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long since gone to Boston and was long since dead, but there was a record in a parish register. You have to sign the book when you're married.

It was interesting to think, at any rate, that such a yarn as that could spread so broadcast and have such an effect on the public mind. Anyhow, it tempered the public mind, and the mind of men like Dies, to believe that I was protecting Bridges against anything that might happen to him. When Dies made this speech in the Hotel Plaza, in which he spoke of me among other people who were in his opinion in the Red conspiracy, these rumors were circulating. There was a woman named Mrs. Elizabeth Dillon out in Chicago who printed a book full of people who were supposedly Reds. I didn't get into her book because it was printed before I came to be famous, but Grace Abbott, Mary Anderson, and people like that were in - all kinds of good and decent people. I think she died fairly recently. She was all busted up by the war. The German agent complex led to her among other people, and yet I don't think she was any German agent. I think she was just a half-cracked party who went crazy on this business of Reds under every sofa.

At any rate, I don't think Dies had any more than that to go on when he made this speech in the Plaza,