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 —There! I knew there was something. Why didn't you say so? Have you no faith in me? [Fingers cravat.] What did they ask you for this necktie?

—Four kronen.

—Why, it only sells for three!

—I only paid two There are so many wicked people in the world, Mr. Juhasz. I'd have been a different man if I'd 'a been treated right but I wasn't Everybody around here was always down on me And now they've got me where they want me

—[With heat.] Have they? Not yet. Make no mistake about that. [Pumping up his determination.] So you have a crippled father?

—Yes, my poor father!

—It seems to me I heard you were an orphan.

—They say all kinds of things about me around here. My father lives in Szentes. If you can call it living. [Working himself up into a passion.] If you must know, I sent the two hundred kronen to him.

—[Eagerly.] Can you prove that?

—Certainly.

—How?

—By this. [Shows him a photograph.]

—By this? This is a photograph.