If you will have the kindness to come with me to a lawyer, and assign the deed to my friend, I will give you two thousand dollars for it at once, and on the day that you place the deed in our hands I will pay down the rest of the money." The baron had forced himself to listen to this proposal with a smile.

At last he replied briefly, "Devise some other plan; I can not consent to this." "There is no other," said Itzig; "but it is only midday, and I can wait till five." He again began a series of low bows, and moved to the door.
"Reflect, gracious sir," said he, earnestly, "that you do not merely want the ten thousand dollars.

You will, in the course of the next few months, require as much more for your factory and the getting your money out of the Polish investment.

If you surrender the mortgage to us, you will have the whole sum you need; but pray do not mention the matter to Ehrenthal: he is a hard man, and would injure me throughout life." "Have no fear," said the baron, with a gesture of dismissal.
Veitel withdrew.
The baron paced up and down.

The proposal just made revolted him.