Chapters 11 through 13 Summary and Analysis

After about three months on the street, Piri meets a man named Pane and his sister, Lorry. Pane gives Piri a drink from his bottle and they invite him to sleep at their place. He quickly slips into Lorry's bed though she is thirty and has two children. He stays only a short time because he says he does not have the same feelings as Lorry and is actually messing around with another girl.

Piri and his friend Louie answer an advertisement for salesmen. Piri goes in first, spends some time with Mr. Christian, who tells him the current territories are all filled but they will be calling him soon to work in a new area. Louie goes in directly behind Piri and is hired to begin immediately. When they discover this, Piri wants to know for sure whether...