A man says that he has never been superstitious, but since his experience with a man named Leg-'n'- Half, he has sometimes wondered. The man was driving through suburban Westchester with a pretty girl whom he was not married to yet. He ran a red light and got into an argument with a police man who pulled him over. The police man gave him a ticket. During his exchange with the police officer, a group of men was watching from a sleek black car pulled over to the curb. When the man drove away from the police man, a man called out from the black car. One of the man's legs was shorter than the other, and he said his name is Henry Milano but people called him Leg-'n'-Half. Milano said he would fix the ticket for the man. The man was suspicious, but Milano says he runs all the rackets in the area and knows the right people. Milano asks if the man is from Brooklyn and if he knows Augie's boys, and the man lies and says he does so that he can get the ticket fixed. Milano seems relieved at this answer. The man asks if he owes Milano anything, but the racketeer says no. The next week, the man is looking at newspapers in the library. He sees an article saying that Milano was shot and wounded by members of a Brooklyn gang the day after they met. The man is scared that Milano will think he is responsible. His worry fades until about six months later he sees Milano on the subway. The man tells Milano that he lied about knowing Augie's boys, and Milano says he knows, and that he would not have said he knew them if he actually did. The man asks Milano why he fixed the ticket for him, and Milano replies that he plays hunches, and he got a hunch about the man that he would be good luck. However, the man was really a jinx. Milano says that the man is not a jinx any more, because he got a hunch that it was okay now. He came over to talk to the man because he has a deal that night and wants good luck. The man says he will do his best. He tells his wife, who thinks the situation is silly. The next morning at breakfast, the man reads in the newspaper that Milano shot and killed a man, but was wounded in the shoulder. The man feels somewhat responsible, but he soon forgets the affair. About eight months later, Milano approaches the man and his wife while they are out at dinner. He says that the man jinxed him twice, and he can't tell if he is doing it on purpose. The man insists that he had no intention of jinxing Milano. Milano thinks that the jinx is over, and he says that he is splitting with two men that night and it is up to the man whether they split easy or not. He warns that if the man jinxes him, it will be the last time. The man's wife is alarmed and wants him to go to the police, but he will not. They scour the newspaper the next day, but find no news of Milano. They live in fear and tension until three days later, when Milano rings the doorbell of their house as they are discussing escaping to the country. Milano says that the men split easy, and that the man is who he has been waiting for. He used to have a good-luck guy, but he died, so now he wants the man to be his good-luck guy. Milano says that next Saturday night he is making a deal, and that the man needs to be at his house so Milano can see him first. Milano threatens the man and he cannot refuse. The man feels that it is unfair that out of everyone, he was chosen by Milano. He wonders if Milano can sense something that he cannot, but his wife is a realist and shuts down those thoughts. The couple quickly rents a house in the country, and that is where the man is when Milano is supposed to call on Saturday. He does not know what happened to Milano, but he thinks he is safe from the racketeer. Sometimes the man hopes that Milano is dead, but other times he thinks that if Milano is dead, he is somehow to blame.