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It caught Morris's eye one morning in January and he read it over not without envy. "Some people's got all the luck, Abe," he said bitterly. "I bet yer!" Abe replied, without looking up from his order book, which was overflowing with requisitions for spring garments. "I bet yer, Mawruss! You take my Rosie for instance: at her age you got no idee what a sport she is.
"I got to talking it over with Minnie last night," Morris replied, "and she thinks maybe if we give our work out by contractors we wouldn't need it to stay down so late, and then I wouldn't keep the dinner waiting an hour or so every other night. We lose it two good girls already by it in six months." "Who is running this business, Mawruss?" Abe roared. "Minnie or us?"
"I mean, Abe, that I will go into this alone by myself, and only one thing I beg of you, Abe: don't come to me in six months' time and claim that I wouldn't let you in on a good thing. I have done my best." The air of simple dignity with which Morris delivered his ultimatum was marred to some extent by a raucous laugh from Abe. "Don't do me no favors, Mawruss," he jeered.
"Why, I mean I knew all along that fiddle of yours was a fake; and anyhow, Abe, I seen Milton Strauss, of Klipmann, Strauss & Bleimer, and what d'ye suppose he told it me, Abe?" Abe shrugged angrily. "If you must got to get it off your chest before I tell you what Geigermann told to me, Mawruss," he said, "go ahead."
"All right, Mawruss," Abe said; "I'm satisfied. If you want to get some more insurance, go ahead. I got worry enough I should bother my head about trifles. A little money for insurance we can afford to spend it, Mawruss, so long as we practically throw it in the streets otherwise." "Otherwise?" Morris repeated. "What do you mean we throw it away otherwise, Abe?"
"Well, if bookkeepers gets vacations, Mawruss, where are we going to stop? First thing you know, Mawruss, we'll be giving cutters vacations, and operators vacations, and before we get through we got our workroom half empty yet and paying for full time already. If she wants a vacation for two weeks I ain't got no objections, Mawruss, only we don't pay her no wages while she's gone."
He had hardly seated himself comfortably at his desk, however, when Abe burst into the room. "That's the way it goes, Mawruss," he cried. "Half the time we sit and schmooes in the showroom and we don't know what goes on in our cutting room at all." "What's the matter now?" Morris asked. "Harkavy has quit us again," Abe replied. "Quit us!" Morris exclaimed. "What for?" "Nothing.
He found that Morris had already arrived. "Well, Mawruss," he said in greeting, "everything went off splendid for Feinsilver. Max Cohen came down with a certified check for five thousand dollars, you and me got rid of about over a hundred, counting the wedding-present and our wives' dresses, and Miss Cohen got a husband and a lot of cut glass, while me I got a headache!" Morris grunted.
In less than a minute, Abe was conversing with Fiedler. "Mr. Fiedler!" he said. "Hello, Mr. Fiedler! Is this you? Yes. Well, me and Mawruss is about decided to buy a thousand of them stocks what you showed me down at your store at your office yesterday, only, Mawruss says, why should we buy them goods them stocks if you ain't sold that other stocks already.
I am enjoying myself, Mawruss, on account Moe Griesman from Sarahcuse was just in here, which he tells me his nephew, Mozart Rabiner, goes to work for Klinger & Klein as a drummer and we should be so good and cancel the order which he gives us yesterday, as blood is redder as water; and what the devil could we do about it anyway?" Morris's jaw dropped and he sat down heavily in the nearest chair.
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