More gunfire rolled above them.
“I didn’t know he had a gun,” Johnny muttered. “He’s shooting it out with them!”
“But aren’t there two guns firing at them? Listen!”
“Yes, you’re right.”
Two guns! Johnny immediately thought of Tux and Solly. Were they up on the roof? Had they somehow found out where he was and in coming after him had run into the cops?
He pushed himself off the bed and slowly stood up. It was as much as he could do to stand upright, and he had to hang on to the bedpost to steady himself.
“I’ve got to get out of here,” he said thickly.
“You can’t go now — listen!” Rose said.
From the noise going on outside in the alley, it sounded as if the police were right under the window.
A voice shouted, “Get some more men up there! What the hell are you playing at?”