Chapter 53

"Didn't take no particular notice." "Well, was it a man or a woman?" "I didn't rightly look." "Isn't it a fact when you boys are waiting for a call, that you size up everybody that comes in to see what kind of a job you're going to get, and what's likely to be in it?" "We gen'ally does," said Tommy with an innocent air, "but Fat Harris was pushin' me on the bench, and I was pushin' him back, so I didn't take no notice of who come in." It suggested itself to Jack that the boy was under the spell of a generous tip. …