A steady stream of cars, three abreast, filled the streets. There was a continuous shrill of police whistles and a blare of automobile horns as the Latin-American citizenry acted as midwife to the new day being born. Ames bought a morning Tribune from a boy on the corner of Franklin Street and moved on with the crowd. Palmetto City was a tourist town. It depended on its winter visitors for the bulk of its living. Tampa was a city. It had been a city when his grandfather had embarked from Port Tampa for Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American war. It had shipyards and cigar factories and heavy industry. Rusty and sleek freighters, banana boats, tankers, even a few passenger ships were warped into its docks from ports all over the world. It had an international airport serving the islands of the Caribbean and Central and South America. As much Spanish as English was spoken on its streets. There was a wide-awake feel to the town, unusual this far south. If it were possible for him to find out what he wanted to know, he could buy the information in Tampa.
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