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"Then you won't take any part in the enterprise?" "Not any," Collaton assured him with a wave of negation. "If Johnny will let me alone I'll let him alone, and be glad of the chance." Later, Gresham saw Johnny come back and speak to Heinrich Schnitt; but he had no curiosity about it.
Ersten had a struggle of his own. "All what was in when you left," he bravely confessed. "That coat for Mrs. Follison gives me trouble for a week!" "She's got funny shoulders," commented Schnitt with professional impersonality. "It's the left one. You cut it Let me see it."
"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.
"You don't mean to say you've left Ersten?" returned Constance in surprise. "I have retired from business," reiterated Heinrich. "Ersten wouldn't give papa enough room," broke in Mama Schnitt indignantly, "so he quits, and he don't go back till he does." "So I don't ever go back," concluded Heinrich.
To the right of Heinrich sat Grossmutter Schnitt, in a black sateen dress, with her back bowed like a new moon and her little old face withered like a dried white rose. Next sat young Heinrich Schnitt and his wife, Milly, who was very fashionable and wore a lace shirt-waist though she was not so fashionable that she was ashamed of any of the rest of the party.
"I didn't know either you or Schnitt until yesterday." Ersten knit his bristling brows, but presently grinned. "You're a smart young man," he complimented. "But I don't promise Schnitt I move." "Certainly not," agreed the smart young man, and mopped his brow. The fight was won! "Here is exactly what you must say" and he went patiently over the entire dialogue again, word by word.
The mediator conveyed Heinrich to Ersten's with much the same feeling that he would have endured in carrying a full plate of soup and he had that feeling all through the conference. "Hello, Heinrich!" greeted Ersten with indifference. "Hello, Louis!" returned Schnitt with equal nonchalance; then he assumed a rigid pose and recited: "I have come back to work."
"Must it take a month, Heinrich?" implored Ersten, taking the cue. "Well, how soon you move?" inquired Schnitt. "I don't promise I move!" flared Ersten. "I never come back " "Till his eyes are better," hastily interrupted Johnny. "Look here, you fellows! You're balling up this rehearsal! Now let's get together. Schnitt, you'll come back to work in this place, won't you?"
It was Constance who, walking quietly with Johnny, discovered Heinrich Schnitt in the midst of his throng and casually remarked it. "There's the nice old German who cuts my coats," she observed. "Schnitt!" exclaimed Johnny, so loudly that she was afraid Schnitt might hear him. "Let me hear you talk to him." She looked at him in perplexity for a moment. "Oh, yes; the lease," she remembered.
"Well, I say it anyhow," admitted Schnitt reluctantly. "Ersten, you offer him a month to rest his eyes, don't you?" "I don't promise him I move!" bristled Ersten. "We understand that," soothed Johnny, "all of us. Schnitt, you'll take some of Mr. Ersten's work home with you from this place, won't you?" "Sure, I do that," consented Schnitt eagerly. "Louis, what is in the shop?"
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