through the street, just park the car over by the Battery. And he says to me, 'McCann, I'm going in this

place myself. I don't want 'em to know I ain't by myself.' He says, 'I got reasons. You hang around an'

look in now an' then, but don't come in unless I call you.' I says, 'Boss, do you think it's wise?' An' he

says, 'I know what I'm doing an' you do what I tell you.' So there ain't any argument to that.

"We get down to this place an' Paul does like he's told, an' the boss walks up the street an' he stops at a

little joint that's got a lot of dolls in the window. I looks in the place as I go past. There ain't much light

but I see a lot of other dolls inside an' a thin gal at a counter. She looks white as a fish's belly to me, an'

after the boss has stood at the window a minute or two he goes in, an' I go by slow to look at the gal

again because she sure looks whiter than I ever saw a gal look who's on her two feet. The boss is talkin'

to the gal who's showing him some dolls. The next time I go by there's a woman in the place. She's so