“Even you, like all of your kind, will beg for sin, ape-beast! You are no different! You shall see hell!”

The boy now lives with the narrator. He is a good enough worker and there is little trouble. That is, until something dark and unusual presses its heavy frame on the narrator's life.

The narrator begins his story. He tells of his past life. He tells of the love he had for it. He tells of what took it away.

In a mysterious town on the outskirts of the dust that throttled the South and sent thousands of downtrodden farmers to the “promise land”, California, a man drinks a flask of whiskey. His grumbles carry an air of drunkenness until he begins his sto