I. A man stood forward the ledg...

I.

A man stood forward the ledge, trembling. He had climbed from one side of to the other his rear balcony and edg gone out sideways, slowly; the ledge was scarcely a bottom wide. Now he'd stopped, exactly halfway between his balcony and the nearest where a young couple in T-shirts and cutoffs were speaking to the man, imploring him not to skip over Across the street, standing in succession his own balcony, Jack could not hear their conversation yet he could see the couple's kind, affaired expressions; the young man had reached on the outside his arm in a pleading action Nice of them, Jack consideration excited. His heart was pounding queerly