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But I was warned Herr Cantberg is always wrong. Good-morning. 'Stop! cried the youth. 'Go in, Reb Yitzchok; let me deal with this fire-eater. And as the corpulent man retired with an improbable alacrity, he continued gravely: 'This time Herr Cantberg was not more than a hundred versts from the truth. David smiled. 'You are the Bundist. 'Hush! Here I am the son-in-law. What news from Warsaw?
'But he seems very zealous for Zion, said David uneasily. Herr Cantberg shook his head dolefully. 'He'd introduce vaccination and serum-insertions instead of the grand old laws. As if any human arrangement could equal the wisdom of Sinai! And he actually scoffs at the Restoration of the Sacrifices! 'But do you propose to restore them? David was astonished. The owl's eyes shone.
Lerkoff asked David to wait in another room while he saw Herr Cantberg professionally. There was an Ark with scrolls of the Law in the room, betiding a piety and a purse beyond the normal. Presently Lerkoff reappeared chuckling. 'He knows all about you, you infamous rascal, he said. 'You have told him? 'He told me; he always knows everything.
'I want both you and your father-in-law, said David evasively 'his money and your muscles. 'He gives no money to the Cause, save unwillingly what I squeeze out of Cantberg. The youth permitted himself his first smile. 'When he deals with that bourgeois at the telephone, I always egg him on to stand out for more and more, and my profit is half the extra roubles we extort.
'A what? said the fur-dealer. David smiled. 'Oh, you needn't pretend with me; I'm a fighter myself. He let a revolver peep out of his hip-pocket. 'Help! Gewalt! cried the fur-dealer. A beardless youth came running out of the back room. David laughed. 'Herr Cantberg told me that you were a Bundist, he explained to the shopkeeper. 'And I came to meet a kindred spirit.
As the dove returned to the ark, as the swallow returns to the lands of the spring, as the tide returns to the sands, as the stars 'Yes, yes, I know, said David; 'but where is there room in Palestine for the Russian Jews? 'Where was there room in the Temple for the millions who came up at Passover? retorted Herr Cantberg crushingly. The telephone here interposed, offering the furs cheaper.
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