Chapter
14
The
day went by quickly, and I had been successful in my selling. So, as the sun started
to set, I decided that I should be getting back to the Newsboys Lodge House. As
I walked back, I watched girls going home from school, and saw the looks they
tossed towards me as I passed them. I thought about how my life had once been
the same, and wondered if I was glad that it had changed so quickly. Of course
I wasn't, I had made so many more friends than before. And they were all good
friends. But then there was Spot…was I glad that I had met him?
Before
I knew it, I was standing in front of the Lodge House, and once again, put
these thoughts out of my mind and, remembering Racetrack, ran inside.
In
the Lodge House, Racetrack, Mush, Kid Blink, and Jack were playing poker. I
figured that Jack had already finished whatever business he had gone off to
Brooklyn to take care of. From their faces, it seemed like Race was winning. He
looked up from his cards, and when he saw me, his face quickly turned from
delight to surprise.
Seeing
the look on my face, he knew that I hadn't forgotten this morning. And he
quickly put his cards down and ran out. Ignoring the angry yells of Mush and
Blink, he took off out of the Lodge House. I followed him and yelled out to
him.
"Hey,
come back here, Race!! You coward!"
"What's
ta be fraid bout you? Yer a goil!"
I
flared up and told him to get back here and tell that to my face. But he
quickly turned a corner and disappeared. I cried out in frustration and decided
to give up and headed back.
Back
in the Lodge House, Blink was looking at me with a very angry look on his face.
"Where'd he go? He ran out on a game! Da cheat! Probly cuz he was losin." Mush told Blink to shut up about it already and told me that someone was in the bunkroom and wanted to talk to me. I thanked him and went upstairs.
