:27:07
How goes the experiment, Hasselbacher?
:27:09
- Is the cheese still blue?
- I dream all goes well.
:27:12
Reality in our century
is not something to be faced.
:27:15
You've never felt the need for money.
But then you have no child.
:27:19
Soon, my dear Mr. Wormold,
you will have no child, either.
:27:23
The other day,
I was offered money to get information.
:27:27
What sort of information?
:27:29
Secret information.
:27:32
You are a very lucky man, Mr. Wormold.
:27:35
That sort of information
is always easy to give.
:27:38
If it is secret enough, you alone know it.
:27:42
All you need is a little imagination.
:27:45
Have you never read advertisements
of secret remedies?
:27:48
A hair tonic confided by the dying chief
of a Red Indian tribe?
:27:53
There's something about a secret
that makes people believe.
:27:56
But they want me to recruit agents.
How does one recruit an agent?
:28:01
You invent them, too, Mr. Wormold.
:28:03
- Have you ever heard of a book code?
- Don't tell me too much.
:28:07
Do you think I should invent
and take their money?
:28:10
They have no money except what they take
in taxes from men like you and me.
:28:16
As long as you invent, you do no harm.
:28:20
- And they don't deserve the truth.
- They?
:28:23
Kingdoms, republics, principalities, powers.
:28:46
Today at the country club,
I made contact with a Mr. Cifuentes...
:28:49
an engineer who has wide knowledge
of harbour installations...
:28:52
and all naval activities.
:28:54
He will be expensive to recruit,
but should prove most useful.
:28:58
Unfortunately,
my approaches were observed...