Well he looks at me like I was prophet come down from heaven or something and he says, “My God Miss Riggs you are a wonder!” “No,” I says, “I am only a field Grammarian,” I says, “but even so I can see that when there is nothing you can say the thing to do is to hold your mouth. And I have heard so much in the papers about this Spokesman being a Strong Silent Man and it is seems to me that this is just the time for Him to be Strong in His Silence and Silent in His Strength,” I says, “and you had better just make up your mind that this here Bolshiviki count stays out and that nobody says a word about it from the first to the last,” I says, “and that is the way I would play the game of politics if I was Him.” And he says, “Miss Riggs you _are_ Him, I believe! You are Him in the Female Incarnation!” And so I am Your very flattered MAME. LETTER XVII IN WHICH I BECOME A SYKER DEAR MOM: I have your letter in which you send me two dollars and it is sure good of you and Pop to think of me with all the troubles of your own you have got. It come at just the right moment for I had got down to only nine cents, and I did not dare to buy the morning paper to see what the Spokesman has been saying. Mr. Edgerton has got it fixed that I have been appointed Emergency Field Grammarian but I do not get the salary until Saturday and these two dollars will save my life. And oh Mom I am glad that you will talk to Walter for me. I know that you and Pop are not keen about having me in love with a poor shipping-clerk but all the same that is what is kept me good through all the temptations of a great city and so you must help me and make Walter understand that I really am helping Mr. Edgerton like I say and telling him what he is to tell the Spokesman to tell to the American people. Well Mr. Edgerton is been so good I have saw him again and he seen that I had on that poor old shirtwaist and he says, “Why where is your fine good clothes?” he says. And so I have to tell him that it is got so hot that I cannot wear a winter suit no more and he says, “Come along now you have got to be dressed like a Grammarian,” he says and so he takes me into a department store and buys me everything all new a pearl grey suit with a hat and shoes and all and so I can be a summer lady as well as a winter one. But he tells me some very bad news that the secretary of state that they call Scared Sally has decided that he will let that Bolshiviki count come into the country provided that he does not do no propaganda about politics while he is here but will only see his wife that is sick. And I says, “My God Mr. Edgerton that is a mistake because them fellers is not to be trusted and anybody can see that it is propaganda for a feller like that just to be alive.” And he says, “That is exactly right Miss Riggs it is what I have said to them.”