But you gotta be careful
when it comes to talkin', or you sit in gaol before you know it.
FLEISCHER
[_Turns pale._] Well, now, look here, but that's nonsense, Mrs. Wolff.
MRS. WOLFF
No, no. I tell you that's serious. An' be careful o' that feller,
whatever you do!
FLEISCHER
Whom do you mean by that?
MRS. WOLFF
The same man we was talkin' about a while ago.
FLEISCHER
Motes, you mean?
MRS. WOLFF
I ain't namin' no names. You must ha' had some kind o' trouble with that
feller.
FLEISCHER
I don't even associate with him any longer.
MRS. WOLFF
Well, you see, that's just what I've been think-in'.
FLEISCHER
Nobody could possibly blame me for that, Mrs. Wolff.
MRS. WOLFF
An' I ain't blamin' you for it.
FLEISCHER
It would be a fine thing, wouldn't it--to associate with a swindler, a
notorious swindler.
MRS. WOLFF
That man is a swindler; you're right there.
FLEISCHER
Now he moved over to Dreier's. That poor woman will have a hard time
getting her rent. And whatever she has, she'll get rid of it. Why, a
fellow like that--he's a regular gaol-bird.
MRS. WOLFF
Sometimes, you know, he'll say things ...
FLEISCHER
Is that so? About me? Well, I _am_ curious.
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