gS FIenT MEN we 0 « se this man... . The impulse to deny 1s eS ant ase “ Noj he couldn was strong, but each time he was about to act upon it some dircetly at each other now. Olal saw tha thing thwarted him, made him shy off, He clutched about tiny and red, buried, it seemed. in a desperately for an id ‘could say that if he planned — checks spread, flat and tnead, topping to stay for only one n he could not have the room, — nostrils. The mouth was the biggest th for it was against the policy of the hotel to rent rooms for on 4 human face, the lips were thick, pr teeth, The black neck wa iced upon Olaf anid st giant “T want « bottle of whisky and a worn only one ni snow-wl “How Jong are you aying? Just ton Naw. Hl be here for five or six days, 1 reckoi answered offh fiy me up?” "You take room m thirty.” Olaf heard himself saying, Yes.” Olaf whispered, wild with ang “Its forty kronor a But what was he angry about? Hed “That's all right with me,” the giant said every night from all sorts of men and be With slow, stiff movements, Olaf put the money in the safe them, he was hagen hotel that ¢ needed women, but this man, Olaf felt. an. He felt any of the women whom be habi d promised. Could he lie and say: th Olaf No. That sounded too fishy, ‘The black 4 ring straight before him, Olaf moved were: the window shades, taking the pit his geasp, he ing the swith his elbow to 1 a thay i so... That's the way to treat “in said. Ok Maitre of “im Bt be wats still seri Olaf fot him, He thinks Fm nothing... He ted the wey figggAnd he could think of nothing the giants lumbering presence nO gOMtally fmmobilized. He stood hesitant hind him, Olaf opened the door of number thirty and stood gad “TH the whisky and the woman sort of Jing the key to the room, His eyes downeast, phi silently snan’s tre: he “That's too heavy for you, big boy; Tt down the corridor, sensi