“Now, Joe?”
“Sure.”
“To-day?”
“Well—you see—I couldn't hardly do it to-day. I've got to finish my trip.”
“Oh—”
“Now wait, Estelle. If I got impatient, I'd lose the trick, don't you see. This man, Dick Smiley, is working for the man that's got to help me. I know a way to make him back me—set me up in my own place in some new town maybe. I couldn't leave Smiley in the lurch without getting his boss down on me. I've got a hold on him, but he'd never stand for that. This Smiley's a no-good lot, but I've got to stick out this trip with him.”
“But—then you 'll be back in Chicago.”
“I know. I'm coming up here by train. Or say I meet you at Saginaw.”
“You thought you could do that before.”
“I was broke then. Now I've got the stuff. And I know how I can turn a trick on this trip back that 'll be worth an easy five hundred to me. That 'll take us clear down to Niagara Falls, maybe.”