"George, I've brought all I can find on Jim Prideaux." "Thank you." "Prideaux and Bill Haydon were really..." "very close, you know." " I hadn't realised." " Yes." "Thank you." "Operation Testify." "We need to understand what happened or, rather, why it happened." "The file you borrowed, Peter, gives us a nudge in the right direction." "I know who to talk to next." "Your day was hardly wasted." " I am glad of that." " We've traced Prideaux." "He's now a teacher." "Thursgood Preparatory School for Boys, in the West Country." "Right." "Three, two, one... gol" "Come onl Come onl" "Handbrake on, gear in neutral, switch off ignition." "Please, sir, how long, sir?" "A time, sir?" " Timekeeper, time, please, Rhino?" " Please, sir, how long?" "Well done, Roach, knew you would, second time round." "Sir, how long?" "Now then, Jumbo... see that man..." " Seen him before?" " No, sir." " Anybody seen him before?" " No, sir." "He's not staff, not village, so who is he - beggarman, thief?" "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor." "Richman, Poorman, Beggarman, Thief." "Why doesn't he look this way?" "Something funny about that." "A bunch of boys burning up a car and he doesn't give them a glance!" " You would, wouldn't you?" " Yes, sir." "Doesn't he like boys?" "Cars?" "Didn't even look at that car, best Britain ever made and years out of production!" "Right." "Gather round." "Come on!" "Anybody sees him again, let me know, or any other sinister bodies." "Yes, sir." "Don't want juju men wandering around, pretending they don't know we exist." " First glimpse, tell me?" " Yes, sir." "Jumbo, I don't hold with odd bods wandering around a school." "Last place I was at, a gang cleared the place out." "House cups, money, boys' watches, nothing's sacred to them." "We don't want them swiping the Alvis." "It's irreplaceable, thanks to socialism." " Colour of hair, Jumbo?" " Sort of light, sir." " Height?" " About the same as you, sir." " Age?" " Well... hard to say, sir." "Of course, at that distance." "You'd know him again, I'm sure." "Best watcher in the unit, Jumbo Roach." "If he keeps his specs clean." "Aa-ah." "Ow!" "Please, sir!" " Oh, it's you, Jumbo." " I've hurt my leg, sir." "Oh, dear." "Can you get up?" "Slowly." "Slowly." "Fell off the bricks, did you, Jumbo?" "Let's have a look... nothing broken." "Just a graze." "Matron will soon put that right." "A good excuse for getting in late, missing Evensong." "Tripped over in the lane, is that what you'll tell her?" "We've a secret." "I can trust you, I know that." "We're good at keeping secrets, loners like you and me." "Is it because of that man?" "Would you shoot him?" "Are you working undercover, like Bulldog Drummond in the book?" "Some boys wanted to call you Bulldog, but we thought Rhino was better." " Bigger than a bulldog." " Well..." "I used to be a soldier." "What you saw just now, that's a souvenir." "You know, it's like this." "How I got it, they're both secrets, I keep them to myself." " You understand, don't you, Jumbo?" " Yes, sir." "Knew you would, knew you would." " Goodnight, Jumbo." " Night-night, sir." "Thank you, sir." " Well, well, long time no see." " Hello, sir." " Care for it?" " Very impressive." "Better than selling washing machines!" "It's odd putting a dinner jacket on at ten in the morning." "Reminds me of diplomatic cover, come to think of it." "Believe it or not, it's straight." "Makes a change." " All our help is from the arithmetic." " I'm sure it is." "My employers might let me invest a few pennies." "They're tough boys but very go-ahead, you know." "Rather like we were in the old days." "So... what can I do for you?" "I want to talk to you about the night Jim Prideaux was shot." "The night of Operation Testify, which is what it was called." " Writing your memoirs, George?" " We're re-opening the case." "Who's this "we", old boy?" "Lacon called me in, with the Minister's blessing." "I can give you a number to confirm, but I'd prefer not." "All power corrupts, but some must govern, and in that case Brother Lacon will scramble to the top." "The record's been filleted." "Of what is on the file, the most useful information is that you were duty officer that night." "Yes." "I'd just come back from Tokyo, a three-year stint." "Thought I'd push off to the south of France for a month's leave." "Old Mendel, Control's minder, picked me up in the passage and marched me to Control." "Place felt weird, no one about except radio and code people." "That harridan, Molly somebody, was monitoring, a busy little body." "Molly Purcell." "You were in Berlin, Bill Haydon was up-country and Percy Alleline in Scotland." "Control had cleared the decks." "My God, he was a shock." "I'd heard he wasn't his old self, but I wasn't prepared." "It was like opening a coffin lid." "He didn't waste time on pleasantries." "I need somebody to man the switchboard, got to be an old hand." "I could bring someone from the out-stations, but you're better." "You've been away from the in-fighting and vendettas around here." "You don't know what I'm talking about, good." "Just do exactly what I tell you." "There could be a crisis tonight." "I've got a man doing a special job." "It's of the utmost importance to the service." "The service, us - it could change everything for us." "Your job tonight is to act as cut-out." "Cut-out between me and whatever goes on in the building." "If anything comes in..." "radio signal, phone call, letter, anything, no matter how trivial it seems, you are to wait... wait till the coast is clear then bring it to me, by hand, Sam." "Don't use the internal phones, don't put anything down on paper for future reference." "Is that understood?" "When it's all over..." "you're not to breathe a word about it." "Never, not to anybody." "Not to Smiley." "Not to Haydon, not to Bland, nobody." " If I have to send out something?" " Only what I tell you." "FOOTBALL COMMENTARY)" "It could cost them the match, which will be sewn up by Paul Mariner." "Or by Woods... still down..." "or by Muhren... or by Wark... and in the end by none of them." "Unbelievable." "Paul Mariner is completely flattened." "He deserves better than that." "He's my man of the match." "Bollocks!" "Yes." "Duty officer." "Mmm." "Right, yes, I see." "I'll have to call you back." "It all sounds very unlikely." "Collins?" "This is urgent." "Well, it's open." "All hell's broken out on the Czechoslovak air." "Half is coded but enough isn't." " Prague or Brno?" " Brno." "Yes." "Go back, Molly, keep listening." "Control?" "Control, the resident clerk from the Foreign Office came on first, with a story from Reuter's head man in London." "Molly picked it up too." "Reuters and Fleet Street papers have had another go at the Foreign Office." "They're saying a British spy has been shot in Brno." "The Czechs are telling the world of an act of provocation by a Western power." "They haven't named the dead man yet." "Can I have a brief, please?" "Control, I need a brief." "We must say something." "Do you want me to deny it, a flat denial, to start with?" "Do you want me to get someone else in?" "Do you want to come downstairs and handle it yourself?" "It's deniable." "He had foreign documents." "No one could know he was British yet, there hasn't been time." "Even if he's not dead." " Find Smiley." " He's in Berlin." "Yes." "Well, anyone will do, it makes no difference." "Tell Mendel to get me a taxi." "You sent Mendel home." "He's been named." "Hello?" "Hello." "Is that Mrs Smiley?" "You got my message, then?" " Where did you leave it?" " I rang George Smiley's house, in case his wife happened to know where you were." "You are a friend of the family?" "I saw the ticker-tape at the club, some God-awful shooting party." "Tell me, Czechoslovakia, right?" "Jim Prideaux's been shot." "The Czechs only have his work name, Ellis." "Jim... shot dead?" "That was the first flash." "Since then the word used is simply "shot"." "The Czechs are saying that Prideaux" " Ellis - travelling on false papers and assisted by Czech counter-revolutionaries, tried to kidnap a Czech general, unnamed, in a forest near Brno and smuggle him over the Austrian border." "Further arrests are imminent." " Go on." " According to our military, there are heavy Czech tank movements along the Austrian border." "Lacon's been on and so has the Minister, wanting to know "What the hell?" and "Why?"" "I've put out emergency calls to Smiley, Alleline, Bland." "I'm glad to see you." "I'm sorry, Bill." "All right, Sam." "Now." "First thing we do... you call this number." "It's Toby Esterhase." "Tell him you're speaking for me." "He's to pick up the two Czech agents at the London School of Economics." "Lock them up - now." "Straight away, Sam." "Jim's worth a lot more than those two." "But it's a start." "I'll have a word with the chief hood at the Czech Embassy." "If they hurt a hair on Jim Prideaux's hair," "I'll strip the entire Czech network in this country bare." "You can pass that on to his masters." "I'll make him the laughing stock of the profession." "I'm bound to say, Haydon was a treat to watch." "I used to think of him as a pretty erratic sort of devil." "Not that night, believe me." "He virtually dictated a press statement for the Foreign Office to put out." "There it was the following morning in the Sunday papers." ""Prague radio sensation" dismissed with dignified scorn." "It was good light reading over breakfast at the Savoy." " Then you went to the south of France." " Two lovely months." " Did anyone question you again?" " Percy Alleline." "He was acting Chief by then, you were out and Control was in hospital." "He wanted to know why I was duty officer on the fateful night." "That chap Masterman was down for it." "I told him I'd nowhere to kip and a quiet weekend at the Circus would save me money for France." " Percy said I was a liar." " That's why they sacked you?" " For fibbing?" " Alcoholism." "There were five empty beer cans in the duty officer's waste bin." "There's an order against booze on the premises." "What was your offence?" "I couldn't convince them I wasn't involved." "If you want anyone's throat cut, give me a buzz." "Sam, listen, it was too late for Haydon's club to be running ticker-tape, wasn't it?" "He was making love to Ann that night." "You guessed and were right." "You phoned her, she told you he wasn't there, and as soon as you rung off she pushed him out of bed," "and Bill turned up an hour later, knowing about Czecho." "But you didn't tell Ann about Czecho." "I'll find my own way down." "Mind how you go, George." " Smiley." " Jim." "If you're not on your own, I swear I'll break your neck." "Quite alone, Jim." "God damn you, George, what the hell do you want?" "I'm sorry, Jim, but I have to know what happened." "I'm finished, man." "Told to draw the line and I've drawn it." "How do you like school mastering?" "You had a spell of it after the war, was that at a prep school?" "Don't come playing cat and mouse with me, George Smiley." "Look at the file." "Circus file?" "Not available to me, Jim, I'm blackballed." "Hard luck" "I've had access to a few papers which Lacon borrowed for me." "Pretty old stuff." "It went back to your undergraduate days with Bill Haydon at Oxford." "There's a letter Bill wrote about you to his tutor, Fanshawe," "Circus talent spotter, in which he named you suitable material for British Intelligence." "I can quote the odd line from memory." ""He has that heavy quiet that commands." ""He's my other half." "Between us we make one marvellous man." ""He asks nothing better than to be in my company," ""or that of my wicked, divine friends." ""I'm vastly tickled by the compliment." ""He's virgin, about eight foot tall," ""and built by the same firm that did Stonehenge."" "Christ!" "Christ, man, we were children." "Yes, of course." "What do you want to know?" "I thought we could at least be comfortable while we talk." "It isn't far." "I came round in a prison hospital, barred windows, high up." "They operated, after a fashion." "Next time I came round, I was in a cell with no windows at all." "I tried to work out a campaign to meet the interrogation, but I'd never be able to keep quiet, no chance of that." "If I was to stay sane, possibly even survive, there had to be dialogue, they had to believe I'd told them all I knew." "I decided I'd give them my version of Operation Testify first, the one Control spelled out for me." "I was head of scalphunters." "I mounted my own campaign without the knowledge of my superiors because I wanted to prove I was worth promotion." "If I could believe that," "I could bury all thoughts of a traitor inside the Circus." "No mole." "No meeting with Control." "No Tinker, Tailor." "I was there to turn General Stevcek and just that." "Then I thought I could throw them the names of one or two other Soviet and satellite visuals who'd turned recently." "Even give them the rundown of my entire Brixton stable, anything." "So long as I forgot the mole and Tinker, Tailor." "I kept to myself our Czech networks." "You know I recruited the founder members?" " A fine piece of work." " That's the joke." "They couldn't care less about the networks, knew it all." "Rolled them up." "They knew damn well that Testify wasn't my private brainchild." "I began exactly where I wanted to end, at the briefing in St James's." "All they wanted to talk about was Control's rotten apple theory:" "Tinker, Tailor and the Circus spy." "Did they know the address of the St James's flat?" "Yes, they even knew the brand of the sherry." "What about Control's charts on Stevcek's career, did they know about those?" "No." "Not at first." "Tell me about the networks." "Did anyone get out?" "No." "It seems they were shot." "The story is you blew them to save your own skin." "I know that isn't true, of course." "For Christ's sakes, let's go somewhere we can breathe." "They moved me about a lot, different rooms, different prisons." "Depending on who was interrogating and what methods they used." "There was quite a lot of muscle." "Electrical, most of it." "Yes, movement... cars, lorries, corridors, cells." "Once a plane." "I was hooded and passed out after take-off." "Punished for that, huh." "I think I was in Russia part of the time." "Would you like to stretch your legs?" "It might help." "They went straight to the heart of it." "Why did Control go it alone?" "What did he hope to achieve?" "His comeback, I said." "That got a laugh!" "With tinpot information about Czecho military emplacements?" "Wouldn't get him a meal at his club." "So I said maybe poor old Control was losing his grip." "That bored them." "Back to the cooler, punished again." "You know, l-I hoped I'd go mad." "Oh, no." "They knew how to stop that." "They left me alone for a couple of days." "Got me ready for the long one." "That was when I ga... ga... gave... g... gave them what they wanted." "It's a matter of health as much as anything." "You don't break exactly, just run out of stories." "Only the things locked away deep down were what was coming into my brain." "That was when I told them about Control's charts on Stevcek." "Also Control's rotten apple theory?" "Yes, the mole, codenames we worked out for Control's suspects." "Tinker" " Percy Alleline, Tailor" " Bill Haydon," "Soldier" " Roy Bland, Poorman" " Toby Esterhase," " Beggarman" " George Smiley." " What was the reaction?" "He thought for a bit then he offered me a cigarette." " Who did?" " What?" "Oh, sorry, by this stage there was some frosty bearded fellow left." "He seemed to be head boy." "Just him and a couple of guards standing back while he made his kill." " I hated that damn cigarette." " Why?" "It was a foul American thing, Camel." "I remember the packet." " Did he smoke them?" " Never stopped." " Was that the end of it?" " More or less, yes." "I have to know everything, Jim." "The rest was just gossip." "He wanted to know Circus tittle-tattle, who's going up, who's going down, a lot of tripe." " About what?" "Who?" " Bland, how much he drank." "Esterhase, how can anybody trust a man dressed like that?" "A lot of tripe." "What did he say about me?" "He showed me his cigarette lighter, said it was yours." "A present from Ann - "All my love" - her signature engraved." " Did he say how he came by it?" " A confrontation years ago." " Said you'd remember." " Anything else?" "Come on, I'll not buckle just because a Russian hood's made a joke about me." "He reckoned after Haydon's fling with her, she may care to redraft the inscription." "I told him to his face he could go to bloody hell." "You can't judge Bill by things like that." "He's got different standards." " He was never one for regulations." " You weren't one to see him straight." "That's it, everything." "Bill made a huge fuss about your repatriation." "He said any price was fair to get one loyal Englishman home." "I remember his verdict on Control's handling of Testify." ""The most incompetent operation ever launched" ""by an old man for his dying glory, and Jim Prideaux paid the cost of it."" "Proud of your memory, aren't you?" " Did you see Bill when you got back?" " No." " Your oldest closest friend?" " I was in quarantine." "Well, yes, but... never mind." "Let's go over your debriefing at Sarratt to wrap it up." "Were the inquisitors sympathetic or not?" "Never appeared, no questions at all." "I was in limbo." "Ate a lot, drank a lot, slept a lot." "Then Toby Esterhase turns up." "New suit, full of himself." "Says the Circus has nearly gone under due to Operation Testify and I'm currently number one leper." "Control's out of the game and there's a reorganisation to appease Whitehall." " They sent Toby?" " Yes, the little charmer" " He told me not to worry." " About what?" "My special brief, whatever Control had told me." " Did Toby spell it all out?" " Said a few people knew the real story and I needn't worry, it was being taken care of." " All the facts were known." " Were they indeed?" "Then he gave me 1,000 quid in cash, to add to my gratuity." " Who from?" " Didn't say." "Didn't all this strike you as a bit odd?" "No inquisition." "Toby throwing loose money around?" "Through you, the Russians have discovered the exact reach of Control's suspicions about a traitor in the Circus." "He'd narrowed the field to five and no one's asking you anything?" "The facts were known, man." "Toby ordered me not to approach anyone or to try to make my story heard." "The Circus was back on the road." "I could forget Tinker, Tailor, the whole damn game, moles, everything." ""Drop out," he said." ""You're a lucky man, Jim, forget it." ""Eh?" "Forget it."" "So Toby actually mentioned Tinker, Tailor to you?" "However did he get hold of that?" "That's what I've been doing." "Obeying orders and forgetting." "Lord, now lettest thou thy servant" "Depart in peace" "According to" "Thy word" "For mine eyes have seen" "Thy salvation" "Which thou hast prepared before the face" "Of all people" "To be a light" "To lighten" "The gentiles" "And to be the glory" "Of thy people" "Israel" "Glory be to the Father" "And to the Son" "And to the Holy Ghost" "As it was in the beginning" "Is now and ever shall be" "World without end" "Amen" "The facts were known, man." "Toby ordered me not to approach anyone or to try to make my story heard." "The Circus was back on the road." "I could forget Tinker, Tailor, the whole damn game, moles, everything." ""Drop out," he said." ""You're a lucky man, Jim." ""Forget it, right?" "Forget it."" "So Toby actually mentioned Tinker, Tailor to you?" "However did he get hold of that?" "And that's what I've been doing." "Obeying orders and forgetting!" "George, old boy." "What an amazing thing." " Trust you popping up out of nowhere." " How are you, Jerry?" "George, this is terrific." "What are you doing?" "How's the demon wife?" "How's everything?" "First things first, what'll you have?" "Fancy a bottle of bubbles?" "Shall we?" " A brandy and ginger ale is fine." " Sure?" "All right." "Linda, give us a double brandy and ginger ale and another bucket of gin, will you?" " I think I'll marry her." " How many would that be?" "I'm a divorce addict, hopeless case." "Not lucky like you, George, but there's only one Ann." "I'll do a deal, an offer you can't refuse." "I'll shack up with Ann, be the envy of London, and you can have my job on the comic." "You've the turn of phrase for the women's ping-pong." ""Inscrutable Chinese Wizardess"." "Do you fancy it?" "Is that the task for today?" "Much bigger stuff, old boy." "Footer, the opiate of the people." "Heap big transfer..." "Scottish Thunderboots to rescue of ex-champs now on the slide." " Thanks, Linda, my love." " Will I write it down, Mr Westerby?" "Ah, please, Linda." " Cheers, George." " Cheers." "This isn't entirely a chance meeting." "I got the letter you wrote me, last football season." "I burnt it straight away." "Right, thanks." "Stupid of me, talking out of school... sorry." "No, you did what you felt was right at the time and so did I." "Haven't seen many of the boys and girls lately, actually." "Guess they've put both of us on the shelf." "With me I can hardly blame them." "Firewater not good for braves." "They think I'll blab, crack up." "I'm sure they don't." "I expect they're resting you up." "They do that, you know?" "In case you've wondered, I didn't tell anyone about your letter." "I was out of favour - out of work." "Writing to me wasn't what put them off, if that's what you thought." "In your letter you said you were a bit worried about Toby Esterhase." "Felt you ought to get something off your chest." "I got all xenophobe and suspicious." "Thought Toby had gone a bit haywire, in fact." " I should talk." " Tell me now." "You'd just come back from Czechoslovakia, hadn't you?" "Last job I did for Tobe." "Looks like the last I'll ever do." " Letterbox job?" " Yes, nothing to it, really." "Telephone kiosk, ledge at the top, dump a package ready for collection." "That was Budapest." "The Czechoslovak thing, I ran into by accident." "Had to go on to Prague, for the comic." "Nothing to do with Tobe." " Linda, sweetheart." " Again, Mr Westerby?" "Please, my beauty." "Oh, no, no, no." "Got time to eat?" "We'll go Dutch on that, shall we?" "I was in this bar in Prague, always use it." "Locals go there, all sorts." "Well, I got in with this crowd round a corner table, a bloke playing a squeeze box, we're all hugger-mugger to the music..." "Ah, thank you, Linda, my love." "And there's this kid with a pudding bowl haircut." "Army... obvious." "He's on leave, well in his cups, and knows I'm English." "Suddenly he says, do I want to know the truth about the British spy shot by the Russian secret police?" "Just like that." "Yells it right in my ear." "I play dumb, and he goes right on with it." "You know, the Jim Prideaux shambles." "He was belly-aching about being a foot soldier of the line." "Seems on the two nights in question, they were being chased till dizzy." "Make camp, break camp, move up, move back... fix bayonets!" "But the big point was the Russian contingent." "Full warpaint - tanks, motor-bikes, tracker dogs and a big car load of very sinister civilians." "Dirty work afoot in the forest, up near the Austrian border." "So, my little friend, being a sassy little devil, decides to ask his sergeant what's it all about." ""Sarge," he says, "What's going on?" "We being invaded, Sarge?"" ""No, son," says the sergeant." ""The Russians are after a British spy" ""who tried to kidnap a general."" " "Are" after... or "were" after?" " Exactly." "That's what the kid wanted to tell me." "The Russians moved in on the Friday." "It was the day after when they got Jim." "As he said, they were ready and waiting for him." "Knew the lot, in advance." "Heap bad story." "Bad for our big chief." "Bad for tribe." "So, as soon as I got back, I went and told all to Tobe." "How did he take it?" "To begin with it was "Thanks a million, Jerry, old boy."" "He'd go and pow-wow with the top brass." "Then the next morning..." "You're so plastered these days, you can't tell fact from fiction!" "You're an embarrassment!" "You go on a bender, drink yourself into cloud cuckoo land, then come staggering back here with a load of tripe like this!" "You're pathetic!" " Look, old boy..." " I don't want any excuses." " I had to report what I heard." " You believed every stupid word!" "Swallowed it like mother's milk!" "A load of half-baked rumours, you come spreading them round here, what you can remember, through your alcoholic haze!" " I didn't forget a thing." " Well, you will now!" "You'll forget the lot!" "Don't you see?" "The boy was a plant - provocateur, in layman's language." "He was doing a job for Moscow Centre." "Object - disruption." "Make the Circus chase our own tails." "And you fell for it, Jerry." "That's all." "OK, Tobe, you know best." "If you don't want the story, that's your business." "I'll do it for the paper." "You'll what?" "Not about the Russians getting there first, but the rest, it's all good stuff." "Story wasn't covered well at the time, just the official statement." "If old Jerry gets a splash about the day the Czechs mobilised for WWIII - except it was one lone Englishman surrounding them - that's a good piece." "The comic might even run an ad on the telly." "The day after that I was called for by the editor." "THE editor, not the sports bloke." "He tells me some clown has been on the phone with a formal warning." ""Keep that baboon Westerby off the Czecho spy story." ""Any further reference against the national interest." ""End of message."" "So, I didn't get the Reporter of the Year award." "Can't, can you, when your story's on the spike?" "Cheers." "You didn't spike it entirely." "I mean, you wrote to me." "Dropped the letter in by hand." "Must have been the same day you talked to Toby Esterhase." "Well, as I said at the time, it just felt odd." "My mistake, old boy." "When I heard you got the heave-ho, I felt an even bigger damn fool." "I thought it was you who phoned the editor." "It wasn't." "'Course not." "Sorry." "Nothing untoward going on?" "Tribe hasn't gone on the rampage?" "But are you hunting alone?" "I'm not the brightest, but when you start asking questions, there's got to be something." "All I'm saying is, any time, old boy." "Thank you, Jerry." " Rum chap, Toby Esterhase." " But good." "God, first rate, brilliant, but rum." "You won't forget to give my love to Ann?" "One of the great marriages, always said so." "Come on, Jerry, out with it." "Did Toby say something about Ann?" "Some story he'd got." "I told him to stuff it up his silk drawers." " I suppose I should have been prepared." " Take on a temporary, you can't expect loyalty." "Well done, that boy!" "We're going to lose this match." "So much for Prideaux's coaching." "I'm absolutely furious with that man." "It's monstrous to clear off." "Did he say what's wrong with his mother?" "No, he did not." "She is supposed to be dying." "That's one excuse for absence he can hardly use again." "Not at all, Mother." "One false alarm can easily lead to another." "I'll ask for a full medical diagnosis next time." "Those front row forwards of theirs look over-age to me." "Did he ever tell you how he got that awful shoulder?" " Fell off a bus with a bottle of vodka..." " What?" "Fell off a bus with a bottle of vodka inside him, I shouldn't wonder." "I suppose I shall have to take his French." "Oh, come on, Thursgood, keep up!" "He's gone in the Alvis." "He'd never trust any other form of transport." "If he'd gone for good, he wouldn't leave the caravan behind, would he?" "Stands to reason, that!" "Besides, he'd have said "Goodbye" properly, Rhino would." "Wouldn't just go, not Rhino." "Not like a juju man." "I've come about the furs." " Hello, Toby." " Peter." "It's not exactly five-star." "But then we are shopping a bit downmarket." "Safe houses I have known!" "Take the weight off your feet, won't be long." "So, we're expecting a Pole, are we, Peter?" "In the fur trade." "You think I might take him on as a courier?" "I'd like him on my own payroll, for preference." "Looks useful." "But what's the point?" "My lads are under-employed as it is." "Very generous of you, Peter." "Stay put, Toby." "Sorry about this, Toby." "Against the wall, Tobe." "Did he come alone or is there a little friend waiting in the square?" "Looks all clear to me, sir." "Go back to the other room and don't take your eyes off the street." " Seen something?" " Turn the light out a moment." "Just a shadow, I suppose." "Yes, I think so." "I want to put a thesis to you, Toby, about what's been going on." "Let's cast our minds back, say about 18 months, when Control is still with us." "Percy Alleline wants his job, everyone knows that." "Though Control is sick and past his prime, Percy can't dislodge him." "It's a time of uneasiness in the Circus." "Morale is low, activity is low." "Yes?" "I remember, George." "Well, Percy's door opens one day and one of our senior men walks in." "We'll call him Gerald." "It's just a name." "Gerald says, "Percy, I've stumbled on a major source of Russian intelligence." ""It could be a gold mine."" "Perhaps they take a walk or a drive." "Whatever, Percy listens, because what Gerald goes on to say is music in Percy's ears." ""Some of us," Gerald tells him," ""are worried sick about the state the Circus is in." ""Look at our operational losses, agents, networks."" "He's careful not to suggest there's a traitor inside the Circus, but emphasises that slovenliness at the top is leading to failure all round." "That is to say, it's all Control's fault." "My thesis, you understand." " Sure, George." " Another notion is that Percy Alleline was his own Gerald." "He bought himself a top Russian spy and then manned his own boat." "I don't believe that." "I think he'd mess it up, don't you?" "Sure, George." "So the next thing is for Gerald to say to Percy," ""I and a little group of like-minded friends" ""want you to be our father-figure, Percy." ""We're not political men, we don't know our way in the Whitehall jungle." ""But you do." Did you bring a baby-sitter, Toby?" "Why should I?" "I came to meet Peter and some Pole in the fur trade." "Do you want Fawn to go down and have a look?" "No, need him here." "Can't take the chance." "Yes, well, Gerald says that if Percy will handle the committees, he and his friends will handle Merlin." "Merlin being the Moscow intelligence source and Witchcraft the name of the material he supplies." "How well it all worked." "Merlin's material proved excellent, as everyone agreed, except Control." "Eventually Control was out and Percy was king." " So what's new, George?" " Ever bought a fake picture, Toby?" "I sold a couple once." "The more you pay, the less inclined you are to doubt its authenticity." "Merlin's price was 20,000 francs a month into a Swiss bank, according to the file." "Yes, Toby, this is official." "There came the day when Gerald admitted Percy to the greatest secret of all:" "that the Merlin set-up has a London end." "Aleksey Aleksandrovich Polyakov," "Cultural Attaché at the Russian Embassy in London." "You're on record as grading him snow-white, Toby." "Quite untainted with the mischief of espionage." "In fact, he's Merlin's London representative." "That's the start, I should tell you now, of a very clever knot." "Everything to do with Witchcraft is secret, of course, but a lot of people are involved - transcribers, translators, codists, evaluators, God knows what." "It doesn't worry Gerald, of course." "He likes it because the art of being Gerald is to be one of a crowd." "When it comes to Polyakov, that's a different story." "Who knows it?" "Only you, Roy Bland, Bill Haydon and Percy." "Three of you and Alleline." "You're the magic circle." "Who meets him, Toby?" "For God's sake, let me sweat the bastard." "You all meet him." "How's that?" "Percy represents the authoritarian side." "Asks after his wife, suggests it's time he took a holiday." "Very paternal, Percy would be." "Bill Haydon, I think, would see Polyakov much more often." "Bill's a Russian expert and good entertainment value." "Bill would shine when it comes to the briefings and follow-up sessions, making sure the right messages went back to Moscow." "Roy Bland's good on economics and is top man on the satellite countries, so he'd have plenty to chat about." "Then there's you, Toby." "You'd have solo sessions with Polyakov as there's tradecraft to discuss and all those little snippets about goings-on inside the Embassy, which are pretty much your field." "If the magic circle wanted him to do some photography inside the Embassy, it would be you who would supply the film." "Replenish his stock from time to time." "Take him little sealed packets." "Toby, you wouldn't be lying?" "Did you bring a baby-sitter?" " Cross my heart." " What would you use for a job like this?" " Cars?" " No." "On foot." " Keep walking them through." " How many?" " Eight." "Ten, maybe." " What about one man, alone?" " One?" "Never." "Impossible." " I can call Mendel to take a look." "I'm sure Toby's right." "Listen, George, I know Polyakov works for Moscow Centre." "Of course I do." "We all know." "But come on." "Think how many other operations we've run this way." "We've bought Polyakov, right." "He's a Moscow hood but he's also our joe." "He's got to pretend to his own people that he's spying on us." "So we've got to give him one or two goodies now and then." "Sure, I've passed him the odd sealed packet - chickenfeed." "He can send them home, Moscow Centre clap him on the back, say he's a big man." "It happens all the time." "Come on, George, you know the game." "Are you Polyakov's agent inside the Circus?" "Someone has to be." "If his cover for meeting you people is that he's spying on the Circus, then he must have a man on the inside." "Polyakov can't report back to Moscow Centre after he's picked up a great load of Circus chickenfeed and say, "I got this from the boys."" "He's got to have a whole history." "How he selected his man, courted him, bought him, how they meet and where." "The whole paraphernalia of running a double agent." "And all this in Moscow Centre's archives." "You, Toby?" "Toby Esterhase masquerades as a Circus traitor to keep Polyakov in business." "My hat, Toby." "A dangerous job like that deserves a whole chestful of medals." "You're on a damn long road." "What happens to you if you never reach the other end?" "With Lacon and the Minister behind me?" "Why pick on the little guy?" "Why not go for the big ones..." "Percy Alleline, Bill Haydon?" " Thought you were a big guy these days." " You're the perfect choice, Toby." "Resentful about slow promotion, sharp-witted, fond of money..." "With you as his agent, he has a cover story that really works." "The big three give you the little sealed packets of chickenfeed and Moscow Centre thinks you're all theirs." "The problem arises when it turns out you've been handing Polyakov the crown jewels and getting Russian chickenfeed in return." "If that's the case, Toby, you're going to need good friends, like us." "Gerald of course, is a Russian mole." " And he's pulled the Circus inside out." " But Witchcraft material isn't chickenfeed." " It's the best." " It was good at first." "George, suppose you're wrong?" " Toby..." "I" " Who told you to muzzle Jerry Westerby?" "The same person who sent you down to Sarratt with £1,000 for Jim Prideaux and the instruction, "Get lost"?" " Speak up." " Was it Percy?" "I think so." "Maybe it was Bill, though." "Listen, it was a big operation." "Sometimes Roy..." "It never seemed to come straight from one." "There was a committee." "I took a lot of orders." "You told Prideaux to forget about Tinker, Tailor." "Where did that come from?" "I never knew what that meant." "Now, George, that's the truth." "Poor Toby..." "Yes, I do see." "What a dog's life you must have been leading, running between them all." "George, if there's anything I can do, of a practical nature." "You know me, George." "My boys are pretty well trained." "If you want to borrow them..." "I'd have to speak to Lacon, of course, but... you'd expect that." "All I want is for this thing to be cleared up." "For the good of the Circus." "I want nothing for myself." "Where's this safe house you keep exclusively for meeting Polyakov?" "5 Lock Gardens, Camden Town." "You'll be staying here for a night or two." "Fawn will look after you." "Fawn!" "You'll have to make appropriate explanations to the Circus, by telephone." "You're having girl trouble or whatever sort of trouble you're in these days." "Then there's your wife, of course." "Sure, George, I can handle that." "If he's any bother, Fawn, use your own discretion." "Peter, I want you to watch my back." "Will you do that?" " Look for one man." "But look!" " We'll join up in Sussex Gardens." "Same as you, George." "Just a feeling..." "someone, but couldn't say for certain." "I covered you both to the front door." "If you did have company, he's cleverer than me." "But it's been known." "Do you have anyone in particular in mind?" "Will I go to pavement level and take a sniff?" " Well, proceed?" " Yes." "Right." "Now, the Minister has one major worry." "In his own words," ""How much porcelain gets broken at the end of the day?"" "Scandal, he's talking about." "If we unmask the mole, will the Russians cut their losses by telling the world's press" " how they made fools of us?" " I think not." "Make your enemy look stupid, you lose the justification for taking him on." " I've told him that, George." " So isn't his mind at rest?" "He hopes there'll be nothing messy." "Nothing that could provoke Moscow." " But proceed?" " Heavens, yes." "Clean the stables." "Problem, flush out the mole." "Method?" "We need to alarm him, just sufficiently to make him call for a crash meeting with Polyakov at the safe house." "A meeting Gerald the mole needs all to himself, secret from the rest of the Witchcraft magic circle." "There are two of them and Alleline." " You've definitely cleared Esterhase?" " Oh, yes." " Thank you." " Karla really did bring off the perfect fix..." "For a while." "It would be beautiful in another context." "Tinker" " Alleline." "Tailor" " Haydon." "Soldier" " Bland." " Spot the mole." " Quite." "Ways and means, George?" "Ricki Tarr will go to Paris." "He'll make use of the appropriate Embassy facilities to send a signal to the Head of London Station." ""Something, something, something," which we'll now concoct." "The message will be, "Have information vital to the safeguarding of the service." ""Request immediate meeting." "Personal."" "Remember, "Vital to the safeguarding of the service."" " It's even true." " Don't forget that." "No mistakes, Ricki." "Your head's on the block." "Not the only one, Peter." "Lord, now lettest thou thy servant" "Depart in peace" "According to" "Thy word" "For mine eyes have seen" "Thy salvation" "Which thou hast prepared before the face" "Of all people" "To be a light" "To lighten" "The gentiles" "And to be the glory" "Of thy people" "Israel" "Glory be to the Father" "And to the Son" "And to the Holy Ghost" "As it was in the beginning" "Is now and ever shall be" "World without end" "Amen" "Tinker" " Alleline." "Tailor" " Haydon." "Soldier" " Bland." " Spot the mole." " Quite." "Ways and means, George?" "Ricki Tarr will go to Paris." "He'll make use of the appropriate Embassy facilities to send a signal to the Head of London Station." ""Something, something, something," which we'll now concoct." "The message will be, "Have information vital to the safeguarding of the service." ""Request immediate meeting." "Personal."" "Remember, "Vital to the safeguarding of the service."" "No mistakes, Ricki." "Your head's on the block." "Not the only one, Peter." "Check." "Toby Esterhase did say two full milk bottles and all's well and you may enter?" "Yes, George." "And that's the second time." "Is it?" "Well, let's not pretend we're not nervous." "Check, George." "Ready to record?" "Shall we try it?" "I'll go upstairs." "What would you like - Monteverdi, Irving Berlin, Mick Jagger?" "This machinery, installed at great expense to the British taxpayer, is voice-activated..." "When I stop speaking, the tape will stop recording." "See?" "Old man river That old man river" "He just keeps rolling..." "Hello, here's something..." "Soldier's just arriving." "That's all three of them in there now." " Under starter's orders." " Importantly, who gets away first?" "Just going for a walk." "Back with you in a minute." "Peter?" "All clear?" " As far as I can judge." "No promises." " You should come down now." " Proceed?" " Proceed." " What's that?" " Nothing, just fiddling." " You there?" " Yes." "Someone just leaving." "Can't quite make him out." "Called a taxi right to the door." "Cheeky." "Thank you." "Join us." " What will you drink?" " Scotch." "Bloody great big one." "Have you anything on you that I should..." " Will Alleline go to Paris?" " He's got to." "Stay just long enough to..." "He knows Tarr would never stick his neck out..." "Something to buy back his good name... and then some." "You know what it is." "Karla's got 24 hours to get me out." "The time has come, Aleks." "You!" "You!" "You!" "You butchered my agents..." "How many since?" "How many?" "Two hundred?" "Three?" "FOUR?" "!" " Stop that!" " All right!" "All right!" " Are you armed, Bill?" " I'm a Soviet diplomat." " This behaviour..." " Shut up!" "Peter, will you phone Percy Alleline and ask him and Roy Bland to come here immediately?" "Then Lacon, then Toby Esterhase." "I think the first thing to do is to play them this evening's tapes." "That should save a great deal of time in explanations." "Aleks... really." "Oh, they're on." "Do you mind if I finish my drink, George?" " No one out there you noticed?" " Quiet as the grave." "Very proper, George." "Don't want anything irrelevant, do we?" "Very tidy, George." " Will Alleline go to Paris?" " He's got to." "He'll delay just long enough to keep his dignity." "He can't jump the moment Ricki Tarr tells him to." "Tarr would never stick his neck out unless he'd something precious, something to buy back his good name... and then some." "And you and I know what it is." "Karla's got 24 hours to pull me out." "The time has come, Aleks." "Well, that's that." "Congratulations, George." "Next step, gentlemen?" "Would you agree, Percy, that our best course is to make some positive use of Bill Haydon?" "We need to salvage whatever's left of the networks he's betrayed." "Yes." "We sell Bill to Moscow Centre for as many of our men in the field as can be saved." "For humanitarian reasons." "Professionally, of course, they're finished." "Quite." "The sooner you open negotiations with Karla, the better." "You're much better placed to talk terms with our friend downstairs than I am." "Polyakov remains your direct link with Karla." "The only difference is this time you know it." "It's definitely your job, Percy." "You're still Chief." "Officially... for the moment." "Very well, George." "Excuse me, sir." "Mr Guillam says is it all right if the inquisitors take Mr Haydon away now, sir?" "Shall I go first?" "All the best, Percy." "I want Fawn to stay with him." "I'm sorry about the assault... unprofessional." "It was just that... it would have to be Bill Haydon, wouldn't it?" "He was always our hero, in capital letters." "I mean for the younger lot... my kind, anyway." "The antiquated English patriot." ""Never mind all the dirt we have to do." "It's for England."" "The funny thing is, it's an effort not to think of him with affection." "I suppose Bill would say that means you've grown up, Peter." "Always good for a laugh, wasn't he, Bill?" "I'd like to thank you, by the way." "You helped enormously." "Truly, Peter." "Lacon assures me there's been no coercion." "I hope that's true." "Oh, yes." "No complaints, George." "Bit of a nose-bleed, keep feeling dizzy." "I'm sure it's just the excitement of it all." " Why have you been weeping?" " Sheer exasperation." "The pettiness of our inquisitors." "They're utterly incompetent." "They believe I know the names of Karla's other moles around the world." "Idiots!" "I can't talk to people like that." "You're prepared to say something to me, according to Lacon." "Can't Percy get a move on doing his horse-trading with Karla?" "I'm sure it'll only be a day or two now." " What do you want to know?" " Oh..." "Why?" "When?" "How?" "Why?" "You ask that!" "Because it was necessary..." "that's why!" "Someone had to." "We were bluffed!" "You, me, Control... all of us." "The Circus talent spotters all those years ago... they picked us when we were golden with hope." "Told us we were on our way to the Holy Grail, a lifetime of glory in front of us." "Service to the great cause." "Freedom's protectors." "Oh, my God... what a question..."Why?"" "Do you know what's killing Western democracy, George?" "Greed... and constipation - moral, political, aesthetic." "I hate America very deeply." "The economic repression of the masses... institutionalised." "Even Lenin couldn't foresee the extent of that." "Britain... oh, dear!" "No viability whatever in world affairs." "I suppose that's when it began." "Turning my eyes to the east, I mean." "When I saw how trivial we'd become as a nation - say the forties." "By 1950, I was slipping Karla occasional gifts of intelligence, carefully selected morsels to help the Russian cause against America." "At that time I was scrupulous not to give Moscow anything harmful to ourselves, our own agents in the field." "I still believe the secret services are the only real expression of a nation's character." "Until the mid-fifties, I still had hopes... lingering loyalty to what WE represented." "Self-delusion, of course." "We were already America's streetwalkers." "I was granted Soviet citizenship twelve years ago." "They've given me a couple of medals." " What medals?" " I didn't ask." "Does it matter?" " Quite a lot to Bill, one supposes." " Possibly." "We're going to get a bit more from him, I hope." "I do hope so, George." "He's right about the state of affairs down there, slovenly." "They don't even patrol the perimeter, day or night." "I have mentioned it." "The thinking on Sarratt is that it should be as inconspicuous as possible." "I'm concerned for Haydon's safety." "Aren't you being a little over-dramatic?" "He can only go to Russia, and we're sending him there, anyway." "The number of people who need to be told about all this, as we agree, must be kept as small as possible." "I suppose your wife will have to be among them." "I know you told me... she and Haydon... over and done with now..." "There's always the unknown factor in matters of the heart, isn't there?" "I'm thinking about the future, any possible further contact." "If Ann doesn't know..." "She does meet so many different sorts of people." " She gets around." " I'm sorry, George." "Not at all." "I quite take your point." "Ann must let us know of any approach, directly or indirectly," " made by or on behalf of..." " Exactly." "Or even apparently on behalf of, or merely concerning, Bill Haydon." " Thank you." " I was going to tell her anyway." "You might call it balancing the books." "Absolutely." "One thing perplexes me more than anything else about the mole conspiracy." "Karla devised Operation Witchcraft primarily as a means of putting poor Percy Alleline on Control's throne." "But why didn't Karla want Haydon to take over the Circus himself?" "It would've been less difficult to arrange, with all Bill's acknowledged accomplishments." "No, no." "We had the perfect set-up." "Percy made the running, I slipstreamed behind him." "Roy and Toby did the legwork." "Far better for me to remain the freewheeling subordinate, the laughing cavalier." "Being in charge could have bogged me down - admin, meetings, dinners, chewing the cud in Whitehall." " Never happened to Control." " A natural recluse, Control." "I couldn't have behaved like that and got away with it." "No, no, George." "Karla and I agreed." "I would have been wasted as Chief." " Could have done it, of course." " Of course." "I'd like to go inside now." "WEATHER FORECAST)" "Yes, you're right." "The Czechoslovakian business was a bit of a desperate throw." "But something pretty bold was called for." "I was certain Control was getting very warm indeed." "All that burrowing in the files he was doing." "It was paying off, I knew." "He'd built up an uncomfortably impressive inventory of the number of operations I'd either blown or managed to cripple." "Then, of course, he was narrowing his field of suspects." "A short list of officers of a certain age, experience, rank." "He did well, considering he was so ill." "Surprised Karla." "Was the offer of information from General Stevcek genuine?" "Good Lord, no." "It was a fix from start to finish." "Stevcek existed, of course." "Still does." "Very distinguished man." "But he never offered anything to Control or anybody else." "Did you expect Control to send Jim Prideaux?" "Well... obviously, we needed to be certain Control would rise to the bait." "We had to spell it out that he'd got a big gun, to make the story stick." "We knew he'd only settle for someone outside London Station." " Someone he trusted." " And who spoke Czech, of course." "Naturally." "It had to be a man who was old Circus, to bring the temple down a bit." "Yes, I see the logic of that." "It was perhaps the most famous partnership the Circus ever had." "You and Jim, back in the old days." ""The iron fist in the iron glove." Who was it who coined that?" "I got him home, didn't I?" "Yes, that was good of you." " The thing with Ann was Karla's idea." " Was it" "Yes." "Did you think it was hers?" "Karla always thought, if there was a threat, it would come from you." "He said you were quite good." "But you had this one weak spot..." "Ann." "It was a double fix, actually." "On the one hand, you weren't likely to think of me as a Circus spy if you were preoccupied with what your wife and I got up to in bed." "And on the other, if it was well known that I was her lover, it was bound to look like personal vengeance if you ever did suggest I might be the mole." "So Karla said, not to strain it, but if possible... join the queue." " Point?" " Point." "Presumably it was on Karla's instructions you were with Ann on the night of the Prideaux shoot-up?" "As insurance?" "Oh, yes, he was adamant on that." "They tell me I could be away tomorrow, or the day after at the latest." "Can you make sure any mail gets forwarded from my club?" "And the balance of my salary, of course." "I will." " Anything else?" " Oh, yes, I nearly forgot." "You got a pen somewhere?" "Thanks." "Girlfriend." "Give her this." "I'm away on work of national importance." "Maybe for years... so she can forget me..." "Well, I can't take her with me, can I?" "Even if I could, she'd be a bloody millstone." "Oh, and... there's one particular boy." "A cherub, but no angel." "Haven't seen a lot of him, but better give him a couple of hundred." "Can you do that out of the reptile fund?" " I would think so." " Good." "Oh, God, I'm tired." " My pen, please." " What?" "Oh..." "Certainly." "Sorry." "Thank you." "Don't look round, Bill." "Oh, it's you, Jim." "Come to say goodbye?" "Nice of you." "Glad to see you haven't lost your touch." "Must be in pretty good shape." "Why did you get me back?" "I couldn't leave you rotting in a Czech prison." "Russian." "Why didn't Karla finish me off?" "Was that out of delicacy to you?" "Wasn't that, was it?" "You both thought a corpse might make a lot more fuss than just another repatriated, harmless cripple." " Didn't you?" " The shooting wasn't part of the plan, Jim." "No, not the shooting." "But everything else." "...and the food shall be forestored to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt." "That the land perish not through famine." "And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of all his servants." "And Pharaoh said unto his servants, "Can we find such a one as this," ""a man in whom the spirit of God is?" And Pharaoh said unto Joseph," ""Forasmuch as God hath..." "shewed... thee all this..." ""Forasmuch as God hath... shewed..." ""Forasmuch as..." ""Forasmuch as God hath... sh... sh... shewed!" ""Forasmuch as God hath showed thee all this."" ""Forasmuch as God hath showed thee all this," ""there is none so discreet and wise as thou art." ""Thou shalt be over my house," ""and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled." ""Only in the throne will I be greater than thou..."" "It seems that at 10.30, Haydon told the guards he felt a bit sick and thought a breath of air would help him." "Because his case was now considered closed, they saw no reason to tear themselves away from some horror film that had just started on the TV and they let him wander off." "Half an hour later, they thought they'd better go and look for him." "He'd received no letters, messages during the day." "I was the only outsider to see him." "But his suit had come back from the cleaners." "Possibly a message was concealed in it, inviting him to a rendezvous." "The guards had not inspected the suit before giving it to him." "I'm afraid that doesn't surprise me." "Any comments, anyone?" "If someone went to the cleaners, said he lost his ticket, could he look through the stuff ready for collection?" "That's one way." "Would the Russians kill Haydon?" "It gives Karla all the reason he needs to cancel the deal on our networks." "But Moscow Centre prides itself on getting its people back." "Important point, Roy." "Well, WHO, then?" "We will all, of course, have to account for our movements last night." "Necessary formality." "Also Mendel, Fawn, Ricki Tarr." "Then, as to the future..." "I've been asked to..." "look after things for a while." "I'd like everyone to take some leave." "Afterwards there'll be some... redeployment for those of you who wish to remain with the service." "George." " Hello." " Ann." " Just the same." " You too." "No..." "Julian, was that his name?" "Jake." "And no Jake." "Gone." "Actually got a job somewhere." "I'm quite free at the moment." "Enjoying it." "Uncle Guzzle Guts is away too." "Madrid." "So I've got the house to myself." "I've brought you this." "It goes..." "Oh, George." "Very nice of you." "What's been happening?" "How've you all been?" "Did Bill say anything about me?" "I mean me as a person, what he thought about me?" " Not really." " Are you glad he's dead?" "Please... don't say "Not really."" "No, I'm not glad." "There was a moment when I knew, when I heard his voice, talking to Polyakov." "Just for a moment I wanted to shoot him... but it passed." "Bill betrayed totally, didn't he?" "Everything, everyone?" "Was he taking some kind of revenge?" " He must have talked to you." " Should I have passed that on?" "Pillow talk?" "Describe Bill." "Yet another man trying to find a little place in history." "But George, Bill standing at the centre of some secret stage, playing world against world, he had a wonderful time." "He enjoyed himself." "He loved being a traitor." "I'm glad he's dead." "His life was over." " I'm glad for him." " Did you love him?" "Ann, did you?" "No, George." "Poor George." "Life's such a puzzle to you, isn't it?" "Lord, now lettest thou thy servant" "Depart in peace" "According to" "Thy word" "For mine eyes have seen" "Thy salvation" "Which thou hast prepared before the face" "Of all people" "To be a light" "To lighten" "The gentiles" "And to be the glory" "Of thy people" "Israel" "Glory be to the Father" "And to the Son" "And to the Holy Ghost" "As it was in the beginning" "Is now and ever shall be" "World without end" "Amen"