PIONEERING WITH PIONEERS 49 



Marie considered a moment, and then shook her 

 head. "Sure, I'm going to play with her!" she said. 



During the second year of my husband's stay at 

 Fort Collins, articles on Russia, written by someone 

 who signed herself "Princess X" began to appear in 

 one of the leading Denver daily papers. The purpose 

 of the articles was to influence the American people 

 in favor of the Russian autocracy. "The Czar is as 

 kind to his people the peasants especially, as a loving 

 father to his children!" My husband read these ar- 

 ticles. Knowing that .the homes of the peasants were 

 often transformed into 'hells as a result of the Czar's 

 fatherly ruling, he felt intensely indignant at these lies, 

 and at once wrote an answer to them, which was pub- 

 lished. 



A few days later he received a letter from Miss 

 Scott-Sexton, a well-known woman in Denver, and a 

 person of high intelligence and culture. She told my 

 husband in her letter how much she had enjoyed his 

 protests, and said that she would like to meet him. She 

 felt that the articles of "Princess X" must have been 

 subsidized by the Russian Government. We extended 

 her an invitation to come and spend a week-end at 

 Fort Collins. The following Saturday she came to 

 see us. She was eager to hear all about Russia, its 

 government, its church, the peasants, the intelligentzia, 

 the relations existing -between one body and another. 

 For two days my husband was talking, talking, talking. 

 She was so much impressed by all she heard from a 



