No, I asked you that before.

But--but twenty _thousand_ a--a year! For mercy sakes, what's the principal ?" "In the neighborhood of five hundred thousand, I believe.

Of course, we had no authority to investigate thoroughly.

That will be a part of your duties, but--" "S-shh! Let me soak this into my brains a little at a time.

'Bije leaves his children five hundred thousand, half a million, and--and they've got to _economize_! And I'm....