“What?” Trent demanded.
“I have no idea. He’s a slicker. Anyway, Beulah Porter Cowys made a very bad mistake after that. She went to Heloise’s place. That cooked her goose. I don’t know whether she went there just to get her face fixed or whether she had some other reason. Neither did Sley-Mynick, I suppose. But he couldn’t take a chance on her talking to Heloise about him. Carstairs’ riot gave him his chance, although he would have managed it by some hook or crook anyway. That sort of wiped things up for Sley-Mynick. He’d had bad luck running into Ames and getting spotted by Beulah Porter Cowys, but now they were cleared away, and he went back after you again. He shied that tile at you. That probably wouldn’t have killed you unless it hit you in the head, but it wouldn’t have done you mu
