Potash & Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and AdventuresGlass, Montague
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Potash & Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures
Glass, Montague
Clothing trade -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction; Jewish fiction; Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
"Why don't you take it out credit men from commission houses riding,
Mawruss?" Philip rejoined as Morris stepped from the curb to cross the
street. This was an allusion to the well-known circumstance that with
credit men a customer's automobile-riding inspires as much confidence as
his betting on the horse races, and when Morris climbed into the tonneau
he paid little attention to Abe's instructions, so busy was he glancing
around him for prying credit men. At length, with a final jar and jerk
the machine sprang forward, and for the rest of the journey Morris' mind
was emptied of every other apprehension save that engendered of passing
trucks or street cars. Finally, the machine drew up in front of the
Prince William and Morris scrambled out, trembling in every limb. He
made at once for the clerk's desk.
"Please send this to Miss Isaacson," he said, handing out a firm card.
The clerk consulted an index and shook his head. "No Miss Isaacson
registered here," he said.
"Oh, sure not," Morris cried, smiling apologetically. "I mean Miss
Aaronson."
Once more the clerk pawed over his card index. "You've got the wrong
hotel," he declared. "I don't see any Miss Aaronson here, either."
Morris scratched his head. He mentally passed in review Jacobson,
Abrahamson, and every other Biblical proper name combined with the
suffix "son," but rejected them all.
"The lady what I want to see it is buyer for a department store in
Duluth, what arrived here this morning," Morris explained.
"Let me see," the clerk mused; "buyer, hey? What was she a buyer of?"
"Cloaks and suits," Morris answered.
"Suits, hey?" the clerk commented. "Let me see--buyer of suits. Was that
the lady that was expecting somebody with an automobile?"
Morris nodded emphatically.
"Well, that party called for her and they left here about ten minutes
ago," the clerk replied.
"What!" Morris gasped.
"Maybe it was five minutes ago," the clerk continued. "A gentleman
with a red tie and a fine diamond pin. His name was Tucker or
Tuckerton or----"
"Tuchman," Morris cried.
"That's right," said the clerk; "he was a----"
But Morris turned on his heel and darted wildly toward the entrance.
"Say!" he cried, hailing the carriage agent, "did you seen it a lady
and a gent in an oitermobile leave here five minutes ago?"
"Ladies and gents leave here in automobiles on an average of every three
minutes," said the carriage agent.
"Sure, I know," Morris continued, "but the gent wore it a red tie with a
big diamond."
"Red tie with a big diamond," the carriage agent repeated. "Oh, yeh--I
remember now. The lady wanted to know where they was going, and the red
necktie says up to the Heatherbloom Inn and something about getting back
to his store afterward."
Morris nodded vigorously.
"So I guess they went up to the Heatherbloom Inn," the carriage
agent said.
Once more Morris darted away without waiting to thank his informant, and
again he climbed into the tonneau of the machine.
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