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CONTENTS


Part I




CHAPTER I

BILLY BYRNE


BILLY BYRNE was a product of the streets and alleys of
Chicago's great West Side. From Halsted to Robey, and
from Grand Avenue to Lake Street there was scarce a bartender
whom Billy knew not by his first name. And, in
proportion to their number which was considerably less, he
knew the patrolmen and plain clothes men equally as well,
but not so pleasantly.

His kindergarten education had commenced in an alley
back of a feed-store. Here a gang of older boys and men
were wont to congregate at such times as they had naught
else to occupy their time, and as the bridewell was the only
place in which they ever held a job for more than a day or