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The Great Gatsby — Chapter 9 — Page 7

I ejaculated an unrestrained Huh! and he must have heard me, for he went on nervously: What I called up about was a pair of shoes I left there. I wonder if itd be too much trouble to have the butler send them on. You see, theyre tennis shoes, and Im sort of helpless without them. My address is care of B. F. I didnt hear the rest of the name, because I hung up the receiver. After that I felt a certain shame for Gatsbyone gentleman to whom I telephoned implied that he had got what he deserved. However, that was my fault, for he was one of those who used to sneer most bitterly at Gatsby on the courage of Gatsbys liquor, and I should have known better than to call him. The morning of the funeral I went up to New York to see Meyer Wolfshiem; I couldnt seem to reach him any other way. The door that I pushed open, on the advice of an elevator boy, was marked The Swastika Holding Company, and at first there didnt seem to be anyone inside. But when Id shouted hello several times in vain, an argument broke out behind a partition, and presently a lovely Jewess appeared at an interior door and scrutinized me with black hostile eyes. Nobodys in, she said. Mr. Wolfshiems gone to Chicago. The first part of this was obviously untrue, for someone had begun to whistle The Rosary, tunelessly, inside.