The Old Bugaboo

“Shihan’s Billiard Hall” is a well-known hub of the underground trade in alcohol and narcotics in Chicago, enjoying a certain prestige among its rather shabby visitors. One of the hall’s lodgers was the Old Goof—washing floors, cleaning spittoons, and doing other work in exchange for drinks and drugs. And so it went day after day, until, one day, Alfred Trever appeared in the billiard hall…