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the president of the Camel Cigarette Co. The chints cost $6.00 or $8.00 a yard. There were patterns cut and it was the first job for the "first lady" of Winston Salem. Hattie sensed the importance of this. Her knees grew weak and she wanted to turn around and say, "I can't". Both Mrs. Grey and the interior decorator were waiting for her to begin. Suddenly back came Buck's voice saying, "If somebody else's two hands and brain can do that, you certainly can." Thereafter the wolf was held at bay by the making slip covers as supplementary to the sharing of the home of Charlie and his lovely wife Jessie. During the six months Hattie not only learned to feel some of the coldness of the world but found it full of Babbits (handwritten)for whom she felt a deep pity(end) correspondence was voluminous and frequent from Sam and all of the courtship was done by way of mail (with, the envelopes at least, (handwritten) bearing (end) Advense Aircraft Company as a return address.)* (See page 1st) There were many problems, many angles, to discuss about the prospective marriage which were difficult perhaps only in proportion to the extreme sensitiveness of both Hattie and Sam. First of all, Sam had a bad heart which he felt obliged to confess. His whole desire was to put in armeture of protection around Hattie and little Buck, Buck's idol, so that no more hurts (of any magnitude at least) could touch them. This meant financial protection which is the necessary Three-in-One oil for the bearings on the Gameshaft of Life. Heart trouble meant no insurance, a daily working hazard, yet the love was so impelling and consuming that with or without Hattie the heart was irrevocably belabored. This neutralized qualms of conscience on this point. The next obstacle, aviation. Why take her back into aviation which was not yet a business now having any stability? The answer to this was to push the "Old Bean." Sam decided that if he could not show the universe that Commercial Aviation through the manufacture of aeroplanes could be a business, not a sport nor a fed, it simply couldn't be done. The answer, therefore, was to prove it. Proving it, it would bring enough security to take care of necessities at least and not repeat what Sam always called "the starvation days of Lorain." Once the resolution was made Sam wrote Hattie that it was surprising to find how Ingenuity seemed