South of the Slot

The people of San Francisco called Market Street "The Slot" because

• it divided the rich from the poor

• cable car tracks run down the middle of Market Street

• there was a lot of traffic

Freddie Drummon was comfortable on both sides of Market Street because

• on one side he acted as a poor working man and on the other side he lived as a rich man

• his books were read by both rich and poor people

• poor people liked him even though he was rich

Freddie liked to dance, drink and talked to girls

• when he was a student in collegue

• when he socialized with fashionable, higher class girls

• when he lived South of the Slot, pretending he was Bill Totts

When Freddie crossed south of the slot

• he changed his personality as easily as he changed his clothes

• he always got stuck on a traffic jam

• he was running away from his fiancée

'Big' Bill Totts first met Mary Condon when

• Professor Drummond sent him to investigate Laundry Strike

• he was working as a delivery truck driver

• her father introduced them

Freddie Drummon decided he would marry Catherine so that

• Bill Totts could not marry Mary

• he could spend her father's money

• he could write a book about aristocratic women

During the Meat Strike,

• the truck moved and Freddie and Catherine could go to the florist's

• Freddie ran away with Mary

• the police could control the strikers