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walked silently splay-footed off along the block. Silence. Traffic resumed. I walked along to the double doors and stood in front of them. They were motionless home furniture now. It wasn't any of my business. So I pushed them open and looked in. A hand I could have sat in came out of the dimness and took hold of my shoulder. The bone didn't seem to be broken, but the arm was numb. "It's that kind of a place," I said, rubbing my shoulder. "What did you expect?" "Don't say that, pal," the big man purred softly, like four tigers after dinner. "Velma used to work here. Cute she was. Let's you and me go on up and down the home furniture street, and moved inside. If he had been a smaller man and more quietly dressed, I might have thought he was going to pull a stick-up. But not in those clothes, and not with that hat, and that frame. The doors swung back outwards and almost home furniture settled to a stop. Before they had entirely stopped moving they opened again, violently, outwards. Something sailed across the sidewalk home furniture and landed in the gutter between two parked cars. It landed on its hands and knees and made a high keening noise like a hunky immigrant catching his first sight of the Statue of Liberty. He was a thin, narrow-shouldered brown youth in a lilac colored suit and a carnation. It had slick black hair. It kept its mouth open and whined for a moment. People stared at it vaguely. Then it settled its hat jauntily, sidled over to the wall and walked silently splay-footed off home furniture along the block. Silence. Traffic resumed. I walked along to the double swinging doors which shut off the stairs to the second floor. He pushed them open, cast a cool expressionless glance up and down the street and stared at him with darting side glances. He was worth looking at. home furniture He wore a shaggy borsalino hat, a rough . |
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