The kids rushed to Benda’s to tell Angela and Tommaso.
“I told you that man was no good!” Angela exclaimed. “Go—and see quick and we tell Vasa’—”
Tommaso hurried across the street and found Meyer standing over the broken case. Meyer faced the Italian without ceremony:
“Cost your life to open your yap about these guns—see?”
Tommaso snapped his finger in the other’s face:
“Go t’ell!”
He turned on his heel to go, saw his wife and the children near, rushed back and snapped his finger again in Meyer’s face:
“Go t’ell two times—see—two times!”
Meyer merely held his gaze in a moment of angry silence and turned to his work.
Tommaso rushed back into his flat, pushed things from the table, seized a pen and wrote a hurried note to his leader.