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`` And who would be treasurer then ? '' Zapp asked meekly ; whereat Louis Birsky slapped his chest . `` I would be treasurer , '' he announced ; `` and for a twenty dollar bill we would get Henry D. Feldman he should fix up the by-laws , which you could take it from me , Zapp , if there 's any honour coming to Golnik after me and Feldman gets through , understand me , the feller is easy flattered , Zapp -- and that 's all I got to say . '' * * * * * It was not until after five o'clock that Birsky returned from Feldman 's office with the typewritten constitution and by-laws of a voluntary association entitled the Mutual Aid Society Employees of Birsky & Zapp . Moreover , under the advice of counsel , he had transferred from the firm 's balance in the Kosciusko Bank the sum of five hundred dollars to a new account denominated L. Birsky , Treasurer ; and the omission of the conjunction `` as '' before the word `` Treasurer '' was all that prevented the funds so deposited from becoming the property of the mutual aid society . In short , everything was in readiness for the reception of Jonas Eschenbach the following morning except the trifling detail of notifying Jacob Golnik and the hundred operators that their mutual aid society had come into being ; and as soon as Birsky had removed his hat and coat he hastened into the cutting room and beckoned to Golnik . `` Golnik , '' he said , '' _ kommen Sie mal h ` rein _ for a minute . ''