_] Ain't Leontine here?
LANGHEINRICH
Naw, she had to go to court to-day. Always the same trouble with the
alimony. That confounded feller, he don't pay.
RAUCHHAUPT
[_Calls out._] Gustav! [_He listens and then turns leisurely back to the
little gate. The wind worries and drives him._] Gustav!
LANGHEINRICH
Stiff wind coming up, all right! [_RAUCHHAUPT disappears._] Ede!
EDE
All right.
LANGHEINRICH
Let's get to work now! [_He spits into his hands and sets to work
vigorously._] Well, Doctor, where've you been runnin' about? Did you get
as far as the Chinese? You gotta tell us all about that some day when we
got plenty o' time for it.
DR. BOXER
Surely, I've been all over.
LANGHEINRICH
Did you see the sea-serpent too?
Da. BOXER
Surely, Langheinrich, far down in the South Seas.
LANGHEINRICH
An' it's true that it feeds on dill pickles?
DR. BOXER
Several hundred dozen a day.
LANGHEINRICH
[_Laughing._] That's all right then. An' when, you see that serpent
again, just give her my best regards.
DR. BOXER
I doubt whether I'll ever get so far again in life.
LANGHEINRICH
I guess you got all you wanted o' that? Now you see.
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