Painter Street
The shack’s supply of canned goods didn’t include anything that tempted us for breakfast. We made the meal of coffee cooked in very stale water from a galvanized pail.
A mile of walking brought us to a farmhouse where there was a boy who didn’t mind earning a few dollars by driving us to town in the family Ford. He had a lot of questions, to which we gave him phoney answers or none. He set us down in front of a little restaurant in upper King Street, where we ate quantities of buckwheat cakes and bacon.
A taxi put us at Dinah’s door a little before nine o’clock. I searched the place for her, from roof to cellar, and found no signs of visitors.
“When will you be back?” she asked as she followed me to the door.
“I’ll try to pop in between now and midnight, if only for a few minutes. Where does Lew Yard live?”
“1622 Painter Street. Painter’s three blocks over. 1622’s four blocks up. What are you going to do there?” Before I could answer, she put her hands on my arm and begged: “Get Max, will you? I’m afraid of him.”
“Maybe I’ll sic Noonan on him a little later. It depends on how things work out.”
She called me a damned double-crossing something or other who didn’t care what happened to her as long as his dirty work got done.
I went over to Painter Street. 1622 was a red brick house with a garage under the front porch.