Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Page #5

'So the second night

I went to the import/ export outfit

'that Tufty had set up with

a cipher room hidden in the back.

'I cabled "No sale" to Mr Guillam.

'And that was that.'

You were due

to fly home the next day.

Yes.

But you didn't.

'Boris had a wife.

'Common-law.

'Apparently she was a member

of the delegation in her own right.

'You once told me to trust my instincts

about women, Mr Smiley.

'Well, my instincts told me

this woman had some treasure.

'When Boris went out for the night,

I found myself going into her hotel.'

'So you dropped Boris.'

'I know.

It was breaking protocol.

'But I was acting on my own initiative,

as it were. '

Your man's a bit of a bastard, isn't he?

I just wanted to mak e sure

you were all right, OK?

'So you didn't come home? '

I would have.

Boris was a dead end, but...

Um...

I could...

I could sense something in her.

A secret.

And how did you intend

to get this secret out of her?

'I played this businessman,

Michael Trench.

'Holiday romance.'

'I thought I'd tak e my time with it.'

I know who you are.

I want to talk to your boss.

Control.

I have something to trade.

Something big.

I want a new life in the West.

That's the deal.

You tell them.

Look, you can't expect them

to jump at every offer of service.

If you won't tell me more,

there is nothing I can do.

If I tell you everything,

I'm putting my life in your hands.

And the lives of other people.

'So she told me

what she had to trade.

'Her secret.

'I mean,

'the mother of all secrets.

'I told her I'd alert the Circus.

'She made me promise I wouldn't

give any of the details to London.'

'And you agreed? '

'Yes.

'I mean it was...

'I couldn't believe

I'd got hold of something this big.

'I went back to the import/ export,

'sent the message to the Circus,

graded, "Flash, highest priority",

'just that I had a Moscow-trained hood

wanting to defect.'

You're supposed to have gone.

London stations have been on to me.

Want to know what the hell you're doing.

F*** off.

'Anything else, Ricki? '

I know what I am to the Circus.

I'm one of the scalp-hunters,

someone that you can hand

your dirty little jobs to.

I just...

I just wanted to bring

this one in myself.

Well, I understand how you felt.

You wanted to do something.

Vital to the safeguarding of the Circus.

Anything more?

I said that she had information

concerning a double agent.

Look, I just wanted to get

the proper attention. And I'd...

I told them this was the reason

why I had not come home.

It wasn't that I'd defected or anything.

- What did you do then?

- I waited for a reply.

'I hung around for hours.

I heard the lmsak call to prayer.

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