Part 1, Unspoiled Monsters, pp. 73 - 97 Summary

After a brief comment relating his encounter with Kate McCloud to his return to Paris, Jones describes his time in Tangiers, describing the free, intensely lived nature of the city, its dominance by a small group of socialites, and his relationship with Aces Nelson. Nelson, Jones writes, was a young American who, Jones is told, spends his life moving from rich home to rich home and earns his living both playing games and having sex with rich women. At their first meeting, Aces manipulates Jones into adopting a puppy and then into attending a party at the vacation home of heiress Barbara Hutton. There, conversation with Aces and Hutton leads Jones to reveal he is more of a masseur than a writer, in turn leading Aces to suggest they meet in Paris the following week...