On the other hand, if foreign intelligence had decided to keep a watch on me, they might well have assumed that I had voluntarily arrived here at this station in order to give myself up. You follow every instruction carefully, you observe all the rules, and look where you end up by pure coincidence! The quarry runs right into the hunter.
This was an overreaction on my part, however. The carabinieri paid me no attention, seeming not to notice me at all. They talked among themselves, and I slipped by them with feigned indifference. The helmsman on the boat was lazily turning the knob on the radio in search of a frequency. As he did so, I caught snippets of music, voices, and static. Suddenly he found a local station and an announcer was speaking at the typical breakneck speed of newsreaders
