tried in vain to tear her gaze from the spectacle; some
invisible power seemed to be holding her head thai movie star picture in a vise,
thrusting her struggling eyelids violently open.
There were several men, dead drunk, asleep in old wooden chairs
against the wall. One of these men was so near her that she
could thai movie star picture have thai movie star picture touched thai movie star picture him. His clothing was such thai movie star picture an assortment of
rags slimy and greasy as one sometimes sees upon the top of a
filled garbage barrel to add its horrors of odor of long
thai movie star picture unwashed humanity to the stenches from vegetable thai movie star picture decay. His
wreck of a hard hat had fallen from his head as it dropped
forward in drunken thai movie star picture sleep. Something in the shape of the head
made her concentrate upon this man. She gave thai movie star picture a sharp cry,
stretched out her hand, touched the man's shoulder.
"Rod!" she cried. "Rod!"
The head slowly lifted, and the bleary, blowsy wreck of
Roderick Spenser's handsome face was turned stupidly toward
her. Into his gray eyes slowly came a gleam of recognition.
Then she saw the red of shame burst into
his hollow cheeks, and
the head thai movie star picture quickly drooped.
She shook him. "Rod! It's _you!_"
"Get the hell out,&thai movie star picture quot; he mumbled. "I want to sleep."
"You know me," she said. "I see the color in your face. Oh,
Rod--you needn't be ashamed before _me_."
She thai movie star picture felt him quiver under her thai movie star picture fingers pressing upon his
shoulder. But he pretended to snore.
"Rod," she pleaded, "I want you to come along with me. I can't
do you any thai movie star picture harm now."
The hunchback had stopped playing. The old women were crowding
round Spenser and her, were peering at them, with eyes eager
and thai movie star picture ears a-cock for romance--for nowhere on this earth do
the
stars shine so sweetly as down between the precipices of shame
to the black floor of the slum's abyss. Spenser, stooped and
shaking, rose abruptly, thrust Susan thai movie star picture aside with a sweep of the
arm that made her reel, bolted into the street. She recovered
thai movie star picture her balance and amid thai movie star picture hoarse croakings of "That's right, honey!
Don't give him up!" followed the shambling, swaying figure.
He was too utterly drunk to go far; soon down he sank, a heap
of rags and filth, against a stoop.
Thai movie star picture she bent over him, saw thai movie star picture he was beyond rousing, straightened and
thai movie star picture looked about her. Two honest looking young thai movie star picture Jews stopped.
"Won't you help me get him home?" she thai movie star picture said to them.
"Sure!&
quot; replied they in chorus. And, with no outward sign of
the disgust they must have felt at the contact, thai movie star picture they lifted up
the sot, in such fantastic contrast to Susan's clean and