Abe rocked to and fro in his chair. "After all these years a feller should do a thing like that to me!" he moaned. Linkheimer smiled with satisfaction, and he was about to instance a striking and wholly imaginary case of one partner ruining another by giving a bail bond when the door leading to the cutting room in the rear opened and Morris Perlmutter appeared. As his eyes rested on Linkheimer they blazed with anger, and for once Morris seemed to possess a certain dignity. "Out," he commanded; "out from _mein_ store, you dawg, you!" As he rushed on the startled button dealer, Abe grabbed his coat-tails and pulled him back. "Say, what are we here, Mawruss," he cried, "a theaytre?" "Let him alone, Abe," Linkheimer counselled in a rather shaky voice. "I'm pretty nearly twenty years older than he is, but I guess I could cope with him." "You wouldn't cope with nobody around here," Abe replied. "If youse two want to cope you should go out on the sidewalk." "Never mind," Morris broke in, his valour now quite evaporated; "I'll fix him yet." "Another thing, Mawruss," Abe interrupted; "why don't you come in the front way like a man." "I come in which way I please, Abe," Morris rejoined. "And furthermore, Abe, when I got with me a poor skeleton of a feller like Nathan Schenkmann, Abe, I don't take him up the front elevator. I would be ashamed for our competitors that they should think we let our work-people starve. The feller actually fainted on me as we was coming up the freight elevator." "As you was coming up the freight elevator?" Abe repeated. "Do you mean to tell me you got the nerve to actually bring this feller into _mein_ place yet?" "Do I got to get your permission, Abe, I should bring who I want to into my own place?" Morris rejoined. "Then all I got to say is you should take him right out again," Abe said. "I wouldn't have no _ganevim_ in my place. Once and for all, Mawruss, I am telling you I wouldn't stand for your nonsense. You are giving our stock as a bail for this feller, and if he runs away on us, the sheriff comes in and----" "Who says I give our stock as a bail for this feller?" Morris demanded. "I got a surety company bond, Abe, because Feldman says I shouldn't go on no bail bonds, and I give the surety company my personal check for a thousand dollars which they will return when the case is over. That's what I done it to keep this here Schenkmann out of jail, Abe, and if it would be necessary to get this here Linkheimer into jail, Abe, I would have another check for a thousand dollars for keeps."