I tell 'em you gone down to Atlantic City. You come home with me,
Boss.' He put his kind black hand on my shoulder, and Lucy, his eyes
were full of tears. I left my winnings with the Chinaman, and came
back here with Jonas. Lucy! Oh, if I could really hear your voice!"
"Sept. 5.--I had a long talk with the Police Commissioner to-day. I
can trust him the way I used to trust Mr. Seaton, Lucy. I told him the
truth about Luigi and me and he promised to do what he could to ferret
out the truth about my people. If I could only know that my father was
half-way decent, no matter what my mother was, it would make an
enormous difference to me."
Enoch turned another year of pages.
"Oct. 12.--Lucy, the Police Commissioner says he has to believe that
Luigi's mistress was my mother. He advises me to close that part of my
life for good and all and give myself to politics. Easy advice! But I
am going to play the game straight in spite of Minetta Lane."
Enoch paused long over this entry, then turned on again.
"Nov. 6.--Well, my dear, shake hands with Congressman Huntingdon. Yes,
ma'am! It's true! Aren't you proud of me? And, Lucy, listen! Don't
have any illusions on how I got there. It wasn't brains.
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