-loving personality, an excellent companion for a
life-long protest against things as they are. He saw she had the
capacity for deep and excited interest in truth, an emotional love for
ideated experience. These two human beings were wonderfully fitted to
each other: no wonder they loved!

Terry, telling me about the girl's experience during the two weeks or so
before he found her, dwelt especially upon how well she was treated.

"She has a way of getting the interest, almost the deference, of many
people. She and Gertrude were often reduced to the proverbial thirty
cents, but they had little difficulty in getting along. For instance,
one day, almost broke, they went to a restaurant and ordered two cups of
coffee. The negro waiter knew what they were, and offered them a nice
steak, at his expense. Nor did he try to 'ring in,' to make their
acquaintance. He treated them with great respect. They went there
several times afterward, and always found the negro waiter beaming with
the desire to help them for quite disinterested reasons, and he never
tried to meet them outside. Marie always appreciated a thing like that.
She took a delight in thinking about the fine qualities in human
nature."

Marie is a frank woman, but it is natural that she could never bring
herself to talk about this period of her life with entire openness. She
has, however, written me a letter in which she tells the essential
truth, although clothing it with a certain pathetic attempt to conceal
the one episode in her life about which, to me, she was perhaps
unreasonably reticent. She did not say that she and Gertrude were
separated from Terry for a time, but she wanted to convey the impression
that she and Terry, from the start, struggled along together, which was
essentially, though not literally, true. Continuing her account, from
the time the two families cast her and Terry out, she wrote:

"So there we were, thrown out into the harsh world, shelterless and
almost moneyless. But we all three put our little capital together,
amounting to about eleven dollars, went down town, and hired a furnished
room. We managed to live a week on this capital, and then Terry pawned
his watch, which gave us five dollars. Gertrude soon disappeared with an
old roue and went out of our lives. Terry and I kept along as best we
could. Kate helped us as much as we would allow her to, and sometimes
paid for our room, and I would sometimes eat at her house.

"During this