At the barber's that day, Neville heard Mr. Snyder, manager of an apartment house on Doheny, tell how in Chicago, under mayor 'Honest' Bill Thompson, a licence-bureau official took his high-school son's last seventy-five cents for a driving licence.

At the barber that day Neville heard Mr. Snyder, manager of an apartment house on Doheny, tell how in Chicago under mayor “Honest” Bill Thompson a licence-bureau official took his high-school son's last seventy-five cents for a driving licence — and how Thompson's safe deposit boxes were found stuffed with cash after his death.