Monday. Yes, 200 00:10:25.799 --> 00:10:26.919 oh I see. 201 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:29.759 Now what do you have for me? 202 00:10:30.320 --> 00:10:33.519 Not very much? You see. 203 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:36.720 I know that the Baron has friends everywhere, even in 204 00:10:36.759 --> 00:10:39.960 the English government. But Lord Bendit will deal with you 205 00:10:40.039 --> 00:10:41.960 first if you are there on time and can prove 206 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:43.320 you represent your government. 207 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:45.720 If I did not show up, then he'd be free 208 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:46.559 to deal with the baron. 209 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:47.639 Yes, that's it exactly. 210 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:48.519 Now. 211 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:52.080 Look, if you're seeing benditge on his syndicate tomorrow, then 212 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:53.399 I must warn you again. 213 00:10:55.080 --> 00:10:56.960 You shot came through the window. I leaped to the wall, 214 00:10:57.000 --> 00:11:01.000 turn of the light, and not found the wrist. There 215 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:05.519 was no pulse. Elsie was dead, kneeling there. I cursed 216 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:07.200 myself the minute she told me that someone had been 217 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:08.600 watching the house. I should have known that both of 218 00:11:08.679 --> 00:11:10.399 us had to get out. I should have known there. 219 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:11.480 Was no time for tea and talk. 220 00:11:11.960 --> 00:11:17.759 Suddenly tied a sound the door. The killer or killers 221 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:20.600 were in the house. To stay there in that dark, 222 00:11:20.679 --> 00:11:22.720 small room, try to shoot it out with them. Could 223 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:25.440 have only one ending. They were blocking off the front door, 224 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:27.120 and I couldn't leave through a window. I'd be a 225 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:30.519 perfect target that way. I began to edge toward the other. 226 00:11:30.399 --> 00:11:31.200 Door in the back. 227 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:38.200 It was slow work. Then I was in what seemed 228 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:41.440 to be a kitchen. A gloomy patch of light guided 229 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:45.399 me to the door. I pressed my face to the glass, 230 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:47.240 strained the sea outside. 231 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:50.240 A man was standing only a. 232 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:54.120 Few feet from the back door. There was only one 233 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:57.759 other way to go up. I slipped out of the 234 00:11:57.840 --> 00:12:02.159 kitchen into the hall. What seemed hours. I found the 235 00:12:02.200 --> 00:12:05.039 stairway and carefully stepped on the first step. 236 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:07.320 It creaked and I leaped higher up than one side. 237 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:11.559 Just another step. There was only one thing to do. 238 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:15.000 I raced up the stairs. I flung myself to the floor. 239 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:25.639 Downstairs. I heard the front door open again. More of 240 00:12:25.639 --> 00:12:28.440 them had entered the house. They were taking no chances. 241 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:32.039 I lay there on the floor at the head of 242 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:36.559 the stairs, scarcely daring to breathe. I knew I could 243 00:12:36.559 --> 00:12:39.360 get anyone coming up that stairs with my gun. But 244 00:12:40.279 --> 00:12:43.360 was there another stairway to the second floor. I knew 245 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:45.440 so many of these houses had them, Perhaps this one 246 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:51.879 did too. And somewhere outside I heard something up against 247 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:53.799 the side of the house. One of them was trying 248 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:55.679 to get in. One of them was coming in through 249 00:12:55.679 --> 00:12:56.759 some window on the second floor. 250 00:12:56.879 --> 00:12:58.559 From every side. Death was closing in on me. 251 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:09.679 In just a moment, we will return to escape, But first, 252 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:13.440 that happy but hectic couple, Ozzie and Harriet, come home 253 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:16.799 to CBS tomorrow at six thirty Eastern Standard time. So 254 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:19.679 get your whole family together to welcome them home. Next 255 00:13:19.679 --> 00:13:21.799 Sunday night, when they'll be heard on most of these 256 00:13:21.799 --> 00:13:26.639 same CBS stations. Just before the Jack Benny Show, and 257 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:29.639 now with our star Barry Kroger is David, we returned 258 00:13:29.639 --> 00:13:33.200 to the second act of escape and confidential Agent. 259 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:43.000 I was on the second floor of the old house 260 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:47.000 on Mallon End, and the baron's men were downstairs, slowly 261 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:50.399 working their way up to me, searching me out. It 262 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:53.559 was a quick decision. The open rooftop presented a chance 263 00:13:53.600 --> 00:13:57.039 of escape. Lying here in the dark was tempting discovery. 264 00:13:57.759 --> 00:13:59.840 A moment later I was through a skylight and in 265 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:03.559 five hours away I found fire. Escaping has reached the 266 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:08.000 ground and two blocks father on Blant Street, I found 267 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:17.399 a cheap hotel and registered under another name. The next 268 00:14:17.399 --> 00:14:19.799 morning I took a taxi to the house of Lord Bandage. 269 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:23.679 The butler, with the empty face of the typical British servant, 270 00:14:24.039 --> 00:14:25.960 took my court and then showed me into the room 271 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:28.840 where Lord Bendage and four other men waited. These men 272 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:30.399 were the Diamonds Syndicate. 273 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:33.039 You're the men we're expecting. 274 00:14:33.480 --> 00:14:36.080 Yes, I think you'll know the object of my visit. 275 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:40.279 We had a letter a farther to go strange. The 276 00:14:40.320 --> 00:14:43.320 purchase wasn't handled through your embassy or counselor. 277 00:14:44.399 --> 00:14:45.240 This is mister. 278 00:14:48.200 --> 00:14:53.320 Mister Briggstock, mister Grade. You'll forgive us if we get 279 00:14:53.320 --> 00:14:54.159 the business right away. 280 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:56.919 I should like that, I am. 281 00:14:57.360 --> 00:15:01.039 I'm prepared to pay the highest market price for which 282 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:03.840 I have here a side draft and a bonus of 283 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:06.799 twenty five percent after the diamonds reached my country. 284 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:11.559 You will take the diamonds yourself. Oh yes, then the 285 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:13.519 bonus should be paid now. 286 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:17.399 Bendage is right, old boy. You might never go back then, 287 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:19.159 well should we. 288 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:22.120 Be, Perhaps, Lord Benditch, we could accept the offer as 289 00:15:22.120 --> 00:15:24.720 it is if we are given notes covering the bonus. 290 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:27.960 Oh yes, I'm quite prepared to do that very well. 291 00:15:29.159 --> 00:15:32.200 You understand we could do better than this, but we'd 292 00:15:32.279 --> 00:15:36.399 like to do business with established governments. We must, however, 293 00:15:36.399 --> 00:15:38.480 be certain that you have the right to speak for 294 00:15:38.519 --> 00:15:43.320 your government. You have your credentials, of course, certainly I 295 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:51.360 have them. Something wrong, that's that's extraordinary. I had them 296 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:53.600 in my breast pocket with my passport here. 297 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:58.320 CLUBSHO left them at your hotel morning after a tacky evening. 298 00:15:59.080 --> 00:16:00.960 I had them right here when I entered this house. 299 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:03.559 You're implying I did have my papers, they had been stolen. 300 00:16:04.679 --> 00:16:10.279 I dare say, it's obvious. We can't do business with 301 00:16:10.360 --> 00:16:11.519 an unaccredited agent. 302 00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:16.840 Rough, go boy, it looks like you've heard it. 303 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:19.639 We are sorry, but Lord ben Ditch is right. 304 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:23.000 We walked slowly out of the room. I must admit 305 00:16:23.080 --> 00:16:23.679 they were fair. 306 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:27.200 The butler must have taken the papers when they helped 307 00:16:27.240 --> 00:16:28.720 me off with my coat. 308 00:16:28.879 --> 00:16:30.360 But I had no proof. 309 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:33.679 I went out in the hall put in my coat 310 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:35.600 from the wreck. I was about to leave when I 311 00:16:35.639 --> 00:16:38.080 heard my name. It was Rose Culling. 312 00:16:38.279 --> 00:16:40.320 David, did you get the diamonds from plat? 313 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:43.000 No, my papers have been stolen, and your father won't 314 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:45.120 deal with me since I could not prove I represent 315 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:45.759 my government. 316 00:16:46.759 --> 00:16:49.759 Rose, do you know it's your father's butler? You? 317 00:16:50.919 --> 00:16:54.080 I think so, although I didn't really notice. I don't 318 00:16:54.120 --> 00:16:56.720 live here, I have my own apartment. You mean you 319 00:16:56.799 --> 00:16:57.080 think he? 320 00:16:57.320 --> 00:16:59.919 I'm sure of it. I had my papers when I 321 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:02.759 came up the steps. They were gone when I went 322 00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:03.799 to show them to your father. 323 00:17:03.879 --> 00:17:06.200 Then that means come along, David, we'll find out. 324 00:17:06.279 --> 00:17:09.160 No Rose, that would do no good. I'm sure that 325 00:17:09.200 --> 00:17:11.519 the Baron will have covered all loopholes. The papers are 326 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:15.519 far away by now. No, I must think of some 327 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:16.799 other way to convince your father. 328 00:17:17.079 --> 00:17:18.880 Well, isn't there someone at your embassy? 329 00:17:20.240 --> 00:17:20.920 I don't think so. 330 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:27.319 We don't trust them except perhaps the second secretary. He 331 00:17:28.599 --> 00:17:30.599 but even he may have been reached. 332 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:32.720 But we've got to do something we can't. 333 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:34.880 Just why do you suddenly want to happen me? Only 334 00:17:34.960 --> 00:17:36.640 last night you were laughing at me? Rose? 335 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:39.400 Maybe I was last night? 336 00:17:39.599 --> 00:17:41.799 Well then, why, oh, David? 337 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:45.079 Can't you guess why? I want to help you to 338 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:45.680 be with you? 339 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:46.759 Rose? 340 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:50.720 Look all you think of is your stupid war. Last 341 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:53.200 night I laughed at you because you were a stuffy 342 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:56.440 little man from another country, builled with ideas of his 343 00:17:56.559 --> 00:18:01.480 own importance and briefs and papers. After I've had a 344 00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:04.880 chance to think things over, I know this isn't true. 345 00:18:05.279 --> 00:18:05.599 Rose. 346 00:18:06.039 --> 00:18:08.680 A man in my position has to give up many things. 347 00:18:09.400 --> 00:18:11.119 He has no time to. 348 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:13.599 Fall in love. Why not, David? 349 00:18:14.720 --> 00:18:15.240 Why not? 350 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:16.119 Rose? 351 00:18:16.839 --> 00:18:20.400 All right? I won't embarrass you. Now tell me something. 352 00:18:20.920 --> 00:18:23.000 Forbes and Briggstock were with father when you met. 353 00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:24.599 Yes, yes, they were all right. 354 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:27.240 Then Briggstock is an asked, But they'll both help your 355 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:29.599 country if they're sure it's all right, I'll get them, 356 00:18:29.640 --> 00:18:31.279 and the four of us will go to your embassy. 357 00:18:31.400 --> 00:18:32.799 We'll make them prove who you are. 358 00:18:39.759 --> 00:18:40.400 She was right. 359 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:43.000 They both did seem anxious to help and were quite 360 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:45.759 willing to go to the embassy with us. At the embassy, 361 00:18:46.039 --> 00:18:49.799 we waited for the second secretary. Then a man appeared, 362 00:18:50.160 --> 00:18:52.960 a countryman of mine, although I had never seen him before. 363 00:18:53.640 --> 00:18:54.599 I help you, gentlemen. 364 00:18:54.720 --> 00:18:58.519 Yes, my name is Forbes. This is mister Briggstock. We 365 00:18:58.559 --> 00:19:01.720 are associated with Lord Bended. This is his daughter. We 366 00:19:01.799 --> 00:19:05.160 are considering doing business with this other gentleman who claims 367 00:19:05.160 --> 00:19:06.599 to represent your government. 368 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:10.119 I know of no official representative being sent to here. 369 00:19:10.960 --> 00:19:13.279 What is your name, sir? Here is my passport. 370 00:19:14.359 --> 00:19:22.000 See this is very strange, mister Forbes. The man whose 371 00:19:22.039 --> 00:19:24.279 name is on this passport is no longer alive. Oh 372 00:19:24.319 --> 00:19:26.200 you he were shot by the rebels. 373 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:29.000 Oh you're lying. You didn't even look at the passport. 374 00:19:29.440 --> 00:19:31.960 You had your story ready before we even got here. 375 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:34.680 As a matter of fact, yes, we were one that 376 00:19:34.759 --> 00:19:37.319 someone was pausing as this man. We've had a Scotland 377 00:19:37.400 --> 00:19:40.519 yard man here hoping to show up Inspector Scotland order. 378 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:42.759 We'll go to the bottom of these. 379 00:19:42.680 --> 00:19:43.359 I have no doubt. 380 00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:45.279 Is this the man? 381 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:51.400 Yes, and here is his passport, Inspector, I see, well, sir, 382 00:19:51.640 --> 00:19:52.920 we're going to have to hold. 383 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:54.799 You on what charges inspected? 384 00:19:54.880 --> 00:19:58.960 Oh, there are several miss using a forged passport, illegal 385 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:01.440 entry into the country, trying to obtain a contract on 386 00:20:01.480 --> 00:20:04.880 the false pretenses, inquiry into a hit and run death 387 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:08.680 on the Dover Road last night, and inquiry into the 388 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:10.880 death of a young woman on melon in what a. 389 00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:12.640 Very fuse to accompany you, Inspector. 390 00:20:12.839 --> 00:20:15.279 Well, in that case, sir, I'm afraid I'll have to 391 00:20:15.359 --> 00:20:16.119 force you if you. 392 00:20:16.160 --> 00:20:18.079 Didn't, Inspector, I have a gun here. He doesn't need it. 393 00:20:20.119 --> 00:20:21.440 Don't try to find me through the door. 394 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:23.039 Wait, David, I'm coming with you. 395 00:20:25.200 --> 00:20:27.359 The door was backed out of the room and ran downstairs. 396 00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:29.519 I knew it would be only a matter of minutes 397 00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:31.640 before there'd be an alarm out. Then Scotland Yard would 398 00:20:31.680 --> 00:20:33.519 be looking for me, as well as the Baron's men. 399 00:20:34.279 --> 00:20:37.720 I'm sure that I could beat the murder charges, but 400 00:20:37.799 --> 00:20:39.359 by that time it would be too late to get 401 00:20:39.400 --> 00:20:42.079