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"And," he concluded, "he's coming to work Monday morning." At the end of three disillusionizing weeks Abe Potash and Morris Perlmutter sat in the show-room of their place of business. Abe's hat was tilted over his eyes and he whistled a tuneless air. Morris was biting his nails. "Well, Mawruss," Abe said at length, "when we're stuck we're stuck; ain't it?
"And also, Abe," he concluded, "if I got it a partner what made it a slave of me, like Perlmutter does you, I'd go it alone, that's all I got to say." After Henochstein left, Abe was a prey to bitter reflections, which were only interrupted by his partner's return to the show-room a quarter of an hour later.
When Abe entered the firm's showroom that morning it was nearly half-past eleven and Morris Perlmutter sat behind the pages of the Daily Cloak and Suit Record in a sulky perusal of the Arrival of Buyers column. Before he looked up he permitted Abe to discard his coat for an office jacket. "You was taking a sea bath, Abe?" he said at length. "Ain't it?
"That's all right," Morris interrupted. "We take your word for it. The point is, could you sell it him a big bill of goods, maybe?" Marks Pasinsky leaned back in his chair and laughed uproariously. "Why, Mr. Perlmutter," he said, all out of breath from his mirth, "that feller is actually putting his job in danger because he's holding off in his fall buying until I get to Seattle.
I guess you know him, too, don't you?" Morris admitted sullenly that he did. "He's got a daughter, Miss Miriam Rabin," Louis concluded. "Her and me is going to announce our engagement in next Sunday's Herald." He paused and watched Morris and Abe, to see the news sink in. "And as soon as we're married," he said, "back to the road for mine, but not with Potash & Perlmutter."
"I must have been crazy to cancel that order," he went on. "Where did you get it, Anna?" "Me buy from Potash & Perlmutter," she said. "My coosin Lina works by Mr. Perlmutter. She gets one yesterday for two dollar. Me see it last night and like it. So me get up five o'clock this morning and go downtown and buy one for two dollar, too."
"I am coming all the way up here, which I am leaving wife and boy at home to do so and maybe you don't think she put up a holler, Gurin! So if you wouldn't even consent to do me the favour and look at Mrs. Gladstein, Gurin, and I don't get mad, understand me, why should I get mad if you would tell me something?" "Well," Gurin commenced, "it ain't much to tell, Mr. Perlmutter.
So then I says, if you wouldn't ring 'em up and I wouldn't ring 'em up I'll do this for you, Miss Atkinson: You and me will go for an oitermobile ride, I says, and we'll have just so good a time as if Potash & Perlmutter was paying for it. And so we did, Abe.
"It's a feller by the name Mawruss Perlmutter." Aaron Kronberg's pallor gave way to a flood of crimson, and for a moment he choked incoherently as he gazed at Uncle Mosha in amazement. "Why, that feller Perlmutter is a friend of Alex," he gasped at length. "Sure, I know," Uncle Mosha replied; "but even if he is a friend of Alex his money ain't counterfeit."
I guess you hear already why I am coming to this country." Morris elevated his eyebrows. "I suppose you are coming here like anybody else comes here," he said. "Sooner as stay in the old country and be a Schnorrer all your life, you come over here, ain't it?" "No, siree, sir," Gurin replied emphatically. "If I would stay in the old country, Perlmutter, I don't got to be a Schnorrer.
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