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my duty to tell the President. He wanted to know if anybody ever had told him. I told him I thought not. He said that he thought it just had to be done, the President just ought to know it, and some way out ought to be found. I was very much impressed, but I did not feel like being a tale bearer to the President.

I consulted Nelson Slater, who I knew must know all about it because he worked there. He was much older than Blacky Smith and I knew him better. Blacky Smith had taken all these precautions about coming to Nelson's house because he was afraid that somebody would find out that he had talked to me, and that he would be spotted as the person who had told. He trusted Nelson and me, but didn't trust anybody else.

At any rate, I consulted Nelson afterwards and he verified the episodes that Smith had told me about, and verified the general condition of blankness that would go on for hours at a time, not catching onto things, the impossible promises, preposterous statements, running out on agreements, running out on engagements, and all that sort of thing. He told me the terrible time they were all having keeping things smooth on the surface.

At any rate, I was going over to New York that weekend. Mary Rumsey had a house out on Sands Point.