ON AN exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out
    of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as
    though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.
    He had successfully avoided meeting his landlady on the staircase.
    His garret was under the roof of a high, five-storied house and was
    more like a cupboard than a room. The landlady who provided him with
    garret, dinners, and attendance, lived on the floor below, and every
    time he went out he was obliged to pass her kitchen, the door of which
    invariably stood open. And each time he passed, the young man had a