CHAPTER 29By the time Yosef had been taken into official custody and the padlock had been replaced on the cache of stolen mens-wear, it was two-thirty. It took another hour for the booking at the Tottenville police station and the questioning by the uniformed officers. What with Sibyl calling her sister-in-law and Timmy’s choked-up conversation with his mother and the boy’s fervent farewell to his gypsy “guardian”—it was four o’clock before the cab driver got his bonus: the long haul to Manhattan via the ferry and on to Edith’s.
Don didn’t make the trip to Forest Hills. The boy was safe, but there was still a spot of unfinished business for a Protection Chief who felt a responsibility to store employees. So he dropped off at Ambletts, lugged the new suitcase with its burden of old bills u
