’ve been going in the past year about forgot how to play. Glad to hear that you are still at the Con Ex and I want to say, you got the righ kine of stickia a fellow never gets no where going from one job to another look at the time I lost doing that but never again fore me I haven’t been in a pool roome sence I’ve been out here Cause if I was you know how har would be guess I don’t have to mention it. And also Dan that’s why I respec Stutz because he got stickia too like you only I don’t think he ought to waste his time away in that old Greek pool roome the Greeks they only want to cheat you of your har earned money and make a full of you too Dan Well the White Sox lost to Pilly to day but they are still in first division and I expect to see them stay there and if they cant win the pennet why they sure can. beat the Cubs thats there meat don’t expect to the Cubs to he in second at the end of season doing good if they are in the fourthe by then. As fore me being a native son in a way I am and in a way I’m not but take it from me you made a good guess when you said McAdoo I had McAdoo writen, all over my face and sure did hate to see hime lose out frome now on I’m sopponting Daves I don’t kno where you get that Wilson son in law at he is the best man of the lot and that is why they did not won’t him Cause he is for the labering man and my dad if he was alive would want the man that was for the labering mangy to get in and so do I and as for your pick Walsh is a good man I amit so is Ralston but this Underwood he is rotten as can be to much a raitcal and not a good enough American to suit me and I don’t think very much of your Choce in mentioning him cause he can’t compare with McAdoo and the rest good Americans And as for Woodrow Wilson why he is my Idee the graest Presendent the United State ever had like my dad said baring none. But sence it is a over lets forgot McAdoo Underwood and the rest but Wilson and then saport Daves for the nex Presendent do you agree with me this time cause I don’t belive you did the last time. Well old boy it was quite late when I got home tonight so I guess I better Close for the percsent Hoping I received a reply on the letter very soon I remain
your Pal
Andy Le Gore
P.S. Glad to hear all the folks are well as for me well I hope you can read this Miss Lady writing so small what say By the way when you see Stutz Lonigan do say I send hime my regards and hello because I like hime but not the other older guys By the way my new number is going to be R F D # 18 1/2 or 869 Alhambra Calif
no not in the country the city Ha Ha.
CHAPTER NINETEEN
I
“Here’s Shanty Irish Lonigan!” Barney Keefe said.
“Hello, False Face,” Studs retorted.
“Hey, Barney, why don’t you go to work?” Shrimp Haggerty kidded, as the gang commenced strolling over to Washington Park. Barney did not reply, and Shrimp smiled. Shrimp spotted a baby-faced thing with bobbed hair hobbling along on the other side of the street on high heels, and he declared that it was a pretty nice beetle.
“Yoo-hoo!” Tommy Doyle called.
“You dropped something,” Les shouted.
Studs had an impulse to try picking her up, but he had been kidded so much because of what had happened the last time he had robbed the cradle and had made Nellie Cullen that he didn’t. The sight of the flapper, the sight of any girl, even his sisters, drove Lucy back into his mind. Just before he had left the house, he had surprised Loretta in the hallway, when she dashed out of the bathroom in only a chemise, her left breast sticking out. Last week, by accident, he had seen Fran without a strip on. Such things were driving him almost cuckoo. He had just called Lucy up before meeting the guys and tried to get a date with her, and for the third time since the dance she had given him the go-by. All over again, he tried to convince himself that she was nothing in his young life. She did mean something to him. Goddamn it, he was going nuts without her, thinking of her all the time. He could see that she was only a teaser. It didn’t matter what she was. He remembered dancing with her, talking to her, holding her in his arms, kissing her, their tongues touching, digging his hand under her dress and touching her breast. He loved Lucy. He wanted