So much was already in hand.
He stated the amount of certain large donations, and added--"I will not mention the names of the subscribers, as it might happen that it would be to your advantage not to know them." Wilhelm had listened in silence.

He now opened a drawer of his writing-table, took out a yellow envelope in which Schrotter was in the habit of giving him, on the first of every month, fifteen hundred marks out of the Dorfling bequest, and handed the sum which he had received the day before, and was still unbroken, to the workingmen's leader.

The man turned over the three five-hundred-mark notes, and then looked up startled.

Wilhelm only nodded his head slightly.
The leader rose.

"It would be inadvisable to give you a receipt.