CHAPTER TWELVE
The need for new clothes surfaced as their first essential expenditure. Working in and around the inn left the company’s males stinking to High Heaven. With only two sets of clothes each, Jeffrey, Thomas, Sully, and Siegfried purchased new trousers, shirts, socks and undergarments at the local seamstress’s shop. The purchase cost them most of the group’s initial coin reserves but, for Haley and her nose, it was money well spent. As for the company’s finances, Sully’s work as a bartender paid off nicely right from the get-go. Sure, he wasn’t being paid anything by Wilkins for his time pouring drinks, but he did get to keep the coppers customers left for tips. Being the young, muscular lad he was, many lady patrons certainly spent time chatting him up and leaving copper coins
