{"id":"01KG079E100A4VCTMD5G2XN2S5","cid":"bafkreiaqjdqsupywojf5prfrvp7bvtocyqsc4ux4xrtphw25uyalldu3oa","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":2557,"extracted_at":"2026-01-27T17:16:00.017Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 2","source_file":"01KFYTG9MG93RTB6YAW34V48XG","start_line":2504,"text":" 2397\tand fast, too--but I'll bet anything Jesus didn't do it. Old Childs said the trouble with me\n 2398\twas that I didn't go to church or anything. He was right about that, in a way. I don't. In\n 2399\tthe first place, my parents are different religions, and all the children in our family are\n 2400\tatheists. If you want to know the truth, I can't even stand ministers. The ones they've had\n 2401\tat every school I've gone to, they all have these Holy Joe voices when they start giving\n 2402\ttheir sermons. God, I hate that. I don't see why the hell they can't talk in their natural\n 2403\tvoice. They sound so phony when they talk.\n 2404\tAnyway, when I was in bed, I couldn't pray worth a damn. Every time I got\n 2405\tstarted, I kept picturing old Sunny calling me a crumb-bum. Finally, I sat up in bed and\n 2406\tsmoked another cigarette. It tasted lousy. I must've smoked around two packs since I left\n 2407\tPencey.\n 2408\tAll of a sudden, while I was laying there smoking, somebody knocked on the\n 2409\tdoor. I kept hoping it wasn't my door they were knocking on, but I knew damn well it\n 2410\twas. I don't know how I knew, but I knew. I knew who it was, too. I'm psychic.\n 2411\t\"Who's there?\" I said. I was pretty scared. I'm very yellow about those things.\n 2412\tThey just knocked again, though. Louder.\n 2413\tFinally I got out of bed, with just my pajamas on, and opened the door. I didn't\n 2414\teven have to turn the light on in the room, because it was already daylight. Old Sunny\n 2415\tand Maurice, the pimpy elevator guy, were standing there.\n 2416\t\"What's the matter? Wuddaya want?\" I said. Boy, my voice was shaking like hell.\n\n\n 2417\t\"Nothin' much,\" old Maurice said. \"Just five bucks.\" He did all the talking for the\n 2418\ttwo of them. Old Sunny just stood there next to him, with her mouth open and all.\n 2419\t\"I paid her already. I gave her five bucks. Ask her,\" I said. Boy, was my voice\n 2420\tshaking.\n 2421\t\"It's ten bucks, chief. I tole ya that. Ten bucks for a throw, fifteen bucks till noon.\n 2422\tI tole ya that.\"\n 2423\t\"You did not tell me that. You said five bucks a throw. You said fifteen bucks till\n 2424\tnoon, all right, but I distinctly heard you--\"\n 2425\t\"Open up, chief.\"\n 2426\t\"What for?\" I said. God, my old heart was damn near beating me out of the room.\n 2427\tI wished I was dressed at least. It's terrible to be just in your pajamas when something\n 2428\tlike that happens.\n 2429\t\"Let's go, chief,\" old Maurice said. Then he gave me a big shove with his crumby\n 2430\thand. I damn near fell over on my can--he was a huge sonuvabitch. The next thing I\n 2431\tknew, he and old Sunny were both in the room. They acted like they owned the damn\n 2432\tplace. Old Sunny sat down on the window sill. Old Maurice sat down in the big chair and\n 2433\tloosened his collar and all--he was wearing this elevator operator's uniform. Boy, was I\n 2434\tnervous.\n 2435\t\"All right, chief, let's have it. I gotta get back to work.\"\n 2436\t\"I told you about ten times, I don't owe you a cent. I already gave her the five--\"\n 2437\t\"Cut the crap, now. Let's have it.\"\n 2438\t\"Why should I give her another five bucks?\" I said. My voice was cracking all\n 2439\tover the place. \"You're trying to chisel me.\"\n 2440\tOld Maurice unbuttoned his whole uniform coat. All he had on underneath was a\n 2441\tphony shirt collar, but no shirt or anything. He had a big fat hairy stomach. \"Nobody's\n 2442\ttryna chisel nobody,\" he said. \"Let's have it, chief.\"\n 2443\t\"No.\"\n 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","title":"Chunk 2"},"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":"2026-01-27T17:16:15.420Z","ts":"2026-01-27T17:16:15.420Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}