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Title: Elkan Lubliner, American

Author: Montague Glass

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ELKAN LUBLINER, AMERICAN

ELKAN LUBLINER,
AMERICAN

BY MONTAGUE GLASS

AUTHOR OF
"Potash & Perlmutter," "Abe & Mawruss,"
"Object: Matrimony," etc.

[Illustration: Frucus Quam Folia]

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1912

_Copyright, 1911, 1912, by_
THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY

_Copyright, 1912, by_
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO.
_All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian_

CONTENTS

PAGE

Noblesse Oblige 3

Appenweier's Account 33

A Match for Elkan Lubliner 81

Highgrade Lines 147

One of Esau's Fables 196

A Tale of Two Jacobean Chairs 250

Sweet and Sour 288

ELKAN LUBLINER, AMERICAN

ELKAN LUBLINER

CHAPTER ONE

NOBLESSE OBLIGE

POLATKIN & SCHEIKOWITZ CONSERVE THE HONOUR OF THEIR FAMILIES

"Nu, Philip," cried Marcus Polatkin to his partner, Philip Scheikowitz,
as they sat in the showroom of their place of business one June morning,
"even if the letter does got bad news in it you shouldn't take on so
hard. When a feller is making good over here and the _Leute im Russland_
hears about it, understand me, they are all the time sending him bad
news. I got in Minsk a cousin by the name Pincus Lubliner, understand
me, which every time he writes me, y'understand, a relation dies on him
and he wants me I should help pay funeral expenses. You might think I
was a Free Burial Society, the way that feller acts."

"Sure, I know," Philip replied as he folded the letter away; "but this
here is something else again. Mind you, with his own landlord he is
sitting playing cards, Marcus