"Well, how about Klinger & Klein, Lapidus & Elenbogen, and all them people, Abe?" Morris asked. "Ain't them out-of-town buyers going to buy goods off of them neither?"
"Klinger & Klein already hire it a fine loft on Nineteenth Street," Abe interposed.
"Well, Abe," Morris rejoined, "Klinger & Klein, like a whole lot of people what I know, acts like monkeys, Abe. They see somebody doing something and they got to do it too."
"If we could do the business what Klinger & Klein done it, Mawruss, I am willing I should act like a monkey."
"Another thing, Abe," Morris went on, "Klinger & Klein sends their work out by contractors. We got it operators and machines, Abe, and you can't have a show-room, cutting-room and machines all in one loft. Ain't it?"
"Well, then we get it two lofts, Mawruss, and then we could put our workrooms upstairs and our show-room and offices downstairs."
"And double our expenses, too, Abe," Morris added. "No, Abe, I don't want to work for no landlord all my life."
"But I seen Marks Henochstein yesterday, Mawruss, and he told it me Klinger & Klein ain't paying half the rent what they pay down here. So, if we
could get it two floors we wouldn't increase our expenses, Mawruss, and could do it maybe twicet the business."
"Marks Henochstein is a real-estater, Abe," Morris replied, "and when a real-estater tells you something, you got to make allowances fifty per cent. for facts."