ing nothing!" Schindelberger retorted.
"Them old women works like anything up there. I told you before a dozen
times, Rudnik, them women is making underwear and jelly and stockings
and _Gott weiss was noch_."

Rudnik turned appealingly to Belz.

"Mr. Belz," he said, "do me the favour and let me leave my money to a
_Talmud Torah oder_ a Free Loan Association."

"Free Loan Association!" Lesengeld and Belz exclaimed with one voice.

"An idee!" Belz shouted. "What d'ye take us for, Rudnik? You are going
too far."

"Cutthroats!" Lesengeld muttered hoarsely. "Stealing bread out of
people's mouths yet. A lot of people goes to them _Roshoyim_ and fools
'em into lending 'em money they should play _Stuss_ and _Tarrok_, while
their families is starving yet. If you want to leave your house to a
Free Loan Association, Rudnik, you might just so well blow it up _mit_
dynamite and be done with it."

"_Aber_ a _Talmud Torah_ School," Rudnik cried; "that's something which
you couldn't got no objection to."

"Don't talk like a fool, Rudnik!" Schindelberger interrupted. "When you
got a chance to leave your money to a Home for widders, what are you
fooling away your time making suggestions like _Talmud Torah_ schools
for? A young feller would get along in business if he never even seen
the outside of a _Talmud Torah_, _aber_ if the widders lose their Home,
understand me, they would starve to death."

"Yow, they would starve to death!" Rudnik said. "You could trust a
widder she wouldn't starve, Mr. Schindelberger. Them which didn't got
no relations they could easy find suckers to give 'em money, and them
which did got relations, their families should look after 'em."

Belz grew crimson with pent-up indignation.

"Loafer!" he roared. "What d'ye mean, their families should look after
'em?"

Belz walked furiously up and down the office and glowered at the
trembling and confused Rudnik.

"Seemingly you ain't got no feelings at all, Rudnik," he continued.
"Schindelberger tells you over and over again they are working them
poor widders to death up there, and yet you want to take away the roofs
from their backs even."

"No, I didn't, Mr. Belz," Rudnik said. "I didn't say nothing about a
roof at all. Why, I ain't even seen the Home, Mr. Belz. Could you
expect me I should leave my money to a Home without I should see it
even?"

"My worries if you seen it _oder_ not!" Belz retorted. "The thing is,
Rudnik, before we would extend for