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I have discovered that it would probably be acceptable. Now you can't back out now. It's too late.”

“I won't go through with it. I'm not going to go through with it. That's all there is to it.”

He hung up, just hung up in my face. He was that sort of person. I must say I was flat. I had led Hillman a long way. It was then late in the afternoon and I was going out, had some appointment in some other department. The outside room had filled up with reporters because they heard that Miss Perkins had said she was hopeful and that she believed that something could be done to settle all this. I came out of the room and they said, “What is it that's going to be done that you feel so hopeful about?”

I was mad and said, “All right, I lost my hope.”

“What do you mean? What do you mean?” getting their books out.

“Well,” I said, “Mr. Sloan ran out on me, that's all. Mr. Sloan ran out on me.”

Then I walked off.

Then they wanted to know how. I never told them, and I never have to this day told them what happened. They just printed that Mr. Sloan ran out on me. I did say, “We'll think of something else. There'll be some