1/26 CHAPTER III. his own name! After all these weeks of trying to obliterate even the memory of it!... to have given it to this girl without her asking! The thought of peril cleared a space in the alcoholic fog. He saw the expression on the girl's face and understood what it signified, that it was the reflected pattern of his own. He shut his eyes and groped for the wall to steady himself, wondering if this bit of mummery would get over. |