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While Schnitt thanked Johnny for his interference until that modest young man blushed, Ersten argued seriously in whispers with Shoppenvoll to secure a bottle of the precious wine that only he and Schoppenvoll and Kurzerhosen had a right to purchase. Johnny drank his with dull wonder. It tasted just like Rhine wine!
Let him go!" "He objected to the light in the workroom, didn't he?" went on the cross-examiner, carefully piecing the situation together bit by bit. "He could see for thirty-seven years, till everybody talks about moving; then he goes crazy," blurted Ersten. "Won't you look at this place?" he was urged. "Let me show it to you to-morrow." "I stay where I am," sullenly declared Ersten, still angry.
"I've had a regiment of real estate men helping me devil Ersten to death, but he won't sell." "Of course he'll sell," declared Johnny confidently. "You can buy anything in New York if you go at it right. Each deal is like a Chinese puzzle. You never do it twice alike." "Try this one," urged Lofty. "There's a good commission in it." "Commission?
Ersten stoutly, and then he laughed with considerable heartiness, pleased immensely with his own joke and not noticing that it was more than half Johnny's. After all, Johnny had only implied it; he had said it! Accordingly he relented a trifle. "From four to half-past five, at Schoppenvoll's, I play skat," he added.
"I'm sure it's only obstinacy," commented Constance when she and Johnny had rejoined their party. "Why, Mr. Schnitt and Mr. Ersten have grown up together in the business, and they seemed more like brothers than anything else. I'd give anything to bring them together again!" "I'll ask you for it some time," asserted Johnny confidently.
"I have a better location for you, not half a block away, and I've taken an option on a long-time lease for it." The stolid boy removed the steins. The three gentlemen poured the Glanzen Wasser into their wine. "I will not sell the lease," announced Ersten with such calm finality that Johnny apologized for the intrusion and withdrew.
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