Show AN EMPIRE OF THIEVES HERB goldberger is the german hebrew who recently went up to moscow to start atari a bank at st petersburg hie bli visit was a perpetual dell delight g b t hemet he met men of note and influence and was the object of their personal courtesies oo 00 departing from the capital the officers wrote on his passport pam port under police supervision 29 2 9 he had no protest to make against this he had bad met many of these gentlemen and found their supervision something decidedly pleasant but this seemingly innocent inscription very soon developed a meaning which the dictionaries do not define the men in uniform from this on were impertinent and audacious at every step somebody had bad to be satisfied that he be was all right and each satisfaction had its price this invasion of his personal liberty grew on him till finally came the notice that he be was to leave moscow forthwith but was privately informed as usual that a certain sum would remedy the biffi culty herr goldberger this time rebelled he concluded that supervision of a swarm of thieves be could not make a bank a paying enterprise this report of police supervision h has as confirmation a plenty to entitle it to full fulk belief herr Golde opinion that wholesale blackmailing is a system of the government has been amply justified |