{"id":"01KG078ZCJCFKSP0FCKGD597JJ","cid":"bafkreifzwdpmuz3xmkjnfgu2fag4dgmutjvstia65nr5v7ksu3xc2sjm6e","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":2606,"extracted_at":"2026-01-27T17:16:00.018Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 3","source_file":"01KFYTG9MG93RTB6YAW34V48XG","start_line":2553,"text":"  2444\tWhen I said that, he got up from his chair and started walking towards me and all.\n  2445\tHe looked like he was very, very tired or very, very bored. God, was I scared. I sort of\n  2446\thad my arms folded, I remember. It wouldn't have been so bad, I don't think, if I hadn't\n  2447\thad just my goddam pajamas on.\n  2448\t\"Let's have it, chief.\" He came right up to where I was standing. That's all he\n  2449\tcould say. \"Let's have it, chief.\" He was a real moron.\n  2450\t\"No.\"\n  2451\t\"Chief, you're gonna force me inna roughin' ya up a little bit. I don't wanna do it,\n  2452\tbut that's the way it looks,\" he said. \"You owe us five bucks.\"\n  2453\t\"I don't owe you five bucks,\" I said. \"If you rough me up, I'll yell like hell. I'll\n  2454\twake up everybody in the hotel. The police and all.\" My voice was shaking like a bastard.\n  2455\t\"Go ahead. Yell your goddam head off. Fine,\" old Maurice said. \"Want your\n  2456\tparents to know you spent the night with a whore? High-class kid like you?\" He was\n  2457\tpretty sharp, in his crumby way. He really was.\n  2458\t\"Leave me alone. If you'd said ten, it'd be different. But you distinctly--\"\n  2459\t\"Are ya gonna let us have it?\" He had me right up against the damn door. He was\n  2460\talmost standing on top of me, his crumby old hairy stomach and all.\n  2461\t\"Leave me alone. Get the hell out of my room,\" I said. I still had my arms folded\n  2462\tand all. God, what a jerk I was.\n\n<!-- [Page 56](arke:01KFYTAC2X7SJZ2QDT18DVDA3J) -->\n  2463\tThen Sunny said something for the first time. \"Hey, Maurice. Want me to get his\n  2464\twallet?\" she said. \"It's right on the wutchamacallit.\"\n  2465\t\"Yeah, get it.\"\n  2466\t\"Leave my wallet alone!\"\n  2467\t\"I awreddy got it,\" Sunny said. She waved five bucks at me. \"See? All I'm takin' is\n  2468\tthe five you owe me. I'm no crook.\"\n  2469\tAll of a sudden I started to cry. I'd give anything if I hadn't, but I did. \"No, you're\n  2470\tno crooks,\" I said. \"You're just stealing five--\"\n  2471\t\"Shut up,\" old Maurice said, and gave me a shove.\n  2472\t\"Leave him alone, hey,\" Sunny said. \"C'mon, hey. We got the dough he owes us.\n  2473\tLet's go. C'mon, hey.\"\n  2474\t\"I'm comin',\" old Maurice said. But he didn't.\n  2475\t\"I mean it, Maurice, hey. Leave him alone.\"\n  2476\t\"Who's hurtin' anybody?\" he said, innocent as hell. Then what he did, he snapped\n  2477\this finger very hard on my pajamas. I won't tell you where he snapped it, but it hurt like\n  2478\thell. I told him he was a goddam dirty moron. \"What's that?\" he said. He put his hand\n  2479\tbehind his ear, like a deaf guy. \"What's that? What am I?\"\n  2480\tI was still sort of crying. I was so damn mad and nervous and all. \"You're a dirty\n  2481\tmoron,\" I said. \"You're a stupid chiseling moron, and in about two years you'll be one of\n  2482\tthose scraggy guys that come up to you on the street and ask for a dime for coffee. You'll\n  2483\thave snot all over your dirty filthy overcoat, and you'll be--\"\n  2484\tThen he smacked me. I didn't even try to get out of the way or duck or anything.\n  2485\tAll I felt was this terrific punch in my stomach.\n  2486\tI wasn't knocked out or anything, though, because I remember looking up from\n  2487\tthe floor and seeing them both go out the door and shut it. Then I stayed on the floor a\n  2488\tfairly long time, sort of the way I did with Stradlater. Only, this time I thought I was\n  2489\tdying. I really did. I thought I was drowning or something. The trouble was, I could\n  2490\thardly breathe. When I did finally get up, I had to walk to the bathroom all doubled up\n  2491\tand holding onto my stomach and all.\n  2492\tBut I'm crazy. I swear to God I am. About halfway to the bathroom, I sort of\n  2493\tstarted pretending I had a bullet in my guts. Old 'Maurice had plugged me. Now I was on\n  2494\tthe way to the bathroom to get a good shot of bourbon or something to steady my nerves\n  2495\tand help me really go into action. I pictured myself coming out of the goddam bathroom,","title":"Chunk 3"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG0725G38Y6SG73C53P9W0V8","peer_label":"14","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KFXT0KM64XT6K8W52TDEE0YS","peer_label":"More Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":1,"created_at":"2026-01-27T17:16:00.580Z","ts":"2026-01-27T17:16:00.580Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}