Third Man on the Mountain Page #2

I'd be pleased to take you.

But thank you.

You'd be better off with me

than that plate scraper.

Oh, you worry about me too much, Klaus.

Rudi hasn't invited me yet.

But if he should...

Hey, Lizbeth, wait.

Good evening, Herr Lerner.

I hear the great Captain Winter's in Kurtal,

asking questions about the Citadel.

- Every man has his weakness.

- Yes, and it's usually in his head.

Franz is coming this way.

What are you going to tell him?

You need practice. You tell him something.

- Evening, Lizbeth.

- Evening, Herr Lerner.

Teo. Where's the boy? Evening, Gretchen.

- You mean Rudi?

- Who else?

Well, as you can see, he isn't here.

I sent him on an errand.

Everything all right, then?

Behaving himself?

Oh, well enough.

I just thought I'd drop in.

Herr Lerner, will you tell your sister

I'm sorry she's sick?

- Who said my sister was sick?

- Didn't you say so?

- Isn't that why Rudi...

- You interfering little...!

So, it's that again!

And you, Teo,

encouraging and defending him.

- One lie piled on top of another.

- I always lie to nosy women.

- You lied to me.

- Who are you to expect privileges?

Oh, Teo, Herr Lerner, so much bother

about a few unwashed dishes.

It's a question of principle.

This is where the boy works.

Why do you always call him "the boy"

as if he were a piece of furniture?

Because he is a boy

and this is where he belongs.

- Because you say so?

- You agreed to keep out of this.

I have, and I intend to.

But it'll all be the same in the end.

It isn't in the Matt blood

to be locked up in a kitchen.

One day that blood's going to boil up,

and you won't be able to stop it any more

than you can... How did you say it?

Any more than you can bottle up the wind.

Bottle up the wind? There's something

going on behind my back.

Now, stop roaring! Do you want Herr

Hempel to think I'm stewing a live bull?

Tell me, what are you in the village, Rudi?

An apprentice guide?

- No, sir.

- What, then?

- I'm a dishwasher.

- The son of Josef Matt?

I take the path, sir,

but first I must ask you a favor.

Will you not tell anyone you saw me?

Not tell anyone? After what happened

today? Why, you're too modest, Rudi.

Please, sir. If my mother and uncle knew,

I would be in great trouble.

- All right, I'll see you don't get into trouble.

- Thank you.

You know, Franz,

perhaps if you spoke to Herr Hempel,

Rudi could work in another part

of the hotel, away from Old Teo.

What's the good? There'd still be Lizbeth.

Mm. It's been on my mind

to speak to Lizbeth.

And risk offending Herr Hempel? No, llse.

Leave her out of it.

Summer will come, the boy will go to

Zrich for his training in the business.

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