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that won't be necessary. All you need to do is get in touch with me. After that, I might take you with me, but I don't want you going without me," Daddy Cool stated.
    Earl nodded his head in agreement, then got down from his high perch.
    "You want to go back to the office and get a hooker?" he inquired, referring to the rear office that he also used as his bedroom.
    For a brief second, Daddy Cool hesitated, then agreed. Maybe a strong drink would help settle his nerves while he waited.

JANET LET OUT A SIGH of relief when the cab pulled away from her home. She had been frightened for one of the few times in her life. Upon leaving, she had feared that someone would awaken her father. Jimmy had threatened to do just that if she didn't make it worth his while. So she had dug down into her tiny savings and given him ten dollars. For him to be her half brother was more like a curse.
    Over the years she had come to realize that she hated the overbearing brown-skinned boy who was by chance her half brother. Buddy was different. At times she could get along with him, but with Jimmy it was impossible.
    She settled back in the cab and gave the driver her destination. At the last minute, she had decided to go and check into a motel until she could reach Ronald. After having tried four different numbers most of the night, she still hadn't been able to reach him.

    As the fleeting thought flashed through her mind that he was probably laying up with one of the various whores he bragged about having, she gritted her teeth. Well, in time, she reasoned, she'd see to it that he didn't have any of those kind of women. Her father's remark about Ronald one day having her out on the corner made her blush. For her daddy to even imagine such a thing about her was shocking. She had known that her father had no lost love for Ronald, but she had never believed his dislike was as strong as it was. She was shocked by what had happened in the early morning hours.
    To take her mind off the subject, she removed the small wad of bills she had saved in her piggy bank. Slowly Janet counted the money over and over again. She had all of eighty dollars left so, the way she figured it, that should hold her for a few weeks if Ronald didn't do the right thing about her.
    But as she thought about it, her doubts left. Ronald loved her, so it shouldn't be such a hard job of convincing him to marry her. Once they got married, all she would have to do would be to lead him down the right road and make him get one of the good jobs in a factory. She sat back and smiled as she pictured herself taking care of their house while Ronald was away working.
    How she would surprise him when he came home, having spent most of the day preparing the kind of meal that she knew he would love. Maybe one day, she dreamed as she blushed, they would have a small baby. Then her daddy would forgive her and everything would be all right.
    If only her father and Ronald didn't dislike each other so much. She was aware that she was only one of the few people who knew that Ronald really disliked her father. She had never been able to find out just why, but he had a burning dislike for the man everybody called "Daddy Cool."
    Ronald laughed whenever he heard this nickname and called her father "Daddy Fool." But in time, she reflected, she might even be able to bring them closer together. Once Ronald really met her father and saw the kindness underneath the cold front that he put out to strangers, they couldn't help but to like each other.

    "Well, miss," the driver said, driving into the driveway of the motel she had asked to be taken to, "here you are."
    For the first time since her adventure began, Janet hesitated. She had never been inside a motel before in her life. She only knew about this one on Woodward because she passed it every day when she went to school. She was supposed to have gone to school this morning, but that was a problem she would resolve later. She had brought all of her school