"Do you have all the letters you need?" "No, I need more s's." "Find more of them." "Here's the manuscript of the new proclamation." " Let me see." "Is "Proclamation" the new headline?" ""Proclamation!" and subtitle:" ""To the Finnish people."" "P..." "R..." "O..." "Not that long..." "There's no mention about the war against Japan." "I don't find it necessary." "People can't take in too long epistles." "Who wrote it?" "Don't ask too many questions!" "The whole batch is now finished." "Here's the new proclamation." "It will only be distributed to functionaries." "You edit a provincial newspaper, right?" " That's true." "I'll take the western district." "I'll take the rest." "I'll take one to the censor." "Then the senators get their copy, as well." "Damn it, my shoes are too small,   and now I have to run around as messenger of liberty." "Every novelty has a price." "Suffer, son, as Job once suffered." "But there were no czars nor gendarmes in Job's age." "Bye then, lads." "Isn't it time people had more in their hands than mere paper?" " Who is it?" " I, of course!" "Open quicker, you knew it was me." "There's porridge in your brains, lil'Manja.." "How could I have known it was you." "Let us assume it had been someone else." "Let us assume the Governor-General himself had wanted to pay a visit." "Oh you madwoman!" "Do you want to wake the whole house up?" "Why would you undress before I have lowered the blinds?" "Now you got yourself going!" "This is no job for a gentleman!" "It's getting on my nerves." "So what?" ""So what?"" "They haven't climbed up here yet, but   you never can tell when it's our turn." "This has to stop." "I need to think of my nerves and health." "You?" "!" "You need think of your nerves and health?" "All you've done is sit home smoking cigars and pocketing the money!" "What about me?" "I have to slink and..." "What's the problem with you?" "Why so cock-eyed?" "Why berate me with nasty words?" "Is it because I've had bad luck as of late?" "One mustn't abandon ones friends in need." "It shows bad character." "In this case it means stupidity, too." "And you're not stupid, lil' Manja." "Far from it." "You know that if I ever happen to fall, " " I always land on my feet." "What's there for you to wail about, really?" "These affairs are pure delight to me!" "So go on, mister, and tell me what to do." "Smile a little." "The weapons aren't reserved for ourselves." "We must find the men who want to blow up the czardom." "And you need to look for the kids playing with pieces of paper." "Do you think it's so easy." "Not at all." "It's hard for anyone but you." "You can sniff out their trail." "Maybe I already know something!" "What did you say?" "Why the meeting?" "Robert has lost his notebook." "What the hell!" "Goodbye freedom!" "There's not much on anyone but Robert." "Right, there's nothing much but a simple list of names." "First thing we must do is to empty the attic." "And you must think about leaving the country." "I don't think Robert should go to the passport bureau." " Of course not." "Madame Johansson takes better care of it better than any imperial office." "No, young man, it's no small potatoes." "You need machines to make passports, and ours have been disposed of." "A Russian guy used to make them in Constantins Street, - but he was caught and died in prison." "Once he left a stapling machine in the attic, and it's still there." "Late Popovsky left a widow and a child." "They came here complaining, when the police had searched the rooms - and all that was left was cockroach poison in the corners." "I can't believe it's that difficult." "You can get me a passport, if you really try." "If you get caught for it, Siberia is not enough, - when the gendarmes torture you." "They made a Mr. Lindström, who smuggled forbidden papers to gents, go mad." "Then there was a Mr. Nieminen,   who made bombs filled with nails from horseshoes, - and killed a gendarme's horse." "They tore his limbs in their torture chambers." "That was when I decided to quit those things." "I thought:" "I shall keep my skin, whoever rules in Finland." "And limbs healthy..." "Even though there's such a draft here in the cellar nowadays..." "I'm aching in the nights..." "When do you need it?" "The day after tomorrow, at the latest." "And make its date the 23rd of last month." "23rd..." "I need a photograph." "It's just the cuckoos calling." "The cuckoos of honour." "Good day." "I don't want to disturb if you aren't finished yet." "I'll just look at these." "Look all you want." "All right then, if they haven't yet come, I'll come back in a few days." "You can't get any better elsewhere." " Goodbye." " Goodbye." "You don't warm this place up too much, Mme. Johansson." "You've started getting pretty suspicious visitors lately." "See..." "I've started getting quite uneasy coming to your shack." "You're being watched, Mme. Johansson." "You said it, this place is under surveillance." "Have you gotten any tobacco?" "Nowadays all you can keep in stores is poorly flammable and low quality narrow-stemmed and difficult to inhale." "This is all I have." "Should we number the parts?" "Just grab it..." "Don't play with firearms!" "Who are you?" "I mean to help you." "We tend not to use outside help." "I thought you'd be bored with your scraps of paper." "Now you are heroes." "But first you are childish enough   to write the exact address of your society in a notebook!" "Aatos Salminen." "Lennart Holm." "Gösta Skog." "Väinö Alajärvi." "Bruno Kuoppala." "Bombs don't grow on trees and guns don't fall from the sky." "I've played a fine game to get them in my cabinet." "I believe you, but " " I don't understand why you don't name the price." " A cigar?" "You can reason better while smoking." "No thanks." "Have you perhaps had offers from other quarters?" "Who'd have weapons for sale in this country?" "But now we must have arms and bombs, at any price!" "Did you say "at any price"?" "Yes I did." "You know that Russia could explode any time!" "For example when more news come from the Japanese front." "There's nothing new in it for Manja." "You two seem like old acquaintances." "Mr. Hedman's comrades told us to speak informally." "So as not to appear suspicious." "All right, Mr. Hedman, before you start worrying again, " " I hope to hand you a modest surprise." "What would you say, if I, in addition to everything else,   had acquired a cute little machine gun,   and if it were lying around there in my closet.." "What?" "!" "Are you wealthy?" "Son of a rich family?" "No!" "Quite the opposite after my father's death." "I don't understand..." "I apologize, but you have such a way of talking about money." "Money means nothing!" "Money is air, sand, wood shavings!" "It's a blessing to possess such a facility, or whatever you call it,   but I don't have it." "What's the price, machine guns and all?" "!" "Please don't shout." "The walls have ears, as the saying goes." "Please sit calmly." "Not possible!" " Not only is it possible, it is reality." "Let us assume that I haven't accepted the risks for free." "What risk is there for you?" "You are a foreign subject!" "That's where I'm lucky." "I don't think I should be punished for it." "You can just as well set the price at a million if it pleases you." "We'll ignore the offer." "We can't get rid of each other just like that." "You'll avoid a lot of trouble if you get the money to me by Thursday." "I'll return from my trip to Turku then, and if the issue still isn't cleared, " "I'll send a little anonymous letter." "Blackmailer!" "Informer!" "The boy is playing musketeer..." "That's the age when you dream of heroic stories and act courageous." "Do you understand me, Mme. Johansson?" "Let be boys play, there's no harm..." "You haven't been reading historical novels, but   these lads have, and it's getting to their heads." "Hedman isn't the only one, there's a whole Indian tribe of them." "Here's what I said to myself: " ""You'll skim the cream off this detective-playing, and - the only one who can aid you is Mme. Johansson."" "Who could it be?" "You again?" "I came to ask if you have any slingshots." "They haven't come yet." "I guessed as much." "But there were slingshots at Nylund's." "Check this out!" "They follow modern business principles in running their scrap business." "How are we to collect the cream from the boys?" "The boys' fathers will join our side." "But it has a price." "And they'll pay gladly if we set the boys up for   a little ambush." "I'm having none of it if you're planning to hand him to the gendarmes." "Not at all!" "We won't give him to the gendarmes." "We won't put anyone in prison." "We are two of the nicest people in the world." "Our hearts are made of gold." "If your heart is golden, there must be gold in every backyard." "It's a wee prank we're talking about here." "We'll show a corner of the passport to Hedman's uncle." "You'll see that he'll pay us to not give the boy's name to the gendarmes." "You have Robert Hedman's passport,   with which we can work miracles." "I have my own rules of play,   and if our cards don't match we'd better forget about it." "Hand me the passport, now!" "No way!" "I don't have time to play cat-and-mouse with you all day!" "It's either your skin or mine." "You won't get very far, behaving like that!" "I don't know whence you came here" " I suppose you have covered your tracks..." "But I know where scavengers like you end up." "There are so many others like you that they'd block the sun if they got loose." "I've been watching you for a while,   and I've noticed that " " you ain't too bad a crook." "Worse ones come here." "But after you start playing dirty, I'll say that   you should keep your hands off the affairs of us respectable people." "Excuse me,   but I couldn't find you." " Want to come in?" "Have a seat, please." "I had trouble recognizing you." "You have changed in some way." "You mean these clothes." "My walking around in that large coat wasn't exactly voluntary." "It was just for the guns, as I..." "Why do you stare at me like that?" "I don't know   whether you are mixed in something unpleasant." "I mean, if you   if Mr Claësson and you..." "If we're in cahoots?" "If we'd agreed on a high price and blackmail?" "I see..." "You couldn't have known that." "Well, oh my God..." "In any case, it was the most obscene experience of my life." "How on earth can you stand a person like that?" "I have decided to leave him on several occasions." "But I haven't been able to follow through on it." "I need help from outside." "I already thought help had come." "Why did you come?" "I came to ask what you're going to do about the guns." "Nothing, absolutely nothing!" "Did you think I'd let that snide blackmailer   profit from the people's suffering?" "We need guns and bombs." "And we'll get them!" "That means going abroad for them, though." "And that takes too long." "Are you going to ignore it?" "I'm not insane!" "If I give a blackmailer my finger, he'll take the whole hand." "Don't you understand he meant what he said?" "I simply don't believe it." "I tell you he'll turn you in if he doesn't get the money by the set date." "I bet my head on it." "And you came to warn me?" "It's getting late and gloomy." "Hold on for a moment." "I want to see your view." "It must be beautiful." "What will become of you?" "A lawyer." "A judicial trainee, and eventually a judge." "And then you'll judge people?" "Naturally." "To death, perhaps?" "No, it is always reduced to hard labour." "That's good to hear." "There's not much to see, but if you feel like it..." "This must be your mother." "That's right." "That's not your sister." "No, it isn't." "And I haven't any sisters." "She must be the prettiest girl in Porvoo or Loviisa." "Or Hämeenlinna!" "How'd you guess it?" "The picture is taken in Helsinki." "My dear friend, it's the hairstyle!" "And the dress!" "The best seamstress in Hämeenlinna." "Buttons and ribbons, for many a mark." "She looks... very pretty, your little sweetheart." "She's not my sweetheart." "Sure, you just had no other place for the photo." "And so you put it on your desk." "I really don't know..." "It could just as well be in the drawer." "Let me have it." "Is this Turku?" "So and so..." "But it'll be all right." "I've thrown lines and hooks." "Fish should bite soon." "I'd like to come tomorrow." "Good..." "Wait a minute, I'll get paper." "Just a minute." "Hello?" "So it was... 2, 3, - 6, 715." "Fine, fine." "Bye, see you." "Don't worry, she'll come eventually." "It's taken too long." "It takes more than a blink of an eye to buy a load of weapons." "Besides, I sense she's coming this way." " So you came." " Did it go well?" "No, it was a waste of time." "Surely an ammunitions belt isn't enough to overthrow the throne." "There was no way to get more than this." "I told you that the weapons issue must be handled from outside the country." "Somebody must travel out sooner or later." "Wouldn't Johnny Claëssons weapons be enough to tide you over for a while?" "What are you aiming at, miss?" "I've been thinking..." "Since the guns are indispensable to you,   and he doesn't want to part with them for a reasonable price,   why don't you just take them?" "But Mr Claësson?" "What should we do with him?" "Should we strike him dead?" "I can see no other way." "We only have to find out   whether he leaves for Turku today or tomorrow." "These will take care of the rest." "Open the latch!" "Whom do you want to meet?" "Tell Robert Hedman that his mother is here." "Wait, there's a stain on your back." "How did you like mom?" "She was such a nice girl." "Anything new on the Claësson front?" "Surely Atte will let us know." "Isn't Atte there now?" "That's right." "I'm afraid he could attack Claësson and keep him from leaving." "Boys are probably getting tired of waiting." "We aren't in much of a hurry,   because Robert's family is visiting." "Don't you understand how much trouble you might cause your uncle?" "I have the right to do as I please   without asking my uncle's permission." "When they find out that his nephew is in a conspiracy against the throne,   his official position will be untenable." "He'll be all right." "He'll just bow to the Governor-General   even deeper than before." " It isn't true." "We owe him a lot." "After your dear father's death he has given us plentiful support." "I know, I know..." "Don't awaken his fury." "I don't want to be dependent of him." "I have already given up one of my maids   to be able to send you your monthly allowance." "If your uncle reclaimed that which is rightfully his,   we'd be begging on the street." "Is that my reward?" "The road is clear now." "He must be in on it, too." "I must leave soon." "You must give up this life." "Show a little courage... and free yourself of them." "I don't want to cause you grief." "He who fights by the sword falls by the sword." "I can't leave them." "You must think about others, not just yourself." "I've never thought of others more than now." "Besides, you have shamed me and the family   with the girl I happened to see." "Manja shames the family?" "You don't know her, mother." "Apparently I know her better than you do." "Uncle has been sending you notes?" "It doesn't matter where I get my information,   but hear me:" "Her past is anything but lily-white." "Robert!" "We must go." " Robert!" "Don't go!" " I have to." "Don't let us be torn apart." "We were quietly walking on Constantins street." "Are you sure you were that quiet?" "Then a horde of Cossacks stops us like one of us were an escaped convict." "Their leader had a beard as long as Väinämöinen's, and   he asked for our papers." "I guess you didn't have any?" "Of course not!" "Then we noticed an open gate behind us." "We ran in and shut the gate behind us." "Come help me with this bow tie." "My hands are made for greater things." "Get dressed fast, we're in a hurry." "Where'd you go?" "We came through backyards, climbing over fences." "You're no climber." "Did you come straight here?" "We'll have a company of Cossacks on our windowsill soon." "You'd better be more careful." "Don't worry!" "We came through at least 30 backyards, - each of which can take a company of gendarmes." "You can get used to everything." "Lads, don't open fire until you are commanded to do it." "Robert,   they're coming." "Let's go." "Get to work!" "What?" "I can't hear you very well." "Yes, the meat grinder..." "Don't you understand?" "The iron thing that says bang bang." "That's right." "When I return to Helsinki tomorrow,   you should have a piano box ready for it." "Piano box." "P!" "P!" "Peter!" "Right." "Do you have any room left?" "Sure." "We have space." "We have never lacked space." "Yes, there's room." "I'd like to bring a coffin to storage." "I'd come get it in the evening." "Everybody wants to come." "No one stays." "They only come for a visit." "They stay a while,   a day, maybe two." "Then they go." "They all go away." "Nobody stays." "Put it there." "Next to his friend." "Are you here tonight?" "Yes, I am." "I am here." "Others just come for a visit." "I stay." "Another one came." "He won't be here for long." "Manja, the curtains." "You came at last." "It was pretty troublesome." "Shall we open it?" "Sure." "It must be Elmeri." "He was supposed to come." "There's nobody here, you can't come in." "We don't ask for a permission." "Out of the way!" "Where should we take this?" " Go to hell!" " Where?" "Take it back to where you got it from." "Do you need more blankets?" "No." "This child doesn't mind a freeze." "In any case, Mr. Hedman, don't go home." "You'll get into trouble." "I won't be there for long." "In any case it's best to be careful." "Here's the buggy." "Come along then, since I promised you could." "Breaking other people's property again?" "How can I help you, miss?" "Can I use the phone?" "Sure, you can call." "352, miss." "That's right, Hedman." "Hello?" "Hello!" "Can I lend you a hand?" "Uncle Hedman went out with two other uncles." "I must inform you that you have the wrong person." "Are you sure you don't want to help Robert?" "You know his precarious position." "I learned of my son's apprehension right away." "Didn't you want to do something?" "I warned him." "Besides, you're not the right person to appropriate my son's cause." "Your past prohibits it." "Let's remember that Robert has a pretty girl waiting for him." "I come because I'm his comrade." "I come for the revolution and Finland's freedom." "It sounds strange." "I too have gotten used to these words only recently." "That means revolution!" "Listen now, miss." "That makes the least impact on me." "My late husband and I..." "Do you think I'd get mixed in the kind of politics   that'll ruin my husband's country." "We only ask for your help now." "You are Robert's mother." "I know that very well." "There are serious charges against him." "His uncle thinks that the charges against him aren't dangerous." "The family's interference would weaken the official position of every Hedman." "Robert has a foe who'll surely reveal his activities soon." "My son has only been involved in the printing of a few pieces of papers." "He's done much more dangerous than that." "And if the gendarmes find out everything, you'll never see him free." "Revolution!" "You have to help." "Only you are allowed to meet him in prison." "Please sit down." "Henrika, please serve a cup of coffee." "She brought a basket of food." "Handle it." "What is it?" "I speak Russian." "A basketful of food to the prisoner?" " Yes." "Do you have a permit?" "All right." "I'd like to bring it myself." "No, that won't do." "He's my own son." "No, you can't do it." "Please, try to help me." "Let's think about it..." "What's going on?" "I wanted to see my son." "No way." "Please leave." "Your mother dropped in." "To your health!" "Shut up." "Lil' Manja." "It's no use." "Dear mommy won't help you." "The police isn't coming." "And there are no helpful gents loafing in the streets." "Look around." "Not a soul to be found." "Believe me, I have longed for this moment." "But..." "Why are we standing here when we have a home to go to." "A warm and beautiful home." "No stupid moves, lil' Manja." "I run faster than you,   whatever the terrain." "Now the kid's in jail and he'll be there for many years unless   you kindly become my friend again." "If you go against him, you'll burn your own skin, too." "No way." "He won't say a word about me, that's as clear as water." "Even he can understand that you'd be in trouble too." "This is what they call a bewitched circle." "A passport!" "Take a look at this passport." "This counts for something in the game." "No, lil' Manja." "Now you are under my authority,   as they say in the higher literature." "Stop or I'll shoot." "You are under my authority." "Don't shoot." "You'd just wake the whole house up." "Robert won't sit another day in jail." "He'll be free within this very hour!" "And you won't be an obstacle to anyone." "Will you allow me to smoke the last cigar of my life?" "Do you notice how your hands shake?" "You can use an empty guns to shoot magpies, not Johnny Claësson." "Here we are again, lil' Manja." "An exciting drama of love and crime in three acts." "All the acts were good, but the third was the best." "So the kid will be free at this hour?" "Give me the passport." "Give it to me!" "So the kid hops over the wall to be embraced by his lil' Manja at this hour?" "Maybe the protectors of justice ought to know it, too." "No stupid moves, Manja." "I'm out of patience." "Hello?" "215, miss." "215!" "Right." "Is Daschev in?"