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in front of them over their stomachs. We took our places in the pews arranged for us. Soon after we seated other people were admitted to the galleries. There was a great contest to get into the galleries. I remember the Secret Service men batting up there with the mobs who thought they had a right to go to Will's funeral. They lived there. They had known him all their lives, and they were protesting. They belonged to this church, had known Will since he was a boy, and they couldn't get in on account of all the people come from Washington. Finally the Secret Service began to let them into the galleries, obviously without much faith in what they were doing. They didn't think it was a good idea to have odds and ends of people they didn't know in the galleries.

The place was packed with flowers. In the heat and humidity the smell of them was incredible It was that sickly sweetness of flowers on a hot, humid day, with so many of them and absolutely no breath of air moving through that church. The windows were open, but much good that did. There was no movement of air in or out. It just grew hotter and hotter and hotter. The pews were varnished. You felt Yourself sticking to the back of the pew. There was nothing you could





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