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must be very misunderstood circumstances, and for her parents. He suddenly remembered that she had parents. He felt her parents must be greatly disturbed.

The first thing he did was to please ask the police to get on the job of getting him in telephonic touch with his son, and the second was to get him in touch with the parents of the girl. He wanted to say to the parents of the girl that this was all right with him and he hoped they would cooperate to see that these young people, who had married so hastily and without thought, were properly married and knew what they were doing. His address to his son was, “For God's sake, Alfred, come down here or go to Father ‘So-and-So' in (whatever town they were in then) and get yourself properly married! You know what I mean. You know what you're doing. You know how terrible it is. You know you haven't got a right to do that to any girl. She's a young girl that you don't know.”

He took the best possible view of her, although there were those who were quick to say that she knew what she was about all right. I think he was Governor then. The boy was very young. He was eighteen, nineteen, or possibly twenty. He was a very young boy and didn't have any job.

It was on that occasion that you realized how many people there were in the City of New York who rushed over





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