[_Renewed laughter._
FIELITZ
All I say is: let me catch some one at it! An' I won't care what happens
neither!
LANGHEINRICH
That's right! That's the way! Don't you care who it is, neither. I think
it was Leontine.
MRS. FIELITZ
The girl ain't been near that there clock!
LANGHEINRICH
Oh, oh!
FIELITZ
Somethin's goin' to happen some day. I don't take no jokes o' that kind.
EDE
You gotta save that to put it in the shop.
LANGHEINRICH
That's the truth! That's what I always been sayin'! That corner shop'll
soon be built now, an' then maybe he won't have no clock to hang up in
it. How could he go an' start a business then!
FIELITZ
Firebrands! Pack o' thieves! Laugh if you wants to! You can't never get
the better o' me!
LANGHEINRICH
Not a bit, can they! An' that wouldn't do. How many contracts has you
been makin'? I mean about furnishin' people with shoes. You got to have
somethin' to start with!
MRS. FIELITZ
Can't you leave the man in peace!
FIELITZ
You just go in my room; there you c'n see letters an' contracts lyin'
around--packages an' heaps o' them!
EDE
[_Looks into the adjoining room._] I don't see nothin'.
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