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She thought it all over and said, “Well, I guess you're right, but I won't tell the General until just before the plane goes. I'll tell him I'm telephoning.”

So she telephoned a while apparently. Then she rushed out just as the plane was about to leave. Ed McGrady was there and she told him first. She said, “I'm not going, McGrady. I can't go. Something's come up and I can't go. You take care of the General.” Then she told the General. She gave him some cock and bull story of something she'd forgotten that had to be done, that it was terrible, but she would get there. He had to go on the plane as the mayor would be there to take him to the reviewing stand, but she would take the train and go right to the office. She'd be there when he needed her.

Well, she did that. I must say that it was an awfully decent thing for her to do. She went later to New York, however, on one of his toots and the reaction was horrid, People were mad and were sorry she'd come, and so forth.

I went to New York for some other reason the next week. I was there for three days and was coming back on a certain train. On board the train I got a telegram from Mary Rumsey. I was going to be home right after dinner, or some such thing, but the telegram read, “Do not go to the