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THE MAKROPOULOS SECRET

That was it! That was it! Aia Maria! I told him so!

And you came here just for that Greek thing?

Ha, ha! I’m not going to give it to you. No, my dear fellow. And you thought, Berti, that I came just to help you and your silly case! I don’t care a damn if you win. All I want is that secret.

Why?

Because I’m getting old. Because I’m at the end. I want to try it again. Feel, Berti, how I am getting. Feel my hands. Ah, God! My hands!

What is the Makropoulos secret, if you please?

It is written there how one does it.

How one does what?

How a human being can live for three hundred years. To be young for three hundred years. My father wrote that for Emperor