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"Don't go in thar!" said Gray as Charlton was about to enter the room used as office and bar-room for the purpose of registering his name. "Don't go in thar!" and Gray pulled him back. "Let's go out to supper. That devilish Smith Wes'cott's in thar, drunk's he kin be, and raisin' perdition.
Jim followed him through the shop; saw him cross the doorstep and turn away down the pavement to the left; stared in his wake until the darkness and the traffic swallowed him; and returned, softly whistling, to the little parlour. 'Drunk's the simplest explanation, he announced. 'But how did he know my name? demanded Chrissy. 'And the suit-case!
Lockley reached over and flipped back the switch he'd seen Jill flip over. He carefully put down the headset. He stood up. The driver and the small man came back. They picked up the sleeping drunk and moved toward the door. Something fell out of the drunk's pocket. It was a wallet. They did not notice. They went out, carrying the drunk. Jill stooped and recovered it. She looked at Lockley's face.
Here's the Verging Mary agine!" she cried. It was the woman who had carried baby, and when I tried to hurry past her she said: "You think I'm drunk, don't you, dear? So'am. Don't you never get drunk? No? What a bleedin' fool you are! Want to get out o' this 'ere 'ole? Tike my tip then gettin' drunk's on'y way out of it." It was a cold and savage night.
"I'm gonter die," he said. "Come on, you fellers come on the drunk's gonter dive come on he's cryin'!" There was a splash. A surge of green filth and mud spread and dyed the water. A row of expectant heads leaned over the rail. "Say he ain't come up." They waited. The policeman strolled leisurely down in response to their repeated cries. "Who ain't come up? What, him the drunk?"
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