Tree" ought to have been under sail long ago. Mr. Vigeland comes
here every day to complain about it; he is a difficult man to
have with one as part owner.

Aune: The "Palm Tree" can go to sea the day after tomorrow.

Bernick: At last. But what about the American ship, the "Indian
Girl," which has been laid up here for five weeks and--

Aune: The American ship? I understood that, before everything
else, we were to work our hardest to get your own ship ready.

Bernick: I gave you no reason to think so. You ought to have
pushed on as fast as possible with the work on the American ship
also; but you have not.

Aune: Her bottom is completely rotten, Mr. Bernick; the more we
patch it, the worse it gets.

Bernick: That is not the reason. Krap has told me the whole
truth. You do not understand how to work the new machines I have
provided--or rather, you will not try to work them.

Aune: Mr. Bernick, I am well on in the fifties; and ever since I
was a boy I have been accustomed to the old way of working--

Bernick: We cannot work that way now-a-days. You must not
imagine, Aune, that it is for the sake of making profit; I do not
need that, fortunately; but I owe consideration to the community
I live in, and to the business I am at the head of. I must take