"No," Morris admitted, "but after the way Miss Kreitmann got that feller Gubin in the hole and the way she treated Adolph Rothstein, Abe, it ain't no more than she deserves, neither." For several days afterward Miss Kreitmann went about her work with nothing but scowls for Potash & Perlmutter's customers, married and unmarried alike. "The thing goes too far, Abe," Morris protested. "She kills our entire trade. Hahn or no Hahn, Abe, I say we should fire her." Abe shook his head. "It ain't necessary, Mawruss," he replied. "What d'ye mean?" "The girl gets desperate, Mawruss. She fires herself. She told me this morning she don't see no future here, so she's going to leave at the end of the week. She says she will maybe take up trained nursing. She hears it that there are lots of openings for a young woman that way." Morris sat down and fairly beamed with satisfaction. "That's the best piece of news I hear it in a long time, Abe," he said. "Now we can do maybe some business." "Maybe we can," Abe admitted. "But not with Philip Hahn." "Why not?" Morris cried. "We done our best by him. Ain't we? Through him we lost it a good customer, and we got to let go a good shipping clerk." "Not a _good_ shipping clerk, Mawruss," Abe corrected. "Well, he was a good one till Miss Kreitmann comes." Abe made no reply. He took refuge in the columns of the Daily Cloak and Suit Record and perused the business troubles items. "Was it our fault that Immerglick is N. G., Abe?" Morris went on. "Is it----" "Ho-ly smokes!" Abe broke in. "What d'ye think of that?" "What do I think of what?" Morris asked. "Immerglick & Frank," Abe read aloud. "A petition in bankruptcy was this day filed against Immerglick & Frank, doing business as the 'Vienna Store.' This firm has been a heavy purchaser throughout the trade during the past two months, but when the receiver took possession there remained only a small stock of goods. The receiver has retained counsel and will examine Louis Frank under Section 21 A of the Bankruptcy Act. It is understood that Mendel Immerglick, the senior partner, sailed for Hamburg last week on the Kaiserin Luisa Victoria and intends to remain in Germany for an indefinite time." Abe laid down the paper with a sigh of relief. "If that don't make us solid with Philip Hahn, Mawruss," he said, "nothing will." Miss Kreitmann left at the end of the week, and Abe and Morris wasted no time in vain regrets over her departure, but proceeded at once to assort and make up a new line of samples for Philip Hahn's inspection. For three days they jumped every time a customer entered the store, and Abe wore a genial smile of such fixity that his face fairly ached.