So there. And you can guess for yourselves till
tomorrow morning if you like. Everything of the best to eat and drink and
every way, and costing a heap of money each week; but she stays on and on.
Fie and for shame, say I, and I mean it too."
But now it seemed as if the scale had turned in my favour at the news of
my dismissal; some of the men perhaps felt sorry for me, others were glad
to learn that I was going. One of them offered me a drink from his own
bottle, and called to the maid for "another glass--a clean one, you
understand!" Even Henrik no longer bore me any grudge, but drank with me
and was friendly enough. And we sat there gossiping over our glasses quite
a while.
"But you'd better go up and see about that money of yours," said
Grindhusen. "For from what I've heard, I don't fancy you'll get the
Inspector to come down here with it after you. He said as much. 'There's
money owing to him,' that was what he said, 'but if he thinks I'm going to
run after him with it, you can tell him it's here,' he said.
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