Escape - "31 Three Good Witnesses" (Old Time Radio)

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A ticketless young woman aboard the Taurus Express draws American
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oil company engineer Humphrey Ward into an uneasy journey from
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Istanbul toward Syria. As the train approaches the border, a
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conductor and fellow passengers offer conflicting stories, leaving Ward to
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decide whom he can trust. From CBS, this is Escape,
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Three Good Witnesses, episode 4,801, heard on January 31st, 1948.
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The West Coast production adapted by John Dunkel from Harold
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Lamb's short story. Morgan Farley stars as Ward with Jack Webb,
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Jeanette Nolan, and Harry Bartell under the direction of William N.
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Robson.
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And now, the original broadcast.
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You are speeding through the Turkish night on the Taurus Express.
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You are alone and unarmed, and somewhere on the train
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is a calm killer from whom you must escape.
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Escape.
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Produced by William N. Robeson and carefully contrived to free
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you from the four walls of today... for a half
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hour of high adventure.
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Tonight we escape to Turkey and the Taurus Express, which
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carries a shipment of death. As Harold Lamb told it
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in his exciting story, Three Good Witnesses.
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I took the Taurus Express that night because I was
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going home, back to the United States, back to California,
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and my routine job at the oil company. Two days before,
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I had given my final report to our State Department
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man in Istanbul, a negative report.
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Then, Mr. Ward, your considered opinion is that there is
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no oil in this area?
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Not enough to be worth drilling for. Not at this
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late date. The war would be over before we could
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get out 10,000 barrels.
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You're being optimistic, Mr.
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Ward.
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War isn't over yet. Who can say when it will be?
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That's true, but.
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What does Auerbach say?
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He agrees with me completely. So does Wyndham, the British engineer.
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We're all agreed. Three good witnesses. Well, then that settles it.
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What do you mean? Three good witnesses.
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Oh, that's an old saying out here in the Middle East.
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Comes from the Arabs, I think. In their old law,
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the testimony of three independent and trustworthy witnesses was enough
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to establish the guilt or innocence of an accused person.
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But, uh, why three?
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Well, I suppose two witnesses to a crime might tell
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the same lie. But if three fellas tell the same story, well,
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then it must be true.
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Well, maybe.
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Maybe. I suppose the odds against three making up the
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same story would be high, but I don't know whether
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I'd like to trust my neck with that kind of justice.
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Yeah, it is a little different from justice back home
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in Chattahoochee County. I imagine you want to be getting
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back to the States as soon as possible.
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Indeed I do.
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Well, I can put you on the Taurus Express Wednesday.
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You'll be in Cairo by Saturday, get an ATC plane,
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and have you in Washington just three days later.
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Istanbul to Washington in less than a week. It's a
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small world, isn't it? So I was booked on the
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Taurus Express leaving Istanbul on Wednesday night. Got to the
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station late, and as I walked down the long platform
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toward the first-class carriages, I sensed a tenseness in the crowd. First,
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I couldn't explain it. Then I noticed that the platform
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was alive with police. They stood at the door of
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every car, motionless, solemn-faced, carefully scrutinizing everyone who got aboard.
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And it seemed that everyone on that bustling platform was
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aware of them. Well, I found my car near the
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front of the train. A policeman stood at the open door.
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I paused to verify the car number, and suddenly I
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heard a voice at my elbow.
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I thought I had missed you.
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A pair of arms twined around my neck. A pair
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of lips were kissing me. I pushed her away to
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try to see her face, but she clung to me.
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I tried to say something, but she kept talking so
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fast I couldn't get a word in. How could you
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do this to me?
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To run off without even saying goodbye? I must be
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with you right up to the last minute, my darling.
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At last I could see her, and she was beautiful.
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Very young and very beautiful. Turkish or Greek, I couldn't
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tell which, but lovely.
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You must let me get on the train with you.
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See you safely to your compartment. I cannot bear to see.
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Madame, I'm afraid you're making a mistake.
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Please, please, you must help me. I will explain.
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But I.
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Come, you will miss the train. I will see you
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safely on board. Come, hurry, so we may say our
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last goodbye in privacy.
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This last was thrown over her shoulder to the policeman
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standing there. as she pulled me up the steps into
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the car. He stared at us, but he said nothing.
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And in a moment, we were standing in the deserted corridor.
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Oh, thank you, sir.
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Thank you.
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Now, look here, young lady. What is all this?
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It is the fault of those police standing out there.
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I could not get into the car alone.
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But why not?
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This is a first-class car. Only rich foreigners ride in
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first-class compartment. I could see by your clothes you were
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American- I knew you would help me.
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But why did you want to get into this car especially?
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Because I.
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Suddenly she stopped, and her eyes were riveted on something
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behind my back. I turned to see a swarthy young
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man staring at us from the other end of the car.
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He was dressed in the uniform of a train conductor.
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He slid open a compartment door. There was an almost
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imperceptible jerk of his head, and then the girl slipped
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past me and into the open room. The conductor slid
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the door shut after her.
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Your number, sir?
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Oh, yes, yes.
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Twelve.
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Yes, the next one. Here. If there is anything I
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can do for you, I shall be pleased. If you
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care to leave your ticket and passport with me, I
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shall be able to attend to Syrian customs without disturbing
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you later.
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As he talked, his eyes were not on me. He
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was watching the slow progress of a policeman through the car.
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The officer was walking by, glancing into each compartment. When
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he came opposite us, he spoke to the conductor. The
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conductor was standing squarely in front of the door of
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the girl's compartment, hiding her from view. The policeman walked on.
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In a moment, he had disappeared.
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Thank you, sir. I shall not disturb you.
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I went into my compartment. My baggage was already there.
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The train was about to leave. Everything was in order.
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But I couldn't help wondering about the incident I had
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just witnessed. About the girl I had involuntarily helped... and
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the conductor. I wondered about all those police out there.
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Obviously something was going on. Then I remembered. This was Istanbul,
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the gateway to the Middle East. It was supposed to
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be alive with Axis spies. Could that girl be... Then
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I laughed. Just my overage, stay-at-home mind imagining things. Then
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suddenly I heard a voice in the corridor outside. The
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voice was unmistakably American and music to my ears. jumped
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to my feet and stepped into the corridor. There outside
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the next compartment was a young man in civilian clothes,
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carrying a small bag and a briefcase. The swarthy conductor
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was approaching him with a worried look.
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How about this, huh? There's a dame in my compartment.
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Beg pardon, sir, there must be a mistake. This compartment,
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number 10.
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Naturally, you think I can't read? Number 10, that's mine.
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But number 10 is not sold. It is not marked
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on my list.
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The heck it is, and I've got my ticket right here.
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What's with the dame?
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Please, not so loud.
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I don't get this.
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I beg your pardon. Can I be of any help? Huh?
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Oh, you're an American, too.
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Yes, Humphrey Ward, Los Angeles.
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Tom Hatfield.
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Bad to know you.
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And what's with the dame? Do you know?
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No, I'm afraid.
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Please, gentlemen, step into the compartment, please.
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But the girl.
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Please.
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In.
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Yes.
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Okay.
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Well, I.
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Please, sir.
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Oh, well, all right.
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Hey, talk English, huh?
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What's all this about, anyway?
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It is....
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I am embarrassed, sir.
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Oh, you're embarrassed?
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I buy a ticket and find a dame in my compartment.
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Of course, on closer inspection, maybe I'm not so mad
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after all. She looks like a good deal.
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Thank you, sir.
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Oh, you do speak English.
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Sir, the policeman will come by. Maybe look in. I
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must ask of you a favor.
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Yeah?
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If she could stay here, just until the train started.
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She will not bother you after that.
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Well, why can't she stay in her own compartment?
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Please, sir, I have no place else to put her.
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All the other places are taken.
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Oh. She's a deadhead, huh?
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Deadhead?
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No ticket. Stowaway.
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It is something like that.
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Well, what's the setup? Is she your girlfriend?
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No, no, it is not like that.
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It is.
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You see, we're both Macedonian. She is escaping from the Nazis.
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She wants to go to Cairo and join the Nurse Corps.
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She has been for two years in Greece under the Nazis.
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She's a real patriot. If you will help her.
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Maybe if you introduced us and let her speak for herself.
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She's called Mara Dallas.
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Let's make it Mary for short. Mary the Deadhead. Hi, Mary.
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Hi.
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Hi.
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You're okay.
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Get her.
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She talks American.
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I spent two years at American school at Thessalonica. I
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worked with Red Cross in Greece during the fighting.
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That so?
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I like Americans. I want to go to United States.
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Who does?
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I want to learn to be a real Norse. You
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will help me. Americans are always kind. This gentleman here
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helped me get on the train.
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Naturally.
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Now you will help me.
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Okay?
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Okay.
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Thank you, sir. Now, I must go before the policemen
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get more suspicious.
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Okay, this may turn out to be a pleasure.
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Looks like you don't need me. I'm in the next compartment.
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Maybe we'll get together later.
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Sure, sure.
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I'd offer you a seat, but we're sort of crowded already.
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Mary and me.
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I went back to my seat laughing. Laughing mostly at
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the silly idea I'd had that maybe Mary the Deadhead
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and her conductor friend were spies of some sort. Obviously,
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they were harmless. Harmless as... as I was, and that
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was completely harmless, confound it. I looked out of the
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window as the train slid out of the station, leaving Turkey,
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leaving the war, going home, back to complacent safety. Men
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were out here fighting and dying, and they'd get no
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help from me. Me, overage and useless. I felt pretty
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sorry for myself. It wasn't till the next day that
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I began to get acquainted with my fellow passengers. Mary
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the Deadhead was riding on the conductor's jump seat to
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the end of the car. The Arubians, an Armenian couple,
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were in 14, the compartment next to mine. Young Tom
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Hatfield was on the other side of me, and two
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Greek refugees, a Mr. Chiniara and a Mr. Dreekar, were
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next to him and ate. Hatfield kept pretty much out
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of sight all day, and it was Mr. Chiniara who
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shared a table with me at dinner that night. I
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didn't much care for him, but he was somebody to
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talk to.
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You Americans, you do not realize how lucky you are.
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No, I suppose not.
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You do not know what it is to be safe.
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Just look around you. Almost all the passengers on this
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express are refugees. All of them would pay much to
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be going to the United States as you are.
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I suppose so.
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But yes, where else is there any security for us?
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But you, sir, and your young friend are always secure.
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Wherever you go, you are always safe. But it is
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not so for us.
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Well, I suppose we do take a lot for granted and... Oh,
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here's Hatfield now. Hatfield, won't you join us?
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Thanks, no, I'll just sit over here.
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Oh, no, no, I insist.
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I was just leaving.
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You must join your friend.
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Oh, really?
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There's no need.
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I insist, please.
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Okay.
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Thank you, Mr.
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Chiniara.
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It's been a pleasure.
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And for me, sir.
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Good evening.
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Good evening.
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Take it easy.
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Well, I haven't seen much of you today. Been resting, eh?
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Something like that.
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You ordered?
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Yes, I'll call the waiter.
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Never mind. He'll be back. Who's your slick-haired friend?
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Oh, Mr.
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Chiniara? He's a Greek refugee just escaped from the Nazis.
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Everybody out here just escaped from the Nazis.
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He was saying how lucky we are to be Americans.
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I guess they don't see many of us in Turkey
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these days.
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I guess not.
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I haven't seen many of us myself.
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Funny, I.
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Didn't run into you in Istanbul.
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I wasn't there. Just passing through.
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Oh.
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I thought I'd have met you at the American mission
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or somewhere. No. I... I'm out here for the State Department.
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Oil.
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But I haven't had much luck. Now I'm going home.
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Too bad.
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Yeah.
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Plenty of things for us Americans to do out.
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Here, though.
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Like, uh, oil and other things.
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Of course, they.
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They give the unimportant stuff to has-beens like me. Leave
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the good stuff for young fellas like you.
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Okay, Mr.
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Ward.
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What?
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Okay.
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I'm Tom Hatfield, Frankfort, Kentucky. White, Protestant, 26, unmarried. No,
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I'm not a draft dodger, and no, I'm not AWOL.
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And yes, I'm here on business, which is none of yours.
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Well.
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I'm a Captain Air Force, two years overseas. You might say, officially,
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I'm on a holiday. The fact is, I'm taking this
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train to Adana, where I get off at 5 tomorrow morning,
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cross the border, and catch a plane that's waiting to
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take me to Cairo.
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Anything else you want to know?
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Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to.
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No, no, no.
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Sit down. Sit down. I'm sorry. I guess I'm getting
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on my own nerves. Forget it, will you?
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Oh, it's nothing. You needn't think that.
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Riding on trains is kind of bad for a flyer.
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It makes me jumpy.
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I understand. And you must have already been through a lot. Yes,
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I do understand. I was in France in 1918... I
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know what it's like.
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Maybe you know better than I do.
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Oh, I wouldn't say that. But I envy you. I'd
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give anything to be in it.
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You're lucky you're not.
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Oh, I know, I know. But it's no fun being
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old and useless like me either. I envy you. I
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can tell you're doing something important.
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You can? How?
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By the way you're so careful with that briefcase. Carry
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it around with you all the time. You got it
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on your lap right now. Probably got something important in it.
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Dispatches or something.
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So you noticed that, did you? I hope nobody else
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on this train is so observant, Mr.
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Ward.
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Oh, you're pulling my leg. What difference would it make anyway?
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You never can tell. On a train like this, out here,
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you never know. Oh, you mean.
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you mean spies? Well, I wouldn't... Well, but why? I
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haven't seen anyone who looks suspicious.
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Spies are never suspicious-looking, Mr. Ward. Or anybody.
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Anybody who wants to make a quick buck and doesn't
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care how he does it. This train is alive with
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people like that.
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But.
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but.
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Well, just take, for instance, Mary the Deadhead. She's young
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and pretty, yes, but she's broke. And her shifty-eyed boyfriend,
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the conductor.
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Oh, but they're Greeks. She's a refugee. So she says.
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But didn't it seem strange to you that he put
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her in my compartment by mistake? My name wasn't on
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the list, so he said. Were you satisfied with her story?
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Hmm.
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Well, for a moment I was suspicious, but I.
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You can't take too much for granted. For instance, the
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story I just told you. I might be a spy,
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mightn't I?
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Hmm.
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That whole thing might be hogwash.
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Well, no.
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You're American. I know that. Who else would say hogwash?
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No matter. I could be an American trader. There are
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such things.
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Oh, but.
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Or you might be the spy. Yes, they even look
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like you. Meek and mild Casper Milk Toast. Their cover
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stories are pips. Like telling you they're out here looking
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for oil. They strike up a conversation, ask questions, and
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notice briefcases.
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Oh, but look here. Now, surely you don't think.
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No, I don't think anything. I only say, you never
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can tell, Mr.
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Ward.
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He was kidding me, of course. Pulling my leg. But
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I didn't really mind.
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I liked him.
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And he had a right to be cocky and flip.
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He was doing something for the war effort. Even though
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I knew he was kidding me, I went to bed
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thinking about spies and I fell asleep dreaming of them. Then,
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very suddenly, I awoke with a terrible sense of urgency.
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There was something that I must do. I looked at
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my watch. It was ten minutes to five. The train
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was dark. Everything was quiet. Yet I felt I had
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to get up. I started to put on my clothes.
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It didn't make sense. But then I remembered. It was
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Tom Hatfield, not me, who had to get up at five,
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leave the train at Adana to cross the border into
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Syria and take his plane. Those dispatches must be important...
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if he had to change to a fast plane as
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soon as he got out of neutral Turkey. When I
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stepped into the dimly lit corridor, it was deserted. I
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knocked on Hatfield's door. No answer. I tried the handle,
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and the door slid open into darkness. Something was wrong.
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I switched on the light and went in. Tom Hatfield
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lay there on the bunk asleep. Hey, Hatfield, rise and shine,
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we're coming into Adana. You've got to get off. I
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shook him, but he didn't move. Then I saw blood
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on his pillow, on his head. I looked around quickly.
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The briefcase was gone.
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Kivorkian! Kivorkian! Is something wrong, sir?
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Did you see anybody go into number 10? No, nobody.
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Who should be going.
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Look, look.
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Do you have keys to the doors?
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But no, there are no keys. They lock from the inside.
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A sliding bolt and chain. Nobody can get in once
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they're locked.
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Yeah, that's what I thought. I knew Tom Hatfield would
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have locked that door. Somebody must have gotten in some
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other way and left the corridor open as a false clue.
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But how?
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Then I noticed the door which connected with number eight.
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I tried it.
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It was locked.
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This didn't make sense. But through my mind was racing
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one thought. American dispatches have been stolen. Tom Hatfield is
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out and it's up to me. I searched the room.
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I found an automatic under the mattress, but no briefcase.
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I heard the train start up again. We were leaving Adana.
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I looked again at the connecting door. Then I got it.
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The bolt was fastened on the other side of that door.
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But on this side it was not. That meant that
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someone could have come in through number eight. I knocked
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on the connecting door. I heard a movement and the
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bolt slid back and the door opened. I was face
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to face with Mr.
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Chiniara.
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And he was staring at the gun in my hand.
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What is it? What is that for? The briefcase. The
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bag of my friend.
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Is it here?
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Briefcase?
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Bug? We have here only our valises. This door has
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been opened. Something is missing.
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Oh, if you have lost something, I pray you to look.
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I know nothing of it.
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Come in, please, and look.
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All right, I will.
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I'm not accusing anyone. I just want to be sure that....
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The next thing I felt was a stinging coldness on
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my face, a rushing of wind.
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I realized that I was hanging half out of the
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window of the car... They were shoving me out of
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the train. Savagely, I kicked. I felt something give. And
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I pushed myself back in, slid down on the floor.
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I felt something hard under me. The gun. In the
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dim compartment, I saw them coming at me. Chiniara and Rico.
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I raised the gun. What is it? What has happened?
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Look, on the floor.
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Shut the door, quickly.
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Are they.
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Wait. Let me look. Yes, both of them. Finish.
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They took the briefcase. I'm sure they did.
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Hey, who's shooting up the place?
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Hatfield.
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Holy cow, will you look at that. What happened?
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The briefcase.
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It's here someplace. I'm sure it is.
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Hey, wait a minute, fella. You're banged up there. Looks
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like we both got bumped. Here, sit down. You need
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a drink. Mary, you'll find a pint in my bag.
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Bring it in here, will you?
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But they got the paper's hat for you. We ought
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to look.
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They did?
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Yes, the briefcase isn't here. I don't see it.
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Well, there wasn't anything in that briefcase except some old
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Istanbul newspapers. They probably threw it out the window. Back
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at Haider Pasha, a British shrine, warned me to be
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careful this trip. I put my classified material someplace else.
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Oh, but that means I killed two men without any cause,
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without a shred of evidence to back up my story.
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How we waste time. Quick, the Syrian border police got
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on the train at the Donner. They might be here
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any minute. Now, who is dead here?
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Mary the Deadhead took me into Hatfield's room and carefully
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administered first aid to my cuts and bruises. But Kevorkian
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and Hatfield were busy in number eight. What... What are
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they doing?
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Never mind. Pay no attention.
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Oh, but they're throwing the bodies out of the window.
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Think not of it, please. Hayek Kevorkian is a Macedonian.
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When he fought the Germans at Thessalonica, he threw bodies
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over the cliffs. He knows what he's doing.
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Oh, but I.
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But you, you are a brave man, too. Even if
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you are not Macedonian, you would be judgment-tried for two,
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three years in spite of your age and your innocence.
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It is better to have no bodies.
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What's that?
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Be quiet now.
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The border police.
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Well, we got the room cleaned up just in time.
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Number eight, Signora Andrica.
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He has their passport. I forgot.
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Signora Andrica, they're not here.
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I can tell you about Signora Andrica. This man here, Mr. Ward,
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he is American general in disguise. Secret service. He put
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Signora Andrica off at Adana with a pistol. They were spies.
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Good heavens, you'll never believe that.
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Never mind. This man is a Syrian. He does not
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care what happens in Turkey. But do you have any
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Syrian money?
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Oh, yes, yes.
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Here.
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Here, in my wallet.
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Good.
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Give it to me. Thank you. Now, come with me, Sergeant.
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Do not worry now, Mr.
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Ward.
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In a moment, Hayek Ivorkian will have those passports. We
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will throw them out the window and there will be
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no trace.
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And to think, Mary, I thought you might be drawing
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down an Axis paycheck.
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It is no matter.
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Now we are out of Turkey... Before long, I can
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go to United States.
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Maybe that might not be so easy.
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You got no money, no passport, no transportation through the
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combat zones.
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Never mind. I shall do it. I walk to here
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from Macedonia. I can walk all the way. Like St.
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Paul in the Bible walk to Rome.
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Well, I wish you luck, but you'll have a time
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getting by British control at Aleppo. They can't smuggle a
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pack of cigarettes past them.
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Oh, but then, then what about me? What about a murderer?
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I don't know.
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We'll see.
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It was morning when the train pulled into Aleppo, the
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station where British control came on. The trip had been
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pretty awful, with Tom trying to act as if nothing
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had happened, and with me staring into that empty room,
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imagining Chiniara and Rika sitting there staring back at me.
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Maybe they had been spies, maybe not. Now they were dead,
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and I was in trouble. We knew that the minute
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the train stopped. A soldier stood outside our window and said.
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All right, now. Everyone reminds him his place in his car.
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We waited silently for many minutes. And then a British
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major in khaki shorts stepped in. Behind him, I saw
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Kevorkian and Mary the Deadhead standing in the doorway.
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Good morning. I'm Radcliffe. I'm looking for two missing passengers
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identified as Greeks, Chiniara and Dricard by name. Come now,
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they seem to have been in the next compartment. And here.
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What became of them?
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Were there two?
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Young lady.
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Yes, sir?
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You weren't a number eight, were you? You don't seem
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to have any other place, nor a Syrian entrance visa.
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Please, I sat down in the corridor.
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Oh, it's quiet.
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Conductor, don't you remember two passengers booked through to Aleppo?
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One was quite stout. Book dealer who escaped from Greece
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ten days ago. Ah, those.
569
00:25:07.490 --> 00:25:10.890
They descended from the car at Adana. One was fat
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with slick hair and the other.
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Yes, yes.
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I say, isn't that a bullet hole in the wall
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up there? And you, sir, Mr. Ward, isn't it? How
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did you hurt your forehead? I, uh, uh, an accident, sir.
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I bumped into a.
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Oh, yes, quite. I should tell you that the Armenian
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couple in number 14 heard shots just after passing Adana.
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They were so frightened they locked themselves in until now.
579
00:25:34.500 --> 00:25:36.839
It's no use. I... I shot them.
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Both of them.
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They hit me first.
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Please realize that I'm not joking. My orders are to
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find those two pseudo-Greeks wherever they may be.
584
00:25:43.859 --> 00:25:45.559
Wait a minute. You said pseudo-Greeks?
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00:25:45.849 --> 00:25:48.829
You mean, Major, you want to find them?
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Hmm.
587
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And how, as you Americans say.
588
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But why?
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Because we're advised by Istanbul that certain Axis agents have
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been working out of the Balkans with identifications as refugees.
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These two, Tiniar and Rikar, were on this train. A
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00:26:03.210 --> 00:26:05.910
man on the train saw them throw something out at Adana.
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00:26:07.089 --> 00:26:08.289
They hardly threw themselves out.
594
00:26:08.369 --> 00:26:11.410
No, we did that. Your man at Haida Pasha tipped
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me off to expect trouble. Really? So they were agents.
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00:26:14.250 --> 00:26:15.490
Certainly they were spies.
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I knew that.
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No Greek would be fat like Chiniara after only one
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week escape from the Germans.
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And no Greek would have hair oil from Paris.
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Well, that being the case, will somebody start telling the truth?
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I will. This mild little gentleman, knowing nothing of the
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war and fighting, he kills you two men in a gunfight. Like,
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how do you say, nobody business. And now, please, He
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00:26:46.079 --> 00:26:49.039
is still suffering from shock, so will you please give
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him a plane direct to Cairo where he can rest?
607
00:26:52.380 --> 00:26:56.759
And this American courier, he is late with dispatches. He
608
00:26:56.819 --> 00:27:00.769
must have a place in the plane too. And since
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00:27:01.160 --> 00:27:05.829
I cannot enter Syria without the passport, will you please
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00:27:06.089 --> 00:27:08.789
put me also on the plane? Because in Cairo I
611
00:27:08.829 --> 00:27:10.750
can get a job as nurse with the Ela Greeks
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from Macedonia who are there, and.
613
00:27:13.670 --> 00:27:15.970
And maybe God will then give me a way to
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go to America like he passed St. Paul through the
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tourist gates. Is it a deal, Major? Three places on
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the first plane and you have your men like the
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Royal Canadian Houses, only dead.
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00:27:31.859 --> 00:27:32.019
Hmm.
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Plane could be arranged, of course, if.
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All right, Mr.
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Ward.
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Tell him.
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Tell him.
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With the eyes of that amazing girl on me, my
625
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courage came back. I told him my story. Completely. Every detail.
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He listened carefully, took it all down on his pad.
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And afterwards he said.
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That story, Mr. Ward, is not one bit of evidence
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to support it. By your own statements, the evidence of
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the day is buried in the snow on the slopes
631
00:27:57.299 --> 00:27:58.140
of the Taurus Mountains.
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Nuts! I tell you, I helped Chuck it out.
633
00:27:59.660 --> 00:28:02.859
And I examined the two men. I am a trained nurse,
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and I said they were dead.
635
00:28:04.720 --> 00:28:08.069
And for identification, I, a soldier of Macedonia, can swear
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that their passports were the men you say.
637
00:28:11.630 --> 00:28:12.009
Very well.
638
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I'll ring the adrum. The evidence of three good witnesses
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is sufficient.
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Escape, produced by William N. Robeson and directed by Norman MacDonald.
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Today brought you Three Good Witnesses by Harold Lamb, adapted
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for radio by John Dunkel, with Morgan Farley as Humphrey Ward,
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Jack Webb as Tom Hatfield, Janet Nolan as Mary the Deadhead,
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Harry Bartell as Kevorkian, with Barton Yarborough and Jack Crucian.
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Music was conceived by Cy Feuer with Eddie Dunstetter at
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the console. Next week.
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You are alone in Paris, unable to speak the language,
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unable to cope with the gigantic conspiracy which seeks to
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convince you that you are mad. You know you are
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the victim of a plot from which there is no escape.
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Next week... We escape with Alexander Wolcott's version of a
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modern folk tale. The Vanishing Lady. Goodbye, then, until this
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same time next week, when again we offer you Escape.
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This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. This has been Escape,
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episode 4801, with three good witnesses.
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