a tear formed in her eye as mina looked down at the items in her lap . `` you go ahead and sleep for a minute . `` if it 's about a job , i do n't have time to talk about that now . i damned the whole lot of them a final time and drank down my share . i was up and out of the house the next morning before my parents were stirring . looking back to the alley , he shook his head . 