Both Kapfer and Miss Silbermacher looked toward the street entrance.
"He was here a minute ago," Kapfer said.
"Did you tell him that I wasn't Ury Shemansky at all?" Elkan inquired.
"Sure I did," Miss Silbermacher replied, "and he goes on something terrible, on account he says Mr. Kapfer told him last night you was already engaged; so I told him I know you was engaged because I am the party you are engaged to."
She squeezed Elkan's hand.
"And he says then," she continued, "that if that's the case what do we want him down here for? So I told him we are going to meet Mr. Polatkin and Mr. Scheikowitz, and——"
"And they'll be right here in a minute," Kapfer interrupted; "so you go upstairs to my room and I'll find Fischko and bring him up also."
He conducted them to the elevator, and even as the door closed behind them Fischko came running up the hall.
"Kapfer," he said, "who was that feller which he was just here talking to you?"