Certainly, Professor, that was the intention in making the purchase.
OLDENDORF.
Do I possibly see in you the new owner?
SENDEN.
Not that, but I have the honor to be a friend of his. You yourself, as well as these gentlemen, have a right to demand the fulfilment of your contracts. Your contracts provide, I understand, for six months' notice. It goes without saying that you continue to draw your salary until the expiration of this term.
BOLZ (rising).
You are very kind, Mr. von Senden. Our contracts empower us to edit the paper as we see fit, and to control its tone and its party affiliations. For the next half-year, therefore, we shall not only continue to draw our salaries but also to conduct the paper for the benefit of the party to which you have not the honor to belong.
SENDEN (angrily).
We'll find a way to prevent that!