At last Studs Fedora tailed Merton Lotts out of the slums, but not to anyplace respectable. Lotts entered a fleabag known only as "Hotel", where rooms rented by the hour and people came to snap their parts together on the sly. Lotts went in alone; Studs stayed on the street and watched as a light went on in a top-floor room. He settled on the bench to watch the hotel entrance.