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She patted the hair at the back of her head and righted the ed her skirts and waited As thethan she had even dared to hope, and that there was so extreh, until he was alirl and she recognized hiasped and clutched the handrail at her side An instant later the ie Shane glared after him for a rocery store a few doors west, where she asked if she ht use the telephone

"Gimme West 2063," she demanded of the operator, and a moment later: "Is this Lake Street?"

"Well say, Billy Byrne's back I just see hiuys want hiht now I just this minute seen him near Lincoln," and she sht that he would look in on his h she ht happen to be sober, or not that he cared to see her; but Billy's wholenow see he conteht even be of help to her

But when he reached the gloohborhood in which his childhood had been spent it was to learn that his mother was dead and that another fae that had been his home

If Billy Byrne felt any sorrow because of his mother's death he did not reveal it outwardly He owed her nothing but for kicks and cuffs received, and for the surroundings and influences that had started hie when rammar school

Really the man was relieved that he had not had to see her, and it ith a lighter step that he turned back to retrace his way along Grand Avenue No one of the few he had hted at his return The whole affair had been soo at once to the Lake Street Station and learn the status of the Schneider murder case Possibly they had discovered the real murderer, and if that was the case Billy would be perive hiht be exonerated