The Underground Man (2010)
“The lights of the all-night service station beside it shone on its yellow stucco walls and on the weathered “Vacancy” sign which hung on the office door.
I went in and tapped the hand bell on the counter. A man came plodding out of the back room and peered at me through his creased and sleepy face.
“Single or double?”
I told him I was looking for a man, and I started to give him a description of Al. He cut me short with a shake of his frowzy head. An anger that floated like a pollution near the... surface of his life came up in his throat and almost choked him.
“You got no right to wake me up for that. This is a business establishment.”
I laid two dollar bills on the counter. He sucked his anger back into his body and picked up the money.
“Many thanks. Your friend and his wife are in room seven.”
I showed him Susan’s picture. “Has she been here?”
“Maybe she has.”
“You’ve seen her or you haven’t.”
“What’s the rap?”
“No rap. She’s just a floating girl.”MoreLess
I went in and tapped the hand bell on the counter. A man came plodding out of the back room and peered at me through his creased and sleepy face.
“Single or double?”
I told him I was looking for a man, and I started to give him a description of Al. He cut me short with a shake of his frowzy head. An anger that floated like a pollution near the... surface of his life came up in his throat and almost choked him.
“You got no right to wake me up for that. This is a business establishment.”
I laid two dollar bills on the counter. He sucked his anger back into his body and picked up the money.
“Many thanks. Your friend and his wife are in room seven.”
I showed him Susan’s picture. “Has she been here?”
“Maybe she has.”
“You’ve seen her or you haven’t.”
“What’s the rap?”
“No rap. She’s just a floating girl.”MoreLess
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