He thanks him with filial affection for all his care, and says naïvely that he would rather have his prayers than fall heir to twenty thousand daler.

"It makes too many Dalers in the long run," said he.

Sweden paid Denmark a million daler; for the rest, things stayed as they had been before.

Sivert was not upset over the matter, not at all; perhaps, indeed, it might have irked him something more if he really had thrown away five thousand Daler.