"A few years passed. They went quick, then. Money made the
time fly, and Dora certainly was a spender. Then one night
they pulled off the game that was to separate us and give
Mike McDonald a young wife.
"I was boozy with wine. Bill Hoffman and 'Bunk' Allen were
masters of the ceremonies. They bundled me in a cab and
drove me to a place on Wood street. Detectives came in, and
my wife, too, and they there and then laid the basis of the
divorce suit which ended the game between Dora and I."
Barclay then told of a fight in his saloon, in which one man was
almost killed and another badly wounded. Then he said:
"That's how they wound up the 'Half Moon.' Jimmy Quinn said
he was my friend, but he stabbed me in the back. I was
getting too strong in politics, so he got me and I was put
down and out."
Barclay had seemed perfectly happy with her, but one night when he was
living in rooms over his saloon at 15 North Clark street he learned
that Mike McDonald had come into her life, and it was not long before
the ball player's romance was ended.