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"I like you, kid," she said. "You're not fresh. You know what I am as well as the
rest of them, but you wait on me just the same as you would on"--she hesitated
and there was a little catch in her voice as she finished her sentence--"just the
same as you would on a decent girl."
Jimmy looked at her in surprise. It was the first indication that he had ever had
from an habitue of Feinheimer's that there might lurk within their breasts any of
the finer characteristics whose outward indices are pride and shame. He was
momentarily at a loss as to what to say, and as he hesitated the girl's gaze went
past him and she exclaimed:
"Look who's here!"
Jimmy turned to look at the newcomer, and saw the Lizard directly behind him.
"
Howdy, bo," said his benefactor. "I thought I'd come in and give you the once-
over. And here's Little Eva with a plate of ham and at four o'clock in the
afternoon."
The Lizard dropped into a chair at the table with the girl, and after Jimmy had
taken his order and departed for the kitchen Little Eva jerked her thumb toward
his retreating figure.
"Friend of yours?" she asked.
"
He might have a worse friend," replied the Lizard non-committally.
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