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 Here is the agreement. Read it over when you get home. It stipulates that, in consideration of your unquestionable integrity, your creditors agree not to file a petition in bankruptcy against you, but to wait six months longer for the fifty-one thousand kronen you lent me.

—Lent you? Yes, that's right.

—And which I will return to you my word of honor  maybe in two weeks, maybe not for three months, but certainly within six months. My word of honor!

—[Turning the document over helplessly.] Yes.

—But your creditors make one stipulation. Until the fifty-one thousand is paid to them, they want a receiver to run the business instead of you.

—Receiver?

—It's wrong, I know but in some ways the creditors are right You are too easy with people who owe you money and with the people who work for you You are not businesslike What this place needs is a strong hand They tried to get me to take charge, but I Of course they didn't know anything about I only said I was leaving the country Well, the main thing is that on the day you pay the fifty-one thousand kronen the business is yours again.