Part 2, Chapters 1 and 2 Summary

At the beginning of Chapter One, Pinkie runs into Spicer at a pier; he is about to meet Rose for a date. Spicer warns Pinkie that the mob will not do any more killing, and Pinkie brushes off the possibility of more death as impossible, since the verdict has come in that Hale had died naturally.

Rose arrives as Spicer leaves, and for a moment she thinks she recognizes him as the man who left the Kibber card. She and Pinkie make their way to Sherry's for supper, and on the way Pinkie warns her that Fred Hale was into some bad business with some dangerous people. He intimates that women who interfere with this mob get their faces burned with acid. To punctuate his point, he pulls out a bottle of vitriol.

They arrive at the Sherry, but...