owed. "Why is it," he inquired, "you will not be
just with this man, and renegotiate his contract? Why do you take
advantage of his misfortune?"
12 "Lord," they insisted, "a contract is a contract. He gave his
word. The loans are due now, not three months from now! If he cannot
pay the full amount the property is ours."
13 "I do not like your attitude," announced Bold Fox. "Honorable men
would understand this man's plight. They would take into consideration
the fact that the war disrupted everyone's business. I am going to
grant him his extra time, and from now on I am going to make it a Law
that when a man can prove he can repay a loan in a reasonable amount of
time, his creditors must give him more time. Such is not breaking a contract, it is merely
being fair. Such a Law will keep greedy men like you from taking advantage of other's misfortune."
14 The three men went away ashamed, because Bold Fox had exposed
the nature of their hearts. And many more wise judgments did Bold
Fox make.
15 Now, a short time after the cease fire with The Oneness was signed,
one of the soldiers that had been blinded by the rockets, came before
Bold Fox. "Sir," he said, "I and over half my comrades are afraid. Something is
very wrong.
16 Your people have helped us write to our kinsmen, but we have
received no replies....not one of us! The Agents who have come to see
us say that our families want us to come home, that we will be cared for. When we ask
why we have received no letters, they say it is because our people do
not wish to write while we are in the enemy's hands.
17 To many of us, this does not sound reasonable. Until we
hear from our families, we do not wish to go home. We have a feeling
they have told our kinsmen we are dead."