companion in due form.

"I want my walking suit," she demanded.

Heinrich's face had lighted with pleasure at the sight of Constance,
but there was a trace of sadness in his voice.

"You must tell Louis Ersten," he politely advised her.

"I did," protested Constance. "He's holding it back on account of
the coat, and that's your affair."

"It is Louis Ersten's," insisted Heinrich with dignity. "I have
retired from business."

"You don't mean to say you've left Ersten?" returned Constance in
surprise.

"I have retired from business," reiterated Heinrich.

"Ersten wouldn't give papa enough room," broke in Mama Schnitt
indignantly, "so he quits, and he don't go back till he does."

"So I don't ever go back," concluded Heinrich.

"Well, we got enough that papa don't have to work any more,"
asserted Mama Schnitt with proper pride and a glance at Flora Kraus;
"but he gets lonesome. That's why we make him come down to Coney to-
day and enjoy himself. He was with Louis Ersten thirty-seven years."