"No, I won't; it's all the same who takes the money as long as it is paid up all right. But can you raise money on a bill of this sort, without security?"
"Without security? You are forgetting that we are guaranteeing it," replied Levin, with contemptuous familiarity.
"I don't want to depreciate it," observed Falk. "I'm grateful for your guarantees, but I don't believe that the bill will be accepted."
"Oh, won't it! It's accepted already," said Borg, bringing out a bill of acceptance, as he called it. "Go on, Falk, sign!"
Falk signed his name.
Borg and Levin were watching him, looking over his shoulders like policemen.
"Assessor," dictated Borg.
"No, I'm a journalist," objected Falk.
"That's no good; you are registered as assessor, and as such you still figure in the directory."
"Did you look it up?"