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my own thoughts and my own girlish dreams. But X think the change was quite gradual." "Then it didn't shock -you?" asked the reporter. "No-o-o-o, I dont think IM say it .shocked me. It frightened me terribly at first. But then I. re membered all I had read about "how -wonderful a'thlng love- was, even without the sanction of the church, and I wasn't frightened any more." "When did you first become suspicious that Livingston was not quite the fairy prince you had dreamed of him as ?" asked the-re-porter. "I think the first time was in the summer of 1911. I was sev enteen then, and we .were Very friendly. "I told Jeff one day that I and .two other sorority girls were goring-to take a trip to Hamilton, P., the next day. '"Fine he said, fI,!ll come along.' "And he did. We ,went by train, s He and two other friends came by automobile, and the back of the automobile was stack ed high with champagne and cans of ice cream." "Did this make you suspic iousr" T - "Nbj but you see they all got very full of champagne, men and girls, too. - I remember seeing Mr. Livingston lying on a couch with" another v girl bending over him. I did not like that, It was not quite the way it was done in novels. "But my first real knowledge that I was to be cast aside like a soiled collar came at a wine din ner at the Sinton hotel after- my baby was born. "Just a few days before the dinner, Jeff had looked at "me queerly, and said: " When a .girl gets to be 19 she is too old. Girls -ought to stay at 17. That's the right age.' 'rI was 19 then. "There were three other girls besides myself at the champagne dinner. Jeff brought alongBillie Kaiper, Phil Geyer and Ed Wilr bern. ' "Now there was one thing that was a rule with Jeff. He always had his girl sit on the right hand side at dinner when' others were present, "That night he put Venus Low den, a little orphan gjrl, about three years younger than I, on; ' his right hand, and me on his left hand. "I ought to have understood then. But I could not make my self believe. It seemed too terri ble to be true; too terrible to be lieve that he would desert the mother of his baby for another girl. And I hoped and prayed. "But I suppose God does not listen to the prayers of such as I. It must be so, for the other din ner "when he gave me the $1,200 check and told me to get out of Cincinnati, came soon after." "What are your plans for the future?" asked the reporter. "I am going to stay here until I have testified in this case, and then I am going back to Cincinnati."