Shanghai Express Page #5

on that, do you?

- I never bet with gamblers.

- I didn't think you did.

What is your business, Mr Baum?

I've a coal mine near Calcutta.

A bankrupt coal mine.

You have no coal mine.

According to papers found in your luggage,

you deal in opium

and have shipped 12,000 pounds of it

into China in the last year.

You are wrong. I deal only in coal.

I don't traffic in forbidden merchandise.

Do you know that a Chinaman

dealing in opium is penalised by death?

You can't shoot me. I'll pay a fine.

I can explain everything.

Here. Here, here!

I am not punishing you for dealing in opium

but for your insolence to me on the train.

What's the matter, has he fainted?

- They branded him.

- Branded him?

- I'll get oil from the train.

- I need my bag.

He shouldn't have made this journey.

Major Lenard.

Qu'est-ce qu'il y a? Je ne comprends rien.

- Does anyone understand French?

- Yes, I do.

- Come up here with him, please.

- Alors, il faut que je monte l haut?

You took the very words

out of my mouth, brother.

Let me see your passports. Sit down.

How long have you been

in the French army?

20 years. 20 years, mademoiselle.

Your passport says nothing

about your military rank.

Je ne comprends pas.

Il dit que votre passeport ne mentionne pas

que voue tes dans I'arme.

J'ai demissionn.

Then why does he wear that uniform?

Pourquoi portez-vous I'uniforme?

Je vais voir ma soeur. Si elle se doutait

que j'ai t chass de I'arme

ce serait pour elle un tel chagrin...

He's going to visit his sister and he doesn't

want her to know about his disgrace.

- You may go.

- Merci, monsieur.

- Merci, mademoiselle.

- Merci de quoi?

Have you any wealthy or influential friends?

No, I have no friends at all.

Why are you going to Shanghai?

I want to buy a new hat.

I warn you, this is a very serious matter.

- Where will you live in Shanghai?

- Grand Hotel.

How can you afford to live

at such an expensive hotel?

- How long were you in Peiping?

- Eight weeks.

- And before that?

- In Shanghai.

- How long were you there?

- Just between trains.

I make the trip quite often.

How long have you been in China?

About eight years.

Parents living?

They have forgotten me. It's just as well.

- Of course, you're not married?

- No.

All I managed was to become engaged.

Will you please come with me?

- You're not going to go upstairs, are you?

- I most certainly am.

Captain Harvey, tell him that the worid

will be informed of this outrage.

Mr Carmichael, I shall do my very best

to convey that to him.

Captain Harvey, may I see your passport?

Who are you? I'm a British officer

and I demand to know

by what right you're treating us

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