So what did he bring into the TSBD? And how come he didn't bring it out with him, on the bus, in the cab etc?
He realized that those curtain rods were the wrong length, after all, and in his haste to get home and change his shirt and grab his revolver and get to the theater in time to catch
Battle Cry, he plum forgot all about 'em and left' 'em hidden in the parking lot (where he'd put 'em that morning, under a car), and then a hobo done came along and appropriated them.
-- MWT