He was bound to fall for it though.

No help for him.

Even if he hadn't butted into the 'plant' we fixed for him in the alley, there, I could have braced him in the street with my tale of woe.

He was just bound to be 'it,' this time.
We had him going, all ways for Sunday!" Scornfully the woman Gabriel had befriended in her seeming misery, spat at him as he lay there stunned and scarcely breathing on the dirty floor.
"And just pipe this, will you, too ?" she exulted, holding up the five-dollar bill he had given her.

"And this ?" She exhibited his name and address, written on a card.