They all sat in their seats being formal with knife and fork and a sip of wine now and then. Kator sat looking at von Lohe and Jesso sat looking at Renette. He had a good view Renette might have been alone at the table or she might have been in the middle of a cluster of men, all looking at her. ...
The boat brought in opium; she had a man who derived the heroin and morphine, a trained man, an addict. In this end of town, she explained, drug addiction was growing. And why? “The money in it,” I guessed. “Once a man is hooked, he’d do anything to get the money for more. So the pushers build th...
A commuter does not look out of the window with much interest. Smith, leaving Miami for New York, where Jordan worked. It would be all right. The apartment, the pieces of furniture, pots and pans, and the girl there, happy with it. It would be all right. Jordan is a good provider. In New York it ...
They went down to the water, past the rocks, and sat in a black shadow. Only the night sky seemed to have light. Turk said nothing because he was waiting and Quinn said nothing because he was trying not to think. I’ll start with the first thing that comes to my mind—“I’ve changed my mind,” he sai...
But nobody bothered me on the way out The three who counted weren’t bothering anybody.I got in the car and put up the top. Privacy mattered right then. I jockeyed the car out of there, around all the trucks which seemed to be jackknifed all over the place, and bouncing the brakes every time some ...
Chapter Nine Catell left for Burbank at nine in the morning. For the next five hours he shuffled back and forth in one bus after another, missing stops, rooting around for a connection, letting a bus go by to catch a bite at a street stand. By the middle of the day the hot sun had brewed up a smo...