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that you get that next week" and they stood there and talked a-
while but she did not hear anything else they said, then she
went on out the door while they come back up the steps, and Mr. Darley
stepped up there and Mr. Holloway come down and left and I did
not see him anymore. While they were coming down, about 5
minutes after Mr. Darley had gone, Mr. Holloway went out on the side-
walk and stood there 3 or 5 minutes and Mr. Holloway came back and went back
up the steps, and then here come another man named I. L. Quinn,
legged one, and he went up the steps, he had his peg leg in his
hands, and Mr. Holloway come back down with the fellow's wagon one
went out on the sidewalk and looked at the fellow's wagon, but
what he said to him I don't know. It was a wagon that had sides to
it and I didn't see the name on it. It wasn't a regular dray, I
guess it was one of those express wagons that have come from that plate
and company on Alabama St., then Mr. Holloway went back upstairs
and it was good. I don't know how long he had been down, and was
gone for good. I don't know how long, but I guess he stayed upstairs
long enough to put on his coat and hat, then he come back down and went
right forward Hunter St., then where I was, I was in the factory, turn up
into the factory, she had on a green looking dress, she works on
the fourth floor, and she walked with her head down, sort of stoop
shouldered, she works for Arthur White, she stayed up there 7 or
8 minutes and then she come back down with the money in her hand
and she stood just a little opposite me and tore the envelope,
open right there and took her money and counted it, and she
put her hand up and went out the door and she turned towards
me and as she did, I looked at her, there were, there wasn't
anything in her hand, and she went on the box with my head against
the fresh breeze, all treated there on the box, I didn't pay any
lap, but I couldn't say whether I went to sleep or not, and the
next thing that attract my attention, Mr. Frank whistled for me
twice, just like this (indicating), and when he whistled I went on
up the stairs and the double doors on the stairway were closed
and I opened them and they shut themselves, and Mr. Frank was stand-
ing at the top of the steps and he said "Hello" and I said "Good morning
Mr. Frank" and he said "I want to go in the office and get you" and
I said "Alright" and he said "Wait just a minute" and he went down the
hall and like he did, I was walking down the street with a
lady, and I was so surprised when I saw him, I thought it was all, and I
thought it was because he had me to go right behind me, and he
and he carried me through the first office that made him tremble,
office, and then he come back there, and he went on in the private
office, and then he come back there, and he went on in the
he grabbed up a box of sulphur matches, and he went back in the
outer office, the door was open between his office and the outer
office, and then he saw two ladies coming and said to me, "gee
here comes Miss Emma Clark and Miss Corinthia Hall" and he come
back in there to me, he was walking fast and seemed to be excited,
and he said to me "gone right in here Jim", and he motioned to the
wardrobe and I was a little slow about it and Mr. Frank grabbed me
and pushed me in the wardrobe and he said "You shut that door" and
I said "Yes" and I shut the door and he said nothing else, but I didn't
know it was Miss Corinthia Hall until Mr. Frank spoke and said it was
but I heard Miss Emma's voice; they didn't stay there long, until
they were gone, I didn't hear them, the next move was Mr. Frank
come and let me out of the wardrobe. I didn't remember Miss Hall and
Miss Clarke using the telephone, if they didn't hear them,
and I didn't see them myself. I stayed in the wardrobe a pretty
good while, for the whiskey and beer I had drank got me to
sweating, I couldn't hear them talking only, I heard Miss Emma say
good morning Mr. Frank and then I heard Miss Hall say "I could have heard
them if they were talking loud" and I didn't see them
stairs. Mr. Frank must have kept right behind me to see that they
didn't take off anything. Then after a while Mr. Frank he come in-
to the office and he pulled out one of those round chairs from

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