The men stirred, changed positions, and their glittering eyes moved slowly upward to the mouth of the proprietor, and their eyes watched for his lips to move. He was reassured. He felt that he had won, but not decisively enough to charge in. “Ain’t you got half a buck?’’ he asked. “Yeah, I got it. But I’m gonna need it. I can’t set it out jus’ for sleepin’.’’ “Well, we all got to make a livin’.’’ “Yeah,’’ Tom said. “On’y I wisht they was some way to make her ’thout takin’ her away from somebody else.’’
