:28:04
.. the gospel of gold.
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So now the question arises...
:28:10
.. how you become powerful.
:28:13
I mean, you... personally powerful.
:28:15
Cigar?
:28:19
Yes, thank you.
:28:23
The answer is simple.
:28:26
The answer...
:28:28
.. is information.
:28:30
Information is the modern commodity...
:28:33
.. that can shake the world.
:28:36
And I happen to know...
:28:38
.. it's well within your grasp.
:28:44
And you believed what he said?
:28:46
Certainly.
:28:49
I believed it then and I believe it now.
:28:54
You've never been poor.
:28:57
You've never known what ambition is.
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Go on.
:29:02
Well, by now, Lord Radley
was a Cabinet minister...
:29:05
.. and, as the Baron well knew,
I was working as his personal secretary.
:29:10
One night, as usual,
I was the last to leave the office.
:29:22
Later that evening,
I wrote the Baron a letter...
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.. containing
highly confidential information,...
:29:29
.. highly valuable information
regarding the financing of the Suez Canal.
:29:34
- A Cabinet secret?
- Indeed.
:29:38
In a subsequent transaction,...
:29:40
.. the Baron made for himself
three quarters of a million pounds.
:29:44
And you?
:29:47
I received from the Baron £110,000.
:29:54
You were worth more, Robert.
:29:56
No. No, no.
:29:58
I got exactly what I wanted.