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This happened in Vienna at the beginning of

1922. I was slowly walking along one of the main streets of the city and though

the day was warm and sunny everything seemed gloomy to me as I was out of work.

I had no idea whom to ask for help. Suddenly I

remembered that a friend of mine, John Smith by name, had been working as an editor in

Vienna for the last few months. I got in touch with him and we made an

appointment for that evening.

When I told him my story he smiled and said happily,

“I can help you. Listen…” The matter was that his boss

wishing to get greater profits had decided to publish a number of detective

novels and these were to be translated from Spanish. They needed the man

who could do that.

“So you will do it”, he finished.

“How can I do it? I don’t know Spanish.”

“It doesn’t matter”, he answered. “Any translation

will do”. I protested, he insisted, I protested, he insisted and at last he got

me to agree to do it.

“Here is the novel and some money. You’ll get the rest

after you do the translation. I guarantee good money”, he added. “I give four

days. Not more”. With these words he left.

I was at a loss what to do. Then I went to a cheap

restaurant where I knew I would meet my friends. There I found Hans. We all

believed that he knew at least five or six languages including Spanish. I asked

him to translate the novel. After some time he said, “You see, I’ve been out of practice lately. But I’ll take the

novel, read it and then tell you its contents”. I liked the plan.

Some days later I wrote down the contents of the book

and went to the editor. Smith was too busy to listen to what I wanted to tell

him. “Here is your money. You have earned it honestly. See you one of  these

days”, he said. Later on I met Hans and gave him half of the money.

“I think I ought to study Spanish”, he said taking the

money.

“But don’t you know it?” I asked him in great

surprise.

“Certainly, I don’t”, he said. “I told you the

contents of an English detective novel,

I only changed the English names for the Spanish ones”.

he could help him to find the job

he knew several foreign languages

he could lend him some money

he could introduce him to the editor