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 "This made Mr. Hummel very mad and angry and he told me I was foolish."

"What more did you tell Mr. Thaw?" suggested Mr. Delmas, to give the girl witness a breathing spell.

"Mr. Thaw asked me if I had signed anything in Mr. Hummel's office and I said I had not. He said that was funny, for if they wanted to cause trouble I must have signed something. I said I had signed absolutely nothing in Mr. Hummel's office.

"Mr. Thaw was very much agitated. He said Hummel was a blackmailer and he said, I think, that there was something bad in the air and he impressed me that he was going to see Mr. Longfellow, his lawyer."

Mrs. Thaw testified to going to her own lawyer and relating her experiences with Hummel. Her lawyer, she said, was greatly incensed at what she told him of her experiences in Hummel's office. Mrs. Thaw said:

"My lawyer, too, told me that Hummel was a shyster." A laugh went around the room. Hummel was at this time under conviction in a divorce scandal. Mrs. Thaw continued:

"Mr. Thaw told me that I had no business to speak again with Stanford White. He accused me of having been imprudent with Mr. White since I came back from Europe, and I said that it was a lie. He said it would look to people as if I was a blackmailer by going to Hummel's office."

"Did you tell of another incident?"