Chapter 2 Pages 156-167 Summary

When Mayfield shows them the insides of the open safe, he says finding the gold that is now inside the safe was the only time he was lucky in his life. Mayfield leaves. The brothers count the money and hide the gold that is too heavy to take with them. They get away with about fifteen thousand dollars, which Eli and Charlie split in half.

Eli runs into Charlie's whore in the hall. He gives her a hundred dollars to pass on to the bookkeeper and gives the whore a double eagle. They leave Mayfield, now two days late for their meeting with Morris. They start talking about the day Charlie killed their father after he beat their mother and broke her arm. Eli questions if you can go crazy and then come back to normal. Charlie says he...