Also, the untidy table showed that the Pilgrim had eaten unstintedly--and Billy was exceedingly hungry.
He went over and lifted a snowy boot to the ribs of the sleeper and commanded him bluntly to "Come alive." "What-yuh-want ?" mumbled the Pilgrim thickly, making one word of the three and lifting his red-rimmed eyes to the other.

He raised to an elbow with a lazy doubling of his body and stared dully for a space before he grinned unpleasantly.

"Took 'er home all right, did yuh ?" he leered, as if they two were in possession of a huge joke of the kind which may not be told in mixed company.
If Charming Billy Boyle had needed anything more to stir him to the fighting point, that one sentence admirably supplied the lack.

"Yuh low-down skunk!" he cried, and struck him full upon the insulting, smiling mouth.

"If I was as rotten-minded as you are, I'd go drown myself in the stalest alkali hole I could find.