ment upon leaving the restaurant: "You ought to play the races, bright boy," may suggest that sports gambling was involved. Perhaps Ole had a gambling debt that was not paid, or he double-crossed someone by not throwing a fight in which there was a large sum bet on. "Hemingway has said: 'I guess I left as much out of 'The Killers' as any story I ever wrote. Left out the whole city of Chicago'" (Delaney 162).
Is Nancy still pregnant at the end of the "That Evening Sun?" As in Hemmingway's "The Killers," the reader must make certain inferences that are not in concrete. Faulkner does give clues that she is not, but ultimately it is up for the reader to decide:
"If you'd behave yourself, you'd have kept out of this," Father said. "But it's all right now. He's probably in Saint Louis Now. Probably got another wife by now and forgot all about you."
"If he has, I better not find out about it," Nancy said. "I'd stand there right over them, and every time he wropped her, I'd cut that arm off. I'd cut his head off and I'd slit her belly and I'd shove -"
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