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MRS. HERMAN H. HIRSCH. 667

down to the train, which was due at 7 o'clock, When I got down to Mr.
Hirseh’s office and opened the door, I went in, and when I did found
a note that had been tueked through the letter slot. This note had been.
signed by “Cook,” and it is the note that I gave Mr. Forrest Adair.
T immediately went to the telephone and called up Mr. Candler to
tell him that evidently Mr. Cook was going to try to
make some trouble for he had left this note for Mr. Hirsch
to call him at Ivy 164 before he went home, Mr. Candler answered
the phone; I told him about finding the note and he said, “What
was it?” and I read it to him over the phone, and he said, “Well,
TH eall you in about ten minutes.” In about ten minutes the phone
rang and @ voice said, “This is Forrest Adair, will you come to m!
office in the Atlanta National Bank building?” I anid, “No, sir,
will not.” He said, “Well, I wish you would because it’s very im-
portant that you do, and it’s about something that occurred a little
while ago, and I think you'll understand from this what it is and
that we are going to try to help you, and I want to talk to you
about it.” So I consented to go to his office. He seated me there
and began to talk about what had happened in Mr. Candler’s office.
He said that Mr. Candler had made a full and complete confession
to him, had told him everything, and he said, “I want to see what
we ean do to get you out of this.”

Tn 4 few minutes George Adair came in, and I said, “Mr, Adair,
I wich you wouldn't draw so many people into this. It’s so em-
barrassing to have to talk before so many people.” He said, “Well,
UM tell you I’m working in Mr. Candler’s interests,” and he said,
“I want. to see that he is gotten out of this; we want to find out
the straight of it and find out what to do.” I said, “It seems to me
that Mr. Cook is the one that’s going to make the trouble. I'm
sure I’m not, I don’t want it known, I showed him the note that
I had gotten from Mr. Hirsch’s office, and he immediately went to
the phone and asked Mr. Cook to come over to his office. When
Mr. Cook came in and saw me there, he didn't say anything, just
turned around and started to walk out, I said, “Mr. Cook, please
don’t tell on us, Please give me a chance,” and he never even an-
ewered me or looked at me, but walked on out of the room. Mr.
Forrest Adair went out of the room—with him and was gone quite
a little while. When he came back he said he didn’t know what to
think or what to do, hardly, but he had gotten Mr. Cook to prom-
ise that he wouldn't do anything that night, and for me to go on
home, and if Mr. Hirsch eame home to just be with him as much
as possible to try to keep Mr. Cook from telling it, and to abeo-
lutely deny everything if he did tell him.

I went out—oh, in the meantime, Mr. Adair said, “We'll most
likely want to talk to you tomorrow; now how shall ¥ call you up;
1 don’t want to call you up and say that Forrest Adair wants yout”
We agreed that he would sall up and use the name of one of my
lady friends, saying she wanted to talk to me and I would under-
stand by that that it was Mr. Adair, and to go and eall him up at
once, because at the Pickwick there’s just two telephones, one in

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