Hemingway man

JOY STREET-Clifton Cuthbert-God-win ($2).

Frankie was a Boston Italian, second generation, so he could talk like a Heming-wayman and get away with it: his mother did not speak English so good. Frankie had left a fair job in a factory for a much better one, driving a truck for Bootlegger Visconti. His hours were long but he worked only one day a week. Good & bad luck hit Frankie about the same time. He met Rosie at a dance hall, and he got a warning from a rival 'legger that hereafter his weekly trip would not be safe.

Frankie was in two minds what to do about the warning. He was offered a better job with his boss's rival, but he was afraid of his boss. Finally he just let everything slide while he had a good time with Rosie. But on the next trip the truck was held up, his partner was shot. Frankie figured out that by the time he got back to Boston the gunmen would be after him as the only witness of the shooting, so he lay low for a few days. When he went back to Boston to see Rosie she had gone to Manhattan. When he heard that Visconti's young wife had run away too, and that Visconti thought he had stolen her. Frankie knew his number was up.

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