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Morris nodded sympathetically. "So, then, Mawruss," Abe continued, "Geigermann takes the fiddle again and shows it to us, Mawruss; and he says on the back is a ruby varnish." "Rubies is pretty high now, Abe," Morris said; "carat for carat, rubies is a whole lot more expensive as diamonds."
"Geigermann says he would go half," Morris said. "Sure, I know, Mawruss; but just because Geigermann acts like a sucker, Mawruss, why should we get ourselves into it too? Furthermore, Mawruss, how do we know Geigermann would go half? He's that kind of feller, Mawruss, that when he says something he don't take it so particular he should stick to it, Mawruss.
He's going to give some greenhorn a couple of dollars to go with him to Geigermann's house and play the fiddle; and the first thing you know, Abe, Geigermann is buying from him a big bill of goods and all the time our orders gets smaller and smaller till we lose his trade altogether." Abe laughed mirthlessly and bit the end off his after-breakfast cigar.
Two hours afterward Felix Geigermann entered the showroom, his face glistening with perspiration. "Well, boys," he almost shouted, "I seen him, and he says he would call in here on his way uptown." "Who would call in?" Morris asked. "Moses M. Steuermann," Felix replied. "It was the Tschaikovsky Fourth that fixed him, Mawruss.
"In the first place, Mawruss," he began, "it was your idee I should go up there and get the fiddle back, and in the second place I am telling you with my own eyes I seen that fiddle and it is the selfsame, identical article name, lot number and everything which that feller Geigermann refuses thirty-five hundred dollars for." He scowled at his partner in anticipation of a cutting rejoinder.
When Morris Perlmutter arrived at Felix Geigermann's store the next morning he showed the effects of a restless night and no breakfast; for he had found it impossible either to eat or sleep until he had his hands on the violin. "Mr. Geigermann went out for a minute, Mr. Potash," a floorwalker explained; "but he said I should show you right into his office, Mr. Potash."
Despite Abe's optimism, however, the order for spring goods that Felix Geigermann bestowed on them a month later fell short of their expectations by over five hundred dollars. "Business couldn't be so good with Felix this year, Mawruss," Abe commented. "Don't you jolly yourself, Abe," Morris replied. "It ain't so much that business is bad with Felix as it is better with Klinger & Klein.
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