I looked at the paper: a check for a million. Puah! What can a man do with a million? … And seeing that crumpled, knocking him to the ground, the owner of the Casino gave me another role.

-Take five and leave.

Neither moved me, was taking all budgets checks: ten million, fifteen … forty …

My twelve ministers were advancing with their large portfolios full of notes, my escort I made my way through the crowd imploring the steps, my impatient horses, neighing and kicking to realize that some intelligence had taken advantage of the agglomeration to thumb their hocks and legs.

‘Another word, Mr. Spadina: the last. We will make a revolution overthrew Alberto, and give you the crown of Monaco. You can get married, if he pleases, the daughter of an emperor: money fixes everything. We have it, you have it …

– I said no! What I want is to enter the Casino to make it break and take the keys.

This threat snatched the supreme award.

-Will you be my partner, I’ll give you fifty percent of the profits …. Will not you? … Be the seventy-five.

Seeing that I kept going up stairs without listening, was a whistle to his mouth. His face was that of Samson grasping the columns of the temple. Better to die than to see his house broken! There was a tremendous explosion, as if the world is torn. Had mined all the explosives left over from the war, the Casino, the square, the city. I went up, dazed, into the clouds, but I could see it disappear Monte-Carlo and to the Rock of Monaco, taking the sea, with a tidal wave, the site of the land disappeared. And when I fall …