Английский язык с Грэмом Грином. Третий человек

"I don't know (я не знаю). You can bet he's hiding out now in another zone (можно поспорить, что он прячется теперь в другой зоне; to hide out — прятаться). We have no line now on Kurtz (у нас нет теперь никакой информации о Куртце), for Harbin's blown (потому что Харбин был выдан /раскрыт/; to blow — дуть; осведомлять, доносить; распространять /слухи и т. п./)—he must have been blown (он должен был быть выдан) or they wouldn't have staged that mock death and funeral (или они бы не инсценировали эту поддельную смерть и похороны)."

"But it's odd (но это есть странно), isn't it (не так ли), that Koch didn't recognize the dead man's face from the window (что Кох не узнал лицо мертвого человека из окна)."

"The window was a long way up (окно было высоко) and I expect the face had been damaged (и я полагаю, что лицо было изуродовано; to expect — ожидать; to damage — повреждать, портить) before they took the body out of the car (прежде чем они вытащили тело из машины)."

stir [stq:], neighbourhood ['neIbqhud], district ['dIstrIkt], notice ['nqutIs], staircase ['steqkeIs], sewer ['sjuq], prisoner ['prIznq], burglar ['bq:glq], emerge [I'mq:G], special ['speS(q)l], inconvenient ["Inkqn'vi:nIqnt], damage ['dxmIG], body ['bOdI]

I didn't want to make a fuss and stir in the neighbourhood with a police car, so we took trams—several trams, changing here and there, and came into the district on foot. I didn't wear my uniform, and I doubted anyway after the failure of the attempt on Anna, whether they would risk a watcher. "This is the turning," Martins said and led me down a side street. We stopped at the kiosk. "You see he passed behind here and simply vanished—into the ground."

"That was exactly where he did vanish to," I said.

"How do you mean?"

An ordinary passer-by would never have noticed that the kiosk had a door, and of course it had been dark when the man disappeared. I pulled the door open and showed to Martins the little curling iron staircase that disappeared into the ground. He said, "Good God, then I didn't imagine him ..."

"It's one of the entrances to the main sewer."

"And anyone can go down?"

"Anyone."

"How far can one go?"

"Right across Vienna. People used them in air raids: some of our prisoners hid for two years down there. Deserters have used them—and burglars. If you know your way about you can emerge again almost anywhere in the city through a manhole or a kiosk like this one. The Austrians have to have special police for patrolling these sewers." I closed the door of the kiosk again. I said, "So that's how your friend Harry disappeared."

"You really believe it was Harry?"

"The evidence points that way."

"Then whom did they bury?"

"I don't know yet, but we soon shall, because we are digging him up again. I've got a shrewd idea, though, that Koch wasn't the only inconvenient man they murdered."

Martins said, "It's a bit of a shock."

"Yes."

"What are you going to do about it?"

"I don't know. You can bet he's hiding out now in another zone. We have no line now on Kurtz, for Harbin's blown—he must have been blown or they wouldn't have staged that mock death and funeral."

"But it's odd, isn't it, that Koch didn't recognize the dead man's face from the window."

"The window was a long way up and I expect the face had been damaged before they took the body out of the car."

He said thoughtfully (он сказал задумчиво), "I wish I could speak to him (хотел бы я поговорить с ним). You see (понимаете), there's so much I simply can't believe (есть так много того, чему я просто не могу поверить)."

"Perhaps you are the only one who could speak to him (возможно, вы единственный человек, кто мог бы поговорить с ним). It's risky though (это, впрочем, рискованно), because you do know too much (потому что вы действительно знаете слишком много)."

"I still can't believe (я все еще не могу поверить)... I only saw the face for a moment (я только видел это лицо один момент)." He said, "What shall I do (что я должен делать)?"

"He won't leave his zone now (он не покинет свою зону теперь). The only person who could persuade him to come over would be you (единственный человек, который мог бы убедить его перейти на другую сторону: «прийти через», были бы вы)—or her (или она), if he still believes you are his friend (если он все еще верит, что вы его друг). But first you've got to speak to him (но сперва вы должны поговорить с ним). I can't see the line (я не могу видеть нить: «линию»)."

"I could go and see Kurtz (я мог бы пойти и встретиться с Куртцем). I have the address (у меня есть адрес)."

I said, "Remember (помните). Lime may not want you to leave the Russian zone when once you are there (Лайм может не захотеть, чтобы вы покидали русскую зону, когда вы там окажетесь: «когда один раз вы есть там»), and I can't protect you there (и я не могу защитить вас там)."