Oskar, there's a clerical error here at the bottom of the last page.
No, there's one more name I want to put there. I'll never find a maid as well trained as her at Brinnlitz. They are all country girls.
One hand of twenty-one. If you win, I pay you 7,400 Reichsmarks. Hit a natural and I make it 14,800. If I win, the girl goes on my list.
I can't wager Helen in a card game.
Why not?
Wouldn't be right.
She's going to Auschwitz Number Two anyway. What difference does it make?
She's not going to Auschwitz. I'd never do that to her. No, I want her to come back to Vienna with me. I want her to come to work for me there. I want to grow old with her.
Are you mad? Amon, you can't take her to Vienna with you.
No, of course I can't. That's what I'd like to do. What I can do, if I'm any sort of a man, is the next most merciful thing. I should take her into the woods and shoot her painlessly in the back of the head. What was it you said for a natural 21? Was it 14,800?
