Hat Tip

Bright boy can do everything (все умеет: «может делать все»), Max said. He can cook and everything. Youd make some girl a nice wife (ты бы сделал какую-нибудь девушку славной женой = повезло твоей будущей жене), bright boy. Yes? George said. Your friend (ваш друг), Ole Andreson, isnt going to come (не придет). Well give him ten minutes (мы дадим ему десять минут), Max said. Max watched the mirror and the clock. The hands of the clock marked seven oclock (стрелки часов показали семь), and then five minutes past seven (а затем пять минут после семи = пять минут восьмого). At six-fifty-five George said: Hes not coming. Two other people had been in the lunch-room. Once George had gone out to the kitchen and made a ham-and-egg sandwich to go that a man wanted to take with him. Inside the kitchen he saw Al, his derby hat tipped back, sitting on a stool beside the wicket with the muzzle of of a sawed-off shotgun resting on the ledge. Nick and the cook were back in the corner, a towel tied in each of their mouths. George had cooked the sandwich, wrapped it up in oiled paper, put it in a bag, brought it in, and the man had paid for it and gone out ...»