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Meyer Vetsburg cast a beetling glance down upon Miss Kaufman, there so small beside him, and tinked peremptorily against her plate three times with his fork. "Eat, young lady, like your mama wants you should, or, by golly! I'll string you up for my watch-fob not, Mrs. Kaufman?" A smile lay under Mr. Vetsburg's gray-and-black mustache.
Kaufman, it's the same, right away if I get too easy with " "But, Mr. Vetsburg, a poor woman can't afford to be so independent. I got big expenses and big rent; I got a daughter to raise " "Mama, haven't I begged you a hundred times to let me take up stenography and get out and hustle so you can take it easy haven't I?" A thick coating of tears sprang to Mrs.
"Yes, from holding in. Mrs. Kaufman, should a woman like you the finest woman in the world, and I can prove it a woman, Mrs. Kaufman, who in her heart and my heart and Should such a woman not come to Atlantic City when I got everything fixed like a stage set!" She threw out an arm that was visibly trembling. "Mr. Vetsburg, for God's sake, 'ain't I just told you how that she harum-scarum she ."
"When you go down to station, Mr. Vetsburg, so right away she ain't so disappointed I don't come, tell her maybe to-morrow I ." "I don't tell her nothing!" broke in Mr. Vetsburg and moved toward her with considerable strengthening of tone. "Mrs. Kaufman, I ask you, do you think it right you should go back like this on Ruby and me, just when we want most you should "
"Ain't it fair, Lenie, in love and war and business a man has got to scheme for what he wants out of life? Long enough it took she should grow up. I knew all along once those two, each so full of life and being young, got together it was natural what should happen. Mrs. Kaufman! Lenie! Lenie!"
She was deeply upset by the tragic events of the lost war and the grumblings of the revolution. She got in touch with some friends in Russia to help make necessary arrangements. A friend of her mother's, Mr. Pletnioff, made all preliminary arrangements to have her accepted in the Kaufman community of sisters under the leadership of Baroness Ixkull, a very cultivated and capable person.
And even the power of renounciation has to be fought for." She was working at that time in the Kaufman community but was to go to Montenegro for a hospital reorganization. This did not come about. She wrote: St. Petersburg 1911. "I am undergoing the greatest disappointment at this moment.
"But it's only been a day," Kaufman said. The detective chief's heart wasn't in her objection; the Count nodded. "The law will have to be changed to accommodate Captain Thompson and the other . . ." What was a good word for them? They weren't Kins, though they were of the the Kindred, yes. Thompson chuckled harshly. "Call me a Bloodmate, my Lady.
"Don't!" "Well," he said, clicking the door softly after him, "good night and sleep tight." "'Night, Vetsy." Upon the click of that door Mrs. Kaufman leaned softly forward in her chair, speaking through a scratch in her throat. "Ruby!" With her flush still high, Miss Kaufman danced over toward her parent, then as suddenly ebbed in spirit, the color going.
"You can take it from me she'll get him for her Ruby yet! And take it from me, too, almost any girl I know, much less Ruby Kaufman, could do worse as get Meyer Vetsburg." "S-say, I wish it to her to get him. For why once in a while shouldn't a poor girl get a rich man except in books and choruses?" "Believe me, a girl like Ruby can manage what she wants.
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