“And I said nothing, because they had nine thousand dollars of mine and I had signed a paper.

“I am saying it now.

It is three years late and it is not worth anything now, and I am saying it.”

I found him afterward in the corridor and I did not make a speech, because he did not need one from me.

I said: “Mr.

Saenz, it was worth something.”

And he said, “No, sir.

But thank you.”