Finally he descended upon iron-hard Joe Close.
"Do you know anybody who knows Louis Ersten, the ladies' tailor ?" he asked almost automatically.
"Ersten ?" replied Close unexpectedly.

"I've quarreled with him for thirty years.

He banks with me." "Start a quarrel for me," requested Johnny.

"I've been down to look him over.

I can do business with him if he'll listen." Close smiled.
"I doubt it," he rejoined.