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"Then that is good," gruffly assented Ersten with a trace of a sarcastic snarl. "Heinrich Schnitt," remarked Johnny. That name was an open sesame. Louis Ersten stopped immediately with his coat half-off. "So-o-o!" he ejaculated, surprised into a German exclamation that he had long since deliberately laid aside. "What is it about Heinrich?" "I saw him at Coney Island last night.
Schnitt's the real reason. Do you know Schnitt?" "I am happy to say I do not," laughed Close. "One like Ersten is enough." "Somebody must lead me to him," declared Johnny. "I'm going to see Schnitt in the morning. I'd call to-night if I didn't have to be the big works at a Coney Island dinner party." "I don't see how Schnitt can help you," puzzled Close. "He's the tack in the tire.
Finally he descended upon iron-hard Joe Close. "Do you know anybody who knows Louis Ersten, the ladies' tailor?" he asked almost automatically. "Ersten?" replied Close unexpectedly. "I've quarreled with him for thirty years. He banks with me." "Start a quarrel for me," requested Johnny. "I've been down to look him over. I can do business with him if he'll listen." Close smiled.
I can see what happened as well as if I had been there. Ersten knew he ought to move. Lofty tried to buy him and Schnitt tried to force him. Then he got his Dutch up. Schnitt left on account of it. Now Ersten won't do anything." "You can't budge him an inch," prophesied the banker. "I know him." "I'll coax him," stated Johnny determinedly. "There's a profit in him, and I have to have it!"
And madam, his wife, and he are making a grand tour of the world. Their wedding trip, I believe. Sie kommt von einer der ersten Familien the Dalrymples. Der Herr Direktor of the Russicher-Chinese bank told me. He cashes the drafts Her Gott nicht kleine!" These prosaic details the Frenchman, pictorially occupied, hardly, heard. "Mon Dieu! What a chapeau!" he sighed.
"Then Ersten will ask you: 'In this place? You say: 'Yes." Heinrich began to shake his head vigorously, but Johnny gave him no chance to refuse. "You say: 'Yes'!" he emphatically insisted. "Ersten will tell you to take a month off to rest your eyes." Again Heinrich started to shake his head, and again Johnny hurried on. "You say: 'Thank you'," he directed; "then you go away.
"Well, we got enough that papa don't have to work any more," asserted Mama Schnitt with proper pride and a glance at Flora Kraus; "but he gets lonesome. That's why we make him come down to Coney to-day and enjoy himself. He was with Louis Ersten thirty-seven years." A wave of homesickness swept over Heinrich.
Louis Ersten, who puffed redly wherever he did not grayly bristle, met Johnny Gamble half-way. Johnny's half consisted in stating that he had come to see Mr. Ersten in reference to his lease. Mr. Ersten's half consisted in flatly declining to discuss that subject on the premises. "Here I make ladies' suits," he explained.
"Well, maybe they ain't just so good as they was," he admitted. "That's what I told Ersten," stated Johnny. "He's worried stiff about it! I think he'll move so you have a lighter workroom if you go back." "When he moves I come." "He won't move till you do." "Then there is nothing," concluded Schnitt resignedly, and stooped over to pull another weed. "Mama, maybe Mr.
I might ask you a lot more, but that's the exact amount the system I'm playing calls for. I don't want any more and I won't take any less!" Lofty studied his face contemplatively for a moment and rang for his treasurer. "How did you get Ersten?" he was curious to know; and Johnny told him, to their mutual enjoyment. At the nearest drug store Johnny called up Constance.
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