21/24 His companions, male and female, were tough. "You with the velvet slippers. Me for you." The girl beside him put her arm around his neck and tried to hush him, and through the mufflement of her embrace they could hear him gurgling: "I tell you she's some goods. Watch me go across an' win her from them cheap skates." "Butchertown hoodlums," Mary sniffed. |