Pages 63-83 Summary

Bill continues to buy drugs from Pat. Bill meets and describes several colorful junkies. As usual, they mostly are mooches and bums. Bill begins to partner with Pat and they buy drugs from various suppliers and resell them. They continue to peddle drugs until the police start snooping around their hotel. Some of their clients are arrested, and Pat's room is searched. Bill and Pat decide to stop selling and go back to buying from others. Law Enforcement in New Orleans begins to target drug addicts, arresting them for simply having injection scars.

One day Bill, Pat, and some others get into Bill's car and cruise several drug neighborhoods in search of junk. They are pulled over and the police find a few marijuana cigarettes on one of the other men. Since the car is Bill's, he is arrested and the...