"Yes, Abe," he said, "you are in luck. You got a partner, y'understand,
which he is a decent respectable feller. I bet yer Mawruss would no more
dream of overdrawing you, than he would fly in the air."
"Wait till they gets to be popular, Sol," Abe replied. "You could take
it from me, Sol, Mawruss would be the first one to buy one of them
airyplanes, just the same like he bought that oitermobile yet."
"That's all right," Sol said. "Mawruss is a good live partner. He sees
people round him--good, decent, respectable people, mind you--is buying
oitermobiles, Abe, and so he thinks he could buy one, too. There ain't
no harm in that, Abe, so long as he keeps inside his drawing account,
but so soon as one partner starts to take more as the other money out of
the business, Abe, then there is right away trouble. But certainly, Abe,
Mawruss wouldn't do nothing like that."
"Sure not," Abe replied, "because in the first place, Sol, he knows I
wouldn't stand for it, and in the second place, Mawruss ain't out to do
me, y'understand. I will say for Mawruss this, Sol. Of course a partner
is a partner, Sol, and the best of partners behaves like cut-throats at
times, but Mawruss was always white with me, Sol, and certainly I think
a whole lot of that feller. Just to show you, Sol, I got Miss Cohen to
fix it up for us a statement of our drawing account which I got it right
here in my breast pocket, and I ain't even looked at it at all, so sure
I am that everything is all O.
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