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Potash," he said and Morris glared at Abe. "I'm surprised at you, you should suggest such a thing, Abe!" he exclaimed. "Seemingly you got no conscience at all. A thousand dollars we should pay the feller! I bet yer he would lie himself black in the face for a twenty-dollar bill." "It isn't a matter of money, Mr. Perlmutter," Steuermann said; "but why not see the old man to-night?
Munjoy, who was seated between Henry D. Feldman and Steuermann at one side of a huge table. Opposite them were the clerk of the Russian Consulate and his counsel, who was obviously nervous at the formidable appearance presented by the lawyer, Henry D. Feldman.
Take Moses M. Steuermann, for instance; there's a feller which he is such a big charity feller, understand me, why shouldn't he help Kovalenko?" "Well, in the first place, no one tells him about it, Abe," Morris said, "and in the second place " "But why don't we tell him about it, Mawruss?" Abe interrupted. "Why don't you go down to see him, Mawruss, and tell him all about it?"
Morris shrank back and turned to the woman, who had not raised her head from the dishwashing. "You tell him," he said, "that the philanthropist Steuermann invites him to come to the address I shall give you to-morrow at ten o'clock. Tell him you know that when Steuermann commands, governors obey." "What is it my business?" Mrs. Levin replied. "Tell him yourself."
"So I believe," Steuermann replied; "and he has consented to act in conjunction with my lawyers Chitty, Schwarzstein & Munjoy. I shall relieve you gentlemen of all responsibility in the matter." "Do you mean by responsibility, Mr. Steuermann, that you would pay Feldman?" Abe asked. Mr. Steuermann smiled. "Well, we won't discuss that just now," he said.
"Your man should go with him," Morris insisted. "He and you will not lose by it." Morris wrote the address on the back of one of Potash & Perlmutter's business cards and handed it to her. "Put on it the table," she said. "Tell your man," Morris continued, "if he does take this old man to Steuermann I myself will pay him twenty-five dollars."
Steuermann, who shook his head. "Thank you very much," Mr. Steuermann said, "but I'm afraid it's rather near dinner-time." "Put it in your pocket and smoke it after dinner," Abe insisted, and Mr. Steuermann smilingly obliged. Together the two partners escorted him into the elevator; and when the door closed behind him Morris turned to Abe with an ironical smile.
"Look at what Steuermann done! Not only he is paying his lawyers for getting this Kovalenko out of prison but he is taking that young feller and paying for him he should go on with his studying for a doctor." "Well, the way doctors soak you, Mawruss," Abe said, looking at the bill which he held in his hand, "it wouldn't be long before Kovalenko pays him back with interest, I bet yer."
"Alaicham sholom!" the Rabbi answered, and then he resorted to the Yiddish jargon: "Do you look for me?" "I look for the Rav Elkan Levin," Morris said in a tongue to which he had long been unaccustomed. "I am the servant of the philanthropist Steuermann." "Steuermann?" the Rav Levin repeated. "I do not know him." "In America," Morris said, "his name is honored over the governor's.
"That's what you think, Felix," Abe said, taking up the cudgels in defence of Steuermann; "but you could take it from me, Felix, if a feller like Steuermann seemingly fools away his time at concerts, understand me, he ain't doing it for nothing. He probably gets some business out of it the same like a lot of fellers you would think is making suckers of themselves going to lodge meetings, Felix.
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