George went down to the restaurant for his evening meal. Only one guest, an old man, sat near the window and looked down at the seaside.

George ordered his meal and took out his map to find the way to Minaun Hospital. He couldn't find it and asked the old man for the way. The old man slowly turned to him with a smile on his face, took George's map and said to him: " Oh dear, please sit down, I tell you the direction and a story, too.

Around 35 years ago, I lived on Achill Island. I am a Swedish fisherman, my name is Sven. Later I went back to my home country Sweden. In 1946 I was on a fisherboat around Achill Island and suddenly we had to rescue shipwrecked people. I pulled out a young boy, more dead than alive. This boy was a hidden German boy and an orphan, who had lost his parents and twinbrother Herbert. In 1946, these children had been invited by the Catholic church of Ireland, to get away from World War II, or from "The Emergency", as the Irish call it.

I brought him into the Minaun-Castle-Hospital you asked about, the only hospital on Achill Island. The poor boy had to stay there for a long time, because he had lost his memory and belonged to no one. His misery touched me deeply. Therefore, I visited him very often. Later, a German family, Berthold and Maria Mueller, took him back to Germany and adopted him. That's the reason for the boy's two family names: on Achill Island his name was George Miller, and as an adopted child his name changed to Georg Mueller."

The two men couldn't believe that they had found each other, Sven his shipwrecked boy and George his life-saver.

"But, my God, why are we both here on February 4?"

The answer was simple: Both men had got an invitation to a BOD picture auction, worth several million Irish Pounds.

The story comes to a happy end, because they agree on the following:

1) To eat their meal and

2) To leave the rest of the invited group to themselves. They may fight for the money, but we need no money at all. It is only important that we found each other, friendship makes us rich!

The final curtain.
Or is it?