" Further inside the chamber, she had a vision of a guarded and locked room from thousands of years earlier: "It was like my dream but it was real.Lou was impressed by Dave""s claim that he had been recommended by Harry Gropke, one of Lou""s old associates in Las Vegas - a long-past connection with the underworld.The spending spree continued at a Bonwit Teller store where he bought himself a black leather jacket with a tiger on the back, a mink fur coat for Adrian, and three expensive watches (for the two of them and for Paulie).Again, his small personal action has greater consequences than expected - he is mistaken for the rally leader of a flag-waving demonstration of Communist agitators who have just rounded the corner behind him.I had to be free to understand that all those years I dreamed of escape was because I was limping through life.