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It was this very same suit about which Ersten was talking when Johnny entered. "Na, Kurzerhosen," he said with a trace of pathos in his guttural voice, "when you die we have no more suits of clothes like that." "I thank you," returned the flexible soft voice of Kurzerhosen. "It is like the work you make in your ladies' garments, Ersten.
At exactly five-thirty Ersten emerged from the wine-room with Kurzerhosen. "Hello, Louis!" hailed the waiting Close. "Jump into the taxi here, and I'll take you down to your train." Ersten and Kurzerhosen looked at each other. "Always we walk," declared Ersten. "There's room for both of you," laughed Close, shaking hands with Kurzerhosen. Ersten sighed.
It was at this most inopportune time that Johnny Gamble spoke. "Well, Mr. Ersten," he cheerfully observed, "I've come round to make you an offer for that lease." Mr. Ersten, his gnarled eyebrows bent upon the sacred ceremony about to be performed, looked up with a grunt and immediately returned to his business. Mr. Kurzerhosen glanced round for an instant in frowning appeal. Mr.
As he went out, Ersten and Kurzerhosen and Schoppenvoll, in blissful forgetfulness of him, raised their glasses for the first delicious sip of the Rheinthranen, of which there were only two hundred and eighty precious bottles left in the world. Outside, Johnny hailed a passing taxi. He called on Morton Washer, on Ben Courtney, on Colonel Bouncer, and even on Candy-King Slosher; but to no purpose.
Kurzerhosen, who had been looking steadily at the opposite side of the street throughout the journey. "I thank you." Close stared at Johnny in silence for a moment after their guests had gone. "I told you so," he said. "You'll have to give him up as a bad job." "He's beginning to look like a good job," asserted Johnny. "He can be handled like wax, but you have to melt him.
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!
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