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"Well, I'm sorry, Abe," he said seriously. "A feller should never look a gift horse in the teeth, Abe; but that fiddle ain't worth a cent more than a hundred at the outside." "Do you mean to say it ain't a genu-ine Amati?" Abe asked angrily. "Why, I don't mean to say anything, Abe," Felix began; "but there are Amatis and Amatis.
Some of them are worth little fortunes and others are very ordinary-like." "Say, lookyhere, Felix," Abe cried, "don't fool with me. Either that fiddle is or it ain't a genu-ine Amati. Ain't it?" Felix paused. He wanted those velvet suits badly, and it began to look as though there would be a delay in the shipment. "What is all this leading to, Abe?" he began pleasantly.
If Shellak finds out he is getting a hundred and twenty-five for a fiddle worth three thousand, he's got gumption enough to sue us in the courts yet, and don't you forget it." "Why should he sue us, Abe?" Morris asked. "A bargain is a bargain, ain't it?" "Sure I know, Mawruss; but I told the feller the fiddle wasn't genu-ine, y'understand, when all the time I knew it was genu-ine."
"For a hundred and twenty-five dollars expenses you are getting an order for seven hundred and fifty dollars, Abe," Morris said relentlessly; "and some fellers would throw it up to their partners for months together yet." "It was a genu-ine Amati, Mawruss," Abe repeated for the third time, "and for a genu-ine Amati, Mawruss, a hundred and twenty-five dollars is no price at all."
For five minutes he pursued the tactics of Mozart Rabiner and even added one or two fancy touches on his own account, until at length he laid down the instrument with a profound sigh. "Always the same thing, Shellak," he said; "people says it is a genu-ine and it ain't." Aaron took up his violin and looked at it through new eyes. "Why ain't it genu-ine?" he asked.
"You give Shellak a hundred and twenty-five dollars?" Morris exploded. "Are you crazy, oder what?" "It was a genu-ine Amati," Abe explained; "and so soon as I seen it, Mawruss, I thought to myself if them cut-throats could sell Geigermann a big bill of goods just by playing on fiddles, y'understand, what sort of an order could I get out of him supposing I should give him a fiddle yet?
What for a present is a fiddle, Abe, when for half the money we could give him a pianner yet?" Abe hung his head in embarrassment. "But Mawruss," he said, "it was a genu-ine Amati." For one brief moment Morris choked with rage. "Genu-ine hell!" he roared, and plunged away to the office.
I'll tell you what it is, Captain Sam, I'll bet a big button he's deserted an' gone home. He's a coward and he's been scared ever since he found out that you wa'n't foolin' about this bein' a genu-ine, dangerous piece of work, an' I'll bet he's cut his lucky, an' gone home, an' if ever I get back there I'll pull his nose for a sneak, you just see if I don't."
"That's the word I'm rummagin' for; he's a sort o' sleigh-ridin', tea-meetin' parson. I didn't take much stock in old Cameron when he was livin'; you couldn't take a chaw o' tobacco without him knowin' about it, but all the same he was the genu-ine article. It was uncomfortable times for sinners when he was 'round. This chap's different grade; he needs a label on him." Mr.
So that's what I done, Mawruss; and he did, Mawruss, and I was right. Ain't it?" "Say, lookyhere, Abe," Morris began slowly; "let me get this thing correct. You are paying Shellak a hundred and twenty-five dollars for a fiddle which you are giving Geigermann." "You got it right, Mawruss," Abe said. "It was a genu-ine Amati."
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