Well, other people are, she said
lightly.
All these people came to Gatsbys house in the
summer. Handsome to look at and a perfect gentleman. Wolfshiem drank his coffee with
a jerk and got to his feet. Even Jordans party, the quartetfrom East Egg, were rent
asunder by dissension. I was flattered that she wanted to speak to me, because of
all the oldergirls I admired her most. Schraeders and the Stonewall Jackson Abrams
ofGeorgia and the Fishguards and the Ripley Snells. His voice was solemn as if the
memory of that sudden extinction of a clanstill haunted him. Wolfshiem drank his
coffee with a jerk and got to his feet.
He smiled with jovial condescensionand added Some
sensation!
Yes, highballs, agreed Gatsby, and then to Mr.
Wolfshiemraised his hand in a sort of benediction.
A caddy retracted hisstatement and the only other
witness admitted that he might have beenmistaken. Whitebait, who was well oversixty,
and Maurice A. Clarence Endive was from East Egg, as I remember.
Even Jordans party, the quartetfrom East Egg, were
rent asunder by dissension. Daisys furious because youhavent called up.
For a moment I suspected that he was pulling my
legbut a glance at him convinced me otherwise. Look here, old sport, he broke out
surprisingly. I was sure that they were selling something: bonds orinsurance or
automobiles. He came onlyonce, in white knickerbockers, and had a fight with a bum
namedEtty in the garden.
He flipped his sleeves up under his coat. We all
turned andlooked around for Gatsby.
Then he went out on the sidewalk and they shot
himthree times in his full belly and drove away.
He would never so much as look at a friends
wife.
For a moment I suspected that he was pulling my
legbut a glance at him convinced me otherwise. Somebody told me they thought he
killed a man once.
Jordan looked at him alertly, cheerfully without
answering.
Albrucksburger and Miss Haag, hisfiancée, and
Ardita Fitz-Peters, and Mr. Several years, he answered in a gratified way. She asked
me if I was going to the Red Cross andmake bandages.
He flipped his sleeves up under his coat. Never
heard anything so selfish in my life.
I was brought by a woman named Roosevelt, he
continued.