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"Leave enough of hion arrived Billy had disappeared, but Lasky had recognized him and thereafter the two had nodded pleasantly to each other upon such occasions as they chanced to meet upon the street

Two years elapsed before the event transpired which proved a crisis in Billy's life During this period his existence had beento him from careless and less muscular citizens He had helped to stick up a half-dozen saloons He had robbed the night men in two elevated stations, and for a while had been upon the pay-roll of a certain union and done strong arm work in all parts of the city for twenty-five dollars a week

By day he was a general utility ain Hilht, for he saw in the young giant the ht; but Billy couldn't leave the booze alone, and so the best that he got was an occasional five spot for appearing in preliminary bouts with third- and fourth-rate heavies and has-beens; but during the three years that he had hung about Hile of the s really began to happen in the life of Billy Byrne that esti in front of a saloon at the corner of Lake and Robey The dips that congregated nightly there under the protection of the powerful politician ned the place were co to assemble Billy knew them all, and nodded to them as they passed him He noted surprise in the faces of several as they saw hi there He wondered what it was all about, and determined to ask the next man who evinced evenhi toward him from the east It was Lasky When Lasky saw Billy he too opened his eyes in surprise, and when he ca to hih he had not seen, Billy at all

In deference to the whispered request Billy presently strolled around the corner toward Walnut Street, but at the alley back of the saloon he turned suddenly in A hundred yards up the alley he found Lasky in the shadow of a telephone pole

"Wotinell are you doin' around here?" asked the patrolman "Didn't you know that Sheehan had peached?"