:05:03
Please, sit down.
:05:05
What do I get?
My palm read or my horoscope?
:05:07
Let us use cards, Mr. Taylor.
Let us place them face up on the table.
:05:12
In this case,
an imitation crystal ball.
:05:16
I'll listen
for a while.
:05:19
At the present time, young man,
I am nothing more than a small-time chiseler.
:05:23
I say this frankly and bitterly
because I do not wish to be a small-time chiseler.
:05:28
It's a humiliating position.
:05:30
Still, it's better than being an honest man,
which I would find intolerable.
:05:33
I was once a great thief
and a magnificent scoundrel.
:05:36
I had my reverses.
Who has not?
:05:39
And I will omit the story of my descent
to my present squalid condition.
:05:42
It would only bore you
and incriminate me.
:05:47
I waited and worked day and night
for a chance to come back.
:05:51
Three years ago
I had that chance in my hands.
:05:55
I had-
:05:57
Name a fantastic sum of money,
Mr. Taylor.
:06:01
Two million dollars.
:06:03
You've put one of your cards
alongside mine.
:06:06
Thank you.
:06:08
As my hands closed on it,
the money disappeared like that.
:06:12
And with it,
a Mr. Larry Cravat.
:06:15
So, understand my position.
:06:18
For three years
I have lived in this stink...
:06:22
waiting for some hope,
some word.
:06:25
And yesterday it came.
:06:28
From a Turkish bath,
from a nightclub.
:06:31
I approached you.
You were reluctant.
:06:33
You wouldn't say
why you were looking for him.
:06:37
You didn't know
why he wrote to you...
:06:39
why the $5,000 deposit-
not even where he was.
:06:42
Mr. Taylor, I had to make you understand
that there was nothing I would not do...
:06:46
to find Larry Cravat!
:06:48
I got the idea.
I understood it the second time I passed out.
:06:51
But I can't help you, Anzelmo. I don't know
any other answers than the ones I gave.
:06:55
That I do not believe.
:06:58
Is this where we send for Hubert
and his rubber shillelagh?