How long, the visitor insisted, before he would hear from his family that the money had come?
"Depends on how soon they write." The tone was distinctly superior. "Family habits in these matters are different, we find."
His family acknowledged their letters instantly, Hahn said, if they got them. They hadn't been getting them.
"You have been here before?"
"No."
"I thought not. Then why did you expect your letters to get through, above all if they had money in them?" The unshadowed eyes in the pudding visage rested on the three five-dollar bills Hahn still held in his hand.
Hahn wished to know how soon he might hear if his family acknowledged at once.
"As a rule inside six weeks."
What would be the longest time, Hahn then wished to know.
"Two months—"