He got up and checked the money but he didn't count it. Dave ought to be on the lot by this time and maybe he could talk to him. If Valerie had lifted the money he had to find her before she got away. Yet, if she had taken May's money why hadn't she taken what he had hidden? She had known where it was, sometimes watching him while he put it away, propped up naked on the bed and waiting for him to come to her.
There wasn't much doing outside and he roamed the lot, asking the people he saw if they had seen Dave or Valerie but it wasn't until he got to the chow line that he had any luck.
"A cab came out for them," a man said. "He was carrying a couple of suitcases, and she had on a dress that would knock your eyes out. When she went by here I thought one of those melons was going to bounce
