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Elizabeth Hapgood said, "You didn't know that he borrowed this money. Your marriage was never consummated with him, so you were not guilty."

And I said, "But I introduced him and I feel guilty, and that's that." My father was so displeased, he took me out of his will because he thought I was so foolish.

J: Your father was so upset that he took you out of his will?

B: Oh yes, he did.

J: Because of that?

B: My family thought I was absolutely foolish and Elizabeth Hapgood, my very dear girlfriend and Ellen Olsen, my father's secretary, they all ganged up against me but I didn't care. And I still would do the same thing. I don't know. Maybe it's over-sentimentality, I can't tell.

You see, I was responsible for the first opening. That was it. I married that man. Money from relatives and friends, checks, amounted to. I think, three thousand five hundred dollars. That [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]] is nothing but it was years ago. I immediately gave it to my so-called husband.

I thought he had money. I wasn't interested. We went immediately to the Ritz Hotel and lived three months. Then we