Page 519 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

guest always sits at the room corner on your left side. He drinks beer
in the dim light and quiet."

"I thought those bars for American, who had money and spent
for enjoyment time. Why he came here for?"

"I don't know about a Vietnamese guest. It seemed he and she
ran into the old friend. She had loved him before met Dennis, and
Dennis never came here anymore."

Jimmy looked at Tom with his wide eyes.

"Do a Vietnamese guest come in here alone every night to spent
his poor money?" Jimmy asked.

Tom nodded his head.

"Some time he comes in here to drink few beers, talking with
Hanh-Phuong, and Hanh-Phuong does not wait on any table until he
was left."

"So Colonel Dennis didn't come here anymore."

"Yes...I thought so too."

Hanh-Phuong followed Thu to the restroom, looked at Thu
bending on the toilet-table, crying and sobbing. Hanh-Phuong shook
her head.
"Thu. Don't cry, please. You must be strong to survive." Hanh-
Phuong said.

Thu looked at Hanh-Phuong in the emotion of a sobbing; her
face was full of tears.

"I was pain all of my soul and body; I sold my soul to the evil."

Thu said.
Hanh-Phuong holds Thu in her arms; her eyes were moist.

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