Well of course I don’t like that but I have learned that it is what you have got to do with the Spokesman so I says “All right.” But I have forgot about Walter and my God all of a sudden what do I see his face is got red and he is rose up and he says, “Do the pair of you really think I am going to stand for this?” “Why Walter what do you mean?” I says, and he says, “You are playing me for a sucker,” he says, “but you have got the wrong one.” “Why Walter,” I says, “what on earth? You think this is not the Spokesman’s Secretary?” “I don’t know who it is,” he says, “but you cannot make me believe that the Spokesman is no such poor fish as this.” “But,” I says “look at the papers to-morrow afternoon,” I says, “and you will see it all just as I have said it.” And says Walter, “You want me to think that the American people is a bunch of boobs that you can string along like this?” I says, “Walter, I have told Mr. Edgerton that you are a patriot and a lover of your country and that you can be trusted with these great state secrets,” I says, “And now are you going to throw me down?” But he looks at me and his eyes is flashing and his fists is clenched and I think he is going to hit me or Mr. Edgerton I aint sure which and he says with his voice trembling furious, “Mamie Riggs,” he says, “I thought you was a decent girl but I see you have took the easy road,” he says. “But it was enough to insult our love,” he says, “you needn’t of insulted my brains too. I leave you to your new gentleman and I hope he keeps you good and that’s all.” And with that he turns and walks off quick and I lets out a yell that scares the whole dining room and I runs to grab him but he is gone out the door and lost in the crowd and there I am standing and crying like Lucy Lonesome in “The Broken Love.” Your miserable MAME. LETTER XVI IN WHICH I AM MADE A GRAMMARIAN DEAR MOM: Well here it is a Sunday morning and I have got no job and I have got no lover and I am sure in the dumps. But Mom you have got to see Walter for me quick as you can and explain to him how foolish he is been to quarrel with me because it is all true like I told him. You must make him understand that Mr. Edgerton really is the Secretary to the Spokesman and that the great Man up at the big white house does really say everything that me and Mr. Edgerton says for Him to say. And if it is not always true what He says well I know how shocked I was when I first found it out but you that have been a great actress can explain to that poor kid Walter how it is that you have got to play the play the way it is wrote and not the way you think it had ought to be.