On delivering my message she smiled, made some joke about her friend,
and looked at me as much as to say: 'You will do as well.' I had been
drinking, and in the most brutal manner I took her into a closet. By
some strange chance or state of nerves she gave me exquisite pleasure,
but the orgasm came with me before it did with her, and in spite of
her disappointment and protests I stood up and pulled her out of the
place for fear some one should find us there. Still protesting she fol-
lowed me, but her foot slipped on the paved court, and she fell down
on her face. When she rose I saw that her front teeth were broken.
I looked at her without pity, with impatience, and abruptly leaving her
I went into the hotel to 'the colonel.' I commenced to tell him lies,
when he asked me with a weak laugh what had been keeping me. I
smiled with low cunning and drunken vanity, evading the question.
Then he accused me directly. I only laughed; but, drunk as I was, I



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r(*ir.pnil>or tlip look of the ageing bachelor as he saw he had been be-
trayed by a youn^tT man. He had known her for years. . ..
**I waa now living in the home of a woman who was separated
from lier liusliand and kept lodgers. She had a daughter, with whom I
walked out, a pretty girl who drank like a fish, as her mother also did.
