"It's one of the entrances to the main sewer."

"And anyone can go down?"

"Anyone."

"How far can one go?"

"Right across Vienna. People used them in air raids: some of our prisoners hid for two years down there. Deserters have used them—and burglars. If you know your way about you can emerge again almost anywhere in the city through a manhole or a kiosk like this one. The Austrians have to have special police for patrolling these sewers." I closed the door of the kiosk again. I said, "So that's how your friend Harry disappeared."

"You really believe it was Harry?"

"The evidence points that way."

"Then whom did they bury?"

"I don't know yet, but we soon shall, because we are digging him up again. I've got a shrewd idea, though, that Koch wasn't the only inconvenient man they murdered."

Martins said, "It's a bit of a shock."

"Yes."

"What are you going to do about it?"

"I don't know. You can bet he's hiding out now in another zone. We have no line now on Kurtz, for Harbin's blown—he must have been blown or they wouldn't have staged that mock death and funeral."

"But it's odd, isn't it, that Koch didn't recognize the dead man's face from the window."

"The window was a long way up and I expect the face had been damaged before they took the body out of the car."

He said thoughtfully (он сказал задумчиво), "I wish I could speak to him (хотел бы я поговорить с ним). You see (понимаете), there's so much I simply can't believe (есть так много того, чему я просто не могу поверить)."

"Perhaps you are the only one who could speak to him (возможно, вы единственный человек, кто мог бы поговорить с ним). It's risky though (это, впрочем, рискованно), because you do know too much (потому что вы действительно знаете слишком много)."

"I still can't believe (я все еще не могу поверить)... I only saw the face for a moment (я только видел это лицо один момент)." He said, "What shall I do (что я должен делать)?"

"He won't leave his zone now (он не покинет свою зону теперь). The only person who could persuade him to come over would be you (единственный человек, который мог бы убедить его перейти на другую сторону: «прийти через», были бы вы)—or her (или она), if he still believes you are his friend (если он все еще верит, что вы его друг). But first you've got to speak to him (но сперва вы должны поговорить с ним). I can't see the line (я не могу видеть нить: «линию»)."

"I could go and see Kurtz (я мог бы пойти и встретиться с Куртцем). I have the address (у меня есть адрес)."

I said, "Remember (помните). Lime may not want you to leave the Russian zone when once you are there (Лайм может не захотеть, чтобы вы покидали русскую зону, когда вы там окажетесь: «когда один раз вы есть там»), and I can't protect you there (и я не могу защитить вас там)."

"I want to clear the whole damned thing up (я хочу прояснить все это: «это целое» проклятое дело)," Martins said, "but I'm not going to act as a decoy (но я не собираюсь действовать как приманка; decoy — приманка; манок /для птиц/; западня, ловушка). I’ll talk to him (я поговорю с ним). That's all (это все = и на этом все)."

thoughtfully ['TO:tfulI], persuade [pq'sweId], protect [prq'tekt], decoy [dI'kOI]

He said thoughtfully, "I wish I could speak to him.