“I don’d soak nopody, mein friendt, nefer. I sell so close to der cost dot I vill be ruined if I don’t raise der prices vone of dose days.”
Lige Benner laughed at this.
“Remember this, Abe,” went on Jerry: “You will be as deep in the plot as anybody, and if you say a word about the scheme you will get yourself into trouble, but——”
“Ach, Himmel!”
“But if you keep still, Abe, nobody will be the wiser, and nothing will happen to you or to us. Understand, Abe?”
“Yah, you bet you I geep so still as a clam. I don’t speak nodding at all to anybody.”
“You’ll have to go right back to Hackamore, Abe, so as to be sure Dunbar doesn’t get away from town before he buys the diamond ring of you.”
“Vat tifference does it make, Cherry, vedder he puys from me?”
“Why, Abe, if you have dealings with him it will make it look more reasonable when you accuse him of stealing from you. Can’t you see that?”
“Vat a fine headt for sooch dings you haf, mein friendt! Yah, I see dot. I vill make it look so reasonaple as I can. Gif me der fife hundret tollars und I vill go pack by der town.”