ight, Mr. Pinsky," she concluded. "Good-bye."

She turned to her employers.

"He's coming here at twelve o'clock," she said. "He told me that the
drug store burnt down where he gets his cough medicine, and he wants
another prescription. And I said I didn't understand him so as to get
him over here."

"Well, what good would that do?" Max asked.

"I don't know exactly," Miss Meyerson answered, "but I saw Mr. Pinsky
coming out of Greenberg & Sen's last week and he looked positively
miserable. I guess he's just as anxious to get back here as you are to
have him."

"Sure, I know," Max commented, "but we wouldn't pay that young feller,
Fillup, ten dollars a week, and that's all there is to it."

"Perhaps you won't have to," said Miss Meyerson. "Perhaps if you leave
this thing to me I can get Pinsky to come back here and have Philip
stay over to Greenberg & Sen's."

"Huh!" Max snorted. "A fine chance that boy got it to keep his job if
Aaron Pinsky quits buying goods! They'll fire him on the spot."

"Then we'll take him in here again," Sam declared. "He'll be glad to
come back at the old figure, I bet yer."

"That's all right," Max grunted. "Never meld your cards till you see
what's in the widder. First, Miss Meyerson will talk to him, and then
we will consider taking back Fillup."

"Sure," Sam rejoined, "and you and me will go over to Wasserbauer's and
wait there till Miss Meyerson telephones us."

It was precisely twelve when the elevator stopped at Zaretsky &
Fatkin's floor. Aaron Pinsky alighted and walked on tiptoe to the
office.

"Hallo, Miss Meyerson!" he said, extending his hand, "is any of the
boys around?"

"They're both out," Miss Meyerson replied, shaking Aaron's proffered
hand. "It looks like old times to see you back here."

"Don't it?" Pinsky said. "It feels like old times to me. Is the boys
busy?"

"Very," said Miss Meyerson. "We're doing twice the business that the
books show we did a year ago."

Aaron beamed.

"That's good," he said. "Them boys deserves it, Miss Meyerson. When you
come to consider it, Miss Meyerson, I got pretty good treatment here.
The goods was always made up right and the prices also. I never had no
complaint to make. But certainly a feller has got to look out for his
family, and so long as my nephew gets along good I couldn't kick if
oncet in a while Greenberg & Sen sticks me with a couple of garments.
Last week they done me up good with eight skirts."

"And how is