ocr: Dear maitre Alfolter, Itseems that today life is slipping away from me more quickly than I imagined and I fear that I will not be of this world to sign the take-over contract for my dear factory. So I must make this confession to you now - my brother Hans is still alive! It would not surprise me ifyou find this difficult to believe but it is indeed the truth. You must remember his death, his funeral too, even though you were very young at the time. It was but a sordid charade dreamt up by our father. To him, the very idea that his only son should wish to leave Valadilene and abandon the family ...