"It is not the money, Mr.Stirling," he said, still speaking in German.

"See." He drew from a drawer in his desk a check-book, and filling up a check, handed it to Peter.

It was dated and signed, but the amount was left blank.

"There," he said, "I leave it to you what is right." "I think Mr.Dummer will feel we have not treated him fairly," said Peter, "if we settle it in this way." "Do not think of him.

I will see that he has no cause for complaint," the brewer said.