Word: louie
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evenings later she seems to relent. She has Jencic take her to the Arcade. But this is only to excite jealousy in Louie, her latest. Dark and dapper, Louie steps up to Jencic, who just stands there like a block of wood, patient and talkative. Louie punches him on the jaw. Sitting on the sidewalk, hulking Jencic looks up with sick eyes, whispering...
When Baker Krusack hears about Louie and how Jencic is accepting defeat in love, he promises to fire Jencic if he does not lick Louie at once, and without getting drunk first...
When he sees Louis and Teena approach, Jencic hides in a dark doorway. Sharp-eyed Louie yanks him out by the collar. At last Jencic awakes. He grabs Louie by the throat, smashes his face. Down goes Louie, then up with a knife. Mighty Jencic just advances slowly, arms out seeking to crush, face murderous. Louie retreats. Baker Krusack commends Jencic: "You've been a worm, but now you've turned over, and you'll stay turned over. . . . Well, there must be rewards for all good work. . . . I will show you another part of the trade...
Teena, however, offers no congratulations. "Get Louie back," she mutters to Jencic. "Ask me anything you want to and I'll give it to ye, but you got to promise to get him and see that he comes here...
Jencic refuses until she weeps. Then Louie cannot be found. Then the truth comes out. Louie has got her pregnant. This time Jencic proceeds against Baker Krusack's advice. He is his own man now. He says : "I know all about Teena, more'n you do. It is true she done something she shouldn't do, but after we get married it will be all right. Everybody makes mistakes. What if people didn't forget such mistakes, then everybody would be mad at everybody else, and nobody would have even one friend...