« Si je l’arrête, se dit-il, Giletti sera compromis ; on découvrira facilement qu’il a vendu son passeport ; d’un autre côté, que diront mes chefs si l’on vient à vérifier que moi, ami de Giletti, j’ai visé son passeport porté par un autre ? »
"If I arrest him," he said to himself, "Giletti will get into trouble; they will at once discover that he has sold his passport; on the other hand, what will my chiefs say if it is proved that I, a friend of Giletti, put a visa on his passport when it was carried by someone else."