the things they carried -8

in this part of the book i read from page 50 to 55. In this part of the book he talks about when he was at the tip top lodge with Elroy. He says he remembers one time when he was laying in his bed thinking about when he crosses the boarder about how boarder patrol might get him and the royal police would stop him. He also says he thought he might have lost it like gone off the psychic edge. He says that he thinks Elroy knows about everything but he just wont say anything about it. The man is to polite he says. Then one night when he had to pay off his rent they were talking about rates. Elroy said 50 a night and 4 nights thats 200. and he said no how about 40 and Elroy agreed. So he made him pay 160 plus 100 for the food which was 260 which was fair. Then Elroy started to talk aobut jobs with him and he told him about his old job as a butcher and Elroy was saying no wonder you smelled so bad and like pork chops. Then he asked him about his pay and he said his pay was horrible. Elroy made a proposal since he worked so hard at the cabin he payed him for all his hours. He worked 25 hours and 15 an hour which was 375 bucks Elroy said. So he subtracted that from the 260 and he still owed him 115 dollars. Elroy left the money on the table but he didn't take it. Then the next morning when he woke up he saw the money on the floor in an envelope which said EMERGENCY FUNDS. He then knew that Elroy knew.