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that got Vera pinched came back to old Freiberg’s — and he got confidential. Maybe I encouraged his confidence. Anyway, he finally told me that that night a year ago he’d spent a hundred and ninety that belonged to his firm — and then got Vera pinched to keep from going to jail himself. I told him not to come round any more.”
“How’d you tell him?”
“On the jaw. I think I broke it.”
“What became of Vera?”
“Oh — I forgot to tell you what made me tell you all this! Vera was in the other night — with her husband. Mighty nice young feller, even if he is rotten rich. They’ve got two of the finest kids on the North Shore.”
“Vera told you?”
“No — no!” protests Mr. Bloom, dismayed by my stupidity. “Vera’s husband told me. I’ve known him for years — but of course I’m not acquainted with his wife.”
“Are you making a new fortune out of the old place, Ike?”
“Not yet, but I will. Some of my friends say I’m crazy and going to lose my B. V. D.’s. But when I play a hunch I go the limit ; and it’s my hunch that Chicago wants what I’m trying to give it.”
“You believe in hunches?”
“In mine — hunches and friendships are my religion. I’ll tell you a crazy hunch I followed — Jimmy Ward; you remember Jimmy. He was flying for the Curtisses and I got stuck on him and got his release. Got a couple of planes and entered him in the Hearst Coast-to-Coast. He flew all right from Governor’s Island to Hornell, where he met a mountain that was