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 a gauze dress. He helped put her in the pie and fix it, and said it was the best stunt he ever saw at a dinner. When the girl jumped out of the pie the birds flew all about the room.

"'But I came near getting into trouble about it,' he said. 'We put gold pieces in the girl's shoes and in her dress and a lot of people heard of it. All the newspapers got hold of it. I stopped it at all the newspapers but one, but I could not stop it there. I got a friend to go see them, though, and we finally got them to stop it, too. We kept it out of the papers, but it was close.'"

"I told Mr. White I had heard he ruined the girl that night, but he only laughed."

The names of other girls ruined by White were whispered by Mrs. Thaw to Jerome, but not made public.

"When did Mr. Thaw next talk to you about such cases?" asked Delmas.

"The next time was in Pittsburg, when we were married. He told me that the girl was dead. He said he had investigated the story and that it was true; that afterward the girl married, but her husband heard the story of her connection with Mr. White and that he cast her off and she died in great poverty and disgrace."

"Did you and Mr. Thaw often speak of these girls?"

"Yes, there was a constant conversation. I could