Ruff. Whiz.
Hans (tapping bell; enter Hop). Here, boy, here’s some good instructions on “How to run a hotel.” Please see that they are carried out.
(Hop places them carefully in the waste-basket and carries all out D. C.)
Case. Landlord, I have here a note for $5,000; will you endorse it?
Hans. Endorse it?
Case. Yes, sign your name on the back of it?
Hans. Sure I vill. I know you’ll never pay it, so here’s vere ve haf a laugh at der bank’s expense. (Signs paper.)
Ruff. See here, nigger, dat travelin’ salesman’s job looks like an uplift to me.
Weber. Looks more like a hold-up.
Case (turning away from desk). Landlord, I saw, as I was coming into the hotel, what must have been a fine vegetable garden alongside of the hotel. Were you successful with it?