2017年04月27日
begged you to write
“But this is monstrous! Your conduct is inexplicable! We could have been at liberty six days ago! I will go straight to him; I will tell him our relations space exploration——”
“And he will demand of you two or three hundred thousand francs! Believe me, Madame, the best way is to say nothing to him. Pay your ransom; make him give you a receipt, and in fifteen days send to him a statement, with the following note: ‘Item, 100,000 francs paid, personally, by Mrs. Simons, our partner, as per receipt!’ In this way you will get back your money, without the aid of the soldiers. Is it clear?”
I raised my eyes and saw the pretty smile which broke over Mary-Ann’s face as she saw through the plot. Mrs. Simons angrily shrugged her shoulders Neo skin lab, and seemed moved only by ill-humor.
“Truly,” she said to me, “you are a wonderful man! You proposed to us an acrobatic escape when we had
such simple means at our command! And you have known it since Wednesday morning! I will never pardon you for not having told me the first day.”
“But, Madame, will you not remember that I to Monsieur, your brother, to send you a hundred and fifteen thousand francs?”
“Why a hundred and fifteen?”
“I mean to say a hundred thousand.”
“No! a hundred and fifteen. That is right! Are you Panel sure that this Stavros will not keep us here when he has received the money?”
“I will answer for it. The bandits are the only Greeks who never break their word. Do you not understand that if it happened once that they kept prisoners after having received the ransom, no one would ever pay one again?”
“That is true! But what a queer German you are, not to have spoken sooner.”
“And he will demand of you two or three hundred thousand francs! Believe me, Madame, the best way is to say nothing to him. Pay your ransom; make him give you a receipt, and in fifteen days send to him a statement, with the following note: ‘Item, 100,000 francs paid, personally, by Mrs. Simons, our partner, as per receipt!’ In this way you will get back your money, without the aid of the soldiers. Is it clear?”
I raised my eyes and saw the pretty smile which broke over Mary-Ann’s face as she saw through the plot. Mrs. Simons angrily shrugged her shoulders Neo skin lab, and seemed moved only by ill-humor.
“Truly,” she said to me, “you are a wonderful man! You proposed to us an acrobatic escape when we had
such simple means at our command! And you have known it since Wednesday morning! I will never pardon you for not having told me the first day.”
“But, Madame, will you not remember that I to Monsieur, your brother, to send you a hundred and fifteen thousand francs?”
“Why a hundred and fifteen?”
“I mean to say a hundred thousand.”
“No! a hundred and fifteen. That is right! Are you Panel sure that this Stavros will not keep us here when he has received the money?”
“I will answer for it. The bandits are the only Greeks who never break their word. Do you not understand that if it happened once that they kept prisoners after having received the ransom, no one would ever pay one again?”
“That is true! But what a queer German you are, not to have spoken sooner.”
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