'Alas, too many!' everybody told him. 'Our people are such individualists.'
'But where are these individualists?' cried David desperately.
As if in answer, the bovine proprietor, encouraged by the laughter, crept in again.
'You still here!' he murmured to David, taken aback.
'Yes, but if you'll give me a subscription for Jewish Self-Defence——'
'Jewish Emancipation!' cried the fur-dealer. 'Why didn't you say so at first?' He put his hand in his pocket. 'That's my Party—or rather the National Group in it, the Anti-Zionist faction.'
The stern Bundist laughed. 'No, he doesn't mean he's a J.E. even of the other faction.'
His father-in-law took his hand out of his pocket.
David cast a rebuking glance at the Bundist. 'Why did you interfere? Perhaps my way may prove the shortest to Jewish Emancipation.'
His hearers smiled a superior smile, and the fur-dealer shook his head. 'I belong also to the Promotion of Education Party—I am for peaceful methods,' he announced.