"
"It was not traffic exactly."
"Very well. What else is there that I can do for you?"
"I hardly know how to go on, as you are so--so hard in all that you
say."
"You will not be able to soften me, I fear."
"About the houses--though you say that I am trafficking, I really wish
to be honest with you."
"Say what you have to say, then, and be honest."
"I have never seen but one document which conveys the ownership of
those houses."
"Let my father, then, have that one document."
"It is in Balatka's house."
"That can hardly be possible," said Trendellsohn.
"As I am a Christian gentleman," said Ziska, "I believe it to be in
that house."
"As I am a Jew, sir, fearing God," said the other, "I do not believe
it. Who in that house has the charge of it?"
Ziska hesitated before he replied. "Nina, as I think," he said at last.
"I suppose Nina has it herself."
"Then she would be a traitor to me."
"What am I to say as to that?" said Ziska, smiling. Trendellsohn came
to him and sat down close at his side, looking closely into his face.
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