Representative Ford. When she might follow? This is what puzzles me.
Mrs. Paine. Yes. Well, I can only guess about this. I judge from his having done this that he certainly intended for her to follow, and it is also possible she couldn't have asked for a bus ticket herself. If he had written her and said, "Don't come to New Orleans, come to Nashville," and he had said, "That is where I have got my job," he might have felt she would not know how to go and get such a bus ticket.
Mr. Dulles. Is it also possible he may not have wanted to leave that amount of money with her to buy a ticket and preferred to leave her a ticket rather than cash?
Mrs. Paine. This is possible, this is possible.
Mr. Jenner. All right.
Now, Mrs. Paine, in light of that speculation, tell us what discussion there was on the subject.
Mrs. Paine. I think I have, that while he was in the bus station I thought how difficult it would be for her to travel alone with the baby, and all the things——
Mr. Jenner. And you raised that yourself for the first time at that point?
Mrs. Paine. Then I said she might stay with me while waiting to hear from him, and that I would drive her down if we did hear that he had gotten work.