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always very, very well conducted and very useful in a great state like New York where there is such enormous rural area far distant from any other policing. They have been very useful and helpful. He either continued John Warner, or picked him anew. I don't remember which.

John Warner came from one of the best upstate Rochester families - a very fine old family. His mother was very much of a grande dame, elegant in her attitudes, in her dress and knowledge and understanding of the life of the world. Mrs. Warner was frightfully taken with the Governor as soon as she met him. She was a very independent old lady who proclaimed that he was the most attractive, most charming and most delightful man we'd ever had for Governor. She was very popular with him. He liked her very much. She was the mother of the Chief of Police. The Warners became good friends.

John Warner was not married. He was a bachelor between thirty-five and forty, in the very pink of everything. In some mysterious way or other he and the Governor's oldest daughter, Emily, who was just barely growing up and getting out of school, were attracted to each other. There was a boy older than Emily, but he never was much shucks. Emily was the prize person of the family - prize in every way. She had much of her father's magnetic quality of having people like her almost spontaneously. She was very out-going. She





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