right on up to the present. First,1
I’d like to know your name—your
full name.”
■‘•It’s—it’s Ethel Mae Harmon.”
**I see. And you worked for Rep
resentative Lucas for some time,
didn’t you?”
"I’ve been his housekeeper since
he's been in Washington.”
"Did you know him before that
time?”
"Yes. I knew him.”
"Very well?”
The little woman looked worried
now: dark lines of agitation showed
. | on her forehead and about her
eyes, clouding her beautiful face.
"Yes, you might say fiat I knew
r him very well,” she said.
"Would you tell us all about it?
It's the only way we’ll ever get at
the bottom of this man’, death.”
Slowly at first, the woman began
her stwy, ii :rspersing it with sobs
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which she tried hard to control.
Rita, Hayes, prize sob-sister of my
paper’s staff, arrived on the scene
just in time to take down a steno
g. aphic record of the woman’s
a nazing story. It is this record,
rather than the highly colored story
which Miss Hayes later wrote from
it, that I reproduce here.
‘.‘I first knew Paul Lucas," the
woman said, “about thirty years
ago, when I was nineteen. He was
a young man then, a law student
just out of college. He had attend
ed Harvard for four years, but
strangely enough had come back
to his home in I "ssissippi to study
for the bar. He said he did this
because he planned to practice in
Mississippi and wanted to get ac
c. ainted with the lawi governing
his own state.
"He was a very handsome fellow,
then; very tall and straight, with
features that were typically white.
Only a few of his best friends in
the South ever knew that he was
a Negro, and he never took the
trouble to inform them of the fact.
His practice was largely among
white people, and nobody seemed
to question him.
‘‘When it came to getting mar
ried, though, he return.d to his
own race and picked me out be
cause, although I was da.*., I could
e:sily pass for Spanish or Cuban.
For twenty-eight years after that
we lived together happily. We had
one son, who is twenty-three now.
Until last month he held a fine po
litical position in Mississippi. But
last month he was fired.
“Two years ago, my husband de
cided to run for a seat in Congress.
He had been prominent in Missis
sippi for a long time, and was well
known and well liked. He wTas
elected by a large majority and
came on here to Washington, leav
ing us to take care of ourselves
down in Mississippi.
“I suspected that he had grown
tired of me or else he didn’t want
r e to come ‘ Washington, where
complications might arise because
of my color. So I stayed in Mis
sissippi and let him do as he wished
in Washington. My son was work
ing, and he managed to support me
as well as h' own little family. I
never could understand why Paul
never sent me any checks after he
left Mississippi. After all, I had
married him and l,e was supposed
to contribute to my support. But
I was too proud to ask him for
anything; I simply let him go on
with his work in Congress and ad
mired him for 'he splendid show
ing he was making.
“When my son lost his job,
though, I saw that something had
to.be done. Not caring to live on
his slender savings any longer, I
decided to cc e to Washington and
talk to Paul.
“I found that h. had changed
a great deal since he had left the
South. He wasn’t the same man
at all. He refused even to see me
for more than a week. Finally,
when I forced my way into his
office, I begged him to treat me
civilly. He told me frankly that
if he introduced me to Washington
society as his wife, eve -y bit of
prestige he had would be lost and
his word would carry no more
weight on the floor of the House.
“I said to him, ‘You forget that
you. are a Negro yourself. What if
I decided to tell that to the news
papers, especirlly those down in
Mississippi, whose people you are
supposed to be representing?’
“He laughed at me, Inspector. He
said, ‘Nobody’d believe you. And
you can’t prove anything.’
“I said, ‘I can prove I’m your
wife.’
“He laughed again. ‘You can’t
even prove that.’ he said. ‘It might
interest you to know that we were
never legally married—that the
license which : used was not
p operly signed or witnessed.’”
“What did you dc when he tcld
you that?” the inspector inter
rupted.
I screamed. You can ’magine
what a shock it was. to discover
after all those years that my mar
riage had net been legal. I could
n’t believe it. I still can’t believe
it. But finally, almost in despera
tion, I begged him to give me some
thing to do—some little job in
which I could be near him as often
as possible without annoying him.
You see, I still loved him. And I
would have done anything rather
than return to Mississippi.
“Finally he gave in. He gave
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er in his own apartment. And here
I’ve lived :ince then, there in that
little room in the back. He’s never
been the same to me since I took
the job. He’s treateed me meanly
—like a servant. I can’t stand be
ing treated that way—by him. Two
weeks ago matters came to a head.
I discovered, for one thing, that he
was having an affair—as old as he
is—with another woman, a white
woman, .. widow... ”
“What did you do then?”
“First I sent for my son, and he
came here from his home in Mis
sissippi. Then I went quietly to
Paul and warned him that if he
continued his affair with this wom
an, I’d disclose him for what he
was—I’d inform this wonu.n that
he was nothin; but a typical, down
south Negro with crazy ideas—”
“And what did he say to that?”
“He reached into his desk and
drew out a pistol. I suppose he
intended to shoot me. Lord, how
I wish now that he had! But my
son had been waiting in the recep
tion room and when he heard the
commotion, he came into the office.
Seeing what was happening, he
rushed in and managed to wrestle
the gun from Paul.
"My husband quieted down and
tried to apologize, saying that he
had lost his head. But by that
time I had the upper hand. I
slowed him my son—his son. In
spector, the resemblance between
the two of them was i -larkable!
It left not the faintest shadow of
doubt. I turned to Paul trium
phantly. ‘What better marriage
certificate could I have than this?’
I asked him.”
Who is the mysterious “other
woman?” What occurred in
the congressman's room the
night before his death? Don’t
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of next week’s thrilling install
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My daughter, Jean, age 3 years,
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The colors faded in washing. When
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her aunt admired it and remarked
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a a •
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a a a
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