iece of work, Abe. He ain't got the slightest idee what I
am paying for the car and he says it is well worth twenty-five hundred
dollars."

Abe shrugged his shoulders.

"All right, Mawruss," he said. "It's your funeral. Go ahead and buy the
oitermobile; only I tell you right now, Mawruss, you are sinking
twenty-one hundred dollars cash."

"Not cash, Abe," Morris corrected. "Pfingst is willing to take a six
months' note provided it is indorsed by Potash & Perlmutter."

It seemed hardly possible to Morris that more poignant emotion could be
displayed than in Abe's first reception of his news, but this last
suggestion almost finished Abe. For fifteen minutes he fought off
apoplexy and then the storm burst.

"Say, lookyhere, Abe," Morris protested at the first lull, "you'll make
yourself sick."

But Abe paused only to regain his breath, and it was at least five
minutes more before his vocabulary became exhausted. Then he sat down
in a chair and mopped his brow, while Morris hastened off to the
cutting-room from whence he was recalled a minute later by a shout
from Abe.

"By jimminy, Mawruss!" he cried slapping his knee. "I got an idee. Go
ahead and buy your oitermobile from Pfingst and I will agree that Potash
& Perlmutter should endorse the note, y'understand, only one thing
besides. Pfingst has got to guarantee to us Kleebaum's account of
twenty-one hundred dollars."

"I'm afraid he wouldn't do it, Abe," Morris said.

"All right, then I wouldn't do it neither," Abe declared. "But anyhow,
Mawruss, it wouldn't do no harm to ask him. Ain't it? Where is this here
feller Pfingst?"

"At Fiftieth Street and Broadway," Morris said.

"Well, lookyhere, Mawruss," Abe announced jumping to his feet, "I'm
going right away and fill out one of them guarantees what Henry D.
Feldman fixes up for us, and also I will write out a note at six months
for twenty-one hundred dollars and indorse it with the firm's name. Then
if he wants to you could exchange the note for the guarantee, Mawruss,
and we could ship the goods right away."

Morris shook his head doubtfully, while Abe went into the firm's private
office. He returned five minutes afterward flourishing the guarantee.

It read as follows:

In consideration of one dollar and other good and valuable
considerations I do hereby agree to pay to Potash & Perlmutter
Twenty-one hundred dollars ($2100) being the amount of a purchase
made by J. Edward Kleebaum