Chapter 24
Each holding the five-dollar bills in hand, Sunny and Kid Blink walked to the store. They looked at the window display of the paint sets. It truly was a great paint set. It had everything; different sized brushes, watercolors, oils, and a lot of other things that Sunny and Kid really couldn't name. Looking extremely happy and proud of himself, Kid Blink started to walk in.
Sunny grabbed his wrist, and Kid looked surprised.
"What? Didja change youah mind about getting Bristles a paint set or sumpthin?"
Sunny pulled Blink into an alley right next to the store and put her finger to her lips.
"It's a Harlem newsie and someone I don't know, at least I don't think so. Dey was walking out of da shop…wait, isn't dat da guy dat came to ouah lodging house?"
Surprised of Sunny's statement, Blink turned and looked around the corner. Sure enough, there was that same man who claimed that he was Bristles' father in the Newsboys' Lodging House. Even more to his amazement, the man ripped off his mustache and a mask.
"Hey! Dat's…"
Sunny cut Kid Blink off and held her hand to his mouth and pulled him back into the shadows of the dark alley.
"Shuttup already will ya!"
They stood close to each other as they saw the shadows of the two people walking closer. The shadows stopped momentarily and now what Sunny and Kid Blink could hear were voices. Both voices were very familiar.
"So, how'd it go?"
"Poifect…now all we gotta do is wait foah dem two idiot newsies to bring da goil to da harbor and we'll have it all,"
"I dunno, ya think it'll woik out?"
"Course! And dere ain't nobody dat'll know except our group,"
"yea, youah right…I shouldn'ta doubted ya,"
"you'd betta not."
Sunny and Kid Blink clutched each other tighter in the alley, but fortunately for them, the shadows grew shorter and shorter, showing that the two people had gone in the opposite direction. Hoping they would not be seen, Sunny and Kid Blink went out of the alley and ran as fast as they could toward the Lodging House.
When they reached the Lodging House, the two newsies stopped and panted. Then they both stood up in anger and fury.
"I thawt he was ovah by now!"
"What did he mean by he would have it all?"
"I dunno, but it ain't sumpthin good,"
"I nevah thawt Grinds would go dis far."
