Note 6 — Chapter V · THE MAN FROM THE STARS
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And if you dare to suggest, as this ink-slinging rascal on the Vorwarts has done, that I have made large sums of money out of the expenses which the empire allow me for propaganda work, I fling the accusation in your teeth. I admit I am well off, but that is due to my private speculations on the Stock Exchange in the year 1914.[6] But to return to my work and to an adventure which was, to say the least, out of the ordinary.