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VIII. COERCING MR. TRINKMANN 288
So That Louis Berkfield Gets His Job Back

IX. "RUDOLPH WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN" 304
The Viennese Knockout of Two Continents

X. CAVEAT EMPTOR 327
Meaning, the Buyer Would Better Look Out

ILLUSTRATIONS

"He ain't been in the place a year, y'understand, and to-night he
marries a relation of his boss and he gets three hundred dollars
in the bargain" _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

"You heard what Sam says, Aaron, and me, I stick to it also" 28

"Nu, Belz, ain't you going to congradulate me?" 274

She postured, leaped, and pranced by turns 308

Transcriber's Note: Words in italics are indicated by _italics_.

THE COMPETITIVE NEPHEW

CHAPTER ONE

"That's the way it goes," Sam Zaretsky cried bitterly. "You raise a
couple of young fellers up in your business, Max, and so soon they know
all you could teach 'em they turn around and go to work and do you
every time."

Max Fatkin nodded.

"I told it you when we started in as new beginners, Sam, you should got
a lady bookkeeper," he said. "The worst they could do is to get married
on you, and all you are out is a couple dollars cut-glass for an
engagement present and half a dozen dessert spoons for the wedding. But
so soon as you hire a man for a bookkeeper, Sam, he gets a line on your
customers, and the first thing you know he goes as partners together
with your designer, and what could you do? Ain't it?"

"Louis Sen was a good bookkeeper, Max," Sam rejoined.

"Sure, I know," Max agreed, "and Hillel Greenberg was a good designer.
That sucker is such a good designer, Sam, he will take away all our
trade."

"Not all our trade, Max," Sam declared. "_Gott sei dank_, we got a few
good customers what them suckers couldn't steal off of us. We got,
anyhow, Aaron Pinsky. I seen Aaron on the subway this morning, and he
says he would be in to see us this afternoon yet."

"That's nothing new, Sam. That feller comes in here whenever he's
downtown. I guess some of our customers think he's a partner here."

"Let 'em think so, Max, it don't do us no harm that people should think
we got it a rich man like Pinsky for a partner."

"