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After being discharged Bill goes home and spends some time feeling better, enjoying a resurgent sex drive, working, and eating. He meets with Pat and they discuss their respective cases. They talk with some of their former clients but Bill remains clean and has no desire to use drugs though Pat is still injecting. Bill learns that his case will be tried in the State courts, and that he is free to travel anywhere he pleases pending the court date. He decides to leave New Orleans and returns to Texas.

Bill lives for several months in the Texas river valley near Brownsville. He enters into various partnerships, acquires land through leases, and farms various crops. He describes the culture of the river valley at some length and in very amusing but unflattering terms, and even recounts some of the history of...