Pages 108-126 Summary

Bill drinks heavily and begins to behave erratically. One day he becomes offended by someone in a bar. Without remembering why, he enters a rage and goes home where he fetches a revolver. He returns to the bar and accosts the man, intending to murder him. A policeman and the bartender intervene and take away the revolver. The police officer then takes him into the street and, releasing him, tells him to go home. Bill feels like his is in someone else's dream. He goes into another bar and begins drinking. When he awakens in a strange room, he returns home, staggering through the streets, and begins to have visions of doom. In his house he feels there is an intruder and he stalks around with a rifle. He then searches madly about for drugs, finally finding a tiny amount of...