The house in which she lives obtains its daily ration of heroin and cocaine—it is not inconsiderable from a shop in Chinese territory, 18 few steps from North Szechuen Road, which eaters especially for- the women addicts of the area. There Jare many such shops in the nelghbourhood and in all the drug Is Jcheap, if not pure. The trackers seems to get off lightly when caught, The atmosphere in the room stifing, there is a sense of despair which is more oppressive than the hheat. Outside the thin door one of the "Chinese "boys" speaks Russian a lodger. 'The afternoon wears on, it is time to go. Goodness knows, there is a desire to gol The sun is still hot in the narrow Jane, but the shadows are very long.' Chinese children play and roller-skate on the cement pavement, Just inside the alley entrance an open-air barber is hard at work on an old coolie.
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