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the only reciprocity on my part that within a certain number of years I might buy back 1/3 of the existing stock for cash. Instead of cash I had only increasing debts. I was very tired of all this fighting commercialism and still more tired of Hahn. - Jacobi had lost his wife who died in 1897, and he also was eager to get out. After some discussion with Jacobi we agreed that we would ask $750000 cash, net. Jacobi did not want to inform Hahn who had behaved so badly, after his bluffing us as a rich man and could not pay
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for the stock beyond the first 2000$ or $3000, that Jacobi was determined to give him his money back and take [[strikethrough]] this [[/strikethrough]] Hahn's unpaid stock and distribute it between us. - I protested and told him that much as I disliked Hahn I refused to participate in such an act, and that it was our duty to tell Hahn about our contemplated sale, but pledge him under secrecy, etc. This we did and a few weeks afterwards Mr. Baeck who was the manager of the Wallpaper factory near by and like Hahn a bachelor, - a very cynical bachelor - told me that he had heard