THE GOD OF VENGEANCE
Shloyme
A girl. . . from a "house"?
Hindel
No. A pure maiden.
Shloyme
How do you come to know her?
Hindel
She comes to Manke every night. . . Steals out of her home. . . Nobody sees her. Something seems to draw her here. . . she is so inquisitive. . .
Rifkele, thrusting her bare head through the window, beckoning to Hindel.
Ps-s-s! Is my father down there?
Hindel, signalling back.
No.
Rifkele, disappears from the window.
Shloyme, eyeing Hindel closely.
She! "Uncle" Yekel's daughter! A genuine gold-mine!
Hindel
Hush! She's coming!
Rifkele, slender and beautiful; dressed modestly, and wrapped in a black shawl; steals through the door, runs down the stairs with trembling caution. She speaks more with signs than with words.
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