116 THE OPPERMANNS troops with it and reimburse the Leader's propaganda out of it? F or those thirteen thousand members of the Agrarian Party, so that they eould put further milliards into their sense- less eeonomie poliey? Gustav rose and paeed up and down with rapid, rigid strides. Mühlheim was unquestionably right. The money paid over to the State was used for purposes very different from the publie interest. It was not used for his, Gustav's, proteetion, hut for attaeking hirn. But, all the same, they served the pur- pose of maintaining the law, even if that law was misguided, and Gustav agreed with Goethe, who preferred to put up with injustiee rather than lawlessness. He held out his powerful, hairy hand. "Thank you for thinking of me, Mühlheim. But I am going to keep my money in Germany." Mühlheim did not take the hand. He looked angrily at the stubborn fellow. The thing was dead sure. It was strietly legal. The company Gustav was to subscribe to had a number of German Nationalists, even of members of the Party, on its list of shareholders. Sueh an opportunity of investing money abroad safely would not oceur again. The list of subscribers would elose tomorrow, on the last day of the year. What was the matter with Gustav? What were his reasons? Where were his objections? He might have the deeency to say what his arguments were. Gustav, embarrassed, eontinued to pace up and down. Argu- ments? He had no arguments. He eonsidered it unfair to send his money out of Germany. The fact of the matter was that he was attached to Germany. That was all. Sentimental scruples, no doubt, which could not stand against Mühlheim's logic. But the fact was that he was sentimental. Why, he went on, smiling boyishly and rnischievously, why could not a man who had half a million in cash assets and at least twiee as much invested capital not afford a little sentimentality? "Merely to enable yourself to afford that sentirnentality in