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went to your bunk that night with
your pants pocket under the mattress,
l ought to have suspected"
"But Bertha"
rs that so nice, Mr.. Danziger? l
tell you for young man what pre-
tends he likes so much to be with my
daughter, that he should play cards
every night with her papa and win
away like that-it-it makes me feel
bad enough, can tell you"
"Mama!'
ia, and you! Amt you said your
self, Esther, how at night when it gets
prettiest for the young girls and the
young men to Sit out under the moon
shine, how always when card time
comes you find yourself left by your
self? Tell mama, Esther, amt you
said it?"
"Ach now, Bertha, wait till we land
at Naples tomorrow and / get you
an Eyetalian policeman to tell your
troubles to-
I'D like to see once Abe Katz do to
you tricks like that, Esther. There's
a young man for you'll always say
could learn the whole world manners"
Come, Danziger, play you for no
stakes. just little game Of freeze
out, Ell? No stakes, eh?"
But, papa, Mr.. Danziger and I were
going up on top deck this morning
and watch Madeira till we land"
ZACH no, Esther, like a good girl
you stay and watch it by mama a
little, Ell? See, out there already how
big the land gets. Stay by mama
and in half an hour we be up again,
Ell, Danziger? A little freeze-out! No
stakes, Bertha, no stakes ~
Don't make out of me a fool,
Aaron; it only makes me nader"
"See, Danziger, what henpecker OF
a little wife l got"
Mr.. Danziger placed a pat affection
ately between the older mans Shout
der-blades.
your old gentleman here is surely
a card, Mrs. Lefkovitch Hope to die
if in the seventeen times I've crossed
I've struck character that can match
up to him."
"For you, Mr.. Danziger, two cards
l guess he is with four hundred and
eighty"
"Mama!'
"See, Mrs. Lefkovitch, how your
daughter takes up for me-"
Come, Danziger! Esther, you stay
here by mama q little"
Don't be so considerate Of me all
of sudden, Aaron. Enough by my.
self I've sat on this boat"
Come, Danziger!"
saw, papa"
Never mind, Miss Esther; when VIC
land I'm going to take you riding ul
the funicular at Funchal and show
you the scenery of your life. They're
nifty little islands, the Madeiras. I've
been right through them clear to thu
Canaries."
Come, Danziger, and no stakes"
"Now, Mrs. Lefkovitch, just YOU
wait and see If he don't win thu
spades right off the cards. Coming
Lefkovitch, coming"
And they were of arm in arm dowr
the well>washed luxuriously wide
deck, past lines Of steamer chairs
joined together with an endless chair
Of gossip, occupants tilted backward
until the soles stood upright and tn,
mind reclined.
Left there and standing beside he
recumbent parent, Miss Lefkovitcl
cast down upon her a glance tha
wavered with tears.
Honest, mama, yOu-you're jus
the limit"
"The limit l am, am 1, because a nil
Of young man nobody knows wht
he is, can't come along and pull tn,
wool over my eyes like he can ovel
my daughters and her papa'S."
"He's one of the SWEETEST fellows or
this boat, that's what he is, If yor
want to know it. Everybody knows
that he knows all the swells of Chi
cagO, the Bambergers and all of Them
"Such talk don't go with me. So do
I know all the swells Of New York
the Felsenthals and ScMmms, when
see them ride on Fifth avenue in theiI
automobiles and see In the newspa
pers the Van Rippens' pictures"
"You and your old fogy ideas don't
don't understand, mama"
81 tell you, Esther, sometimes I'm
glad 1 am an old fogy when sec
where all your fine ideas get us. You
wanted to come to Europe and we
came. Since papa can afford to d.
what he likes and your brother Niche
is old enough to watch the business,
/ don't want l should deprive my
daughter of anything what she wants
but tell you, Esther, If I was a young
girl with young man like Abe"
Mama, pleased"
II mean what / say. You thought
on this trip to Europe such fine new
people you could meet. But not one
boy on this boat have seen what can
stand up for minute by Abe Katz
tell you, Esther, even in the night
when lay down in that hot bunk Of
mine, how that boys face comes right
in front of me the way he looked al
you from the pier when this boat
sailed off. tell you, just with his
whole face he was In love-"
"Oh, Pm-I'm not saying anything
against Abe. am I. mama1 What
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