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MRS. HERMAN H. HIRSCH. 669

word. You'll be protected, and we'll stand by you, and we'll seo
that you shail never be harmed, and you shall be taken care of.”

I went to the bridge party and after leaving it returned to Mr.
Adair’s office. I told him that I had been studying over the matter,
and I didn’t know what to do, and he said, “Well, there’s only one
thing to do, you'll simply have to go away.” I said, “Mr. Adair, I
have practically realized that I have to do anything that you all
say, beeause I'm going to be ruined here, anyway, but, if I leave
and no harm eomes to Mr, Candler, I think that I should be as-
sured a living. If you say that you ere going to send me an
amount each month, I have no assurance that it will be done, things
might happen,” and he said, “Well, we couldn't draw up papers
to make it legal because we would expose the whole thing a8 to
why Mr. Candler is paying you this annuity.” “Well,” I said,
“then couldn’t an amount, the interest on whieh would be sufficient
to make this annuity, be deposited somewhere and let me draw the
interest from that?” and Mr. Forrest Adair said, “That would be a
good plan, George, We ean get bonds, and she ean clip the con-
pons.” Now, I didn’t know there was such a thing as clipping cou-
pons on bonds, I’ve never had money enough to know that was
done at all, and that was Mr. Forrest Adair’s own suggestion. Mr.
George Adair says, “No, Mrs. Hirsch has been to a bridge party
this afternoon, which shows that she plays cards; she might take
the amount and squander it or gamble it in some way and then
come back on Mr. Candler,” and I said, “Don’t you know that if T
leave here under the clond that you are trying to get me to do,
don’t you know that I couldn’t come back on Mr. Candler for any-
thing and nobody would believe me if I did.” So they agreed final-
ly that that was all right; that I should be given an amount of
money or bonds. They said that would make $250 a month, and
Mr, Forrest Adair said, “Well, I'l say that we'll do that.”

‘Tt was agreed that I shouldn’t leave until after Mr. Hirsch had
come home Friday evening and had left for Pittsburg on the fol-
lowing Sunday; they agreed that while he was as far away as
Pittsburg would be a good time for me to leave because it would
give me time to get far enough away. So I left the office promis-
ing to call them up as soon as Mr. Hirseh left.

Mr. Erwin’s testimony is true. I thought he might help mo as
I knew nothing about investments. So is Mr. Young’s. I was
afraid that some one might steal the bonds I expected to get. Mr.
Hirsch came home late Friday night. On Sunday I saw him off
on the Pittsburg train and then called up Mr. Adair and told him
he had gone. Next morning at 9:30 I was at his office; Asa Cand-
ler, Jr., was in there, and I begen to cry right away. I said that
it seemed that I was being subjected to a great deal of embarrase-
ment, that I didn’t want to talk about this to so many people. He
said, “Well, it’s very necessary that Asa Candler should be here to
eomplete our arrangements, for,” he said, “I have led you to be
lieve falsely yesterday, when I told you Mr. Cook had softened,

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