Who was redtop and why was he hanging around the whorehouse?
The little redhead boy, with the cowboy hat and no shirt. What was he doing there?
All typos and misspellings courtesy of a public educational system.
I just sort of assumed he was an orphan who had escaped from the nearby orphanage. Towards the end, when Violet shows up outside the house and people are protesting, he tells her they need to leave or they'll be forced to go to the orphanage. (I might be wrong.)
The beauty is I'm learning how to face my beast ~ Blue October