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HYLAND coat; rising up out of the coat's collar is a face on which scar tissue and a goatee fight for prominence. What he sees is what the conventioneers and the swinging singles don't always want to see. e pattern is never altered: a handout here, a turndown there, and don't scare any well-dressed women. He can get by that way, Johnny Bratton can. He won't get rich, but another day will be done and he will have bus fare back to Hyde Park, back to the Del Prado. e septuagenarians who live there worry about him on those nights when he doesn't show up, and he seems to sense it, even enjoy it. But just as he is getting comfortable, perhaps for the first time in a long time, some hotshot outfit is pumping $4.5 million into the Del Prado to gussy it up again. When the old furniture goes, Johnny Bratton will have to go, too. You can say time is running out on him if you like, but of course that really started long, long ago. H