"I wouldn't pay it not one cent blackmail
neither," Abe declared, "not if they kept it up the strike for a year."
"Better as we should let that sucker do us, Abe," Morris declared, "I
would go out of the business first; ain't it?"
Abe nodded and, after a few more defiant sentiments, they went upstairs
with Goldman to estimate the amount of work undone on the Fashion Store
order.
"Them Fashion people was always good customers of ours, too, Mawruss,"
Abe commented, "and we couldn't send the work out by contractors in this
shape. It would ruin the whole job."
Morris nodded sadly.
"If we could only get them devils of operators to finish up," he said,
"they could strike till they was blue in the face yet."
"But I wouldn't pay one cent to that sucker, Slotkin, Mawruss," Abe
added.
"Sure not," Morris agreed.
"Might you wouldn't have to pay him nothing, maybe," Goldman suggested.
"What d'ye mean?" Abe cried.
"Might if you would take it the loft he would call off the strike," said
Goldman.
"That's so, Mawruss," Abe murmured, as though this phase of the matter
had just occurred to him for the first time.
"Maybe Goldman is right, Abe," Morris replied. "Maybe if we took it the
loft Slotkin would call off the strike."
"After all, Mawruss," Abe said, "the loft ain't a bad loft, Mawruss. If
it wasn't such a good loft, Mawruss, I would say it no, Mawruss, we
shouldn't take the loft; but the loft is a first-class A Number One
loft.
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