“The police would be down on you in less than an hour.”
“And what then?”
“Your game would be up.”
Pinky laughed derisively:
“The police are down on me now, and have been coming down on me for nearly a month past. But I'm too much for them. I know how to cover my tracks.”
“Down on you! For what?”
“They're after the boy.”
“What do they know about him? Who set them after him?”
“I grabbed him up last Christmas down in Briar street after being on his track for a week, and them that had him are after him sharp.”
“Who had him?”