Exodus Page #6

For the money we pay,

every ship cannot be the Queen Mary.

Can this abortion make it to Palestine?

On my mother's honour, she has made 300 trips...

...from Cyprus to Turkey under her last owner.

That's just the trouble.

We can hold her together for one more round.

I want a loudspeaker system aboard.

Get me a power unit

and six Almec-Thorston speakers.

There is no such equipment for sale in Cyprus.

If you can't buy it, steal it.

Stock it with provisions for five days.

- For a two-day trip?

- Five days.

All prepared foods, either canned or packaged.

The most expensive, naturally.

- Have you got my jeep yet?

- I told you, it's impossible.

A jeep is out of the question, absolutely.

- Need someone to overhaul the engine tank?

- No, my gang can take care of that.

- Mr. Mandria?

- Yes?

What about that jeep there?

That belongs to His Beatitude...

...the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Cyprus.

Steal it. Paint it. Hide it till I'm ready for it.

The water's wonderful.

May I have another swim before my steak?

Just once more,

because we're due back at the camp.

- Is that the girl?

- Yes.

Swims just like an American.

- loll buy you a drink if you'll forget that joke.

- I just had one.

She is nice.

Would it be too difficult to arrange

for me to take her back to America?

Not from our end.

We'd be glad to let them all go.

So long as they don't end up in Palestine.

Let me know when you've decided.

loll get Maj. Caldwell to arrange it for you.

Thank you.

Karen.

Coming.

Would you like to go to America?

Of course. Everybody likes to go to America.

Then you will go.

loll cancel the rest of my trip,

and loll take you with me.

And you can go to school there,

and later on to the university.

And if you like it, and want to,

you can become an American citizen.

You mean, go right away?

Perhaps. In the next week or two.

Meanwhile, I may be able to get you out of camp.

loll speak to the general tonight.

- What's the matter?

- Nothing.

You do want to go, don't you?

Yes, but I mean...

I must think about it a little.

- What is there to think about?

- I don't know.

But it's so important, and I need a little time.

You know, to think.

Take all the time you wish.

- Kitty?

- Yes?

- Don't be mad at me.

- Of course not.

It's getting late. You better finish your steak.

Fine thing, what you want to do for Karen.

She told you?

She is worried about her father.

I didn't know that her father was alive.

When Karen was six,

he smuggled her out of Germany to Denmark.

After the war she went back to find her parents.

The Jewish Agency had records of the dead.

She found her mother on the Dachau list...

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