After being rewarded with the job of bank guard (""dick"") o prevent future holdups, he involves his prospective son-in-law as a temporary embezzler when suckered by a con salesman to embezzle bank funds to finance a purchase of Beefsteak Mines stock - a fly-by-night mining enterprise.4 years EARLIERAt the start of the flashback, Professor Humbert Humbert, acting as narrator, speaks (off-screen) in a distinctively-cultured, Continental accent behind images of a Trans World Airlines plane flying over Manhattan and a Hartford/New Haven train pulling into a station in northern New England."Giacomo" was also unaware that Jean (and the hidden baby) were kidnapped by the King""s men and taken to the castle where she arrived before him, to serve as one of his wenches." That night in his bedroom with Adrian, he performed a serenade-duet with her, displaying their great love.A lechorous, male beach attendant [a police informant?] stands menacingly above Robie with a message about a phone call from Bertani, with additional information about the man who asked questions in his restaurant about jewels: "He will wait for you at the entrance of the flower market in Nice.