"Not looking for work mister.  Looking for Lilly.  That waitress, you seen her?  I, I fucked up.  I have a thing for her.  Tell her, if you see her, tell her that I'm sorry.  I fucked up.  I spended the morning waiting on her at the train station.  She never showed."

He says all this stumbling about his words and scratching at his face. 

"You say $10 dollars and $2 a day on top of that?" a dirty man with a needful look asks.

"I've got some fellas could take you out that way.  Don't know exactly where you unnerstand, but we seen abouts where he were goin' with all that gear."