Story 2 Summary

"Two Men" The narrator describes how he and two buddies, Richard and Tom (one of whom was hurt and eventually arrested during a robbery the three of them were conducting - see "Quotes," p. 13) discovered "the first man" in the back seat of their car as they were leaving a dance. After describing how he had to leave the dance quickly out of fear of a man (Caplan) whose woman he (the narrator) had flirted with, the narrator then describes how the man in the back of the car, apparently deaf, used gestures to tell him where to take him.

The narrator, Richard and Tom take the man to three different places. At the first, a woman inside threatens to call the police, and the narrator reacts fearfully when cars pass, still worried about the man from the dance (Caplan) he believes is...