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He paused for a reply, but none came. "And yet, Mawruss," he concluded, "that feller Harkavy was a wonder too; and I suppose, Mawruss, the way he picked up English would be a big consolation to us, Mawruss, if a good customer like Geigermann leaves us and goes over to Kleiman & Elenbogen." Morris grunted scornfully. "You are all the time looking for trouble, Abe," he said.
Morris said, using three inflections to the monosyllable: "he's got just so much right to call himself Harkavy as all them other guys has to call themselves Breslauer, Hamburger, Leipziger oder Berliner. He anyhow does come from Harkav, Abe which you could take it from me, Abe, there's many a feller calls himself Hamburger which he don't come from no nearer Hamburg than Vilna oder Kovno."
Pincus came running from the office and reassured his uncle, who, under the ministrations of the doctor, grew rapidly stronger until he was sufficiently recovered to be placed on a chair. "Keep him quiet while I attend to the other fellow," said the doctor; "and don't let him talk." He went at once to the office, where Harkavy sat on the edge of the lounge. "Here! What are you doing?" he cried.
"If people is so anxious to get you that they pay you a big lot of money like that, Harkavy, you could keep 'em waiting anyhow one day. Come round and see us to-morrow morning at nine o'clock, wouldn't you?" Harkavy pondered the question for some minutes. "If you wish it, Mr. Perlmutter," he said, "I would do so; but I must got to go away by eleven o'clock sure." "Good!" Morris exclaimed.
"I don't want to talk to you at all, Kleiman," he replied; "and, anyhow, Kleiman, I don't know what you mean we are trying to do you! The shoe pinches on the other foot, Kleiman, when you just stop to consider you are stealing away from us that feller Harkavy, which all he knows we taught him." Louis Kleiman emitted a short, raucous guffaw. "Well, what are you kicking about?" he said.
In them the future prominent scientists, scholars, and litterateurs were reared, and there the foundations were laid for the activities of Goldfaden, Gurland, Harkavy, Kantor, Landau, Levanda, Mandelkern, Paperna, Pumpyansky, Rosenberg, Steinberg, and others. Their fate was that of Mendelssohn's Bible translation. The end became a means, the means, an end.
Inside the backyard was a dead moujik which he is got run over by a train. His face is all damaged so you couldn't tell who he was at all." He faltered and waved his hand. "Give me, please, a glass water," he said, and the doctor seized his hand. "Never mind!" Abe cried inexorably. "Leave him alone, doctor. He should finish what he's got to say." Harkavy nodded and sipped some water.
They give me the money and I run away; and the dead moujik they are telling everybody is me, which I am blew up to pieces by the package." "And you let the old man bury the moujik and think it was you?" Morris asked. Harkavy nodded. "Over and over again he is telling me I am no good and he wishes I was dead," he said. "I wish I was, Mr. Perlmutter I wish I was!"
Morris cried; then he recognized his victim. "Harkavy!" he exclaimed. "What are you doing here?" "I am coming to say good-by to a friend," Harkavy replied with some show of confusion. "I got to go to Chicago to-morrow." "Chicago!" Morris repeated. "Why, what are you doing in Chicago, Harkavy?" "I am now going to got a job out there," Harkavy replied "a very good job."
After a refreshing draught he passed it on to Pincus, who returned it empty to the crestfallen cutter just as a physician dashed out of the elevator. "What caused this trouble?" he asked Abe as he knelt down by the side of Harkavy. Abe looked helplessly at Morris and turned to Pincus Levin, who commenced to tremble violently. "Hold on there!" Morris shouted. "He's going to faint too."
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