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I want back to the Department in the evening after dinner to do some work that was piled up on my desk. It was very to ever your in those days. I entered the department and there was probably nobody there. It was long part office hours - night or half past eight at night. I asked the on the elevator to take me up to my floor. I heard and two sound of people moving around above. I said to the guard, “Is anyone else in the building?”

“Yes,” he said, “the men came back on the fourth floor.”

I said, “Who's up there?” I wasn't auspicious really.

I just wondered who was late.

He said, “Oh, Mr. Garsson and all them follows came back to work in the offices. They said they was working late.”

I said, “Well, don't stop at my floor. Take me right up there.”

So he took me up there. Here they were rifling the files. There wasn't any question about it. I caught them red-handed. They had their costs off and there eleven rolled up. They were working all right. There was no question about that. They were doing manual I know. They were pulling out the files, going over them, taking papers out, pilling them up. There were a lot of them there. Both the Garrison a were





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