Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack! by M. E. Kerr

Author:M. E. Kerr [Kerr, M. E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4804-5546-7
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2013-11-19T02:26:00+00:00

Tucker’s father reappeared in the kitchen and said, “It’s your friend the Nazi on the phone. I told him you were making breakfast, but he says it’s urgent.”

“Watch my bacon, okay?” Tucker said.

When Tucker said “Hello,” P. John said, “I have to see you right away, Tucker. There’s been a lot of trouble, thanks to the Hockers.”

“What kind of trouble?”

“Trouble with the police and everything,” P. John said. “I can’t go into it. I’m at work. Can you meet me during my lunch break?”

Tucker agreed to meet him outside Brentano’s bookstore in Greenwich Village at noon.

He went back to the kitchen. His father was busy at the stove.

“Tucker, do you want fried or scrambled?”

“Scrambled, thanks.”

“Tucker,” his father said, “I’m not going to dictate to you what kind of friends to pal around with. But that particular fellow has problems, if you want my opinion.”

“Who doesn’t?” Tucker said.

“That’s right, who doesn’t,” his father said. “But you have to choose between people with sympathetic problems, and people with unsympathetic problems. How can you sympathize with someone whose problem seems to be that he thinks he’s superior to the underdog?”

“Don’t understand him too quickly,” Tucker said.

“Well don’t you waste too much time understanding him, either.”

“I won’t,” Tucker said. “Hey, I can’t eat six eggs, Dad!”

“Then I’ll have to help you,” his father said.

Tucker left the manuscript with the receptionist at Stirring Romances, and then took the subway to the Village.

When he reached Brentano’s, he saw P. John already out front waiting for him. P. John was eating a hot dog.

“I thought we were going to eat something together,” Tucker said.

“We are. I’m just warming up to it.”

“What happened to Weight Watchers?”

“I’m too nervous to eat legal food today,” P. John said. “C’mon, we’ll go down the street to Nathan’s. I can eat ten more of these.”

“What happened?” Tucker said.

While they stood at the counter in Nathan’s, waiting for their food, P. John told him.

Dinky had appeared suddenly at the Knights’ apartment last night while they were all having supper. Mr. Knight had invited her to stay. Dinky, P. John, Mr. Knight, Mac, and Dewey were sitting around the table in the kitchen, after an immense spaghetti dinner, when the police arrived.

At the Hockers’ request, the police were looking for Dinky, but when they saw the posters of Mao, and the BEAT THE SYSTEM! posters, they began questioning everyone. The man named Dewey was a Mexican who had entered the country illegally.

“He isn’t supposed to be working here, either,” P. John said. “When the police found out he had a job, they arrested him.”

“Why did he tell them he had a job?”

“They knew by looking at him,” P. John said. “He’d just come from work. He’s been working as a Santa Claus in a department store.”

The police took Dewey away, and the Hockers were called to pick up Dinky.

“That’s bad,” Tucker sympathized. “What did the Hockers have to say when they got there?”

“They fell all over my father when they found out who he was.

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