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making money in Kansas City showing picttures 

 duplicating the notorious Dalton raid in which his 

 father and family were killed. 



Again Osa looked hard facts in the face. She knew 

 that my plan meant choosing between her mother 

 and myself. She loved both of us and she was a 

 truly domestic girl. She had never wanted to gad 

 about or to leave the part of the country in which she 

 was brought up. She hesitated. 



"It will be a tough trip," I told her frankly. 



I remember she stood up and looked me in the eye. 

 A regular writer would say she met the crisis like a 

 real man. But knowing her, I can say that a real 

 woman acts just the same way as a real man does. 



"I'll go with you, Martin," she told me quietly. 

 I don't think any man could love a woman more than 

 I loved her at that moment. I knew how much 

 courage her decision took. 



Don't think we were well off. True we sold out 

 before we left. But that didn't much more than 

 stake us to the trip. On the way west I showed 

 some of my film and gave talks on my projected 

 voyage to the South Seas. Osa did her share by 

 dressing up like a native dancer and singing a couple 

 of Hawaiian songs. 



It was on this trip that a new trait showed up in 

 the girl. Man-like I mixed with other business men 

 on our way west. I heard a good deal to discourage 



