CHAPTER V.A GLITTERING NIGHT FLOWER--THE USE OF A NAME.
Drouet did not call that evening.

After receiving the letter, he had laid aside all thought of Carrie for the time being and was floating around having what he considered a gay time.

On this particular evening he dined at "Rector's," a restaurant of some local fame, which occupied a basement at Clark and Monroe Streets.

There--after he visited the resort of Fitzgerald and Moy's in Adams Street, opposite the imposing Federal Building.

There he leaned over the splendid bar and swallowed a glass of plain whiskey and purchased a couple of cigars, one of which he lighted.