I was rather amused at the part I had assigned to my young friend Rupert Hentzau; but I owed him a stroke-for, even as I sat, my shoulder ached where he had, with an audacity that seemed half to hide his treachery, struck at me, in the sight of all my friends, on the terrace at Tarlenheim.
Gustura nengoen Rupert Hentzau nire adiskide gazteari ezarri nion paperarekin, baina zartada bat zor nion; gainera, eserita ere, min ematen zidan sorbaldak, berak, bere gaiztakeria erdizka ezkutatzen zuen ausardiaz, zauritu ninduen lekuan, nire lagun guztien aurrean Tarlenheimeko terrazan.