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Title: Living Up to Billy

Author: Elizabeth Cooper

Release Date: July 26, 2010 [EBook #33264]

Language: English

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LIVING UP TO BILLY

[Illustration: "I NEAR WENT NUTTY, AND MADE AN AWFUL FOOL OF
MYSELF."--Page 137]

LIVING UP
TO BILLY

BY
ELIZABETH COOPER

AUTHOR OF "MY LADY OF THE CHINESE
COURTYARD," "SAYONARA," ETC.

[Illustration]

NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

_Copyright, 1915, by_
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

LIVING UP TO BILLY

I

_Dear Kate_:

Two years! Only two years, what do you think of it! Why, when I heard
the judge say two years, I nearly fell off the bench. You were caught
with the goods, and he had your record with its two stretches right
before him, yet he only gave you two years. You told me yourself you
thought you would get at least five. We tried to dope it out up to the
room, and kind of figured that he had it in for the prosecuting
attorney, and you got the benefit. Well, if you ain't singing to-night
in the tombs, you orter be. And two years, old girl, will go by so quick
that when you see the lights of Broadway again, you won't even see a
change. You can get a lot off for good behavior, and you know how to
work all the con games there is to be worked, so as it will make it easy
for you, cause it ain't as if it was your first time. Put on a good
face, and don't get sulky and you will be out before you have time to
remember you was ever sent up.

Now, I will come up and see you just as often as I can, and I will get
you a letter regular once a month anyway, and I will tell you all that
is doing. Oh, Kate, it kinda breaks me all up to think of you being put
away again. You're all I got, and I don't know what I will do without
you. That last stretch of yours I nearly died. You and me have just got
each other and we have been mighty close, more so than most sisters I
think. You have not always treated me white, sometimes you have been
mean, but it was n