Return to Vienna (1971)
“But there was no intention, Ilse remarked sarcastically, of putting me to any more inconvenience than was necessary. A maid would be around, the hefty girl who’d attended to me before, and if I needed anything, I was to ring the small handbell they gave me.
In a desperate playing for time I had made them a wild, hopeless promise. I’d agreed that tomorrow I would take them to where the Kutani Scrolls were hidden.
Slumped in a small basketwork chair, staring around despondently, I wondered how I ...could have been so completely out of my mind. I knew nothing whatever about these scrolls, and hadn’t the least idea where they might be hidden, if indeed they were hidden at all. It was a painful twist of irony that my apparent eagerness to bargain with the Hellwegs had convinced them of Max’s treachery. They now believed that, contrary to what he’d told them, he had been successful in smuggling these valuable manuscripts out of Hungary, from a wartime cache of the Nazis.
According to Leopold, when Max returned from his last trip behind the Iron Curtain he reported that he had failed in his mission and would have to try again.MoreLess
In a desperate playing for time I had made them a wild, hopeless promise. I’d agreed that tomorrow I would take them to where the Kutani Scrolls were hidden.
Slumped in a small basketwork chair, staring around despondently, I wondered how I ...could have been so completely out of my mind. I knew nothing whatever about these scrolls, and hadn’t the least idea where they might be hidden, if indeed they were hidden at all. It was a painful twist of irony that my apparent eagerness to bargain with the Hellwegs had convinced them of Max’s treachery. They now believed that, contrary to what he’d told them, he had been successful in smuggling these valuable manuscripts out of Hungary, from a wartime cache of the Nazis.
According to Leopold, when Max returned from his last trip behind the Iron Curtain he reported that he had failed in his mission and would have to try again.MoreLess
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