THE GOD OF VENGEANCE
door and calls.) Reizel! To bed! Basha! Time to go to sleep! (From without are heard girls' voices: "Soon. Right away!")
Hindel
Points to Yekel and signals Shloyme to leave.
Shloyme
Goes up the steps. As he is about to go out he comes face to face with Yekel. They eye each other.
Yekel
Get a move on. Time to close up. You've whispered secrets long enough.
Shloyme, thrusting his hands into his trousers pocket. Looks sharply at Yekel.
Since when have you become such a respectable personage?
Yekel
Off with you, now. Get a move on. I'll tell you later.
Shloyme
To the devil with you!
Hindel, runs up the stairs to Shloyme.
Shloyme, go home, I tell you. Do you hear? Go home!
Shloyme, leaving, with a defiant glance at Yekel.
There's a fine lout for you!
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