“What about Jimmy’s friends? They might be able to tell me where to find him.”
“Alas, here one has no friends, except when one has a bottle to share. It is actually a most convenient arrangement. When Jimmy came into good fortune, he did in a way share a bottle with everyone. But if my theory is correct, he was then coming into possession of a bottle much too large to share, and so he would vanish without even saying good-bye. I would do the same myself.”
“Are you sure no one will know where he went? Perhaps at the place where he lived.”
He smiled. “Like many of us, he did not have what you could call a permanent address. It depended on whether he had fifty cents for a bed, or twenty-five cents, or nothing. No mail is ever received at any of these addresses, so there is no reason for le
