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only it was tough laying sick in a furnished room with no one to so much as get me a drink of water. Cripes, I even had to come home alone from the doctor's. Cry? No, I didn't cry. I thought maybe the landlady would hear me.

"That's my story, Judge. There's my whole history up to tonight. The haberdasher, Vincent, Walter, and now you. Gee, fifteen minutes without a cigarette. Got a match?"