Since I can not furnish myself with postage stamps of the United States in Budapest, I request that you send me your kind answer without prepaying same.
Recommending my request to your favor, I sign
Most respectfully, Dr. Samuel Rusznyak.
After a lapse of a few days we received another batch of letters, two of which explained the epistolary avalanche. One of them was from the editor of the Pester Lloyd, stating that he had printed a translation of the story in his journal and had been overwhelmed with inquiries as to whether it was fact or fiction. Another letter was from Mme. Fanny Steinitz, a literary lady living in Buda-Pesth, who confessed that she was the cause of the outburst, as she had translated the story. In order to heighten the interest she had elevated the writer, Mr. Milne, to the order of knighthood by giving him an accolade with her pen.
How naïve and ingenuous must be the Hungarian nature! Fancy a number of serious American business men writing to an American journal concerning an exciting story like that of Mr. Milne.