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Herbert Marshall auto light hopes once again to keep you in South spends September 15 1913 Today started much like any other but one thing I now understand It will end differently and more than the day will end much more This afternoon I called and I often do on the countess from the now I Asked not to be announced and stood on noticed in the doorway Our charming salon was crowded with guests and overflowing with music and the familiar brilliant scene was suddenly precious to me Then I heard lieutenant house office voice low, but shot in my ear Colonel. Yes We've just received word Helsinger was shot this morning as a spy Come Now What did you hear 1426 o'clock a wireless message from Petersburg to the Russian Embassy? May I fetch you something sir? water Here, let me help you to a chair. No, I'll be all right, sir. I know everyone knows how much Captain Helsinger meant to you The report said he died with great courage enough. Yes, sir They've done as the courtesy of sending his body home. Have you any instructions to talk to general strike a range of military funeral with all honors Of course, sir. That's all yes, sir Ask a Helsinger dead. I'd known of course, but like a stupid child. I'd hoped and believed some miracle would save him Somehow I found the strength to leave It was dusk the blue hour Up and down the broad avenues lights were coming on I Hailed a cab to go to the post office and sitting alone in the back of the carriage. I suddenly knew I had to leave Vienna Say goodbye for good Never had I felt so old My driver stopped at the side entrance to the central post office. I told him to wait Before I went in I turned the collar of my top coat up and pull my hat bring down This closing time and the great building was almost deserted. I crossed to the main desk Yes, sir upper box number 13 Well the the letters addressed to upper box number 13. Yes, of course, sir. I look one moment. I Am in a hurry Yes, sir. I'm looking I don't seem to find You're sure there are letters, sir I mean addressed like you said certainly they've been here weeks. I've been too busy to call for them Yes, sir, but I don't you're looking on the wrong side the box. You're right there Yes, I was confused. I'm sorry Here you are, sir. Thank you Sir a dust a minute. Yes Did you notice a does it look like rain tonight? I mean, did you notice the weather the weather? There's not a cloud or breath of wind good night Kaiser half cafe hurry man was running across the street told the post office. I wondered then Had I almost stepped into that abyss which for two long years had yawned at my feet I Open the letters with my pen knife in one envelope 6,000 cronin in the other 8,000 no note no writing of any kind I put the money in my wallet folded the envelopes and put them in my pocket 14,000 cronin in my pocket 300,000 no bank of Rome. I was rich very rich And having made my decision to leave I was free At the Kaiser half cafe. I changed to another cab a routine precaution and went to my hotel There I put on my dress uniform for the last time. I looked in the mirror and saluted myself Said goodbye to being Colonel Alfred Radle command of the 8th Corps creator of the Emperor France Joseph's black cabinet Colonel Alfred Radle a name whispered with terror in every capital of the world I decided to dine at whole bombs and asked for a table where I could watch the dancing Colonel Radle good evening I'm sorry, sir. I see you don't remember me, but I do very well, huh Istanbul 1909 I sent you there in July and you remain through November in your reports You complained of the heat, but you never lested a good job Your number was Q4 one you're an Austrian citizen your mother was Greek and you speak both Greek and Turkish That's enough sir. I won my wager wager Told my friend. He's sitting over at that table that I met you only once five years ago It was certainly you remember me. I was right your memories infallible and what a blessing in your work here Colonel I'm next blessing my friend. Oh I see what you mean, sir. I suppose there are some things in every man's life. He'd just as soon forget it exactly But he was thinking of the innocent follies of a man's youth while I was thinking Remembering again with I say clarity that day two years ago when my secret life began How I wished I could forget that day For until then I enjoyed my life my friends and most of all my work For I had created a secret service which I could have matched with Scotland Yard of the Dersiem Bureau But that day I Remember it was cool and bright and I drove early as usual to the up Gazelle shaft that vast beehive of activity which I directed I Held it through the mini self-locking doors the labyrinth. I had created the web. I had built Until that last I reached the center of the web where I The spider lived There were several people in my outer office among them Oscar Helsing are my dearest friend the person I trusted about any man in the world When I came in he embraced me Congratulations Alfred for what I was telling you tenant house over today's an important anniversary Six years to the day since you and I were assigned to counter espionage is And I suppose we can congratulate us a Lieutenant house over do I have any appointments? There's someone waiting inside and this man He's one of the agents you assigned to follow Madame Buddha. Oh, yes. Well Has she been arrested? Well, no, sir not yet. She's still under surveillance. Well, not exactly here Colonel Then tell me exactly. She's We don't know where she is. She gave us the slip impossible Well, first she went into the flower market through the east door. We stayed right behind her fritz and me idiots One of you should have covered the front door. Yes, sir. I know Inside the market we lost her in the crowd and then by luck. I spotted her later near the bridge fritz wasn't with me You lost her twice. Well, she's clever Madame Boudin She was walking fast and she dropped something. I leaned down to pick it up and when I looked up she was gone It was just her handkerchief. She dropped. I don't care if it was the blueprints of the fortifications on the man On page 31 of my manual. I say that one should never change objectives Your objective was Madame Baudin not the contents of her purse. Yes, sir. You are the other agent. I'll relieve the further duties dismissed. Yes, sir You said someone else waiting for me Lieutenant Husser. Yes, sir in your office It's Major Ockofsky sir the new charge at a fair at the Russian Embassy probably a courtesy call Ask a wait for me. Oh, no hurry our friend Good morning, Major Ockofsky. Good morning, Colonel Radler. Sit down major. Thank you Cigar meter. No, excuse me then Now then I'm very busy Ockofsky. Can we come to the point or save it for another day to the point? I quite agree I don't enjoy a chess game when I have my opponent's queen. I have yours, Radle. You're a checkmated You are sure you don't want a cigar. I neither smoke cigars nor opium Indeed. Yes Some men smoke both To the point major that hair Radle is the point The period and the sentence proceeding this period You will henceforth deliver to me as the representative of the Tsar of the Russia's all secret military plans of the Imperial Austro-Hungarian armies is that all for the present if I for one moment took you seriously You wouldn't leave this building alive. What's one life more or less? But the secret the secret of one Alfred Radle that he is a dope addict That's secret plus facts names places dates is in the files of my embassy Unless you agree those facts will be brought first to the attention of general striker Than to France yourself himself. Let me assure you this is no pipe cream hair Radle This is real and these 20,000 gold cronin are also real We'll arrange future payments through the post office You wonder why we pay when we don't have to know because the money will be some consolation for you and we are not unfriendly Come here, Radle you needn't fear. You'll be discovered who'd suspect a man in your position Well, I know this has been sudden, but you realize you have no choice No choice one week from today then at the ester cafe on Birkenstrasse They'll be there at two Good day hair Radle finished. Oh Yes finished. Why you look pale Alfred. I didn't notice before I'm tired. Are you work too hard? Oh, oh, I have a gift for you special memento for today for the anniversary. I mentioned. Yeah, it's a pen knife A knife You're thinking the old saying about a knife between friends, but it doesn't mean friends like you and me You know, I want to have that silk sheath embroidered with your name and insignia, but there wasn't time I can still have it done. No need. No, I'll have it done It's a beautiful piece of work The knife I thought so ask a Tony what creature devours Spiders why I don't know I'll tell you wasca I'm not the spider Spiders devour everything Even their own Auto light is bringing you mr. 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I'll be free Yes, I explained to myself Comforted myself, but still at night. I often felt a chill go through me For the dark corners of my mind. I knew I was a traitor to my people my friends my country Radle we have decided on the following plan You'll arrest one of our spies a certain Austrian named Zane You'll put him on trial You may sentence him to death I might admit it to ask why Zane is expendable. Shall we say? But that's not our major purpose. You're a mastered intrigue. Suppose you give me your guess I will catch a Russian spy. I will force you into confession since I will know everything about him using your files The public will be amazed shocked pleased. I will be an even greater hero and therefore more valuable to you Radle I fully believe you are worth the hundred thousand kronor in a year. We pay you It's a small price for the destruction of an empire. Oh, if I may be so bold hair Radle That's the first stupid statement. I've ever heard you make you're not destroying this empire Corruption and decadence are doing that a thousand and one corruptions not yours alone. Are we more corrupt than you? We are not corrupt in my opinion Then you are a fool perhaps I'm a fool who's calling the tune whereas you're a wise man who was dancing to it. Am I right hair Radle? He was right. I danced to his tune. I had to I Ordered the arrest of the Austrian citizen Adolf Zane. He went on trial Charged the treason with betrayal of his country to the Russians The trial was an enormous success. I stunned the court and astonished the world with my knowledge of Zane. I Knew every step he'd taken for the past five years every penny he'd collected every secret he'd sold But how could you know this? How could you possibly know it? Confine yourself to answering questions had say Proceed Colonel Radle on the 19th of March at 11 p.m. You turned over to a Russian representative all the correspondence The most secret correspondence between our beloved Emperor and the kites of the Germans. Isn't that true? Yes, it's true But how could you know you know the penalty for your crime? Yes, tell me death By hanging and what else what else? I don't know The convicted traitor will be buried in civilian clothes in an unmarked grave Colonel for the love. I wasn't the only one. What about Arnold Sonderheim? He's just as good as I You will answer Kiss he's been a spy for two years right in the Bureaus Colonel Radle If this man has accomplices surely the court wishes to hear of course your honor But while it cannot save this miserable man's life to tell us their names It will in some way redeem him in the eyes of his countrymen proceed Adolf say It wasn't that I was afraid he would betray me he didn't know Nobody knew except major Rakovsky himself But I had been ordered to arrest one spy try one spy have one spy executed Now he was implicating others When the trial ended I was congratulated by the crown prince himself. I was the most celebrated man in the Empire But at three that morning I Was summoned to a meeting you fool we gave you Jane not Sonderheim and kish I could not control him if you had the brains you pretend you No, never mind the damage is done Now we want the name of your top agent in Petersburg. No, I hope that was an involuntary no I no longer use opium major. I'm no longer your man Ah and how about the letters addressed to opera box 13 hair Radle the letters fat with Cronin you've called for so regularly You're no longer a dope addict, but you're a traitor and we can prove it Come the name of your top agent, but why for what your prestige has been built up at great expense to us Now we must repair our own prestige. I won't do it plans are one thing People are another dog. Don't be naive When your Austrian armies March, there'll be sliced to ribbons because of you Thousands of men will die men. I don't know don't trifle with us Radle the name in housing for the man Yalma And nobody I want your key man in Kiev your key man, Radle who is in Petersburg in Petersburg? No one in Petersburg. There is that much. We know his name his name There is an importer on the Nevsky prospect his name is Mirachinsky He is our top agent. Ah, his real name is Oscar Helsing. He is my friend When Oscar was arrested he smuggled a message out to me Alfred Someone close to you betrayed me find out who I thought then of suicide, but I waited hoping for some miracle Then today word came that he was dead When I knew there was nothing left for me in Vienna But in Italy In the sun I didn't finish my dinner I decided to pack and leave Vienna immediately and catch the train for Rome that leaves short after midnight At my hotel. I started across the great bright nearly deserted lobby right over there. Yes, we uh found this silk thing Looks like a knife sheath. Is it yours? Where did you find it? I must have dropped it when I left my room. I valued a great deal you You see it was a gift from a friend From a dead friend betrayed by me His dead hand reaching out to trap me For at that moment I knew I was lost new with dreadful certainty where I dropped the sheath in the cab The fiat I took from the post office It had been found thereby Slowly I looked around the lobby and saw them Drabbly dressed men too obviously not looking in my direction The postal clerk had signaled them when I called for the letters They arrived too late, but somehow my son stoke of of impossible luck They found the cab I took And they traced me to my hotel As your elevator sir. I'm not going up. Yes, sir. I've had it I think I'll take a walk When I went out through the big revolving door I knew without looking that the two men were behind me My boots rang on the paving but when I stopped Their footsteps sounded a moment behind me I crossed the park they followed I knew they wouldn't kill me in the street. The government wouldn't risk the scandal But with pain and pride I knew too. They would surely kill me somewhere For men from the organization I had created Would follow their quarry to the ends of the earth I ducked in through a great coffee house and cut out another door One was waiting there. The other followed me through I tried to trick them then by tearing the envelopes to bits the envelope with smart opera box number 13 String the paper in their path But they were well trained by me They never faulted They left the evidence blowing down the dark street in order not to lose their man Then I knew it was hopeless I went back to my hotel And sat down in my room to wait The door is unlocked gentleman. I've been expecting you Good evening, Prince Otto. Good evening, General Good evening, Lieutenant Housewerfer Colonel Radar We would like a complete account of all your activities. I will write an account If you'll permit the time of course Colonel How could you have done it? It wasn't difficult Treason takes over a man's heart as the camel invaded the poor Arabs tent A little at a time First a man betrays himself. But how sir? A man like you. I endowled myself I was an opium addict Committed to opium. I was forced To commit myself further Have you a gun colonel? That's the best way of course Have you a gun? No, sir Lieutenant I have a luga general striker. I believe carries a mouser. I prefer the luga Here you are then sir come gentlemen We will wait downstairs Now it is all written down Outside the cathedral is striking midnight Midnight september 15 1913 I look out over the sleeping city east to where the sky will pale before the rising sun There in the east The russians already To the west facing our german ally The french too already. I have made them so In six months a year two years at the most those armies will march Whatever the outcome I would have made my contribution, but I won't be here to see it I'll lie in an unmarked grave I've said goodbye to vienna To all I loved Now it is time to say goodbye to alfred reddle When I snap off the safety on this gun when I pull the trigger It'll be the end Of an empire Of an era Tows spends Presented by auto light tonight star mr. 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