Memories of Another Day by Robbins Harold

Author:Robbins, Harold [Robbins, Harold]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780795341175
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Published: 2014-05-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

It was two o’clock in the morning when Daniel reached the corner of State and Main. The sign was still over the storefront. Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. But the store itself looked dark and deserted, and when he pressed his face against the window he could see nothing in the store, not even a chair or a desk. Just a pile of paper littering the floor. He went past the window to the door. On it was a small typewritten notice. Moved to 303 Magee Bldg.

He took a deep breath. The Magee Building was two miles across the city. He looked up and down the street. All the windows were dark. There was no place around here that he could find a room or bed even if he wanted to. He opened his duffel bag and took out the bottle of whiskey that Tony had given him. He took a deep drink, then put it back in the bag, slung the bag over his shoulder and began to walk again.

It was close to three o’clock when he got there. The building was dark, and the entrance doors were locked. He stepped out into the street and looked up at the building. There were some lights on in the third-floor windows. He went back to the building entrance and found a bell to summon the night porter. He kept pressing it until a sleepy Negro came to the door about ten minutes later.

“Cain’t you see the buildin’ is closed?” the Negro demanded.

“I got business in the union office,” Daniel said.

Reluctantly the Negro opened the door. “You guys must be sho’-nuff crazy. Comin’ an’ goin’ all hours o’ the day an’ night. It’s gettin’ so a body cain’t get no rest no more.”

Daniel looked at him without speaking.

“The staihs to your lef’,” the Negro said quickly. “Thu’d flo’. Three-oh-three.”

Daniel went up the steps. He had been right. The lights he had seen from the street were in the union office. He put his hand on the door and turned the knob. The door swung open. There was no one in the reception hall. He went through another door into a corridor. A sound of voices carried up the hall toward him. He walked toward it. The sound came from behind a closed door at the end of the corridor.

He paused, placing his duffel bag on the floor, and knocked once, then opened the door. There were four men seated around a desk in a cigar-smoke-filled room. They stared up at him in surprise.

One of them leaped to his feet and advanced threateningly toward Daniel, his fists balled and ready to strike.

Daniel stared at him. “Don’ do that,” he said quietly. “They done that once to me tonight, an’ I’ll kill the next man to try it.”

The man stopped. “What the hell do you want? What do you mean breaking in here?”

“The door was open,” Daniel said. He looked past the man to the others still seated behind the desk.

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